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Once a fishing village called Brighthelmstone, Brighton developed as a fashionable watering-place after Dr Richard Russell moved his practice here in 1754, to supervise his sea-water cures.

By 1848 the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway were keen to promote Brighton as a cross-channel port; they funded the Brighton & Continental Steam Packet Co, though it was soon found that Newhaven

Named after the Steyne in Brighton, this delightful and relatively unchanged long narrow square was laid out in the 1820s and is lined by modest seaside houses, many with verandahs and balconies which

This was by Eugenius Birch, who also designed Brighton's West Pier, and was completed in 1872.

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

We are on the Downs between Brighton and Lewes.

Not far away is Michelham Priory, founded in 1229 for 13 Augustinian Canons.The inn in the photograph is offering Tamplins Brighton Ales.

Lowfield Heath is near the old London to Brighton main road.

This village has grown around a road junction on the Horsham to Brighton road.

The pub sells Tamplins beer (a Brighton-based brewery).

Thus its architectural character is more late Victorian than the Regency stucco of Brighton.

This old coaching town on the London to Brighton road had the misfortune to be designated a New Town in 1947.

Also known as Perch Rock and the Battery, the Fort was, and still is, a very large landmark on the New Brighton shore.

This is how I remember New Brighton.

Lowfield Heath is near the old London to Brighton main road.

Nork is a suburb that merges south into Burgh Heath in the large triangle between Reigate Road, Brighton Road and Fir Tree Road, the north boundary of Nork.

Apparently the spire had been designed for a Brighton church.

Between the golfers and the clubhouse was Burdon Lane, which until the 1950s joined the Brighton Road as it crossed the Downs by way of a dangerous blind junction.

This view looks east, and shows the bridge across Grange Vale, a road that connects the Brighton Road with the residential areas of Grange Road, Worcester Road and Mulgrave Road.

We are at the foot of the Downs by the route of the London to Brighton main line railway.

This took in the UDCs of Egremont, New Brighton, Leasowe, Poulton, Moreton, Seacombe and Wallasey.

Victorians knew him, was accompanied by a slender and though somewhat undercut Old Harry's Wife (left) until she was toppled in the 1890s by the gale that went on to sweep away the old chain pier at Brighton

It was long known to motorists on the A23 London to Brighton road for the major hold-ups at its traffic light junction with Star Lane, just out of view to the left.

The Devil's Dyke was immensely popular with visitors to Brighton, who relished the fresh air and the long views across the Weald.