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NORTH STREET

North Street (Brighton) (3)

General views from the West

Neighbourhood:
Central Brighton
1909-13
2018

James Gray: Looking down this (now busy) street in Edwardian days. No motor vehicles, no traffic lights, no one-way streets, no guard rails, just a lot of sombrely dressed people going about their daily business and able to cross the road in perfect safety. The horse-bus conductor nonchalantly surveys the pedestrians. Exact year not known but likely to be between 1909 and 1913.

The building housing Soper’s Emporium is of course still with us today. West Street is the turning on the right. jgc_21_042

2018: North Street remains the busy shopping street it was in Edwardian days. By 2018 traffic has greatly increased and pedestrians have to take their chance. Soper’s Emporium folded in the 1920s but the drapery business was continued there under the name Leesons (see also image jgc_21_045). In the mid 1950s Leesons closed and the building was split into smaller units. The ground floor units have now mostly been reunited for occupation from the mid 2010s by Metro Bank. (Photographer: Alan Stratford)

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1933-34
2019

James Gray: View from Princes Place down to the Steine. Period 1933-34, showing the show house of T J Braybon Ltd., on the site of the present Princes House. Additional Information: Purchase price of Braybon’s home shown as £450. jgc_21_075

2019: The show house was replaced by a distinctive brick art deco building. (Photographer: Simon Cooper)

Historic and Contemporary Images of Brighton and Hove
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