James Gray: This photograph, of 29 September 1968, shows part of Old Shoreham Road at the corner of Hove Park Gardens. Some of the gardens in front of these houses may have to be surrendered when Old Shoreham Road is widened in this area. jgc_17_063
2018: Park House apartments were completed in 2018. (Photographer: Jane Cheema)
James Gray: 51 years later [than jgc_17_040 on the Hove Park page], this photograph shows the rear garden of the same house in Hove Park Gardens. Note the trees and shrubs that have grown in the garden during this time. Many years ago a deep pit existed on the site of this garden but the pit had been filled in before the date of the earlier photograph. Before long an extension to the home is to be built in the garden. Date of photograph – 6 October 1957. jgc_17_041
James Gray: In the year 1905 four substantial detached houses were built near to the old bridleway from the railway to the remote hamlet of West Blatchington. They had very long gardens at the rear running down to what was then called “lane by Hove Park”, now Goldstone Crescent. Being between Hove Recreation Ground and Hove Park they took their name from the latter. Hove Park Gardens were unique in that the roadway was never made up or paved, being the only road in Hove in that condition. Photographs taken in May 1969, showing the fronts of these four houses. jgc_17_060
2018: This is now the site of Park House apartments. (Photographer: Jane Cheema)
James Gray: Another photograph of May 1969, showing the four houses with the board announcing the sale of three of them. These three houses were demolished in August of the same year and flats will later be built on the site of the houses and the large gardens behind them. Note the unmade road. jgc_17_062
2018: The rear of 19 to 33 Gannet House, 15 Goldstone Crescent to the right, and Park House, 1 Hove Park Gardens to the left, now occupy the site of the four detached houses. The tall red-brick pier on the right remains to this day but is currently obscured by greenery growing at the south-west corner of Hove Recreation Ground. (Photographer: Alan Hobden)