historic street on the site of Churchill Square
Comparison map: Historic streets alongside 2019 layout of Churchill Square
James Gray: As Grenville Place was included in the vast West Street – King’s Road site its demolition was inevitable and all the south side was removed in January 1965. Date of photographs – 6 September 1964. jgc_29_224
2018: Looking east. The left (north) side of Grenville Place is the raised area of the Churchill Square forecourt. The right-hand side (south) has transmogrified into the shops of Churchill Square which face Western Road.
James Gray: September 1967. The old faces the new. The few remaining houses, mostly converted to business use many years ago look across at the outline of the new shops of Churchill Square. In a few months time the old buildings, about 150 years old, will be demolished with a few remaining Western Road shops with which they are connected. jgc_29_225 and jgc_29_226
2018: Grenville Street no longer exists above ground. (Photographer: Suzanne Hinton)
James Gray: Bert Bassett’s Butchers shop at 48/49 Grenville Place where it joined Upper Russell Street. Exact year not known but probably about 1960/2. Demolished in the mid-1960s for Churchill Square. jgc_29_205
2018: In the 2018 image, the tall wall with the two long windows was built over the north part of Upper Russell Street where it crossed Cranbourne Street. On the left is Crown’s pub (formerly the Lamb and Flag). The land on which Churchill Square was constructed (to the right/west) has been built up and steps now rise steeply from Cranbourne Street to the former Grenville Place (see jgc_29_160, 224 and 225). Bassett’s Butchers would have stood approximately in the bushes on the right (west) of the 2018 image but more or less on the same level as Crown’s. (Photographer: Suzanne Hinton)
James Gray: The tailor’s shop of Harry J. Farr, at 46 Grenville Place, in 1922. This was on the south side just one or two doors away from the Upper Russell Street. Demolished in 1965. jgc_29_160
James Gray: One of the oldest streets of western Brighton, it was built between 1800 and 1820. Although the buildings on the north side were undistinguished, there were elegant looking houses on the south side, two of which are shown. jgc_29_223
James Gray: Two of the original houses built before the corresponding shops behind them in Western Road, and still used as private dwellings up to the time of their removal soon after the photograph was taken on 6 September 1964. jgc_29_227