James Gray: The sailing vessel “Ville de Napoleon” hard aground on one of the Aldrington beaches on 11 November 1891. jgc_15_047
2018: This is one of two images (15_047 and 048) showing the ‘Ville de Napoleon’, one of two vessels driven ashore in a gale in November 1891. In this case the French crew were lucky, surviving the storm and being taken to the nearby Adur Hotel (see image 15_050) to recover.
James Gray: The sailing vessel “Ville de Napoleon” hard aground on one of the Aldrington beaches on 11 November 1891. jgc_15_048
2018: See caption above. (Photographer: David Sears)
James Gray: This photograph is of the eastern end of Shoreham Harbour, now known as Aldrington Basin. Additional Information: Sailing ships at anchor. jgc_15_064
James Gray: This photograph provides a good view of the marshland east of the canal, now the site of the lagoon boating pool. At the western end of Kingsway can be seen a few of the houses in St Leonards Avenue and Errol Road. At this point there was no sea wall at this end of Hove front. jgc_15_020
2018: This fine image from 1913 cannot be replicated today. Shoreham Harbour is is now a busy commercial port specialising in delivering shiploads of building materials of all sorts. Fine two and three-masted sailing vessels have given way to more mundane and sometimes rusting cargo vessels interspersed with expensive privately-owned leisure craft.(Photographer: David Sears)
James Gray: Photographs [see also jgc_15_067] of a Norwegian schooner, tied up at the western end of the Basin. The year is not known but it is thought to be about 1930. jgc_15_066
James Gray: See caption for jgc_15_066 above. jgc_15_067
James Gray: This view is of the Beach Chalets, or Beach Bungalows as they were rather grandly called, sited on the far West Hove beach, close to the Hove Seaside Villas. This has been dated by the photographer as 25 April 1918, a little early in the beach season. jgc_15_068
2018: The Beach Chalets have long gone. The building on the left houses a gym. (Photographer: Mark Stephenson)