James Gray: This picture taken in 1955 needs no comment. It is very similar to the larger photograph on another page [jgc_26_152]. jgc_26_156
2019: At the time of the 1955 photograph, the corner building on the left was still a bank; it now houses a Small Batch Coffee Roasters café. The shop premises built in front of Selbourne House (central in both pictures, between Prestonville Road and Chatham Place) is a launderette. The beautiful clock crowning the building has been lost. Gone too are the overhead electric wires. (Photographer: Mathia Davies)
James Gray: This photograph is an extension of one overleaf [jgc_26_165] and shows the range of buildings known as Peel Terrace. This included all the buildings up to Russell Crescent. jgc_26_162
2018: On the extreme left of both the old and the new image is the garden wall of the former 1 Goldsmid Road – now 123-125 Dyke Road and currently an estate agent’s office.
James Gray: Three photographs of this junction [jgc_26_152 and 156 and, on the Seven Dials Roundabout page, jgc_26_153], though not so busy in those days. In this view in 1907, when the traffic was hardly enough to keep the policeman occupied. jgc_26_152
2019: Selbourne House, in the centre of both images, at the corner of Prestonville Road and Chatham Place, still had a garden in 1907. The property gives the impression of being a private house, but it had been for many years a private school. Today the ground floor extension houses a launderette. (Photographer: Mathia Davies)
James Gray: Let into the old wall at the junction of Old Shoreham Road with Prestonville Road, was this old Brighton – Hove boundary stone. As mentioned on another page, a triangular area of land now in Brighton, was until 1928, part of Hove. The house and garden of 12 Prestonville Road were in Brighton but the extensive grounds of Hove Villa were in Hove. As this area developed in the 1860s it is probable that the stone had been there for about 100 years. Both photographs [jgc_26_120 and 121] were taken on 16 October 1960. jgc_26_120