Tennyson House

Terracotta memorial panels dated 1888 on the south side of Tennyson House at the corner of Montgomery Street and Sackville Road. Read about the history of the original building here.
Photograph © Mairead Hardy 2014

Outside The Old Market

Opposite yesterday's lilies, outside The Old Market is a large container holding a bay tree (note the wind-blasted lower leaves caused by last winter's storms), sunflowers and nasturtiums.

Empty shop

Cocoon, George Street, on Tuesday.

Red brick, blue sky

Holy Trinity Church on the corner of Goldstone Villas and Blatchington Road.

St. Andrew's Old Church

Old postcard views of the church are here and here.
You can see more of today's sky photographs at Skywatch Friday.

Weathered 2

Weathered 1

Disused gate, Holy Trinity Church, corner of Goldstone Villas and Blatchington Road.

From the opposite direction

Medina Esplanade

Medina Esplanade (now called King's Esplanade) as it looks today; this is how Medina Esplanade looked in the early 20th century.

...and Now

Part of Walsingham Terrace is still standing (although the street has been renamed Kingsway) and some of the sunken garden remains. The Hove lagoon bandstand was removed at the very end of the 1960s and replaced by Babylon Lounge bar and club, now reopened as The View.

Then...

Postcard sent from Brighton & Hove, August 4, 1938.

Three years on

This is what George Street looked like three years ago. Since then, several shops have closed due to the recession. Woolworths (centre, in the distance) was sold and reopened as a branch of Peacocks (now in administration); La Senza (right) is closed and the premises are currently empty; Currys Digital (left of centre) is due to close on 18th February.

The bigger picture

Going back to last week's posts about Dorset Court, this is what the block looks like in relation to other buildings along the same stretch of Kingsway. The buildings on the right-hand side are the original houses built c1890 when this section of road between Carlisle Road and Walsingham Road was known as Walsingham Terrace.  Dorset Court was built c1995 and Horizon, the newer block of flats in the centre, was built c2005. The photograph was taken earlier in this year during the Brighton Marathon.

Work goes on

Difficult to tell what this building is going to look like when it's finished, but much work has gone on since the photo I took at the beginning of June.

Foundations

Progress so far on the building site in Vallance Road.

Scrap metal merchant

The present-day version of the traditional rag and bone man.

Opening soon

Treacle & Co. are coming to Church Road. I like the way the window's been obscured with wildlife magazine pages while work goes on inside the shop; it's definitely a cut above using traditional sheets of newspaper.

Outside

And they're working hard smartening up the outside of the building as well as the inside.

I'm happy to see this

The old Woolworths site on Blatchington Road is being refurbished and shop-fitted. These days, it's so good to see a shop opening rather than closing.

Not my favourite Hove building 1

The present Hove Town Hall, completed in 1974, replaced Alfred Waterhouse's fine red brick Victorian Gothic Revival building which burned down in 1966.