James Gray: Another view said to have been taken in 1893. jgc_38_028
2018: St Nicholas Church is approximately 900 years old and is the second oldest in Brighton and Hove. There have been a few alterations over the years, but essentially it is unchanged except for the removal of some of the railings and the creeping vegetation on the tower. (Photographer: Jan Sinkfield)
James Gray: View of part of the Village, dominated by the Brewery. Period about 1920. jgc_38_032
2018: The view is from St Nicholas Churchyard and, apart from the loss of the original roof, removed in the 1920s, it is otherwise remarkably unchanged. It ceased being a brewery in 1931 and was occupied by the French company Le Carbone from 1947 until 2015 when they moved to George Street, Portslade. Planning permission was granted in 2017 for conversion to 48 flats but it remains empty. (Photographer: Jeremy Knight)
James Gray: The house seen is No 1 Dyke Road Drive, first occupied by George Thomas Holloway of Holloway Brothers, builders, and built about 1880. They built many of the large villas that lined Preston Road facing the Park, which are shown in the Preston album and most of which have now been demolished. Their yard was up the passage on the right. Date of photograph not known. jgc_26_107
2019: This image generated much head-scratching when it appeared as ‘Image of the Month’ in the website project newsletter. With the help of local historians, Robert Jeeves and Chris Horlock, the image, wrongly identified by James Gray as 1 Dyke Road Drive, has been identified as Lindfield House in South Street Portslade (built 1862 and now demolished). According to Chris, who describes this as perhaps his biggest clanger, James Gray was sometimes given pictures wrongly identified by the donor, and perhaps this happened in this case and James Gray took the donor’s word for the location.