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ROYAL PAVILION

Royal Pavilion Gates

Neighbourhood
Cultural Quarter
pre-1914
2021

James Gray: No comment. Additional Information: The road is now, of course, the re-instated Gardens. jgc_30_003

2021: The wide, straight road in the James Gray picture ran from the northern William IV Gate, down past the Pavilion entrance, and ended at the India gate at the southern entrance. 

It was built over the original paths and gardens on the orders of William IV in 1831, just after he became king. But 150 years later, in 1991, the original layout of the garden, with winding paths round flowerbeds and shrubberies, was restored to the design chosen by the Prince Regent.
In 2020 the road from the Indian Gate is once again curving almost invisibly between the flowerbeds to link up with a carriage turning circle in front of the main entrance to the building. The original lawns have been restored. (Photographer: Jane Southern) 
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c1912
2021

James Gray: [One of] three amateur-taken photographs with nothing calling for special comment, since many such photographs have been taken over the years. The year is unknown but they look as if they date from 1912 period. jgc_30_014

2021: See jgc_30_03 above. This is a closer view of the William IV gate. (Photographer: Jane Southern) 

1898
2020

James Gray: All four photographs [this one and, on the Marlborough Place page, jgc_30_058, 059 and 060] are confined to the short period 1898-1903. This view was certified by the photographer as 1898. Additional Information: View of William IV Gate, Royal Pavilion. jgc_30_057

2020: The pavement area where Church Street meets Marlborough Place outside the William IV Gate has now been widened considerably. In 1898 the entrance to Brighton Museum was in Church Street but at the turn of the millennium it was moved to the Pavilion Gardens as part of a £10 million redevelopment. (Photographer: Jane Southern) 

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c1870
1870s
1912
c1870
2021

James Gray: [Top left] No comment. Additional Information: Original Gateway and goat-drawn bath chair. jgc_10_106

James Gray: [Top right] No comment. jgc_10_110

James Gray: [Middle left] These buildings were erected in 1852, soon after the Brighton Town Commissioners had acquired the Pavilion. The gateway remained until 1921 when it was replaced by the present Indian Memorial Gateway, the gift of the Princes and people of India. jgc_10_157

James Gray: [Bottom right] Of these four photographs of varying periods, the oldest is this view, which dates from about 1870. jgc_10_161

2021: The Indian gate which replaced the nineteenth century South Gate. The inscription on the gateway reads ‘This gateway is the gift of India in commemoration of her sons who – stricken in the Great War – were tended in the Pavilion in 1914 and 1915. Dedicated to the use of the inhabitants of the Brighton, B.N. Southall, Mayor.’ (Photographer: Ron Fitton)

1870s
c1900
2021

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10-111

10-145

1870s
2021

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10-112

1955
2021

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10-129

Historic and Contemporary Images of Brighton and Hove
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