Search Results

In 1860, intending to make Ilfracombe the `Brighton of the West`, a group of businessmen founded the Ilfracombe Joint Stock Land and Investment Company and commenced the building of villas

Once a fishing village, Brighton was rescued by the late 18th-century fashion for sea air and sea bathing.

It was replaced by a housing estate, Belmont Heights, with access across the railway line from the Brighton Road, north of Belmont Station.

The Steine, originally marshy ground, became the focus of early Brighton development as houses were built for the fashionable visitors.

In 1798 Princess Amelia gave Worthing a genteel cachet, but coastal erosion (only cured by groynes) and early sewage problems probably prevented the town rivalling Brighton in popularity.

The corner building on the right, partly occupied by the Farm Shop Dairy, was once known as Terry's Corner after Mr Edward Terry, a draper from Brighton.

At the time of the picture, the Five Ashes public house was offering customers ales from Tamplins, Brighton Brewery.

This made it the ideal venue for the annual Miss New Brighton competition, which was first held in 1949 and continued for the next 40years.

Haywards Heath grew up as a commuter town on the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, whose isolated 1841 station for Cuckfield formed its nucleus.

Not only did New Brighton attract vast numbers of visitors from Liverpool and Lancashire, but also hawkers too.

With acute business acumen, Penarth had rapidly established itself as possibly the most fashionable resort in Wales – bracketing itself with the likes of Brighton rather than with the brash vulgarity of

Bolney is a quiet village, located just off the main London to Brighton trunk road.

Resorts from Morecambe down the coast through New Brighton to Llandudno in Wales provided the wide walk-ways where holiday-makers could stroll and pass the time of day with family and friends away

A village on the eastern edge of the St Leonards Forest at a high point on the London to Brighton trunk road.

The corner of Windermere Road and Brighton Road marks the point where this photograph was taken.

Two of the ornate pavilions on New Brighton pier can just be seen at the far end of the road.

Horley is on the old main London to Brighton road before it was diverted around the area of new Gatwick airport.

There are many people who prefer this watering-place to Brighton, on the grounds that it is quieter and far more economical to live in.

A village on the eastern edge of the St Leonards Forest at a high point on the London to Brighton trunk road.

By ridding itself of this embarrassing eyesore and replacing it with this green oasis, New Brighton was hoping to attract the sort of visitor that it had initially envisaged would come to the resort.