Neighbourhoods · 3 min read
Preston Village Before Brighton Reached It
Recover the parish, manor, farms and roadside settlement that predated suburban absorption.
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People & Culture · 3 min read
Martha Gunn and the Women Who Worked the Georgian Beach
Place Brighton’s famous dipper within the wider female workforce that managed sea bathing and visitor care.
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Thomas Read Kemp and the Reinvention of East Brighton
Assess the religious, political and speculative ambitions behind Kemp’s influence on the town and its eastern estate.
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The Railway Arrives in Brighton
Explain how the 1841 connection altered population, commuting, goods movement and the physical growth of the town.
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Clean Water, Sewers and the Making of a Modern Town
Trace the municipal engineering projects created in response to rapid growth and public-health danger.
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Brighton and Hove’s Campaign for Women’s Suffrage
Map local organisers, meetings, tactics and opposition within the national struggle for political rights.
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How Portslade Old Village Took Shape
Read roads, plots, flint walls and historic buildings as a record of gradual village development.
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Queen’s Park From Private Venture to Public Park
Trace the landscape’s intended residential role, municipal acquisition and influence on surrounding streets.
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St Andrew’s Old Church and the Revival of Hove Village
Trace the ancient church, its period of decline and its restoration amid nineteenth-century expansion.
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Sheep, Corn and the Downland Economy
Show how grazing, arable farming and drove routes sustained the settlements that later became the city.
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Manors, Farms and Landholding in Old Hove
Show how estates and agricultural parcels determined the routes and plots of the later town.
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The Wellesbourne: Brighton’s Lost Stream
Trace the seasonal watercourse from Patcham through the Steine and explain why it was eventually culverted.
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Hanover and Elm Grove on the Steep Slopes
Explain how speculative terraces adapted to topography and housed Brighton’s expanding Victorian population.
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