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Laburnum Avenue, HOVE, BN3 7JW

Mill View provides inpatient adult mental health services, it is run by Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation trust http://www.sussexpartnership.nhs.uk/public/service-dir/sites/?entryid141=317875&char=M

The two pairs of semi-detached houses on the left were built in the 1930s and occupy the site of Gibbets Farm. Originally a barn where two labourers Edward Howell and James Rooke hid in 1792 to share the proceeds of the letters they had just robbed from a mail boy on the Old Shoreham Road in nearby Goldstone Bottom, now Hove Park. Both were soon identified, arrested and put on trail in Horsham where they were found guilty and sentenced to hang. Their bodies were gibbeted overlooking the scene of their crime where Rooke's mother would often be found waiting for the bones to drop so she could collect and give the body a proper burial. Tennyson's peom 'Rizpah' is alleged to have been based on the story. Subsequently, the barn became known as Gibbets Barn which sometime in the mid 19th century had two cottages built next to it. One of the last tenants, Samuel Holmes, converted them into a single dwelling becoming the farmhouse of Gibbets Farm. The farm operated until 1930 when the land was sold for housing and subsequently demolished to make way for the houses in Elm Drive. See Barns, Gibbet Farm (Date unknown) - http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume37/source/jg_37_107.html Farmhouse, Gibbets Farm (1912) - http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume37/source/jg_37_109.html

Part of the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals.

Opened in 1997 the Polyclinic provides a range of outpatients services http://www.sussexcommunity.nhs.uk/index.cfm?request=b1003022&action=showServiceDetail&service=239

Designed by renowned Brighton artist Giles Wright this is one of 4 Portland limestone sculptures at Mill View Hospital, Hove and was unveiled on Thursday 30 April 2009 http://www.sussexpartnership.nhs.uk/about/news/2009/pr013/

Located at the junction with Rowan Avenue which heads off to the left whilst Elm Drive continues to the right, both part of a one way system between here and Hangleton Road. The parade of shops include a general store, dentist, Christian bookshop, Indian takeaway and a motor factors. Built in the mid 1930s on what was the northern end of the former parish of Aldrington.