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Camden Street, BRIGHTON, BN41 1DU

Small side street linking Wellington Road to North Street. The area here was once known as Copperas Gap and a small residential district sprung up during the Victorian period to service the growing industries based around the new port of Shoreham. Officially renamed as Portslade by Sea in 1896 the community persisted until the 1960s when many of the small terraced houses were pulled down and replaced with industrial units. The pub on the left is a survivor from those times, originally known as the Alexandra Inn, it is now the Harbour View.

Originally a road of Victorian terraced housing, marked as Camden Place on the 1879 6 inch map, by the time of the 1932 25 inch map it had been renamed Camden Street. It now serves South Portslade Industrial Estate.

A once residential street for those working in the gas works and other harbour industries now filled with warehouses and factories. The Harbour View, formerly the Alexandra Inn, the one survivor of the 1950s slum clearances.

Located at the end of Camden Street, at the junction with Wellington Road.

The street links Wellington Road to North Street. Compare with Image from 2007 and you will find that the former Harbour View pub which survived the slum clearances of the 1950s was demolished a couple of years ago having run foul of the licensing laws and closed down.

A cul-de-sac heading south from North Street. The boarded up building is Image The area between Station Road in the east, Church Road in the west and St Andrew's Road to north was once a community of tight knit terraced housing that made up the settlement of Portslade-By-Sea. The vast majority were demolished in the 1950s as slum housing and the area given over to business units and small factories. Only a few houses on the southern side of the A259 along with Albion Street remain of the former district.

Not sure whether these are in use but are on the southern side of the A259 backing onto the timber yards below.

Built in the early 1960s on the site of a former residential district. Its last occupiers was a furniture assembly firm and now awaiting new tenants.

Originally a small cul-de-sac called Belgrave Square that was demolished in the 1950s and replaced by the current building which was opened in 1966 as a training centre for those with disabilities. Now boarded up awaiting demolition after plans were approved in April 2020 to build low cost housing on the site. Viewed from Wellington Road.