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Is that not Western Road Hove at the junction of Brunswick Square and Brunswick Place? Nice photo and even better avitar.

http://www.sussex.ac.uk/geography/researchprojects/airphotos-historic/ link to the 1940s photos

Yeah, I thought it looked like PCIS (my kids went there circa 85 to 90) but I didn’t realise it was that old (aerial pic was circa 1940).

Not sure which school building is which but this is view of the Locks Hill and Old Shoreham road junction from above at about the time of the photo.

Plus advert for Bukta which was of that era.

Would never have recognised it. Wonderful telephone box next to it.

This was a photo from its reopening in 1929 - could be the same event?

Film advertised is 1958. I don’t remember the building but I was quite young then!

Brighton Boys Club building has changed a bit!

Loved those old Sainsbury’s shops with marble counters and wooden fittings. Takes me back to when I used to get sent round to buy eggs individually for 1 1/4d (a penny farthing) each.

Hadn’t realised that International Stores on Western Road had been there so long ago.

Big doorways for the Headmaster’s horse and cart.

Doh! https://closelook.brightonmuseums.org/collections/local-history/aircraft-crash-hove-1938/

Yes, It’s Lyndhurst Corner, a name I hadn’t come across until I looked it up. Any idea when the pic was taken?

I did go round the outside and took quite a few in the week before the end. I haven’t scanned them and don’t know if there’s enough interest or space on here to post them all. If there are any specific bits then I can post those.

I think the surface has now eroded back to its original level.

From the recent pics it looks like the hotels were built so close to the seafront that they had to reclaim land in order to build the road and upper promenade, hence the predominance of arches required to create a flat surface. The Victorians and Edwardians certainly were able to employ people...

Bloody character! Doesn’t it look so much better now - not.

It’s just amazing that nearly the whole of that stretch for road from the Peace Statue to the Palace Pier sits on a great big void. It does make you wonder just how safe the road and the properties under it really are. I remember going into the basement of one of the rock shops on the seafront...

Back in the sixties they had canoes in the small lake and wooden motorboats in the large one.