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In 1901 they expanded operations to the south coast when they bought the Brighton, Worthing & South Coast Steamboat Co.

Burgh Heath is very suburban, and its east side is blighted by the roaring traffic of the dual carriageway A217 Reigate road, which merges with the A23 Brighton road at Horley, south of Redhill

Between the wars, Brighton boomed: by the mid-1930s it was packed at weekends.

75 years after this photograph was taken, Great Brington and the adjoining parkland became the focus of world attention when Diana, Princess of Wales was laid to rest in the grounds of Althorp House.

Although the east part of Hove developed in Brighton stucco style from the 1820s, it was not until the 1850s that things got going, while the Stanford estate was not developed until after 1871.

In the middle distance the London Brighton and South Coast Railway lines cut across Brighton Road on a level crossing.

Although Brighton and Hove have now been amalgamated into a city, in the past Hove was a much quieter and more conservative town than its neighbour.

As in Bognor, the name of The Steyne was copied from Brighton where the Steine was the lively focus of a successful seaside resort, but Worthing never proved as lively as Brighton.

Brighton is the biggest and most lively and cosmopolitan of the Sussex resorts.

There were two swimming pools in New Brighton.

We are looking along Egremont's Promenade towards New Brighton from Tobin Street.

Hove, a small fishing village west of Brighton, developed slowly from the mid 19th century onwards.

Rottingdean, the valley of Rota's people, is cut off from its vast neighbour, Brighton, by steep chalk downs and sea cliffs.

Henfield is a main road village midway between Horsham and Brighton.

The centrepiece of Brighton was and remains the extraordinary Pavilion or seaside palace.

A train on the Smitham railway bridge adds interest to this photograph of the northern end of Brighton Road shopping area.

The leading two are Wallasey ferries, one probably heading for New Brighton and packed with day trippers for the once-popular resort.

Henfield is a main road village midway between Horsham and Brighton.

According to local legend this was created at the order of the Prince Regent, who used the London to Brighton road to travel to his Pavilion by the sea at Brighton.

The next views are of the residential roads laid out to the east of Brighton Road.

The centrepiece of Brighton was and remains the extraordinary Pavilion or seaside palace.

If we look closely at our top photograph, we will see that the turrets and tower of the New Brighton Tower building are missing.

Horley was a series of hamlets on the London to Brighton Road which only began to expand when the London to Brighton railway arrived in 1841.

It is thought that he named this new town to rival Brighton on the south coast, but his home in North Everton was next to Brighton le-Sands, a part of Liverpool, so maybe that is where the name came from