James Gray: This street was built in the 1850s and has nothing to distinguish it from many other similar streets of that period, which line the steep valley to Queens Park Road. The purpose of this photograph of 21 February 1960 is to show the full length of the west side for which Brighton Corporation is now seeking a compulsory purchase order. When the houses have been removed, the cleared site will be leased to Tamplin’s Brewery. jgc_27_004
James Gray: Newhaven Street looking south to Albion Hill. All that was left of this early Victorian Street after the clearances of the 1960s. jgc_27_063
2018: Kelly’s directory for 1973 confirms that there were only five occupied houses left by the time Gray’s photograph was taken. The whole street had been redeveloped by 1980, with the Phoenix student halls of residence taking up the first half of the western side. There is a plaque just visible commemorating the completion of the redevelopment on the side wall of No 13 Albion Hill. (Photographer: Ron Fitton)
James Gray: Looking north along what little was left of Lewes Street, with the same houses in Newhaven Street shown in the previous [jgc_27_063] photograph, but from the other direction, at the lower level. At the left, the Watney buildings to make way for which the whole of the houses on the west side had been removed. Date of photographs – 21 October 1973. jgc_27_064
2018: All that remains of the southern part of Lewes Street is a short section leading to a car park. (Photographer: Ron Fitton)