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This exotic architectural confection reminds us of the Pavilion at Brighton, with its oriental domes and minarets.

It was for many years an important staging post on the Hastings to Brighton turnpike road.

Many travellers on the Brighton line will remember the Monotype name, as it was advertised along the factory buildings which backed on to the railway line.

Jill is a timber construction built in nearby Brighton and transported to this site by teams of oxen in 1852.

The Dutch gables on the hotels and apartments are typical of Bexhill's Victorian architecture, although the seaside buildings favour the Moorish look: provincial and dim echoes of the Brighton Pavilion

Every south coast town had to have its 'Steyne', copying the name from Brighton.

This view shows a ferry, probably the 'Brighton Queen', leaving the West Pier. Well-wishers on the pier wave to the departing paddle steamer.

On the left is one of the finest stucco terraces in Eastbourne, the Burlington and Claremont Hotels of 1851: worthy of Brighton.

Looking westwards along the Esplanade with the Lawns on the right, the pho- tographer has captured a superb view of genteel Hove, a cut above its alto- gether more cosmopolitan neighbour, Brighton

Based on Blackpool Tower, New Brighton' tower was built between 1897 and 1900 at a cost of £120,000.

Its railway and pier, both now gone, prompted ambitious plans to transform the town into a major seaside resort similar in size to Brighton or Bournemouth, but the scheme failed to make the grade.

mock-Tudor fronted Charrington's pub stands at the crossing point of the old parish boundary of Gander Green Lane with the Sutton by-pass, which had been constructed in 1927 on the A217, and carried Brighton-bound

It became such a popular resort at the end of the 19th century that it became known as the second Brighton.

New Brighton was originally conceived as 'The sea-bathing rendezvous par excellence of the Lancashire people of note', but things soon went awry.

This Edwardian photograph somehow captures the feel of an English village; note the sign beneath the tree, which points towards Brighton and Shoreham.

This view brings out the tremendous bustle of Brighton's beaches, dotted with small sailing boats and lines of bathing machines.

As a modern holiday resort and suburb of Brighton, Rottingdean benefited from an increase in holidaymakers immediately after the Second World War.

Between the wars, North and West Streets and Queen's Road developed as Brighton's shopping and commercial centre.

The gap in the buildings marks the south side of the green, down the middle of The Steyne, laid out in 1807; it copied that in Brighton and borrowed its name.

Many schools were established in the Brighton area, for the bracing air was ideal for children.

There were once ten piers on the River Mersey, though only New Brighton was ever regarded as being a seaside pier.

A brick arch to the right of the picture carries the London to Brighton main line railway. The mill site is now lost to Crawley New Town development.

South of Redhill, east of the A23 Brighton Road and west of the M23 motorway, Salfords has avoided much of the development that has affected less isolated parts of this area.

The name pre-dates the railway era, but it was the large station, used by passengers changing from the Portsmouth to the Brighton line, that really put the place on the map.