James Gray: The north side of this street, looking up to Southover Place and beyond. jgc_27_054
2018: The buildings remain, but the shops have gone. The house at the end of the terrace is a recent addition (about 2000) though built in a similar architectural style. (Photographer: Simon Cooper)
James Gray: Houses on the south side below Newhaven Street. Now demolished and the site is now occupied by a car park. jgc_27_056
2018: The car park mentioned above was replaced by the University of Brighton Phoenix halls of residence in the early 1990s. (Photographer: Ron Fitton)
James Gray: Top end, south side. All four photographs [including jgc_27_055 on the Islingworth Road page] are thought to date from the 1960s. jgc_27_057
2018: Many of the shop fronts have survived although few of the businesses have done so. No 86 (to the right of the parked van in 1960s photo) has lost both its first-floor bay and its shopfront. (Photographer: Simon Cooper)
James Gray: A street which has seldom been photographed during its life of about 140 years, probably because it has changed so little. View up the street from the corner of Hanover Terrace, showing the site of the removed 12 and 13. Exact year not known, but around 1960. jgc_27_069
2018: The empty site remains as it is the site of an electricity transformer. (Photographer: Simon Cooper)
James Gray: This Inn still stands (1981) at 50 Southover Street, on the corner of Southampton Street. It was built, as an Inn, in the 1860s so it has had a life already of about 120 years. The occasion of the photograph was the Slate Club House Outing to Buxted on 25 July, but the year is unknown. However, Mr J. Humby was the licensee from 1899 to 1913, so it must have been between those years. Almost certainly it would have been on a Saturday or Sunday, not a weekday. If on Saturday, the year was 1903 – if a Sunday 1909. jgc_27_003
James Gray: The top end of Southover Street and Queens Park Road, about 1920. Note the Royal Exchange Inn and the Brighton Police Fire Brigade Station, which was discontinued here in 1923. jgc_27_099
2018: The fire brigade entrance has gone but part of the boundary wall remains. The pub is currently called The Southover. A small block of flats was built at the junction of Queen’s Park Road and Southover Street in the 1960s/1970s. (Photographer: Ron Fitton)