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A journey through Sussex [Lewes, Brighton, Shoreham, Findon and Chichester], by John Burton, published 1752 in Rivington, London (article, pp.53-56, in Latin)

A Short History of Brighthelmston, with remarks on it's air, and an analysis of its waters, particularly of an uncommon mineral one long discovered though but lately used, by Anthony Relhan, M.D., published 1761 (65 pp., London: W. Johnston) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

A Diary kept in an Excursion to Little Hampton, near Arundel, and Brighthelmston, in Sussex, in 1778; and also to the latter Place in 1779, vols 1 and 2, by Peregrin Phillips, published 1780 (vol 1: vii + 100pp. & vol 2: viii + 128 pp., published by the author) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Fuller Lib 138] & British Library

Ancient and Modern History of Lewes and Brighthelmston in which are compressed the most interesting events of the County at Large, under the Regnian, Roman, Saxon and Norman Settlements, by Paul Dunvan, published 1795 (555 pp., Lewes: William Lee) accessible at: & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The author is not named but the book is attributed to Paul Dunvan

History of Lewes and Brighthelmston, edited by William Lee, published 1795 (2 volumes , Lewes: W. Lee) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/504859] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Smith's actual survey of the roads from London to Brighthelmstone … also from London to Worthing, by Charles Smith, published 1800 (27 leaves of plates, London) accessible at: British Library

Attree's Topography of Brighton: and, Picture of the roads, from thence to the metropolis, by H. R. Attree, published 1809 (London Paternosterrow: Longman, Hurst & Co. & printed at Herald Printing Office, Brighton) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

Trial of Captain John Ellman of the Centre Sussex Battalion of Local Militia, by general court martial. Held at the Castle Tavern, Brighton, on Thursday, October the 2d. 1810 … on charges preferred against him by Lieutenant-Col. Graham, by Captain John Ellman, published 1810 (52 pp., Brighton: F.W. Lee) accessible at: British Library

The Three Grand Routes from Brighton to London, and topography of that fashionable watering place … including every thing worthy of remark in the routes to the metropolis, by Cuckfield, Lewes and Horsham. [With maps and a plate.], published 1815 (viii + 96 pp., Brighton: W. Saunders) accessible at: British Library

An Epitome of Brighton, topographical and descriptive; involving its history from the earliest to the present period, by Richard Sicklemore, published 1815 (180 pp., Brighton: W. Fleet) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

The Temptations of Watering Places and the best means of counteracting their influence, by John Styles, published 1815 (published by the author)

A sermon preached at Union Street Chapel, Brighton, August 13, 1815

Brighton Union Charity School for Boys, by Brighton Union Charity School for Boys, published 1818 (20 pp., Brighton: Ruddock, Printer, &c) accessible at: British Library

Rambles in the Vicinity of Brighton, to Lewes, Eastbourne, Worthing, Bramber, Devil's Dyke, Arundel, etc., with an itinery of the roads, by Charles Wright, published 1818 (112 pp., published by the author) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

The Brighton Ambulator containing historical and topographical delineations of the town, by Charles Wright, published 1818 (London: Sherwood, Neely and Jones) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries   View Online

History of Brighton and its environs, from the earliest period to the present time; and picture of the roads by the three principal routes to the Metropolis, by Richard Sicklemore, published 1823 (Brighton: Sicklemore) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

A Visit to the Regent Iron & Brass Foundery, the Gas Manufactory, and the Royal Chain Pier, Brighton. By the author of the Twin Sisters, by Elizabeth Sandham, published 1824 (Royston : J. Warren) accessible at: British Library

Topographical sketches of Brighthelmston and its neighbourhood. Illustrated with twelve engravings by R. Havell, Jun., by E. W. Brayley, F.S.A., published 1825 (82 pp., London: Rodwell and Martin) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

Baxter's Select Sketches in Brighton, Lewes and their environs; forming a series of engravings on wood, with descriptions, published 1827 (Lewes: J. Baxter) accessible at: British Library

Harry and Lucy's Trip to Brighton: a humourous and picturesque description of the amusements and scenery … Embellished with thirteen characteristic engravings, etc., published c.1828 (36 pp., Brighton: J. Whittemore) accessible at: British Library

A Short History of Brighthelmston, with remarks on it's air, and an analysis of its waters, particularly of an uncommon mineral one long discovered though but lately used, by James Charles Michell, published c.July 1829 (reprint and illustrated copy of Dr. Anthony Relhan's original published in 1761, 65 pp., London: The Philanthropic Society, St George's Fields) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

Rural Rides, Vol I, by William Cobbett, M.P., published 1830 (406 pp., London: William Cobbett) accessible at: & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries   View Online

Brighton!! A Comic Sketch, by Robert Cruikshank, published 1830 in Cruikshank's Comic Album: A Collection of Humurous Poetry illustrated with numerous engravings (article, London: William Kidd)   View Online

Brighton as it Is, 1832: Exhibiting All the Latest Improvements in that Fashionable Watering Place, by W. Batcheller and Edward Wallis, published 1832 (Wallis's royal edition, 79 pp., Brighton: The Booksellers) accessible at: & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Coast of Sussex - Brighton, Eastbourne, Hastings, St. Leonards, Rye . Forming also a guide to all the Watering Places, by John Docwra Parry and engraved by R. Martin, published 1833 (435 pp., Brighton: Wright & Son) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 48][Lib 17333] & The Keep [LIB/504860] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries   View Online

Brighton. Scènes détachées d'un Voyage en Angleterre, by Auguste Louis Charles de La Garde, Count, published 1834 (407 pp., Paris) accessible at: British Library

Remarks on the Coffin-bone (distal phalangel) of a Horse from the Shingle Bed of the Newer Pliocene Strata of the Cliffs of Brighton', by G.A. Mantell, published 1834 in Proceedings of the Geological Society of London (vol. 37, no. 2, article)

Excursions in the County of Sussex: Comprehending Historical and Topographical Delineations of the Principal Towns and Villages, together with descriptions of the Residences of the Nobility and Gentry, Remains of Antiquity, and the Most Modern Improvements; Forming a Complete Guide to Brighton, Hastings, Worthing, &c. &c. , edited by Edmund Bellchambers, published 1835 (72 pp., London: Alan Bell & Co.) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Parliamentary History - Brighton, by William Durrant Cooper, published 1835 in The History, Antiquities and Topography of the County of Sussex (appendix III, article, pp.35-36) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2397][Lib 3212] & The Keep [LIB/507380][Lib/500088] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Parish of Brighton, by Thomas Walker Horsfield, published 1835 in The History, Antiquities and Topography of the County of Sussex (vol. I, rape of Lewes, pp.104-156) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2396][Lib 3211] & The Keep [LIB/507380][Lib/500087] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Poll Book, published 1837 (36 pp., Brighton: R. D. Buckoll) accessible at: British Library

A poll taken by Eardley Nicholas Hall, Esq returning officer of the borough of Brighton, on Wednesday, July 26th, 1837, for the election of two members to represent the said borough in parliament.

Kidd's Picturesque Pocket Companion to Brighton, Worthing, Bognor etc, published 1838 (William Kidd) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10652]

Analysis of sea-water as it exists in the English Channel near Brighton, by G. Schweitzer M.D., published 1839 in Philosophical Journal (15(93), article, pp.51-60)

A Treatise on Mineral Waters, with particular reference to those prepared at the Royal German Spa, at Brighton, by Johann Christopher August Franz, published 1842 (London: J. Churchill)   View Online

On the sanitary state of the Town of Brighton and on the causes and prevention of fever, by Dr. G. S. Jenks, published July 1842 in Local Reports on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of England (article, pp.57-86, London: W. Clowes & Sons, Stamford Street)

Brighton, and its three climates: with remarks on its medical topography, and advice and warnings to invalids and visitors, by Arthur Ladbroke Wigan, M.D., published 1843 (71 pp., Brighton: Robert Folthrop & Co. Ltd. And London: Samuel Highley) accessible at: & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries   View Online

A short account of the failure of a part of the Brighton Chain Pier, in the gale of the 30th of November 1836, by William Reid, published 1844 in Papers on Subjects Connected with the Duties of the Corps of Royal Engineers (vol. 1, article, p.99)

Poll Book, published 1847 (45 pp., Brighton: Levy Emanuel Cohen) accessible at: British Library

A poll taken by Henry Smithers of the borough of Brighton on the 30th day of July, 1847, for the election of two members … Arranged and published by Edwin Wright.

Report to the General Board of Health on a preliminary inquiry into the sewerage, drainage, and supply of water, and the sanitary condition of the inhabitants of the town of Brighton, by Edward Cresy, published 1849 (London: H.M.S.O. & printed at William Clowes & Sons)   View Online

The Early History of Brighton, as illustrated by the "Customs of the ancient Fishermen of the Town", by Rev. Edward Turner, published 1849 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 2, article, pp.38-52) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2087] & The Keep [LIB/500221] & S.A.S. library   View Online

The Brighton Fishery, being an account of the fisherman; the boats employed, etc., published 1850 (32 pp., Brighton: Fleet & Son) accessible at: British Library

Poll Book, published 1852 (75 pp., Brighton) accessible at: British Library

A Poll taken by William Kennett, Esq. Returning Officer of the Borough of Brighton on the 8th day of July, 1852, for the Election of two members … Arranged and published by Edwin Wright … and W. J. Taylor.

Report of the Brighton Protestant Defence Committee, published 1852 (11 pp., Brighton) accessible at: British Library

Report of the Proceedings of the Brighton Protestant Defence Committee, from January, 1851 to December, 1853, containing their memorial to the Bishop of Chichester on the Romanizing practices of the incumbent of St. Paul's, Brighton [i.e. William Gresley], etc., published 1854 (22 pp., Brighton) accessible at: British Library

Glances of Brighton: past and present, by Amelia Balcomb, published 1856 (70 pp., London: Whitbread) accessible at: British Library

Handbook of Brighton and its Environs, by Charles Fleet, published 1858

A Day with the Brookside Harriers at Brighton, by Sir Richard George Augustus Levinge, Bart., published 1858 (London) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502515] & British Library

The Climate of Brighton, by William Kebbell, published 1859 (187 pp., London: Longman Green Longman and Roberts) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503780] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

On the Pleistocene Sea-bed of the Sussex Coast, being the Western Extension of the Raised Sea-beach of Brighton, by Joseph Prestwich, published January 1859 in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society (vol. 15, issue 1-2, article, p.86)   View Online

A Sketch of the Natural History of Brighton and its Vicinity, by Mary Philadelphia Merrifield, published 1860 (Brighton: Whittaker) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton, by Frederick W. Robertson, published 1860 accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13052]

Sabbath-breakers in Brighton. A correspondence between Rev. R. Ainslie & Rev. E. Clay, by Robert Ainslie, Independent Minister, published 1861 (20 pp., London: Judd & Glass) accessible at: British Library

Sortain of Brighton: a review of his life and ministry, by Benjamin Samuel Hollis, published 1861 (London, Clapham) accessible at: British Library

Joseph Sortain (1809-60) was the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion minister at North Street chapel, Brighton, from 1832

Brighton eighty years ago, by John Gough Nichols, published 1861 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 13, notes & queries, p.311) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2098] & The Keep [LIB/500232] & S.A.S. library   View Online

History of Brighthelmston or Brighton as I view it and others knew it, with a chronological table of local events, by John Ackerson Erredge, published 1862 (Brighton: E. Lewis) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503773] & West Sussex Libraries   View Online

Handy Helps to Useful Knowledge, Brighton as it was & as it is, published 1865 (pamphlet, Handy Helps) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 4222]

Memoir of the late Rev. John Grace, many years Minister of the Tabernacle Chapel, West Street, Brighton, written by his afflicted widow, together with a full account of the funeral service, conducted by the Rev. G. Abrahams and Rev. B. Tatham, and the three sermons preached in the Tabernacle Chapel, by the Rev. Geo. Abrahams, by Rev. George Abrahams, published 1865 (64 pp., Brighton: Chas. E. Verrall) accessible at: British Library

Life and Letters of Frederick W. Robertson, M.A., incumbent of Trinity Chapel, Brighton, 1847-53, by Stopford A. Brooke, M.A., published 1865 (vol. II, London: Smith, Elder & Co.) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries   View Online

Life and Letters of Frederick W. Robertson, M.A., incumbent of Trinity Chapel, Brighton, 1847-53, by Stopford A. Brooke, M.A., published 1865 (vol. I, Boston: Ticknor and Field) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries   View Online

The Confessional: disgraceful to Brighton and ruinous to England … what it is, by Paul Foskett, published 1865 (32 pp., Brighton: Edward Verrall) accessible at: British Library

Richard Russell, M.D., F.R.S., by Mark Antony Lower, published 1865 in The Worthies of Sussex (pp.59-61) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 3208][Lib 3233][Lib 3304] & The Keep [LIB/503515][LIB/504913]

Anthony Relhan, M.D., by Mark Antony Lower, published 1865 in The Worthies of Sussex (p.89) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 3208][Lib 3233][Lib 3304] & The Keep [LIB/503515][LIB/504913]

Strolls in the Brighton Extra-Mural Cemetery, by John George Bishop, published 1867 (viii + 110 pp., Brighton: Fleet & Co.) accessible at: British Library

The Life of the Rev. Henry Venn Elliott, M.A., perpetual curate of St Mary's Brighton, and late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, by Josiah Bateman, M.A., published 1868 (London: Macmillan & Co.) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries   View Online

A hint and a help to Brighton invalids, by Geo. Corfe, M.D., published 1869 (Brighton: Beal & Son)

Brighton (anciently Brighthelmstone), by Mark Antony Lower, M.A., published 1870 in A Compendious History of Sussex, Topographical, Archaeological & Anecdotal (vol. I, pp.77-84, Lewes: George P. Bacon) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8946][Lib 3314] & The Keep [LIB/500159]   View Online

Life beneath the Waves, and a description of the Brighton Aquarium. With numerous illustrations, etc., published 1871 (London) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/501538] & British Library

The History of Brighton and Environs, from the earliest known period to the present time: together with a short Historical Description of Towns and Villages of interest within twelve miles of Brighton., by Alderman Henry Martin, published 1871 (265 pp., Brighton: John Beal, ISBN-10: 115038820X & ISBN-13: 9781150388200) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/504892][Lib/503789] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries   View Online

Excavations through the Post-Pliocene Formation of Temple Field, Brighton, by James Howell, published 1871 in Brighton and Sussex Natural History Association (article, pp.14-)

The Brighton Cliff Formation and the Brighton Valley, by James Howell, published 1871 in Brighton and Sussex Natural History Association (article, pp.21-)

Meteorological Observations. The Climate of Brighton, by F. E. Sawyer, published 1871 in Brighton Daily News (article, Sept to Dec, 12 pp.) accessible at: British Library

On the Occurrence of Websterite at Brighton, by S.G. Perceval, published March 1871 in Geological Magazine (vol. 8, issue 81, article, pp.121-122)   View Online

On the 30th July last year I observed that a deposit of Websterite, subsulphate of alumina, had been cut into, in excavating for the new system of drainage in the Montpelier Road opposite the south end of Vernon Terrace. It occurs at a depthof 16 feet from the surface of the road, beneath a ferruginous deposit of varying depth, which overlies the chalk on the summit of the hill, consisting of ochreous clay with occasional flint-breccia and masses of hæmatite iron ore in some instances mammillated and associated with crystals of selenite. The iron ore is occasionally friable and of a cindery appearance, containing in its cavities angular pieces of chalk and occasional groups of crystals of selenite. The deposit of Websterite is about three feet wide at its junction with the overlying ferruginous mass, narrowing as it descends, apparently occupying a fissure in the chalk, which has at some time been filled with clay, or has been formed by some decomposing action on the chalk, the chalk intruding occasionally into the vein of Websterite. The mineral varies much in colour and appearance, consisting in some places of a soft white powder, which, I am informed by Sir W. C. Trevelyan, hehas observed in specimens at Newhaven, and which he has ascertained by the microscope to consist entirely of minute transparent crystals, the nature of which he believes has not yet been investigated; sometimes in masses of various size presenting the appearance of meerschaum, compact and structureless, or somewhat botryoidal in form, occasionally presenting a concentric structure, and rarely and only in a certain portion of the deposit exhibiting spherical concretions with a radiating structure. Specimens of these various forms I have presented to the British Museum. A mass of yellow clay with imbeddedchalk flints divides the summit of the vein of Websterite, and near the clay the mineral assumes the character of allophane, having a yellow ivory-like appearance, towards the chalk forming the wall of the vein of Websterite. The wall of the vein is marked by a dark line caused by the association of a soft black substance, oxide of manganese, with the Websterite.

Geological Formations above the chalk at Brighton, etc., by James Howell, published 1872 (24 pp., Brighton: W. J. Smith) accessible at: British Library

On the Minerals lately found in the Drainage works at Brighton, by James Howell, published 1872 in Brighton and Sussex Natural History Association (article, p.108)

On Super-Cretaceous Formations in the Neighbourhood of Brighton, by James Howell, published 1872 in Brighton and Sussex Natural History Association (article, p.109)

Page's Handbook to Brighton, by E. Hepple Hall, published 1873 (Brighton: Thomas Page)

The Geology of Brighton, by James Howell, published 1874 in Brighton and Sussex Natural History Association (vol. iii no. 4, article, pp.168-188, & Vol v, pp.80-)

The Brighton Murder, edited by Charles Hindley, published 1875 (Brighton) accessible at: British Library

An authentic and faithful history of the atrocious murder of C. Holloway, … including, also, the trial for the murder and the … confessions of J. W. Holloway, together with his life and execution; also, the leading features of the trial of A. Kennett, his paramour. Embellished with engravings.

The Brighton Aquarium. What it has done for Science, by T. W. Wonfor, published 1875 in Brighton and Sussex Natural History Society (article, pp.113-)

The thunderstorm at Brighton on October 8th,1873, and effects, by F. E. Sawyer, F.M.S., published 1875 in Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society (vol. 2, issue 9, article, pp.5-8)   View Online

Captain Tattersal, by John C. Lucas, published 1875 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 26, notes & queries, pp.276-277) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2111] & The Keep [LIB/500244] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Views and Legend of the Devil's Dyke, by William Harrison Ainsworth, published 1876 (Brighton: J. Beal & Co.) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

Catalogue of the Cases of Birds in the Dyke Road Museum, Brighton. Giving a few descriptive notes, and the localities in which the specimens were obtained., by Edward Thomas Booth, published 1876 (219 pp., Brighton) accessible at: British Library

Ordnance Survey Book of Reference to the plan of the Parish of Brighton, published 1876 (article, London: H.M.S.O. & printed at George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode)   View Online

The Brighton intercepting and outfall sewers, by J.G. Gamble, published 1876 in Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers. (vol. 43, article)

Work in Brighton; or, Woman's mission to women, by Ellice Hopkins, published 1877 (vi + 84 pp., London: Hatchards) accessible at: British Library

Borough of Brighton. Copies of the Deeds relating to the Division of the Tenantry Lands in the Parish in 1822, by Brighton Town Council, published 1878 (Town Council)

Memories of our Great Towns with Anecdotal Gleanings concerning their Worthies and their Oddities [chapter on Brighton and Dr. Russell], by Dr. John Doran, F.S.A., published 1878 (London: Chatto and Windus)   View Online

Ladies' Associations for the care of friendless girls. Being an account of the work in Brighton [Reprinted from "The Day of Rest."], by Ellice Hopkins, published 1878 (London) accessible at: British Library

The Ecclesiastical History of Brighton, by Frederick E. Sawyer, published 1879 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 29, article, pp.181-210) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2114] & The Keep [LIB/500247] & S.A.S. library   View Online

"A Peep into the Past": Brighton in the olden time, with glances at the present, by John George Bishop, published 1880 (390 pp., published by the author) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries   View Online

The Book of Brighton, as it was and as it is. With scenery and figures by Judy's artists, and talkee-talkee, by Charles Henry Ross, published 1881 (117 pp., London: "Judy" Office) accessible at: British Library & East Sussex Libraries

The Climate of Brighton, by Frederick E. Sawyer, published 1881 (D. B. Friend)

Land Tenure and Division in Brighton and the neighbourhood, by Frederick E. Sawyer, published 1881 (8 pp., London: Spottiswoode & Co.) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502582] & British Library & West Sussex Libraries

Geology and Climate of Brighton, by Dr. Edward Mackey, published 1881 in Brighton Health Congress 1881 (article, pp.57-64)   View Online

Brighton as a Health Resort, by Alfred Haviland, published 1882 (11 pp., Brighton: J. Beal & Co.)   View Online

Memoir of Israel Atkinson, pastor of Ebenezer Chapel, Brighton, by Robert Hoddy, published 1882 (191 pp., Brighton: W. Wileman) accessible at: British Library

St Nicholas' Church, Brighton, by Somers Clarke, F.S.A., published 1882 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 32, article, pp.33-74) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2117] & The Keep [LIB/500250] & S.A.S. library   View Online

The Font in St Nicholas' Church Brighton, by John Sawyer, published 1882 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 32, notes & queries, pp.237-238) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2117] & The Keep [LIB/500250] & S.A.S. library   View Online

St Nicholas' Church, Brighton, by Somers Clarke, Junior, published 1882 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 32, notes & queries, pp.238-239) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2117] & The Keep [LIB/500250] & S.A.S. library   View Online

The Legend of the Devil's Dyke (near Brighton), and its origin, etc., by Frederick E. Sawyer, published 1884 (8 pp., Brighton: D. B. Friend) accessible at: British Library

The South of England Telephone Company's List of subscribers to the Brighton, Hove and Preston exchanges, published 1885 accessible at: British Library

A journey from Poole to Brighton in 1760, by P. Thompson, published 1885 in Antiquarian Magazine and Bibliographer (vol. 7, article, pp.178-181)

Robertson of Brighton. With Some Notices of his Time and Contemporaries, by Rev. Frederick Arnold, published 1886 (viii + 348 pp., London: Ward & Downey) accessible at: British Library   View Online

The Life of Frederick William Robertson (1816-1853), Anglican clergyman who became widely popular particularly among the working class because of the oratory and psychological insight in his sermons preached from 1847 at Trinity Chapel, Brighton.

Brighton College Register. Part 1. 1847-1863. Nos. 1-1000, with brief biographical notices, edited by Henry John Mathews, published 1886 (173 pp., Brighton) accessible at: British Library

The history of the theatres of Brighton: from 1774 to 1885, by Henry C. Porter, published 1886 (viii + 206 pp. + xiv , Brighton: King and Thorne) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503793] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Archaeological Discoveries at Prestonville, Brighton, by The Editor, published 1886 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 34, notes & queries, p.263) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2119] & The Keep [LIB/500252] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Old Brighton, by Frederick Ernest Sawyer, F.S.A., published March 1886 in Journal of the British Archaeological Association (first series, vol 42, issue 1, article, pp.46-56)   View Online

On the waterworks at Goldstone Bottom, Brighton, by W. Whitaker, published April 1886 in Geological Magazine (vol. 3, issue 4, article, pp.159-161)   View Online

These works were at first only supplementary to the Lewes Road Works, on the east; but now are the chief source of supply. They were begun in 1865, and are placed in a hollow in the Chalk, in open ground. at the north-western edge of Brighton. This hollow, the bottom of which, I am told, is 30 feet below the lowest part of its rim, is perhaps in itself an evidence of the existence of underground water, being due, most likely, as is usually the case in limestone-districts, to the dissolving away of the rock by underground water and to the consequent sinking-in of the surface. It is an analogous occurrence to the Meres of Norfolk, except that these are generally more or less filled with water, whilst Goldstone Bottom is quite dry at the surface. I may mention that at the time of my visit there was so thick a fog that it was impossible to see the hollow.

Robertson of Brighton; a lecture, by James Pitt Edgar, published 1887 (27 pp., Edinburgh: D. Douglas) accessible at: British Library

Muster Roll: Windlesham House, Brighton, A.D. 1837-1887, by Henry C. Malden, published 1887 (Windlesham House School) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

The Ecclesiastical History of Brighton, Hove and Preston, by Frederick E. Sawyer, published 1887 (Brighton: D. B. Friend) accessible at: British Library

Brighton beaches after the storms of October 15 and December 8, 1886, by W.G. Black, published 1887 in Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological Society (vol. 5, no. 3, article, pp.399-406)

A Relic of Brighton Camp, by The Editor, published 1887 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 35, notes & queries, p.189) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2120] & The Keep [LIB/500253] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Brighton during the Regency, by The Editor, published 1887 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 35, notes & queries, p.194) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2120] & The Keep [LIB/500253] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Some Notes on the History of John Grover, of Brighthelmstone, and Extracts from the 'Chronology' of Elizabeth Grover, by Charles E. Clayton, published 1888 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 36, article, pp.75-88) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2121] & The Keep [LIB/500254] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Discovery of Roman Coins at Brighton, by F. Haverfield, published 1888 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 36, notes & queries, p.244) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2121] & The Keep [LIB/500254] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Dr. Russell, of Brighton, by E. C. Currey, published 1888 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 36, notes & queries, p.246) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2121] & The Keep [LIB/500254] & S.A.S. library   View Online

The Queen's Park, Brighton, by The Editor, published 1888 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 36, notes & queries, pp.253-254) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2121] & The Keep [LIB/500254] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Brighton of to-Day, An Illustrated Book for all Seasons, But More Particularly those of 1889, by Charles Eyre Pascoe, published 1889 (Hamilton, Adams & Co.) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

Brighton Public Library. Catalogue of the Victoria Lending Library, with an appendix of some books of reference., published 1890 (xiv + 375 pp.) accessible at: British Library

James Hannington, first bishop of eastern equatorial Africa; a history of his life and work, 1847-1885, by E. C. Dawson, published 1890 (Anson D. F. Randolph & Company) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13216] & West Sussex Libraries   View Online

The Brighton Waterworks, by William Henry Hallett, published 1890 (8 pp.) accessible at: British Library

Electric Lighting; Brighton. New openings and modern developments, etc., by William Henry Hallett, published 1890 (v + 40 pp., Brighton: E. Marlborough & Co.) accessible at: British Library

Interesting Archaeological Discovery near Brighton, by Henry Willett, published 1890 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 37, notes & queries, p.195) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2122] & The Keep [LIB/500255] & S.A.S. library   View Online

A Bit of Old Brighton, by The Editor, published 1890 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 37, notes & queries, pp.196-197, , report in Brighton Herald, July 21, 1888) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2122] & The Keep [LIB/500255] & S.A.S. library   View Online

On the sanitary advance of Brighton, by Joseph Ewart, published 1 January 1890 in Transactions of the Sanitary Institute (vol. 11, no. 1, article, pp.85-96)

On the Brighton waterworks, by W.H. Hallett, published 1 May 1890 in Transactions of the Sanitary Institute (vol. 11, no. 2, article, pp.143-149)

On "The climate of Brighton", by Frederick Ernest Sawyer, published 1 September 1890 in Transactions of the Sanitary Institute (vol. 11, no. 3, article, pp.226-241)

"A Peep into the past" Brighton in the Olden Times., by John George Bishop, published 1892 (434 pp., published by the author) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12323] & East Sussex Libraries   View Online

The Brighton Road, by Charles G. Harper, published 1892 accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12420] & West Sussex Libraries   View Online

A Tramp to Brighton. De Profundis ad Suprema, by Edward Shirley Kennedy, published 1892 (81 pp., London: Simpkin and Marshall) accessible at: British Library

St. Nicholas' Church, Brighton, by F. J. Sawyer, published 1892 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 38, notes & queries, p.216) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2123] & The Keep [LIB/500256] & S.A.S. library   View Online

A Brighton Accident in 1808, by J. S. [John Sawyer], published 1892 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 38, notes & queries, pp.221-222) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2123] & The Keep [LIB/500256] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Relics at an Old Brighton Inn, by The Editor, published 1892 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 38, notes & queries, pp.222-223, , report in Brighton Herald, April 9, 1892) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2123] & The Keep [LIB/500256] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Brighton and its Coaches. A history of the London and Brighton Road, by William C. A. Blew, M.A., published 1894 (London: John C. Nimmo) accessible at: & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries   View Online

Discovery of the Old Brighton 'Town Well', by J. S. [John Sawyer], published 1894 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 39, notes & queries, pp.213-214, report in Brighton Herald for August 27th 1892) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2124] & The Keep [LIB/500257] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Brighton as I have known it, by George Augustus Henry Fairfield Sala, published 1895 (79 pp., London: A. & C. Black) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries

The Brighton Chain Pier: in memoriam. Its history from 1823 to 1896, with a biographical notice of Sir Samuel Brown, its designer and constructor, by John George Bishop, published 1896 (xxv + 75 pp, published by the author) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12322] & R.I.B.A. Library & East Sussex Libraries   View Online

St. Nicholas Church, Brighton. A short history and guide, etc., by Thomas W. Hemsley, published 1896 (44 pp., Brighton: G. Beal) accessible at: British Library

Round about a Brighton Coach office, by Maude Egerton King, published 1896 (xi +209 pp., London: John Lane) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503769] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries   View Online

The Churches of Brighton, by John Sawyer, published 1897 (three volumes )

The Borough Isolation Hospital, Brighton, published 5 November 1898 in British Medical Journal (vol. 2, article, pp.1453-)   Download PDF

Muster Roll: Windlesham House, Brighton, A.D. 1837-1902, by Henry C. Malden, published 1902 (2nd edition) accessible at: British Library

Ye Holy Anchorite and Ye Olde Devil. A legend of the Devil's Dyke, near Brighton, by Charles William Lambert, published 1903 (7 pp., Brighton: W. J. Towner) accessible at: British Library

The Second Brighton Life Table, published 7 November 1903 in British Medical Journal (vol. 2, article, pp.1223-)   Download PDF

Special Report on overcrowding; on the clearing of insanitary areas and on the provision of housing accommodation by the Town Council Brighton, by Sir Arthur Newsholme, published 1904 (Brighton Council)

Brighton, by E. V. Lucas with illustrations by Frederick L. Griggs, published 1904 in Highways and Byways in Sussex (Chapter XVII, London: Macmillan & Co.) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 41][Lib 12792][Lib 15825] & The Keep [LIB/500142]   View Online

The Middle Street School, Brighton, Formerly the Royal Union School, 1805-1905, by George Haffenden, published 1905 (Brighton: Beal & Son)

Mrs. Fitzherbert and George IV, by William Henry Wilkins, published 1905 (London: Longmans, Green & Co.) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

Wayfaring Notions, by Martin Cobbett and Alice Cobbett, published 1906 (London: Sands & Co.) accessible at: & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries   View Online

The Brighton Road: speed, sport, and history on the classic highway, by Charles George Harper, published 1906 (472 pp., London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd.) accessible at: & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries   View Online

Historical and literary associations of Brighton and Hove, by Frederick Harrison, published 1906 (Hove: Combridges) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502520]

A Historical & Descriptive Sketch of the Font, S. Nicholas' Church, Brighton, by Arthur Patrick Spelman, published 1906 (28 pp., Brighton) accessible at: British Library

Rupert Dudleigh: A Story of Old Brighton, by Frederick Harrison, published 1907 (S. P. C. K.) accessible at: & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The voluntary notification of phthisis in Brighton, including a comparison of results with those obtained in other towns, by Arthur Newsholme, published 1 January 1907 in Journal of the Royal Sanitary Institute (vol. 28, no. 1, article, pp.26-34)

Brighton: Its History, Its Follies, and Its Fashions, by Lewis Melville, published 1909 (xviii + 249 pp., London: Chapman & Hall) accessible at: & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Some recent observations on the Brighton cliff-formation, by Edward Alfred Martin, published January 1909 in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society (vol. 65, issue 1-4, article, pp.206-207)   View Online

The Author records in his paper certain features presented by the face of the cliffs between successive falls at Black Rock, Brighton, during the past eighteen years. As the cliffs have worn back, the base-platform of Chalk grows in height, and the layer of sand which Prestwich found above the Chalk grew thinner and thinner until finally it completely disappeared. At the same time, the raised beach has grown in thickness from 1½ to 12 feet. In 1890 there were 6 feet of sand, with a foot and a half of beach above it. There was practically no protection at this date in the shape of groynes. In 1892 the sand had decreased to between 3 and 4 feet, but the beach remained as in 1890. Many falls of cliff took place between 1892 and 1895, and at the latter date the beach had increased to between 4 and 5 feet. The eastern limit of the beds had become more clearly defined, the trough in the Chalk in which they had been defined taking an upward direction about 300 yards east of the Abergavenny Inn. Many blocks of red sandstone had become dislodged, and were lying on the modern beach. In 1897, 10 feet of chalk formed the lower portion of the cliff, with 8 feet of raised beach above it in places, but there was a mere trace of sand left. The rubble-drift above was seen to be distinctly stratified. Many masses of red sandstone had fallen out of the cliff, the largest measuring 5 feet in its greatest dimension. In 1899, the raised beach had reached a thickness of 10 feet. Great masses of moved and reconstructed chalk were observed on the eastern boundary embedded in the beach. Two rounded lumps of granite were extracted from the beach. In 1903, the beach was but a little over 8 feet thick in the exposed parts, but the platform of Chalk was 14 feet thick. The upper portions of the beach, which were the least consolidated, had fallen away in such a manner as to leave cave-like gaps beneath the rubble. The number of red sandstone blocks which lay on the modern beach was remarkable, forty such blocks being counted in a space of 50 yards square. In 1906, the raised beach had increased from 15 to 20 feet : farther west, however, the thickness was not so great. In 1908, there were 17 feet of Chalk, 12 feet of beach. It is noteworthy that, as the degradation of the cliff proceeds, the material is rapidly carried away by the sea. No talus remains for any length of time, and if the material is to be prevented from disappearing into deep water, some such contrivance as chain-cable groynes seems to be demanded, fixed somewhere between low and high tide-marLs. The only organic remains observed in the cliffs were some fragments of shells, found at the top of the raised beach.

Brighton and Hove in the Coronation Year of His Majesty King George V, edited by Augustus Rubie, published 1911 (115 pp., Brighton: Garnett, Mepham & Fisher) accessible at: British Library

A twentieth century souvenir of the sister towns, with some reminiscences of Royal Brighton, from the time of George IV to the present day.

Tattersall of Brighton, by Walter C. Renshaw, published 1911 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 54, notes & queries, p.271) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2139] & The Keep [LIB/500272] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Pews in Brighton and East Grinstead Churches, by Walter C. Renshaw, published 1911 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 54, notes & queries, pp.271-273) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2139] & The Keep [LIB/500272] & S.A.S. library   View Online

The Brighton United Twins, by James A. Rooth, published 23 September 1911 in British Medical Journal (1911, vol. 2, article, pp.653-)   Download PDF

The Sussex Coast, illustrated by Edith Brand Hannah, by Ian C. Hannah, M.A., published 1912 (London: T. Fisher Unwin) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12417][Lib 74] & The Keep [LIB/500117] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries   View Online

A Victorian Posey from the nearer Downs of Brighton, Sussex, by Mary Preston, published 1912 (32 pp., Brighton: Ralph Gillett & Son) accessible at: British Library

Eighty years reminiscences of Brighton, Hove and district, by Frederick John Ogburn, published 1914 (21 pp., Brighton: T. Phillips) accessible at: The Keep [AMS6850/1/51]

A Short History in English, Gurmukhi & Urdu of the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, and a Description of it as a hospital for Indian soldiers, edited by Henry David Roberts, published 1915 (120 pp., Brighton: Director of the Public Library, Brighton) accessible at: British Library

The Marsupites Chalk of Brighton, by R.M. Brydone, published January 1915 in Geological Magazine (vol. 2, issue 1, article, pp.12-15)   View Online

A description on modern lines of the Brighton chalk below the (old) zone of Actinocamax quadratus is to be found in Dr. Rowe's "Coast Sections", pt. i, p. 346. The principal points that he makes are that between Ovingdean Pumping Station and Black Rock the cliffs display below the (old) zone of A. quadratus a thickness of 58 feet of chalk, the whole of which, he assigns to his zone of Marsupites, and further to his Marsupites band as Uintacrinus was not found in it, but he notes that Uintacrinus has been found on the reefs. These points have, as far as I know, stood unchallenged hitherto, but I am unable to reconcile them with my experience.

Robertson of Brighton, 1816-1853, by Hensley Henson, Dean of Durham, published 1916 (114 pp., London: John Murray) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries   View Online

"Figgis of Brighton": a memoir of a modern saint … With appreciations from several friends, by John Westbury Jones, published 1917 (xv + 261 pp, London: Marshall Bros.) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

John Neville Figgis, CR (1866-1919) was an historian, political philosopher and Anglican priest and monk of the Community of the Resurrection. Educated at Brighton College and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, he was a student of Lord Acton at Cambridge, and editor of much of Acton's work.

A Food Poisoning Outbreak at Brighton, by William G. Savage and Duncan Forbes, published October 1918 in Journal of Hygiene (vol. 17, no. 4, article, pp.460-470)   View Online

Brighton & Environs. A sketch-book, by H. G. Hampton, published 1919 (London: A. & C. Black) accessible at: The Keep [PDA/B/63]

One Hundred Years of the Royal York, Brighton, by H. M. Walbrook, published 1919 (Brighton: Royal York Hotel) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12551]

Famous Brighton Fishing Marks. Where and what to fish for. [Plans], by Henry Ellis Brown, published 1921 (Brighton: H. E. Brown) accessible at: British Library

The Brighton Road: The Classic Highway to the South, by Charles George Harper, published 1922 (3rd revised edition, xv + 272 pp., London: Cecil Palmer) accessible at: & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries   View Online

Some Brighton Churches, by Herbert Hamilton Maughan, published 1922 (Brighton: Faith Press) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

Discoveries at Brighton, by Unknown, published January 1922 in The Antiquaries Journal (vol. 2 issue 1, note, pp.55-56)   View Online

These Hundred Years - The Story of the United Methodist Church in Brighton and Hove, by Lewis H. Court, published 1923 (60 pp., Brighton) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502437]

Notes on Inhumation and Cremations on the London Road, Brighton, by Eliot Curwen and Eliot Cecil Curwen, published 1923 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 64, notes & queries, pp.191-193) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2149] & The Keep [LIB/500282] & S.A.S. library   View Online

The drainage of Brighton, by Harry Tillstone, published 1 December 1923 in Journal of the Royal Sanitary Institute (vol. 44, no. 12, article, pp.487-489)

Written by the Borough Surveyor and Surveyor to the Brighton Intercepting amd Outfall Sewers Board.

Report of Local Secretary. Brighton, by A. F. Griffith, published 1924 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 65, notes & queries, p.260) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2150] & The Keep [LIB/500283] & S.A.S. library

Report of Local Secretary. Brighton, by A. F. Griffith, published 1925 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 66, notes & queries, p.238) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2151] & The Keep [LIB/500284] & S.A.S. library

The Brighton Dyke, by H. S. Toms, published October 1925 in The Antiquaries Journal (vol. 5 issue 4, note, pp.435-436)   View Online

Unknown Brighton: 24 reproduced aquatints and other illustrations by Stella Langdale, by George Aitchison, published 1926 (London: Bodley Head Ltd.) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/501535][Lib/507967]

A notable centenary. Holy Trinity Brighton 1826-1926, by Rev. R. J. Campbell, published 1926 accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502519]

The Bartholomews property, Brighthelmston, 1547 to 1592, by J. S. North, published 1926 in Brighton and Hove Archaeologist (vol.3, article, pp.81-104)

"Thunderbolt's" Grave - The Dyke - Brighton, by Bishop W. Andrews, published May 1926 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. I no. 2, note, pp.59-60) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8950] & The Keep [LIB/500203] & S.A.S. library

St. Richard de Wych, and the Vicarage at Brighton, by A. O. Jennings, M.B.E., LL.B., J.P., published 1927 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 68, article, pp.159-170) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2153] & The Keep [LIB/500286] & S.A.S. library

Miscellaneous Earthworks near Brighton, by H. S. Toms, published 1927 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 68, article, pp.179-198) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2153] & The Keep [LIB/500286] & S.A.S. library

The Queer Case of Captain Codling: A true story of the Sussex Coast, by Arthur Beckett, published 1927 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. I no. 2, article, pp.58-65) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2303][Lib 8326] & The Keep [LIB/500137]

Sussex Industries, No 2. A Visit to the "Fryco" Factories, by Lady Kate, published 1927 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. I no. 8, article, pp.382-384) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2303][Lib 8326] & The Keep [LIB/500137]

Rambles in Sussex, No 6. Brighton to the Ouse Valley and Lewes, by H. J. Sibley, published 1927 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. I no. 12, article, pp.520-521) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2303][Lib 8326] & The Keep [LIB/500137]

The Booth Museum of British Birds, by E. J. Bedford, published 1928 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. II no. 1, article, pp.32-35) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9327] & The Keep [LIB/500138]

Clement Lambert: A Sussex Artist, by S.C.M. Contributor(s), published 1928 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. II no. 2, article, pp.64-66) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9327] & The Keep [LIB/500138]

The Legend of the Devil's Dyke, by William Harper, F.S.A., published 1928 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. II no. 6, article, pp.252-253) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9327] & The Keep [LIB/500138]

How Many Miles to Brighton, by Arthur Beckett, published 1928 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. II no. 8, article, pp.362-367) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9327] & The Keep [LIB/500138]

Sussex industries: Cook's, Fruit Growers and Jam Factors, by Lady Kate, published 1928 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. II no. 11, article, pp.514-515) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9327] & The Keep [LIB/500138]

Brighton Cow Tithe, by F. Bentham Stevens, published November 1928 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. II no. 4, note, p.125) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8951] & The Keep [LIB/500204] & S.A.S. library

Famous South Coast Pleasure Resorts Past & Present, their historical associations, their rise to fame and a forecast of their future development, by Harold Clunn, published 1929 (T. Whittingham) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

Kipling and Keats at Brighton, by R. Thurston Hopkins, published 1929 in Kipling's Sussex Revisited (pp.67-87, London: H. Jenkins Ltd) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15871][Lib 17092] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Chalk zones in the neighbourhood of Shoreham, Brighton and Newhaven, Sussex, by Christopher T. A. Gaster, F.G.S., published 1929 in The Proceedings of the Geologists' Association London (no. 40 issue 4, article, pp.328-340)   View Online

This paper is a further contribution of my work on the zones of the chalk in Sussex. My previous paper dealt with the chalk of the Worthing District [1924 (3) p. 89, et seq .]; the present one, which continues eastward of that district, embraces the area between Shoreham and Seaford. The southern portion is coastal, extending east and west for about 15 miles and is chiefly of an urban character. It includes the towns of Brighton, Hove, Shoreham and Newhaven. Owing to a westerly inward bend of the coast the inland extension is about 2½ miles at Shoreham, widening to 6 miles at Bishopstone, west of Seaford. The western boundary is drained by the River Adur and the eastern by the River Ouse. The part of the South Downs which forms the cliff at Brighton and eastwards to Newhaven recedes from the coast west of Brighton and continues inland. The Mount Caburn syncline is pr esent in the north of Brighton and eastwards, also the anticline of Kingston near Lewes, which runs approximately parallel with the last fold [1924 (2) pp. 6, 7]. Brydone has recorded a series of folds transverse to the cliff-line from Black Rock, Brighton, to Seaford [1914 p. 361]. These are continued westwards by an anticline which may be known as the Brighton anticline, of which East Brighton is the axis. It is the westerly pitch of this fold that accounts for the presence of the higher zones in West Brighton (which may be seen in the railway sections between Brighton Station and Holland Road Halt) and finally terminates the outcrop of chalk on the coast in East Hove. The inliers of Cold Dean, Lower Bevendean and Balsdean recorded by the Survey [1924 (2) p. 40] are present in the area.

The origin of the Devil's Dyke near Brighton, by R. L. Sherlock, D.Sc., A.R.C.Sc., F.G.S., published 1929 in The Proceedings of the Geologists' Association London (no. 40 issue 4, article, pp.371-372)   View Online

A Famous Brighton Phrenologist: Professor Millott Severn, by S.C.M. Contributor(s), published 1929 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. III no. 6, article, p.398) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2307] & The Keep [LIB/500139]

Sussex Industries: The Southdown Motor Services Ltd, by C. A. Kelly, published 1929 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. III no. 9, article, pp.662-663) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2307] & The Keep [LIB/500140]

Harry Bush, a Sussex artist, by M. Newton, published 1930 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. IV no. 1, article, p.24) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2308][Lib 2309] & The Keep [LIB/500172]

Sussex Industries: B & W Bennet Ltd, by C. A. Kelley, published 1930 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. IV no. 1, article, p.88) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2308][Lib 2309] & The Keep [LIB/500172]

The Huguenots in Sussex, by Pastor H. Migot, published 1930 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. IV no. 6, article, pp.454-459) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2308][Lib 2309] & The Keep [LIB/500172]

Charles Dickens and Brighton, by F. J. Hansor, published 1930 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. IV no. 8, article, pp.639-643) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2308][Lib 2309] & The Keep [LIB/500173]

Brighton in the 'Nineties, by H. M. Walbrook, published 1930 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. IV no. 9, article, pp.733-737) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2308][Lib 2309] & The Keep [LIB/500173]

A Brighthelmston "Tarriat" of 1673 , by W. Clarkson Wallis, J.P., published February 1930 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. III no. 1, article, pp.13-17) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8952][Lib 8221] & The Keep [LIB/500205] & S.A.S. library

Western Road, Brighton, by S.N.Q. Contributor, published May 1930 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. III no. 2, query, pp.62-63) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8952][Lib 8221] & The Keep [LIB/500205] & S.A.S. library

Human Remains recently discovered near the Dyke , by E. Cecil Curwen, published August 1930 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. III no. 3, note, pp.87-89) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8952][Lib 8221] & The Keep [LIB/500205] & S.A.S. library

Western Road, Brighton, by C. Somers Clarke, published August 1930 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. III no. 3, reply, pp.96-97) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8952][Lib 8221] & The Keep [LIB/500205] & S.A.S. library

Western Road, by Isabel Hadden, published November 1930 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. III no. 4, reply, pp.129-130) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8952][Lib 8221] & The Keep [LIB/500205] & S.A.S. library

The Story of Brighton, Hove and Neighbourhood, by Frederick Harrison, published 1931 (Reprinted from the Brighton Gazette, Brighton: Southern Publishing Company) accessible at: & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Sussex from the Air. 8 - The First Cities, by E. Cecil Curwen, M.A., F.S.A., published 1931 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. V no. 1, article, pp.56-63) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2310] & The Keep [LIB/500174]

Rugby Football in Brighton, by Sidney Thornton Shaw, published 1931 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. V no. 2, article, pp.106-109) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2310] & The Keep [LIB/500174]

Brighton during the Regency Period, by Margaret Jenner, published 1931 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. V no. 7, article, pp.456-460) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2310] & The Keep [LIB/500174]

When Brighton was at Bognor Regis, by Thos. F. Allen, published 1931 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. V no. 7, article, pp.499-500) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2310] & The Keep [LIB/500174]

The Tragedy of Donkey Row, by Arthur Beckett, published 1931 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. V no. 11, article, pp.723-733) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2310] & The Keep [LIB/500174]

Excavations at Hollingbury, by E. Cecil Curwen, published May 1931 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. III no. 6, article, p.187) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8952][Lib 8221] & The Keep [LIB/500205] & S.A.S. library

The Parish Register of Brighton in the County of Sussex, 1588-1701, by Henry D. Roberts, published 1932 (Brighton: Director of the Public Library, Brighton) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8262] & The Keep [LIB/500659] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Report of Local Secretary. Brighton, by A. F. Griffith, published 1932 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 73, notes & queries, p.204) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2158] & The Keep [LIB/500356] & S.A.S. library

Herbert Spencer at Brighton, by Agnes H. Shinner, published 1932 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VI no. 2, article, p.112) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9325] & The Keep [LIB/500175]

Human Remains at the Dyke , by E. Cecil Curwen, published February 1932 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. IV no. 1, article, pp.7-8) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2203][Lib 8222][Lib 8861] & The Keep [LIB/500206] & S.A.S. library

Some recent municipal activities at Brighton, by David Edwards, published 1 August 1932 in Journal of the Royal Sanitary Institute (vol. 53, no. 8, article, pp.411-419)

Discusses sewers, sea defences, roads, town planning,and housing. Written by the Borough Engineer.

A Tour into Sussex, 1788, continued, by Hon. John Byng, published 1933 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VII no. 5, article, pp.298-303) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2312] & The Keep [LIB/500176]

Hudson Taylor at Brighton, by Raymond Belton, published 1933 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VII no. 5, article, p.326) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2312] & The Keep [LIB/500176]

The Parish Church of Brighton, by Frederick Harrison, published 1934 (Southern Counties Publishing & Advertising Co.)

Mr. Harrison has compiled a very useful little handbook of the modern Parish Church of St. Peter, Brighton, giving its history from its foundation in 1824, when the town was reaping the benefit of its popularity with the Regent who by then was reigning as George IV. The architect was Sir Charles Barry, who afterwards built the present Houses of Parliament. It did not become the Parish Church till 1873, the Mother Church being that of St. Nicholas, on the hill.
Mr. Harrison has had the assistance of Mr. O. H. Leeney, F.R.S.A., who contributes some notes on the architecture, the original building and the later alterations and additions. Dr. Chastey Hector describes the fine Willis organ, and Mr. John T. Rickman gives an account of the bells and of the well-known Society of Ringers, who stand high in the difficult art of change-ringing.
Besides a general description of the Church, Mr. Harrison gives information about the Rectors and Vicars. Till 1252 the Rectors were appointed by St. Pancras, Lewes, after which Lewes retained the Rectorial tithes and appointed Vicars. This continued till the dissolution of the monastery in 1539.
There are also sections dealing with the Churchwardens, of which Brighton had the unusual number of three, 'two substantial fishermen and one landman'; the three-decker pulpit, the Parish Register and the Vicarage house. An illustration of the Vicarage in Nile Street is given, but it was at an older Vicarage still, near Brighton Place, that the Duke of Wellington received part of his education under the Rev. Henry Michell, then Vicar of Brighton. This does away with the tradition that Arthur Wellesley was at school at Rottingdean (see p.109).
The pamphlet has a foreword by the present Vicar of Brighton, the Rev. Canon A. C. W. Rose, and a frontispiece giving a view of the Church from the south. Major Penn's help in the matter is also acknowledged.
Mr. Harrison is to be congratulated on having produced a very satisfactory handbook on a somewhat difficult subject.

The Fortunes of Fauntleroy, by Arthur Beckett, published 1934 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VIII no. 1, article, pp.46-54) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9329] & The Keep [LIB/500177]

Famous Sussex Inns. V - The Old Ship, Brighton, by George Tremaine, published 1934 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VIII no. 5, article, pp.332-337) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9329] & The Keep [LIB/500177]

Famous Sussex Inns. VI - The King and Queen, Brighton, by George Tremaine, published 1934 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VIII no. 6, article, pp.373-378) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9329] & The Keep [LIB/500177]

Creevey, Brighton and George IV, by Admiral B. M. Chambers, C.B., published 1934 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VIII no. 6, article, pp.379-385; no. 7, pp.446-449) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9329] & The Keep [LIB/500177]

A Brief History of Steine House, Brighton, by Henry D. Roberts, M.B.E., published 1934 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VIII no. 8, article, pp.515-517) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9329] & The Keep [LIB/500178]

William Vine: A Sussex Miller, by Raymond H. Belton, published 1934 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VIII no. 10, article, pp.610-613) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9329] & The Keep [LIB/500178]

Brighton, by Osbert Sitwell and Margaret Barton, published 1935 (Faber & Faber) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2769] & The Keep [LIB/503764]

Brighton As It Was: The Old Market, by Frederick Harrison, M.A., published 1935 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. IX no. 1, article, pp.44-45) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9330] & The Keep [LIB/500179]

Brighton As It Was: The Old Vicarage in Nile Street, by Frederick Harrison, M.A., published 1935 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. IX no. 2, article, pp.108-109) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9330] & The Keep [LIB/500179]

Brighton As It Was: The Countess of Huntingdon's Chapel, by Frederick Harrison, M.A., published 1935 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. IX no. 3, article, p.172) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9330] & The Keep [LIB/500179]

Brighton As It Was: The Black Lion Street Brewery, by Frederick Harrison, M.A., published 1935 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. IX no. 4, article, p.251) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9330] & The Keep [LIB/500179]

Child Life on the South Downs in the 'Sixties. III - Brighton, by Maude Robinson, published 1935 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. IX no. 7, article, pp.416-420) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9330] & The Keep [LIB/500180]

The Story of West Street, Brighton, by Frederick Harrison, M.A., published 1935 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. IX no. 10, article, pp.627-632) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9330] & The Keep [LIB/500180]

Some Brighton Caricatures, by Henry D. Roberts, published 1936 (London: J. M. Dent & Sons)

Municipal activities in Brighton during the past twelve years, by R. Baxter and D. Howe, published 1936 in Proceedings of the Institute of Municipal and Corporate Engineers (vol. 63, article, pp.31-76)

Excavation of a Celtic Village on the Ladies' Golf Course, the Dyke, Brighton, 1935, by G. P. Burstow, B.A. and A. E. Wilson, D.Litt., published 1936 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 77, article, pp.195-201) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2162] & The Keep [LIB/500352] & S.A.S. library

A Landmark in Brighton: St. Paul's Church, by Ben. Surrey, published 1936 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. X no. 2, article, pp.125-126) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2315][Lib 9331] & The Keep [LIB/500181]

Huns Stable and the Tunnel, Black Rock, Brighton, by Frederick Harrison, F.S.A., published 1936 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. X no. 7, article, pp.501-502) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2315][Lib 9331] & The Keep [LIB/500181]

The Tenantry Lands, Brighton , by Frederick Harrison, F.S.A., published February 1936 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VI no. 1, article, pp.6-9) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12537][Lib 8863][Lib 8224] & The Keep [LIB/500208] & S.A.S. library

Old Brighton - Old Preston - Old Hove, by Frederick Harrison, F.S.A. and James Sharp North, published 1937 (Brighton: J. S. North) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/504891] & West Sussex Libraries

Brighton has engaged the attention of more than one writer of late. To Mr. Sitwell, for example, appealed the baroque Rococo of the Pavilion, so completely in tune with its Royal Inhabitant and his followers, and an excellent book he made of it.
But though several accounts have been written from time to time of the town, all are surpassed, as historical records, by the book under review with its fascinating and comprehensive description and its 80 clear and interesting drawings and photographs.
In other country towns of note, the main feature is often their Cathedral or Castle. Brighton has no such majestic buildings, but there are many picturesque houses and inns, often linked with lives of those "worthies" to whose quiet or eccentric lives we turn with pleasure in these days of hustle and worry.
The extracts from ordinances and deeds of early days make good reading. For instance, few towns, we imagine, can show more variations in spelling than Brighton. They run to several dozen in this case, but Colonel Popham's attempt, as late as 1649, seems the furthest fetched of all. On page 35, we are told that he sent an order to Captain Wheatley of the Warspite as follows: "Hearing from some members of the House serving for Sussex and from the governor of Rye that the coast has been infested with pirates and picaroons since the surprise of the Robert frigate, appointed for that service, you are to repair with your vessel to Rye and Bredhempson (Brighton) and other ports and creeks of Sussex and acquaint the people that you are ordered to attend there and convoy vessels bound to London with corn, etc."
In 1301, Shoreham, Bryghthelmston and Portsmouth were summoned to send one ship to the King (Edward I) at Berwick. In 1324, William Vivian was appointed 'to select mariners from the town of Shorham, Howe, Bryghneston (Brighton) . . . for the equipment of ships of the town of Shorham, ordered for the King's service.'
In spite of no harbour, mackerel fishing flourished off Brighton during most of the 18th century, and at one time it is told that some 6o boats and about 1,000 men and women were connected with the industry. One regrets, by the way, to read that the last of the 'Hog Boats' was burnt in a Fifth of November bonfire on its accustomed beach.
The drawings and photographs in this book are of high quality, as to selection and reproduction.
From an artistic point of view we would draw the attention of the reader to "The Lanes, from Popular Row," p.8o, as one among several delightful drawings, supported by many most interesting photographs.
Lovers of Sussex should buy this book, to keep.

The Brighton Chain Pier, by Raymond H. Belton, published 1937 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. XI no. 3, article, p.182) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2316][Lib 9332] & The Keep [LIB/500182]

Early Pictorial Newspaper. I - The Brighton Front, by C. Bruyn Andrew, published 1937 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. XI no. 8, article, pp.483-485) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2316][Lib 9332] & The Keep [LIB/500182]

Early Romano-British Cremation near Woodingdean, Brighton, by G. P. Burstow, published May 1937 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VI no. 6, note, pp.182-184) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12537][Lib 8863][Lib 8224] & The Keep [LIB/500208] & S.A.S. library

Brighton's Co-Operative Advance 1828 to 1938: The Jubilee History of the Brighton Equitable Co-Operative Society, by W. Henry Brown, published 1938 (Manchester: The Co-Operative Union) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7368] & The Keep [LIB/503765]

The Founder of Kemp Town, Brighton, by Antony Dale, published 1938 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. XII no. 1, article, pp.47-53) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2317] & The Keep [LIB/500183]

The Approaches to Brighton: Yesterday and To-day, by Cyril Bruyn Andrews, published 1938 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. XII no. 4, article, pp.253-256) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2317] & The Keep [LIB/500183]

A Brighton Sunday School in 1900, by R. V. Ballard, published 1938 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. XII no. 6, article, pp.370-371) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2317] & The Keep [LIB/500183]

The 'Green Man': Story of a Brighton Eccentric, by Arthur Beckett, published 1938 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. XII no. 8, article, pp.498-499) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2317] & The Keep [LIB/500183]

Barrow formerly existing in Preston Drove, Brighton, by F. G. S. Bramwell, published August 1938 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VII no. 3, article, pp.73-76) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12536][Lib 8864][Lib 2206] & The Keep [LIB/500209] & S.A.S. library

Mrs Fitzherbert: a Life, by Shane Leslie, published 1939 (vol. 1, Burns Oates)

Brighton The Official Handbook of the County Borough of Brighton 1939-1940, by Hamilton Fyffe, published 1940 (Brighton Corportion)

Story of the Church of St John the Baptist, by C. L. Jones, published 1940 (Brighton)

The Letters of Mrs Fitzherbert; and connected papers, by Shane Leslie, published 1940 (vol. 2, London: Hollis & Carter) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

The Borough of Brighton, edited by L. F. Salzman, published 1940 in The Victoria History of the County of Sussex (vol. 7: The Rape of Lewes, pp.244-263, London: Victoria County History, ISBN-10: 0712905898 & ISBN-13: 9780712905893) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7398] & The Keep [LIB/500082] & R.I.B.A. Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries   View Online

The Benefice of Brighton with West Blatchington, by F. Bentham Stevens, published August 1940 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VIII no. 3, article, pp.71-73) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8865][Lib 2207] & The Keep [LIB/500210] & S.A.S. library

Post-Roman coins found at Brighton, by C. H. V. Sutherland, published 1941 in Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society (6th Series, vol. 1, no. 1/2, article, p.87)   View Online

The Brighton and Sussex Museum, by F. Bentham Stevens, published May 1943 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. IX no. 6, note, p.140) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8227][Lib 2208] & The Keep [LIB/500211] & S.A.S. library

Brighton Road Baptist Church, Horsham: Jubilee 1894-1944, published 1944 (pamphlet, Brighton Road Baptist Church) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 6687]

Mr. Trotter of Worthing and the Brighton Theatre. (The Theatre Royal, 1814-1819.) [With illustrations], by Mary Theresa Odell, published 1944 (Worthing Art Development Scheme, 102 pp., Worthing: Aldridge Bros.) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries

Repairs to railway viaduct over London Road, Brighton, after damage by enemy action in May 1943, by Armand Huon Toms, published 1945 in Journal of the Institution of Civil Engineers (vol. 24, no. 8, article, pp.353-367)

Brighton and Hove Under Fire: Story of the bombing years, 1940-44, by Leslie Cluett, published 1946 (Brighton & Hove Gazette)

Brighton and Hove in Battledress, 1939-1945, by D. L. Murray, published 1946 (Brighton and Hove Memorial Fund) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502534] & East Sussex Libraries

Fashionable Brighton, 1820-1860, by Antony Dale, published 1947 (Country Life Ltd.) accessible at: & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The Englishman's holiday, by J. A. R. Pimlott, published 1947 (Faber & Faber)

The Chichester-Brighton Roman Rad, by Ivan D. Margary, F.S.A., published August 1947 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XI no. 7, article, pp.141-146) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8229][Lib 2210] & The Keep [LIB/500213] & S.A.S. library

The Chichester-Brighton Roman Rad, by Ivan D. Margary, F.S.A., published November 1947 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XI no. 8, article, pp.161-167) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8229][Lib 2210] & The Keep [LIB/500213] & S.A.S. library

Around Brighton, by S. P. B. Mais, published 1948 (St. Catherine Press) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

Brighton in 1846, by F. Bentham Stevens, F.S.A., published February 1948 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XII no. 1, article, pp.3-9) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8230] & The Keep [LIB/500214] & S.A.S. library

Brighton Loops and Flint Implements from Falmer Hill, by G. A. Holleyman, published August 1948 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XII no. 3, note, pp.60-61) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8230] & The Keep [LIB/500214] & S.A.S. library

Romano-British Pottery from the East Brighton Golf Course, by G. P. Burstow, published August 1948 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XII no. 3, note, p.62) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8230] & The Keep [LIB/500214] & S.A.S. library

Wagner of Brighton. The centenary book of St. Paul's Church, Brighton, etc, by Herbert Hamilton Maughan, published 1949 (31 pp., Loughlinstown, County Dublin: Coelian Press) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/509124] & British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

A biography of Arthur D. Wagner. With plates, including a portrait.

The Growth of Brighton, by Edmund W. Gilbert, published September 1949 in The Geographical Journal (vol. 114, no. 1/3, article, pp.30-52)   View Online

This article (based on a paper read to Section E of the British Association at Brighton on the 9th September 1948) is an admirable account of the growth of Brighton, Hove and the adjoining built-up areas illustrated by good reproductions of maps and plans (including one of the French Attack in 1514). There can be nothing but praise for this Article; it is clearly and attractively written and appeals to the ordinary man as well as to experts in Town-planning and Social Problems and deserves to be widely known and read by all interested in Sussex.

The History and Architecture of Brighton, by Antony Dale, published 1950 (viii + 96 pp., Brighton: Bredon & Heiginbothom) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503787] & R.I.B.A. Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

A B C of Brighton and Hove, by Hamilton Fyffe, published 1950 (Crabtree Press)

St. Richard's Hospital, a modern hospital and training school in historic Chichester., published 19 August 1950 in Nursing Times (vol. 46, article, pp.851-854)

Guide to the Church of St. Nicholas, Brighton, edited by Walter H. Godfrey, published 1951 (Sussex Churches No. 17, pamphlet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 6523]

Recent restoration of the old parish church of St. Nicholas, Brighton, has been entrusted to Mr. W. H. Godfrey, who has just brought out in connection with the work, an admirable little guide to the church which forms the seventeenth pamphlet on Sussex Churches, printed by the Society. There has been surprisingly little written about St. Nicholas apart from old and unreliable books like Erridge's History of Brighton, and nothing which gave details of R. C. Carpenter's restoration of the church in 1853-4 and the later work by Somers Clarke. St. Nicholas cannot have been an outstanding church at any time, though it contains a priceless treasure in its early 12th century font, but so much history has passed round and through it that it is filled with interesting associations which make up for some of its architectural deficiencies. Mr. Godfrey notes all these as well as describing the fabric. The booklet is a valuable addition to the literature of the architecture of Brighton.

Royal Pavilion: A Study in the Romantic, by Clifford Musgrave, published 1951 (141 pp, Brighton: Bredon & Heginbottom) accessible at: R.I.B.A. Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Elizabethan Brighton: the ancient customs of Brighthelmston, 1580, by Charles Webb and A. E. Wilson, published 1952 (Brighton: John Beal) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/501656] & East Sussex Libraries

Gleanings from Sussex archives: Brighton and the smallpox, by W.A. Barron, published 1952 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. 26, article, pp.605-606) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2331] & The Keep [LIB/500198]

Smallpox (a) the first few days of the Brighton outbreak, 1950, by W.S. Parker, published 1 March 1952 in Journal of the Royal Sanitary Institute (vol. 72, no. 2, article, pp.105-110)

The Capital By-the-Sea: A survey of Brighton, Hove and Worthing Including the Adjacent Towns of Portslade, Southwick, Shoreham, Lancing and Surrounding Countryside, by Harold P. Clunn, published 1953 (206 pp., Southern Publishing Ltd.) accessible at: & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The Crown, the Ship, and the Queen of Watering Places, by Clifford Musgrave, published 1953 (47 pp., Brighton: Old Ship Hotel) accessible at: British Library

Christ Church-Unitarian-New Road, Brighton. A short history, by John Rowland, B.Sc., published 1953 (Loughborough: Echo Press) accessible at: British Library

A Postal History of Brighton, 1673-1783, by Ernest Trory, published 1953 (Brighton: Crabtree Press Ltd.) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506077]

The latest addition to the history of Brighton is this small brochure on the early postal history of Brighthelmston written and published by Mr. Ernest Trory. The story after 1783 is to be continued in a separate publication. Mr. Trory has made this subject specially his own, and his article is based on research into the records of the General Post Office. His most interesting discovery is probably the fact that when the Post Office was moved from its earliest site in Middle Street between 1779 and 1782, it was transferred, not as generally thought to Widget's (later Bowen's) Library on the south side of the Steine near the old Manor House, but to the rival establishment of Thomas's Library on the east side of the Steine which is perhaps better known under its late name of Donaldson's. The article is extremely well illustrated. The second instalment will be awaited with interest.

Union Church, Brighton, a short history, by A. E. Carson, published 1954 (Brighton)

Brighton: Old Ocean's Bauble, by Edmund W. Gilbert, published 1954 (xvi + 275 pp., London: Methuen Publishing Ltd.) accessible at: R.I.B.A. Library & West Sussex Libraries

A Postal History of Brighton, 1673-1784 suppplement , by Ernest Trory, published 1954 (Brighton: Crabtree Press Ltd.) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506078] & East Sussex Libraries

Duke Street Theatre, Brighton, 1790-1806, by S. Rosenfeld, published 1954 in Theatre Notebook (vol. 8, no. 3, article, pp.60-61)

Doctor Richard Russell, The Founder of Modern Brighton, by Antony Dale, F.S.A., published May 1954 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XIV nos. 1 & 2, article, pp.16-19) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8232][Lib 2213] & The Keep [LIB/500216] & S.A.S. library

The Trade and Ships of Brighton in the second half of the seventeenth century, by J. H. Andrews, published November 1954 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XIV nos. 3 & 4, article, pp.46-48) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8232][Lib 2213] & The Keep [LIB/500216] & S.A.S. library

Brighton -- the seaside town, by S. Gordon Joseph, published October 1956 in Official Architecture and Planning (vol. 19, no. 10, article, pp.505-509)

A regency visitor; the English tour of Prince Puckler-Muskau described in his letters, 1826-1828, edited by E. M. Butler from the original translation by Sarah Austin, published 1957 (London: Collins)

It's me, O Lord! An abstract & brief chronicle of some of the life with some of the opinions of A. E. Coppard, by A. E. Coppard, published 1957 (251 pp., London: Methuen) accessible at: British Library

Autobiography of Folkestone born author, with chapters on life in Brighton in the 1880s, and later his life there in employment and as an author

A History of the Brighton & Hove Harmonic Society, 1827-1957, by Brighton and Hove Harmonic Society, published 1958 (20 pp., Brighton: Regency Press) accessible at: British Library

The Seaside Resort Towns of England and Wales, by J. A. Barrett, 1958 at University of London (Ph.D. thesis)

The Wagners of Brighton, by Anthony B. Wagner, published 1959 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 97, article, pp.35-57) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2182] & The Keep [LIB/500332] & S.A.S. library

One hundred years of swimming, published 1960 (24 pp., Brighton) accessible at: British Library

A history of the Brighton Swimming Club, 1860-1960.

Mrs. Fitzherbert, by Anita Leslie, published 1960 (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons)   View Online

Excavations in the Ditchling Road area north of Brighton, 1950-1957, by George A. Holleyman and C. W. Yeates, published 1960 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 98, article, pp.133-149) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2183] & The Keep [LIB/500331] & S.A.S. library

The Wagners of Brighton and their connections, by Anthony R. Wagner, published May 1960 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XV no. 5, note, p.173) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8233] & The Keep [LIB/500217] & S.A.S. library

The Pictorial History of Brighton & the Royal Pavilion, by Clifford Musgrave, published 1962 (Pitkin Pictorials) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries   View Online

1862-1962, Centenary of St Mary Magdalene, Upper North Street, Brighton, by Father Smith, published 1962

A short note on the origin of the Devil's Dyke, near Brighton, by R. J. Small, published 1962 in The Proceedings of the Geologists' Association London (no. 73 issue 2, article, pp.187-192)   View Online

It is suggested that the Devil's Dyke has arisen through the capture and rejuvenation of a dip-slope valley by a scarp-foot spring and associated stream. Certain features of the Dyke suggest later modification by periglacial processes. The general rarity of escarpment valleys similar to the Devil's Dyke is attributed to the absence from many Chalk crestlines of recession-cots allowing easy penetration of the scarp face by pirate springs.

The Brighton & Storrington Foot Beagles: With some notes on beagling by Ralph Greaves, etc., by Anthony Clarkson and Ralph Greaves, published 1963 (20 pp., London: Field Sports Publications) accessible at: British Library

The History of the Kemp Town Gardens, Brighton, by Antony Dale, published 1964 (27 pp., published by the author) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502516] & East Sussex Libraries

Transport and Town Planning with special reference to Brighton, by D. C. Dallimore, 1965 at University of London (M.Sc.(Econ.) thesis)

The Lanes of Brighton. A brief account of the ancient town of Brighthelmstone, by Leslie John Robinson, published 1966 (47 pp., published by the author) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502600] & British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The growth of manufacturing in the Brighton conurbation, 1901-1963, by B. Thompson, 1966 at Sussex University (M.Phil. Thesis)

The Diamond Jubilee of the Brighton and Hove Archaeological Society, by E. Cecil Curwen, O.B.E., F.S.A., published November 1966 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XVI no. 8, article, pp.261-264) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8234] & The Keep [LIB/500218] & S.A.S. library

History of the Brighton Police, 1838-1867, by Police Inspector Gerald W. Bines, published 1967 (48 pp., Brighton Borough Police Watch Committee) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502326]

Fashionable Brighton, 1820-1860, by Antony Dale, published 1967 (2nd edition, 192 pp., Newcastle upon Tyne: Oriel Press Ltd.) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503782] & R.I.B.A. Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Almost Sixty Years of Teacher Training: A short history of Brighton College of Education, by C. E. Brent, published 1968 (Brighton Borough)

The Trolleybuses of Brighton and Hove, by David Kaye and Martin Nimmo, published 1968 (Reading Transport Society)

The Jews of Brighton, 1770-1900, by David Spector, published 1968 in Jewish Historical Society of England (vol. 22, article, pp.42-52) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/507979]   Download PDF

The Use of Television in Brighton and East Sussex Schools (1965-1966). , by A. J. Pursaill, 1968 at Sussex University (Ph.D. thesis)

Hospital for the Indian war wounded at Brighton, by J. Wright, published November 1968 in Sussex Life (article)

Chartism in Brighton, by T. M. Kemnitz, 1969 at Sussex University (Ph.D. thesis)

Brighton's manufacturing industry, by B. Thompson, published April 1969 in Geography (vol. 54, no. 2, article, pp.181-185, Geographical Association)   View Online

Swan Downer's Girls' School at Brighton, by N. Caplan, published November 1969 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XVII no. 4, article, pp.115-119) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8235] & The Keep [LIB/500219] & S.A.S. library

The George Inn, West Street, Brighton, by E. A. Billenness, published November 1969 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XVII no. 4, article, pp.119-122) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8235] & The Keep [LIB/500219] & S.A.S. library

Brighton urban structure plan. Survey report 1: Physical environment, published 1970 (iv + 55 pp., 10 plates & 8 plans, Brighton Urban Structure Plan Team) accessible at: R.I.B.A. Library

Life in Brighton from the earliest times to the present, by Clifford Musgrave, published 1970 (503 pp., London: Faber and Faber, ISBN-10: 0571092853 & ISBN-13: 9780571092857) accessible at: & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Brighton Corporation Transport Fleet History 1901-1971, edited by R. Knight, published 1971 (Brighton: E.L.P.G. Enterprises) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/501654]

The Lanes of Brighton. A brief account of the ancient town of Brighthelmstone, by Leslie John Robinson, published 1971 (2nd edition, 58 pp., published by the author) accessible at: British Library

The Countess of Huntingdon's Church, North Street, Brighton, by Ronald F. Newman, published 1971 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 109, article, pp.65-68) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2194] & The Keep [LIB/500320] & S.A.S. library

Association football in Brighton before 1920: a case study in the development of popular recreation, by B. G. Wilkinson, 1971 at Sussex University (M.A. thesis)

Magnus Volk of Brighton, by Conrad Volk, published 1 October 1971 (352 pp., Chichester: Phillimore & Co. Ltd., ISBN-10: 0900592850 & ISBN-13: 9780900592850) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506442] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Sixty Miles of Pencil: An intimate impression of the Brighton Run, by R. P. Reynolds and K. R. Clark with a foreward by Lord Montague of Beaulieu, published 1 November 1971 (xvi + 126 pp., London: Gentry Books Ltd., ISBN-10: 085614004X & ISBN-13: 9780856140044) accessible at: British Library & East Sussex Libraries

Brighton School of Librarianship: 1947-1972, published 1972 (12 pp., Brighton: Brighton Polytechnic School of Librarianship) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

Victorian and Edwardian Brighton from Old Photographs, by James S. Gray and John Betjeman, published 1972 (128 pp., Batsford Ltd., ISBN-10: 0713401192 & ISBN-13: 9780713401196) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503784] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The story of Brighton Unitarian Church, by John Rowland, published 1972 (London: The Lindsey Press)

The West Brighton Estate: Hove. A Study in Victorian Urban Expansion, by Wliiam F. Pickering, published December 1972 in Sussex Industrial History (No. 5, article, pp.14-30) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16389/5] & The Keep [LIB/506524]   Download PDF

That part of Hove which was known as the West Brighton Estate lies between Church Road and the sea, from First Avenue to Fourth Avenue. Today, it is a comfortably dull district of architectural mediocrities in unco-ordinated styles. It is hard to recapture the enthusiasm of contemporaries for this 'Belgravia-sur-mer', praised for its 'magnificent avenues after the style of those in Berlin' and called the 'finest suburb in the parliamentary borough'. Yet this area set the pattern for the later development of Hove and was a symbol of civic pride in the period of Hove's most boastful self-awareness. It was a monument to status, respectability and quiet ostentation.
Hove is not part of Brighton, nor has it ever been. For long they were physically separated, and when the towns eventually grew together to form a single urban area, they remained apart in other ways. Throughout the 19th century, even after it had become an ordinary seaside resort town, Brighton retained something of its air of Regency rakishness. From the beginning, Hove saw itself as a contrast to Brighton, and cultivated the image of solid middle-class respectability it retains today.

Brighton's Records Lost and Found, by Michael J. Burchall, published June 1973 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 1 no. 1, article, pp.7-8) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7965] & The Keep [LIB/501253] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Brighton going?, by Brighton Society, published 1974 (8 pp., Brighton: The Society, ISBN-10: 0950367907 & ISBN-13: 9780950367903) accessible at: British Library

Brighton's West Pier, by Peter E. W. Best, published 1974 (24 pp., Brighton Society) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502602] & R.I.B.A. Library

A History of Brighton Trades Council and Labour Movement, 1890-1970, edited by Andy Durr, published 1974 (80 pp., Brighton & Hove District Trades Council, ISBN-10: 0950339601 & ISBN-13: 9780950339603) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Brighton Marina: proof of evidence of David Michael Hodges, 22 October 1974 , by David Michael Hodges, published 1974 (146 leaves, London: Burnett) accessible at: R.I.B.A. Library

A Mid-third century hoard from Brighton, Sussex, by John Casey, published 1974 in Numismatic Chronicle (7th Series, vol. 14, article, pp.185-189)   View Online

The coins listed came to light during building operations in 1904

Deserted Medieval Villages in the Brighton District, by Peter F. Brandon, published 1974 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 112, shorter notice, p.162) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 5960] & The Keep [LIB/500317] & S.A.S. library

Military Marriages in Brighton in Napoleonic Times, by Leslie Suggars and Francis Leeson, published March 1974 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 1 no. 4, article, pp.88-92) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7965] & The Keep [LIB/501253] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

List of military marriages arranged by unit (grooms only).

A Visit to Brighton, 1845, by Kathleen Adkins, published June 1974 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 1 no. 5, article, pp.134-135) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7965] & The Keep [LIB/501253] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Being extracts from the diary of Mrs Anna Maria Rowsell, née Baker

The Origins of Editorial Policy in Early Victorian Newspapers: The Case of the 'Brighton Patriot', by Thomas Milton Kemnitz, published September 1974 in Victorian Periodicals Newsletter (vol. 7, no. 3, article, pp.3-14)

Old Brighton - Old Preston - Old Hove, by Frederick Harrison, F.S.A. and James Sharp North, published 11 October 1974 (new edition, originally published 1937, ix + 204 pp. & 3 leaves of plates, Hassocks: Flare Books, ISBN-10: 0901759481 & ISBN-13: 9780901759481) accessible at: R.I.B.A. Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Poverty - Hardship but Happiness: Those were the days 1903-1917, by Albert Paul, published December 1974 (66 pp., Brighton: QueenSpark Books, ISBN-10: 0904733009 & ISBN-13: 9780904733006) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502497][Lib/504090] & The Keep archive of QueenSpark Books & East Sussex Libraries

It tells the story of a working class boy's life in the years between 1903 and 1917, from his childhood through to adolescence. It looks at the hardships of life before and during the First World War and examines the ways that children's lives changed as a result of the Great War. Albert Paul was a retired carpenter who lived all his life in Brighton, and he describes in vivid detail the life of a boy brought up in poverty and his struggle against adversity.

Brighton Residents - the 1662 Hearth Tax, published December 1974 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 1 no. 7, article, pp.213-216) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7965] & The Keep [LIB/501253] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The Church of St. Nicholas of Myra, Dyke Road, Brighton: A History with some deviations, by A. F. Day, published 1975 (Brighton: A. F. Day)

The Town Beehive: A young girl's lot in Brighton 1910-1934, by Daisy Noakes, published 1975 (88 pp., Brighton: QueenSpark Books) accessible at: The Keep archive of QueenSpark Books & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Brightonian, Daisy Noakes, tells her story from the age of fourteen, when she went into service. She gives us an insight into the life of a woman born and brought up in Brighton. Daisy documents - with humour - her inevitable trials and tribulations in the often physically demanding world that she inhabited during her working life.
The autobiography covers her childhood, as one of a family of ten, living in Prince's Road and Vere Road, and her working days in service in different parts of the town. This is a special insight into Daisy's world and is a shining example of true grit and fortitude!

Brighton and the General Strike, by Ernie Trory, published 1975 (Brighton: Crabtree Press Ltd.) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/508913]

Electoral procedures and implementation of the 1870 Education Act in Brighton, 1870-1902, by R. Newbold, 1975 at Sussex University (M.A. thesis)

Origin of Brighton's name, by Charles F. Titford, published March 1975 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 15, article, p.67) accessible at: S.A.S. library   Download PDF

Brighton: Old Ocean's Bauble, by Edmund W. Gilbert, published 17 July 1975 (291 pp., Hassocks: Flare Books, ISBN-10: 0901759392 & ISBN-13: 9780901759399) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503763] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

West Pier: Second Engineering Report , by John L. Burdet and the We Want the West Pier Campaign, published 1 October 1975 (14 pp., Brighton West Pier Trust, ISBN-10: 0950408239 & ISBN-13: 9780950408231) accessible at: British Library

The West Pier, Second Engineering Report, by We Want the West Pier Campaign Staff, published 1976 (15 pp., The Campaign, ISBN-10: 0950408239 & ISBN-13: 9780950408231) accessible at: British Library

Who were the guilty? General Strike, Brighton, May 1926, by Andy Durr, published 1976 (40 pp., Brighton Labour History Press)

Parsons, Son and Basley 1825-1975 , by James S. Gray, published c.1976 (Parsons, Son and Basley) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

St Martin's, Brighton: a history & guide, by M. J. Leppard and K. H. Hackman, published 1976 (Brighton)

Goldstone Pumping Station, Brighton, by Jonathan Minns, published 1976 in Sussex Industrial History (no. 7, article, pp.33-35) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16389/7] & The Keep [LIB/506524]   Download PDF

In the early part of the 19th century Brighton, then a small town, suffered considerably from the lack of a constant pure water supply. This meant that the basic needs for drinking water, sewage disposal, fire protection and baths were simply not being catered for. Between 1800 and 1840 vast social changes were brought about by the Industrial Revolution and the population of Brighton, like that of many other towns, more than doubled in a large range of housing.

Brighton Town and Brighton People, by Antony Dale, published 1 January 1976 (128 pp., Chichester: Phillimore & Co. Ltd, ISBN-10: 0850332192 & ISBN-13: 9780850332193) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503788][Lib/504676] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Brighton before Dr. Russell, by Sue Farrant and John H. Farrant, published June 1976 (Occasional Papers No. 5, 33 pp., Centre for Continuing Education, University of Sussex, ISBN-10: 0904242048 & ISBN-13: 9780904242041) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502544] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Brighton Old and New, by Antony Dale and James S. Gray, published 22 July 1976 (104 pp., E. P. Publishing Ltd., ISBN-10: 0715811886 & ISBN-13: 9780715811887) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Brighton Between the Wars, by James S. Gray, published 27 July 1976 (Batsford Ltd., ISBN-10: 0713431156 & ISBN-13: 9780713431155) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503792] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Mobility of Brighton Marriage Partners, 1661-1750, by J. H. Farrant and E. H. Underwood, published September 1976 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 2 no. 6, article, pp.194-196) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7966] & The Keep [LIB/501254] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The Brighton resuscitation ambulances: a continuing experiment in prehospital care by ambulance staff, published 13 November 1976 in British Medical Journal (1976, vol. 2, article, pp.1161-1165)   Download PDF

Brighton in Retrospect, by Eileen A. Hollingdale and H. Drummond, published December 1976 (52 pp., Lewes: East Sussex County Council, ISBN-10: 0900348178 & ISBN-13: 9780900348174) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502601] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Always a Layman, by John Langley, published 1 December 1976 (67 pp., Brighton: QueenSpark Books with the Sussex Labour History Society, ISBN-10: 0904733033 & ISBN-13: 9780904733037) accessible at: The Keep archive of QueenSpark Books & British Library & East Sussex Libraries

This fascinating personal history describes John Langley's childhood in poverty in Hove before the First World War, his apprenticeship at the age of 13 on the railway in Brighton, the progression of his career as a railway carriage painter and the good and bad times of Brighton family life. The account of the harshness of working lives at the time and the grinding poverty in which many people were brought up in Brighton and Hove make this an important autobiographical document, dating from 1976.

Housing in Brighton: A summary and discussion of issues and policies, by Matthew Bennett, published 1977 (Occasional Paper no. 7, 76 pp., Centre for Continuing Education, University of Sussex, ISBN-10: 0904242064 & ISBN-13: 9780904242065) accessible at: British Library

Brighton Bibliography, by Sue Farrant, published 1977 accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502555]

The History of the Chapel Royal, Brighton, by M. J. Webb, published 1977 (40 pp. & 2 pp. of plates, published by the author) accessible at: R.I.B.A. Library & East Sussex Libraries

The man who invented the seaside [Dr Richard Russell, 1687-1759], by Jean Garratt, published 1977 (4 pp., Brighton: Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery and Museums) accessible at: British Library

Three arts centres: A study of South Hill Park, the Gardner Centre and Chapter , by Robert Hutchison, published 1 January 1977 (135 pp., London: Arts Council of Great Britain, ISBN-10: 0728701383 & ISBN-13: 9780728701380) accessible at: British Library

Resurrecting the Dead - Henry Wayle of Brighton, by Sue Farrant, published March 1977 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 2 no. 8, article, pp.260-262) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7966] & The Keep [LIB/501254] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Marriage Mobility in Brighton's Hinterland, 1661-1750, by E. Underwood and J. H. Farrant, published September 1977 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 3 no. 2, article, pp.32-37) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7967] & The Keep [LIB/501255] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Shops Book Shopkeepers And Street Traders In East Brighton 1900-1930, by Neil Griffiths, published 1978 (Brighton: QueenSpark Books) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502499] & The Keep archive of QueenSpark Books

Seasonal variations of tritium and other constituents in groundwater in the Chalk near Brighton, England, by R.A. Downing, D.B. Smith and S.C. Warren, published 1978 in Journal of the Institution of Water Engineers and Scientists (vol. 32, no. 2, article)

Competition in the private-rented sector: students and low-income families in Brighton, Sussex, by Linda McDowell, published 1978 in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (vol. 3, no. 1, article, pp.55-65)

The expansion of student numbers in higher education in Britain at a faster rate than the provision of residential accommodation has resulted in an increased reliance by students on the private landlord. At the same time access to housing for owner occupation or to rent from municipal authorities has become more difficult for the most deprived sections of the community and they too turn to the private landlord. Paradoxically, although demand is increasing, the supply of privately rented accommodation is decreasing. The consequence is increased competition and rising rents. This paper examines the structure of competition in the furnished subsector of the private-rental market between students and families in housing need in Brighton: a town with a larger than average privately rented sector which is, however, declining, and with three institutions of higher education generating considerable student demand.

Brighton, by Eric Underwood, published 1 April 1978 (208 pp., London: B. T. Batsford, ISBN-10: 0713408952 & ISBN-13: 9780713408959) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The Brighton resuscitation ambulances: review of 40 consecutive survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, by A. F. Mackintosh and others, published 29 April 1978 in British Medical Journal (1978, vol. 1, article, pp.1115-1118)   Download PDF

Pioneers of Cinematography in Brighton, by J. Barnes and R. Holman, published May 1978 in Cinema 1900-1906: an analytical study (article, pp.93-100)

Aspects of Brighton, 1650-1800, by John Howard Farrant and Sue Farrant, published June 1978 (Occasional papers, No. 8, 89 pp., Centre for Continuing Education, University of Sussex, ISBN-10: 0904242080 & ISBN-13: 9780904242089) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502563] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

To be a farmer's boy, by George Noakes, published December 1978 (46 pp., Brighton: QueenSpark Books, ISBN-10: 0904733041 & ISBN-13: 9780904733044) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502596][Lib/504085] & The Keep archive of QueenSpark Books & British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

This was first published in 1975 and was so popular that it quickly sold out. Brightonian, Daisy Noakes, tells her story from the age of fourteen, when she went into service. She gives us an insight into the life of a woman born and brought up in Brighton. Daisy documents - with humour - her inevitable trials and tribulations in the often physically demanding world that she inhabited during her working life. The autobiography covers her childhood, as one of a family of ten, living in Prince's Road and Vere Road, and her working days in service in different parts of the town. This is a special insight into Daisy's world and is a shining example of true grit and fortitude!

Southdown album, 1954-1979, including Brighton, Hove and district, by Southdown Enthusiasts' Club, published 1979 (52 pp.) accessible at: British Library

Brighton Presbyterian Registers, 1700-1837, by M. J. Burchall, published 1979 (pamphlet, iv + 32 pp., Sussex Family History Group) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7146] & The Keep [LIB/501286] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The state and the housing question : a local study and some wider issues, by Peter Dickens and Peter Gilbert, published 1979 (Urban and Regional Studies, University of Sussex)

A Portrait of the Brighton Trams, 1901-1939, by A. G. Elliott, published 1979 (32 pp., published by the author) accessible at: & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Old Brighton: A Collection of Prints and Drawings, edited by E. A. Hollingdale, published 1979 (Norwich: George Nobbs Publishing Ltd.) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

The Brighton and Hove Engineerium, by Johnathan Minns, published 1979 in Studies in Design Education Craft and Technology (vol. 12, no. 1, article, pp.14-17)   View Online

Now called the British Engineerium. A museum of nineteenth century engineering exhibits. Several photographs.

Harbour works at Brighton Marina: investigations and design, by F.L. Terrett, P. Ganly and S.B. Stubbs, published 1979 in Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers (vol. 66, no. 2, article, pp.191-208)

Hospital resuscitation from ventricular fibrillation in Brighton. , by A. F. Mackintosh and others, published 24 February 1979 in British Medical Journal (1979, vol. 1, article, pp.511-513)   Download PDF

The Casual Wards at the Brighton Workhouse, by Janet Gooch, published September 1979 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 4 no. 1, article, pp.18-19) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8672] & The Keep [LIB/501256] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Short Economic and Social History of Brighton, Lewes and the Downland Region Between the Adur and the Ouse, by Colin E. Brent, published 1 December 1979 (16 pp., Lewes: East Sussex County Council, ISBN-10: 0861470192 & ISBN-13: 9780861470198) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/500068] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The Park Crescent Story, by a Resident, published c.1980 (Brighton)

The Development of the North Laine Conservation Area, Brighton, 1770-1820, by Sue Farrant, published 1980 accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502560]

A Portrait of Brighton, circa 1911 and Today, by A. G. Elliott, published 1980 (32 pp., published by the author) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

A History of Brighton General Hospital, by Janet Gooch, published 1980 (xi + 177 pp., Chichester: Phillimore & Co. Ltd., ISBN-10: 0850333636 & ISBN-13: 9780850333633) accessible at: & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Hard times and easy terms: and other tales by a Queens Park Cockney, by Bert Healey, published 1980 (164 pp., Brighton: QueenSpark Books) accessible at: The Keep archive of QueenSpark Books & British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

This is the entertaining story of a young cockney, who was something of a 'wide boy'. Originating from London, Bert Healey's story begins with tales of his life as a wayward boy, a youth and later an adult. He also describes many aspects of his working life - from his first pay packet, when working as a taxi driver to his times of unemployment during times of illness. Bert tells of the lost acquaintances of his youth, most who have now passed away. His story is especially interesting for young readers, who may not know anything of those times. The book gives an insight into the life and times of the Twenties and Thirties, and is particularly interesting for his tales of Brighton racecourse characters. Those times are often described as 'the bad old days.' Bert wonders if they really were so bad after all?

Bygone Brighton: Volume one - Places, by Malcolm John, published 1980 (64 pp., John Hallewell Publications, ISBN-10: 0905540328 & ISBN-13: 9780905540320) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Bygone Brighton: Volume two - Events, by Malcolm John, published 1980 (64 pp., John Hallewell Publications, ISBN-10: 0905540379 & ISBN-13: 9780905540375) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Brighton 1520-1820. From Tudor Town to Regency Resort, by S. Farrant and J. H. Farrant, published 1980 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 118, article, pp.331-350) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7805] & The Keep [LIB/500305] & S.A.S. library

Sources & Supplies of Building Materials for Brighton c.1770 - 1810, by Dr. Sue Farrant, published 1980 in Sussex Industrial History (No. 10, article, pp.23-27) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506525]   Download PDF

By the 1770s Brighton was Britain's premier seaside resort and the intensity of building activity within the town (bounded by East, North and West Streets) was changing the town's appearance. Not only were old houses replaced but the density of buildings rose very considerably due to the increasing residential population and demand for seasonal accommodation. From the early 1780s the town's new suburbs, which were mainly built as terraces and squares, spread over the surrounding farmland. By 1810 they straggled eastwards as far as Rock Gardens, north to Oxford Street and westwards, to the parish boundary with Hove.

Sunshine, Sand and Sea, by Enid Dallaway, published 30 April 1980 (205 pp., 16 plates, New Horizon, ISBN-10: 0861161696 & ISBN-13: 9780861161690) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

The personal recollection of childhood in Brighton by the granddaughter of one of the founders of the Brighton Co-operative Society. Enid Dallawy was born in 1927 and recounts what life was like in the 30s and 40s

The Theatre Royal, Brighton, by Antony Dale, published 5 June 1980 (182 pp., Oriel Press Ltd., ISBN-10: 0853621853 & ISBN-13: 9780853621850) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503777] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Faded Rainbow: Our Married Years, by Daisy Noakes, published 1 August 1980 (56 pp., Brighton: QueenSpark Books, ISBN-10: 0904733076 & ISBN-13: 9780904733075) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/504089] & The Keep archive of QueenSpark Books & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

This autobiography gives a poignant insight into the life and expectations of a working class Brighton girl, who from the age of fourteen, was in service from 1910 to 1934. It describes her life as a young wife and mother, and the isolation she felt living in the countryside surrounding Gatwick Airfield. Daisy examines the early years of her marriage in 1934 to George Noakes, when she comments that there was 'no honeymoon period for us', as her employers would not allow such a luxury and it was like getting 'blood out of a stone' even to get a day off to get married. In her twilight years Daisy bravely recalls how she coped with her husband's terminal illness, when she was left alone to keep her family going.

Brighton 1660 to 1800, the changing vista, a town walk, by Dr. Sue Farrant, published August 1980 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 31, article, pp.211-212, ISSN: 0307-2568) accessible at: S.A.S. library   Download PDF

Georgian Brighton, 1740 to 1820, by Sue Farrant, published December 1980 (Occasional Paper no. 13, 60 pp., Centre for Continuing Education, University of Sussex, ISBN-10: 0904242153 & ISBN-13: 9780904242157) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502502] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Brighton 1660 to 1800, the changing vista, a town walk, part 2, by Dr. Sue Farrant, published December 1980 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 32, article, pp.221-222, ISSN: 0307-2568) accessible at: S.A.S. library   Download PDF

The Tilbury Gig: The Story of the Tilbury-Tarner Family of Brighton, by Stephen Warden, published December 1980 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 4 no. 6, article, pp.186-189) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8672] & The Keep [LIB/501256] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Edward Tilbury's will was proved in 1852. In it he mentions four daughters: Ann, Letecia, Clara, and Eliza Isabella. Edwin Adelphus Tarner was born in 1908 to William and Elizabeth Tarner and he married Letecia Tilbury. Article covers the years 1773 - 1941 in Brighton and Marylebone

Hobden's Baths, by Alan Hobden, published December 1980 in Sussex Genealogist and Family Historian (vol. 2 no. 3, article, pp.99-101) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8671] & The Keep [LIB/501188] & CD SXGS from S.F.H.G.

The Artillery Baths were built in 1813 by Mr Fernehough in Artillery Place, Brighton. They were originally established by Nathan Smith, an inventor who patented an air pump which gave rise to the baths early fame. The baths became 'Hobden's Royal Artillery Baths' in August 1824 when they were taken over by Robert Hobden (1788-1861).

Brighton: twelve views, published 1981 (12 postcards, Lindel Organisation Ltd.)

Scarlet cassocks, tippets and the mysterious black powder (the Purchas Judgement 1871), by Michael J Butler, published 1981 (15 pp., Hove: Chichester Diocesan Fund and Board of Finance) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries

The judgement given in 1871 by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council against the Revd John Purchas (1823-1872) that Eucharistic vestments, the eastward position, the mixed chalice, and wafer bread were illegal. The decision meant that the ritualists were held to be law-breakers, but it was widely disregarded (including by Purchas himself). Purchas was curate of St Paul's Brighton 1861-66, and died at Brighton.

The Religious Revival in Victorian Brighton, by Edward Elton Young Hales, published 1981 (Diocese of Chichester)

The Wagners in Brighton, by Roger Homan, published 1981 (8 pp., Chichester Diocesan Fund and Board of Finance) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

Life in Brighton from the earliest times to the present, by Clifford Musgrave, published 1981 (revised and enlarged, 522 pp., Chatham: John Hallewell Publications) accessible at: & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Hard Work and No Consideration: 51 Years as a Carpenter-Joiner 1917-1968, by Albert Paul, published 1981 (136 pp., Brighton: QueenSpark Books) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/504087] & The Keep archive of QueenSpark Books & East Sussex Libraries

This is the sequel to Poverty, Hardship but Happiness. Brightonian, Albert Paul, left school at the tender age of fourteen and began work as a carpenter, rising from the position of apprentice to that of master craftsman. Albert remained in his job throughout his life, in an era when people usually continued to work for one employer throughout their working lives.
This second book vividly describes how he supported his family during his working life as a carpenter/joiner in Brighton from 1917 to 1968. His hard work and commitment throughout his career, which lasted fifty-one years, is an example to us all. This book was written in 1975, one year before the author died.

Dorset Gardens and the Dome, by J. L. Wright, published 1981 (15 pp, Hove: Chichester Diocesan Fund and Board of Finance) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries

Inter-war housing policy: a study of Brighton, by P. Dickens and P. Gilbert, published 1981 in Southern History (vol. 3, article, pp.201-231)

A Second Portrait of Portslade and Brighton, by A. G. Elliott, published March 1981 (32 pp., published by the author, ISBN-10: 0950638749 & ISBN-13: 9780950638744) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The Gillams of Bolney & Brighton, by Clifford W. Gillam, published June 1981 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 4 no. 8, article, pp.255-258) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8672] & The Keep [LIB/501256] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Who visited Brighton in 1769?, by Sue Farrant, published June 1981 in Sussex Genealogist and Family Historian (vol. 3 no. 1, article, pp.16-18) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8892] & The Keep [LIB/501189] & CD SXGS from S.F.H.G.

Rise and Fall of a Regency Dandy: Life and Times of Scrope Berdmore Davies, a friend of young Byron, by T. A. J. Burnett, published 24 September 1981 (264 pp., John Murray Publishers Ltd., ISBN-10: 0719538645 & ISBN-13: 9780719538643)

Images of Brighton, by John & Jill Ford and gallery of prints by Harriet and Peter George, published October 1981 (383 pp. & 8 pp. of plates, Richmond-upon-Thames: St Helena Press, ISBN-10: 0906964024 & ISBN-13: 9780906964026) accessible at: R.I.B.A. Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The Growth of Brighton and Hove 1840-1939, by Sue Farrant, K. Fossey and A. Peasgood, published December 1981 (Occasional Paper no. 14, 66 pp., Centre for Continuing Education, University of Sussex, ISBN-10: 0904242161 & ISBN-13: 9780904242164) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502504] & British Library

Brighton Rate Book Found: Town Hall Inventory includes 'Hogs Lard', by Sue Farrant, published December 1981 in Sussex Genealogist and Family Historian (vol. 3 no. 3, article, p.82) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8892] & The Keep [LIB/501189] & CD SXGS from S.F.H.G.

Historic Brighton, by Peter Davies, published 1982 (32 pp., Norwich: Jarrold Publishing, ISBN-10: 0711700427 & ISBN-13: 9780711700420) accessible at: British Library

A Brighton Lady in Tasmania: The Letters of Edith Warne, 1889-1890, edited by Judy Middleton, published 1982 (62 pp., Chichester Diocesan Fund)

The Lights of Brighton and Hove, by Judy Middleton, published 1982 (56 pp., published by the author)

James Corrall of Brighton, coal merchant and shipowner, edited by Judy Middleton, published 1982 (29 pp., published by the author) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/504003] & East Sussex Libraries

Lifeboats and Shipwrecks at Victorian Brighton, by Judy Middleton, published 1982 (38 pp., published by the author) accessible at: & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

"Any more for the 'Skylark'?!": Captain Fred Collins of Brighton - Part 1, by Robert B. Ettridge, published March 1982 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 5 no. 1, article, pp.17-26) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9174] & The Keep [LIB/501257] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

"Any more for the 'Skylark'?!": Captain Fred Collins of Brighton - Part 2, by Robert B. Ettridge, published June 1982 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 5 no. 2, article, pp.42-45) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9174] & The Keep [LIB/501257] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Brighton tourism study, by Research Services Branch, English Tourist Board for Brighton Corporation, Brighton and Hove Hotels, Guest Houses and Restaurants Association, East Sussex County Council, English Tourist Board, published 1983 (London: English Tourist Board)

Exotic Brighton, by Judy Middleton, published 1983 (28 pp., published by the author)

The Vallances of Brighton and Hove, by Judy Middleton, published 1983 (published by the author)

The People's Business: A History of Brighton Co-Operative Society, by Sir William Richardson, published 1983 (xiv + 293 pp., Brighton Co-Operative Society Ltd., ISBN-10: 0950961213 & ISBN-13: 9780950961217) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502132][Lib/504685] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Save St Wilfrid's, Brighton, by Gavin Stamp and Alan Powers, published 1983 (25 pp., Save Britain's Heritage: Thirties Society) accessible at: R.I.B.A. Library

The English Seaside Resort: a social history, by J. Walton, published 1983 (xii + 265 pp., Leicester University Press, ISBN-10: 0718512170 & ISBN-13: 9780718512170) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

Brighton College v. Marriott: Schools, charity law and taxation, by Martin D. W. Jones, published 1983 in The Journal of the History of Education Society (vol. 12, issue 2, article, pp.121-132)   View Online

Bells and smells': London, Brighton and south coast religion reconsidered, by W. N. Yates, published 1983 in Southern History (vol. 5, article, pp.122-153)

Gender and environment: Reproduction in post war Brighton, by S. D. MacKenzie, 1983 at Sussex University (Ph.D. thesis)

Brighton on the Rocks: Monetarism and the Local State, by QueenSpark Rates Book Group, published 1 January 1983 (192 pp., Brighton: QueenSpark Books, ISBN-10: 0904733084 & ISBN-13: 9780904733082) accessible at: The Keep archive of QueenSpark Books

This book was intended to be the first of a new series, but is the only one that was eventually commissioned. It incorporates a collection of interviews, photographs and statistics, which are used to analyse how monetarism affected the economic policies that were pursued by the city's local authorities in the 1980s.
When local councils imposed financial cuts from 1980 onwards, they argued that the cuts were necessary because of overspending. This text takes the view that monetarist policies are implicated in the decline in public services and critically evaluates the effects of monetarism on working people's lives, organisations and throughout the welfare state. It poses the question as to whether a different kind of economics was needed that was geared to need rather than to monetarist philosophy?

Charity and Chastity: Brighton Workhouse and the Female Penitents Home, by Romald Tibble, published March 1983 in Sussex Genealogist and Family Historian (vol. 4 no. 4, article, pp.128-135) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8893] & The Keep [LIB/501190] & CD SXGS from S.F.H.G.

Early Portrait of Brighton, Coast and Town, by A. G. Elliott, published April 1983 (32 pp., published by the author, ISBN-10: 0950638765 & ISBN-13: 9780950638768) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

The Wagners of Brighton, by A. Wagner, Sir Anthony Wagner and Antony Dale, published 28 April 1983 (180 pp., illus. & pedigree, Chichester: Phillimore & Co. Ltd., ISBN-10: 0850334454 & ISBN-13: 9780850334456) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/504684] & West Sussex Libraries

In Brighton the Wagners wielded such influence that their story is a major strand in the town's history. Apart from the Brighton interest, the book sheds fascinating light both on the dynastic vigour of German and Huguenot immigrants and on the social patterns of English society. Melchior Wagner, whose father had moved in 1677 to Coburg from Silesia, migrated to England, was naturalised in 1709 and was appointed hatter to King George I. He was granted the crown lease of a house in Pall Mall and his descendants remained for three generations.

Drives Around Brighton (Highways & Byways), by Robin Mead, published 1 June 1983 (60 pp., Edinburgh: Macdonald Publishing, ISBN-10: 0863340040 & ISBN-13: 9780863340048) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/508470] & British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Schooling in Brighton before the first Elementary Education Act of 1870, by Ronald Tibble, published June 1983 in Sussex Genealogist and Family Historian (vol. 5 no. 1, article, pp.4-12) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9173] & The Keep [LIB/501191] & CD SXGS from S.F.H.G.

Wrights of Brighton, by S. G. Nash, published September 1983 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 5 no. 7, article, pp.229-231) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9174] & The Keep [LIB/501257] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Thomas Wright (1777-1859) was a professor of music.

Robert and James Anderson: Influential Brethren of Contrasting Churchmanship in 19th Century Brighton, by John Wylie, published December 1983 in Sussex Genealogist and Family Historian (vol. 5 no. 3, article, pp.111-116) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9173] & The Keep [LIB/501191] & CD SXGS from S.F.H.G.

The Brighton election of February, 1864; or, A parody on "The house that Jack built;" containing a suggestion which, if carried out will ever prevent any division, in the Liberal camp, from opening the door for a Tory to slip in, by An elector, published 1984 (in verse, 14 pp., Brighton: J. Nunn) accessible at: British Library

The York Place Varndean Story 1884-1984, by Joan Miller, published 1984 (published by the author)

The Brighton Charity School in the Early 18th Century, by John H. Farrant, published 1984 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 122, article, pp.139-146) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9140] & The Keep [LIB/500309] & S.A.S. library

The Early Development of Music Hall in Brighton, by Kathleen Barker, published 1984 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 122, article, pp.183-192) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9140] & The Keep [LIB/500309] & S.A.S. library

The Palace Pier, Brighton, by William D. Everest, published 1984 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 14, article, pp.2-7) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506525]   Download PDF

Amusement Piers are a traditional part of the British seaside and Brighton has featured in their history from the beginning.
Until the early part of the nineteenth century, Brighton was an important seaport for the growing traffic of passengers and goods between England and France. For many years, passengers had been ferried to and from packet boats and other vessels by means of local rowing boats called 'punts'. These boats were also used to pull the rafts on which luggage, horses and carriages were loaded. Even then, the passengers often had to be carried on the backs of fishermen the last few feet to the beach. In the days before the railways most of the heavy goods, like coal, were brought by sea and unloaded onto the beach.
A company was formed called the Brighthelmston Suspension Pier Company and Captain Samuel Brown, a specialist in naval architecture and marine engineering, was appointed the engineer to build a suspension pier. Land was purchased under the East cliff, suspension chains were anchored 54 feet into the cliff below New Steine and the other end into the sea bed under the landing stage. Four cast iron towers build on clumps of wooden piles driven into the sea bed held the chains, from which the deck was suspended. A T-shaped platform, 80 feet wide on its own wooden piles, was the landing stage for the boats.
Built in less than twelve months, the Brighton Suspension Chain Pier was an advanced engineering achievement for its day. The official opening was on the 25th November 1823 and in 1825 the first steam vessels began to operate at Brighton. Like many good ideas, another and more popular use was found for the new pier by accident. It was used by the residents and visitors as a way of affording out-of-door recreation for what may be termed select Society. The toll fee of 2d tended to keep it more or less exclusive as a fashionable promenade. The towers were hollow and contained small shops or stalls and at the head of the Pier was a camera obscura. There was also a floating-bath attached to the north-east end of the pier-head for the convenience of bathers and a band played once a week in the season.

Ice Houses and the Commercial Ice Trade in Brighton, by R. G. Martin, published 1984 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 14, article, pp.18-24) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506525]   Download PDF

In Britain the practice of storing ice in specially constructed chambers was started in the 17th century and continued up to the early 20th century. At first ice was collected exclusively from local ponds and lakes and was placed in the private Ice Houses of large estates where, if properly insulated, it would last the year through. These Ice Houses were usually built partly or wholly below ground, typically with a cylindrical pit of about 3 metres in diameter and 6 metres deep with a domed top. An entrance passage, horizontal or with steps leading down was often used for access and occasionally a Loading shaft through the top. Materials used were usually brick but other local materials such as clunch, sandstone and flint rubble were also used. An Ice House of a much larger character at Petworth House was described in Sussex Industrial History No. 13, (1983), pp. 15 - 21 by the author. The expressions 'Ice Well' and 'Ice House' are synonymous.

Early Portrait of the Villages and Hamlets of Brighton and Hove, by A. G. Elliott, published January 1984 (32 pp., published by the author, ISBN-10: 0950638773 & ISBN-13: 9780950638775) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

Newman, Pusey and The Oxford Movement: The Brighton Connection, by John Lambert, published March 1984 in Sussex Genealogist and Family Historian (vol. 5 no. 4, article, pp.132-136) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9173] & The Keep [LIB/501191] & CD SXGS from S.F.H.G.

Coastal erosion at Brighton in 1676, by Hilda Rawlings, published March 1984 in Sussex Genealogist and Family Historian (vol. 5 no. 4, article, p.152) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9173] & The Keep [LIB/501191] & CD SXGS from S.F.H.G.

After the Brighton Bomb, by Mick Hume, published June 1984 (19 pp., London: Junius, ISBN-10: 0950840475 & ISBN-13: 9780950840475) accessible at: British Library

A Brighton Educator: Dr Henry Stein Turrell (1816-1863), by Ronald Tibble, published June 1984 in Sussex Genealogist and Family Historian (vol. 6 no. 1, article, pp.13-18) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [MP 6277] & The Keep [LIB/501192] & CD SXGS from S.F.H.G.

Newman and Pusey in Brighton: A Footnote, by Michael Leppard, published June 1984 in Sussex Genealogist and Family Historian (vol. 6 no. 1, article, p.36) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [MP 6277] & The Keep [LIB/501192] & CD SXGS from S.F.H.G.

British Bus & Trolleybus Systems. 4 - Brighton, Hove and District, by John Roberts, published 1 October 1984 (96 pp., Transport Publishing Co., ISBN-10: 0863171095 & ISBN-13: 9780863171093) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

The Vallances of Brighton and Hove, by Judy Middleton, published December 1984 in Sussex Genealogist and Family Historian (vol. 6 no. 3, article, pp.98-103) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [MP 6277] & The Keep [LIB/501192] & CD SXGS from S.F.H.G.

The Church of Saint John the Baptist, Brighton 1835-1985, by Trevor Pugh, published 1985

The rise and decline of a south coast seafaring town: Brighton, 1550-1750, by John H. Farrant, published 1985 in Mariners' Mirror (vol. 71, article, pp.59-76) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9248] & The Keep [LIB/502535]

Changes in Brighton and Hove's Suburbs: Preston and Patcham, 1841-1871, by Sue Farrant, published January 1985 (84 pp., published by the author, ISBN-10: 0951022504 & ISBN-13: 9780951022504) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502586]

The Other Side of the Counter: The Life of a Shop Girl 1925-1945, by Marjorie Gardiner, published 1 January 1985 (39 pp., Brighton: QueenSpark Books, ISBN-10: 0904733130 & ISBN-13: 9780904733136) accessible at: The Keep archive of QueenSpark Books & East Sussex Libraries

This autobiography looks at the working life of milliner, Marjorie Gardiner, from 1925 to 1945, including an account of her working life during the Second World War. Marjorie's story is told in a lively and evocative manner, and describes her experiences as a shop assistant working in a Brighton hat shop, where she met all manner of elite customers.
Those were the days when women were particularly fashion-conscious and there was a huge variety of different types of hat styles available. This first-hand account provides a fascinating insight into shop life during the first part of the twentieth century.

The Vallances of Brighton and Hove - Part 2, by Judy Middleton, published March 1985 in Sussex Genealogist and Family Historian (vol. 6 no. 4, article, pp.141-147) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [MP 6277] & The Keep [LIB/501192] & CD SXGS from S.F.H.G.

Reported Crime in Georgian Brighton c.1760-1795, by Sue Farrant, published March 1985 in Sussex Genealogist and Family Historian (vol. 6 no. 4, article, pp.148-150) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [MP 6277] & The Keep [LIB/501192] & CD SXGS from S.F.H.G.

Brighton's Fishermen in 1625, by Andrew George and John Farrant, published June 1985 in Sussex Genealogist and Family Historian (vol. 7 no. 1, article, pp.4-6) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [MP 6277] & The Keep [LIB/501193] & CD SXGS from S.F.H.G.

Swan Downer's Charity School, Brighton, by Ronald Tibble, published June 1985 in Sussex Genealogist and Family Historian (vol. 7 no. 1, article, pp.17-22) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [MP 6277] & The Keep [LIB/501193] & CD SXGS from S.F.H.G.

The Horse Buses of Brighton and Hove, by Adrian Peasgood, published September 1985 (54 pp., Centre for Continuing Education, University of Sussex, ISBN-10: 0904242285 & ISBN-13: 9780904242287) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506071][Lib/502592] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Genealogy from an Heirloom, by Peter Evershed, published December 1985 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 6 no. 8, article, pp.293-295) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9788] & The Keep [LIB/501258] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The gift of a silver-tipped twisted-whalebone handle punch ladle started the author on a search for his ancestors who were the original owners. Illustrated with a family tree showing seven generations beginning with John Evershed 1750 - 1840 and covers the years 1750 - 1958 in the parishes of Wisborough Green and Brighton

From Art School to Polytechnic : serving industry and the community from Brighton : 1859 to 1986, published 1986 (46 pp., Brighton: Faculty of Art and Design, Brighton Polytechnic, ISBN-10: 0904167305) accessible at: British Library

A History of Hollingdean, by Ray Carter, published 1986 (Lewes: Cohen Urban Studies Centre) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502806] & West Sussex Libraries

The Story of the New Brighton Lifeboats, by Jeff Morris, published 1986 (Coventry: Lifeboat Enthusiasts Society)

The Story of the New Brighton Lifeboats, by Jeff Morris, published 1986 (R.N.L.I.)

The Drainage of Brighton. Sewerage and Outfall Provision as an Issue in a Famous Seaside Resort c.1840-1880, by S. Farrant, published 1986 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 124, article, pp.213-226) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9762] & The Keep [LIB/500311] & S.A.S. library

The Development of Coaching Services from Brighton to London, c.1750-1822, by Sue Farrant, published March 1986 in Sussex Genealogist and Family Historian (vol. 7 nos. 3 & 4, article, pp.85-92) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [MP 6277] & The Keep [LIB/501193] & CD SXGS from S.F.H.G.

A Portrait of Brighton in Tram Days, by A. G. Elliott, published May 1986 (32 pp., published by the author, ISBN-10: 0951124102 & ISBN-13: 9780951124109) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The epidemiology of milk-borne scarlet fever: the case of Edwardian Brighton, by J. M. Eyler, published May 1986 in American Journal of Public Health (vol. 76, no. 5, article, pp.573-584) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502576]

The Old Ship: A Prospect of Brighton, by Raymond Flower, published 26 June 1986 (176 pp., London: Croom Helm Publishers Ltd., ISBN-10: 0709910770 & ISBN-13: 9780709910770) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Maps by Computer: The 1981 Census Atlas of Brighton and Hove, by T. J. Browne and A. J. Fielding, published 20 September 1986 (v + 134 pp., Crawley: Buchanan) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/500626] & East Sussex Libraries

Brighton Past & Present, by John Montgomery, published 1 October 1986 (96 pp., Countryside Books, ISBN-10: 0905392701 & ISBN-13: 9780905392707) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/508064] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Private nursing homes: contribution to long stay care of the elderly in the Brighton Health District. , by J. Bennett, published 4 October 1986 in British Medical Journal (vol. 293, article, pp.867-870)   Download PDF

Housing and women in Brighton and Hove : a local examination of national issues, by Rachel Lickiss, published 1987 (80 pp., Brighton: Lewis Cohen Urban Studies Centre at Brighton Polytechnic, ISBN-10: 0948992026 ) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries

Brighton Jewry reconsidered, by David Spector, published 1987 in Jewish Historical Studies (vol. 30, article, pp.91-124)

Frost and Salt Weathering of Chalk Shore Platforms near Brighton, Sussex, U. K., by D. A. Robinson and L. C. Jerwood, published 1987 in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (vol. 12, no. 2, article, pp.217-226)

Extensive spalling and cracking of chalk exposed in cliffs and on shore platforms in the vicinity of Brighton was observed during severe weather in January 1985. Quadrat analysis of the shore platforms is used to show a progressive downshore decline in the frequency of spalling. Laboratory simulations of tidal cycles support the field evidence that chalk exposed on the upper reaches of the platforms would have been subject to destructive freeze-thaw action. Laboratory evidence supporting the idea that frost damage is increased by the presence of salts in seawater is also presented, and it is suggested that the combined action of frost and salt weathering may be an effective weathering process in temperate coastal environments.

The Building of Three Streets in Chichester, by Walter Grenaway, published 1987 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 125, historical note, pp.259-262) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9994] & The Keep [LIB/500304] & S.A.S. library

Conversion of Brighton power station to combined heat and power (CHP), by John G. Kapp, published January 1987 in Applied Energy (vol. 27, no. 3, article, pp.243-249)   View Online

The technology of whole city heating by CHP is well established in Holland, West Germany, Denmark and Sweden. There most big towns have schemes, and the metered hot water that they supply is popular, being cheapest, safest and most trouble-free. The paper describes the technical and economic issues, but concentrates on the institutional and political obstacles to the implementation of CHP in the UK. These are due to the CEGB which wrongly seeks to build electricity-only stations (nuclear and coal-fired) with cheap public money, thus crowding out more cost-effective private investment in conservation (CHP and insulation) and renewables (e.g. tidal power). The author considers that privatisation of power stations, both projected and existing, is the best way to halt the present misallocation of resources and obtain better value for investment in electricity supply.

G. C. Smith and the George Long Prize for Jurisprudence, by Maurice J. Burn, published March 1987 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 7 no. 4, article, pp.132-133) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10461] & The Keep [LIB/501259] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

G C Smith (1865-1897) son of Richard and Esther Smith was educated at Brighton School and University of London. He was successful in school, but instead of following the law he played the Stock Exchange unsuccessfully, and took his own life in 1897. Illustrated by a photograph of G C Smith. Article covers the years 1878 - 1897 in the parishes of Brighton and London

Brighton Rocks, by Stewart Ullyott and illustrated by Dominic Sladden, published April 1987 (40 pp., Booth Museum of Natural History, ISBN-10: 0948723068 & ISBN-13: 9780948723063)

Moderate Moresque beside the sea: the Victorian visions of Brighton exhibition, by Clive Aslet, published 23 July 1987 in Country Life (vol. 181 no. 30, article, pp.92-93)

Policing the Food Trades: Epidemiology, Hygiene, and Public Administration in Edwardian Brighton, by J. M. Eyler and others, published August 1987 in Comparative history of medicine- East and West: History of hygiene; Shizuoka; Japan (article, pp.193-226) accessible at: British Library

Brighton. A Pictorial History, by D. Robert Elleray, published 1 November 1987 (128 pp., Chichester: Phillimore & Co. Ltd., ISBN-10: 0850336279 & ISBN-13: 9780850336276) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The influence of house age on lead levels in dusts and soils in Brighton, England, by D. J. A. Davies and I. Thornton, published December 1987 in Environmental Geochemistry and Health (vol. 9, no. 3-4, article, pp.65-67, ISSN: 0269-4042)   View Online

An earlier nationwide reconnaissance study had indicated that lead levels in house dusts in Brighton and Hove were high compared with the general mean for the United Kingdom (1110 µg/g versus 507 µug/g). A more rigorous study, with sample selection based on house age, has revealed a lower mean value of 705 µg/g. Lead levels in 35 houses from the original study which were revisited had not changed significantly over the intervening 5 year period. The results suggest that the high mean value obtained previously was a reflection of the uneven age distribution in the sample population. The mean lead concentrations in soil and road dust samples, also obtained, were 404 and 794 µg/g, respectively. Lead levels in ail three sample types (house dust, soil and road dust) were significantly correlated with each other and all showed a tendency to increase with increasing age of property.

William and Elizabeth Field of Brighton, by Graham Field, published December 1987 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 7 no. 7, article, pp.284-285) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10461] & The Keep [LIB/501259] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

William and Elizabeth Field had at least ten children. They emigrated to South Australia in 1853 where William died in 1854 and Elizabeth in 1885. Article covers the years 1812 - 1885 in the parishes of Brighton and Port Elliott and Victor Harbor, South Australia.

Backyard Brighton: Photographs and Memories of Brighton in the Thirties, published 1988 (75 pp., Brighton: QueenSpark Books, ISBN-10: 0904733165 & ISBN-13: 9780904733167) accessible at: The Keep archive of QueenSpark Books & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The collection of photographs and reminiscences was based on material gathered by Brighton Borough Council with the intention of creating a record of houses that were scheduled for demolition during the 1930s.

A Genealogy of a Segment of the Grinyer Family that had its English Roots in the County of Sussex, England, by Charles Edward Grinyer, published 1988 (published by the author)

Grinyer family history with chapters on Stanmer, Patcham and Brighton

Barclays Bank, North Street, Brighton (An Informal History), by Alan F. Hill, published 1988 (published by the author) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502589]

Moon, Matches and Microchips: For the Brighton Society for the Blind, by Judy Middleton, published 1988 (published by the author) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502500] & East Sussex Libraries

Geology of the Country Around Brighton and Worthing: Memoir for 1:50,000 Geological Sheets 318 and 333, by B. Young, published 1988 (116 pp., British Geological Survey, ISBN-10: 0118844075 & ISBN-13: 9780118844079) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The Windmills and Millers of Brighton, by H. T. Dawes, published 1988 (issue no. 18, Sussex Industrial History, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16389/18] & The Keep [LIB/506526]   Download PDF

Firstly, I would like to thank Mr Frank Gregory, who read this record of local windmills, corrected my errors, and gave me useful advice. He also brought me up-to-date regarding recent restoration work on the few windmills still remaining, checked the typescript, provided some of the illustrations and suggested that the material should be published. Mr Gregory is well known for his great interest in windmills, and his practical knowledge acquired by repairing and preserving them. He also gives talks in the subject, accompanied by models he himself has constructed. Mr Edwin Hole has assisted me with his accounts of repairs and renewals carried out locally by his firm of millwrights. John and Tony Cutress, whose family for well over half a century was connected with live windmills in Brighton, have volunteered useful information.
The notes on windmills compiled by the late Mr H. E. S. Simmons from the basis of any work on local mills. For over forty years he gradually assembled thousands of pieces of information regarding windmills in Sussex and well beyond. His widow has kindly allowed me to quote extracts.
Gurney Wilson's Notebooks written mainly in the opening years of this century, and now in the Hove Reference Library, have been of interest as the author included windmills in his local jottings. I have also gathered a great deal of information from reading letters and articles in many books, magazines and newspapers, and have acknowledged my indebtedness in the references.
Mr James Gray has allowed several of his photographs to be produced. Brighton Reference Library, Frank Gregory, Peter Hill, R Harris, N E S Norris and Brighton Museum have lent photographs; Jonathan Pratty and Ray Fowler have helped with reproduction. Alice Montford typed the text and Piran Montford gave advice with computing.

For this fully revised edition the opportunity has been taken to correct some minor errors and to include additional information that became available following the publication of the first edition. Before he died in 1993, Harold Dawes had prepared a list of amendments that were to be included in any future edition. In particular he wished to acknowledge the information gained from the chapter on Falmer Windmill in Mrs Doris Williams book Falmer Parish Reflections and wished to thank Mr R Hawksley and Mr R Philpott for material they had provided following the original publication. The author's suggested amendments have been checked by Peter Hill and Malcolm Dawes and are included in this edition.
In addition details of recent developments in restoration of the mills that still exist have been included, all of the original illustrations have been enhanced, and many more copies of photographs, drawings and engravings have been added. Assistance with the reproduction of this edition was provided by Selma IvIontford and Dave Carver also provided valuable help with reproduction of the cover illustration.

Three Cheers for Yoga! A Brighton Experiment in Adult Education for the Mentally Handicapped, by Vivien Martin, published 1988 in Adult Education (vol. 60, no. 4, article, pp.314-321)

Early Anglo-Saxon Burials from Stafford Road, Brighton, East Sussex, by Paul S. Smith, published 1988 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 126, article, pp.31-52) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10371] & The Keep [LIB/500303] & S.A.S. library

Images in the Fire, by Tony Whitehead, published 1 July 1988 (118 pp., Brighton: Brighton Department of Psychiatry for the Elderly, ISBN-10: 0951334107 & ISBN-13: 9780951334102) accessible at: British Library

The Kemp Family in Lewes and Brighton, by Antony Dale, published September 1988 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 8 no. 3, article, pp.100-107) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10736] & The Keep [LIB/501260] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The life and ancestry of Thomas Read Kemp, M.P. (1782-1844) and his descendants. He married Frances Baring and lived at Herstmonceux Place, then The Temple, Montpelier Road, Brighton, and then Dale Park, Madehurst. They had 10 children. After the death of Frances in childbirth he married, in 1832, Frances Margaretta Shakely and they had one son. Article covers the years 1733 - 1924.

Brighton and Hove in Old Photographs, by Judy Middleton, published 24 November 1988 (160 pp., Stroud: Sutton Publishing Ltd., ISBN-10: 086299540X & ISBN-13: 9780862995409) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Into the Streets and Lanes: A History of The Brighton and Hove Town Mission 1849-1989, by Berni Bannier, published 1989 (published by the author at The Mission, Brighton)

Iron Age and Roman Features at Kemp Town, by Oliver J. Gilkes, published 1989 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 127, archaeological note, pp.236-240) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10604] & The Keep [LIB/500302] & S.A.S. library

Fieldwalking along the proposed route of the Brighton Bypass, by Ray Hartridge, Robin Holgate and Mrs Robin Kenward, published 1989 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 127, archaeological note, pp.241-243) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10604] & The Keep [LIB/500302] & S.A.S. library

Aspects of Brighton's Market Garden Industry, by Geoffrey Mead, published 1989 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 127, historical note, pp.262-263) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10604] & The Keep [LIB/500302] & S.A.S. library

Brighton Churches, by Antony Dale, published 23 February 1989 (xii + 236 pp., London: Routledge, ISBN-10: 041500863- & ISBN-13: 9780415008631) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/504683] & R.I.B.A. Library & West Sussex Libraries

Brighton's reputation for Regency architecture has overshadowed its other architectural glories, chiefly its nineteenth-century churches - several of which are outstanding. They have not previously been the subject of collective study, and in this book Antony Dale, the well-known Brighton historian, gives an account of all the churches in Brighton and Hove that were built before 1880, both medieval and later. Dale is concerned with the story of how Brighton's churches came to be built and were at first administered. His account shows that the clergy who built these churches, and ministered there, are also of remarkable interest.

Tolling the bell for Brighton, by Kenneth Powell, published 16 March 1989 in Country Life (vol. 183 no. 11, article, pp.108-111)

The Kemp Family in Lewes and Brighton, by Elizabeth de Bourbel, published March 1989 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 8 no. 5, article, p.234) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10736] & The Keep [LIB/501260] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Octavia Wilberforce: The Autobiography of a Pioneer Woman Doctor, edited by Pat Jalland, published 11 May 1989 (192 pp., Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated, ISBN-10: 030432230X & ISBN-13: 9780304322305) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 11746]

Another piece of the puzzle?, by Don Burgess, published June 1989 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 8 no. 6, article, pp.278-279) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10736] & The Keep [LIB/501260] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Article documents the six children of John Burgess of West Tarring and covers the years 1777 - 1848 in the parishes of West Tarring and Brighton.

Back Street Brighton: Photographs and Memories of Brighton slum, published October 1989 (69 pp., Brighton: QueenSpark Books, ISBN-10: 0904733378 & ISBN-13: 9780904733372) accessible at: The Keep archive of QueenSpark Books & West Sussex Libraries

Produced in collaboration with the Lewis Cohen Urban Studies Centre, this is a sequel to Backyard Brighton incorporating photographs taken by the Environmental Health Department in the late forties and early fifties of houses in Brighton that were scheduled for demolition in the fifties and sixties.
Each photograph is accompanied by reminiscences of families who lived in the houses which, unlike the narratives in Backyard Brighton, are generally positive - with many people expressing fond memories of the era and viewing the demolitions as a beneficial experience for the area.
The book provides an interesting historical account of 'slum' clearance for residents of Brighton and any other readers who might be interested in the architectural and social history of the city.

The Sassoons, by Stanley Jackson, published 30 October 1989 (320 pp., William Heinemann Ltd., ISBN-10: 0434370568 & ISBN-13: 9780434370566)

A Refuge from Reality - The Cinemas of Brighton and Hove, by D. Robert Elleray, published November 1989 (46 pp., Hastings: Olio Books, ISBN-10: 0951539906 & ISBN-13: 9780951539903) accessible at: R.I.B.A. Library & East Sussex Libraries

Who was John Doe?, by Joan Stenning, published December 1989 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 8 no. 8, article, pp.362-363) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10736] & The Keep [LIB/501260] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

John Doe (1890-1932) was born in Norfolk to a gentleman farmer. His obituary in the Brighton Argos said he joined the East India Company in 1859, transferred to the Royal Munster Fusiliers and took part in the capture of the Khyber Pass. He had a family of fifteen and settled in Brighton. Article covers the years 1841 - 1932.

Revd. John Mossop, M.A., (1756-1794), by Ronald Tibble, published December 1989 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 8 no. 8, article, pp.368-374) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10736] & The Keep [LIB/501260] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The story of Revd. John Mossop and the Grammar School, Brighthelmston from 1787.

Brighton in Crisis, by David Lloyd and others, published 1990 (20 pp., London: Georgian Group, Victorian Society, ISBN-13: 9780901567154) accessible at: R.I.B.A. Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

A.H.C. Corder: Postcard Publisher of Brighton - a preliminary list of postcards, by John Robards, published 1990 (published by the author)

The A+B story, 1965-1990 : the first twenty five years, compiled by Canon John Stapleton, published 1990 (viii + 103 pp., Hove: Diocese of Arundel and Brighton) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries

Regency tramways: Leslie Oppitz takes an affectionate look back at the tramways of Brighton, by Leslie Oppitz, published 1990 in Old Glory: Vintage Restoration Today (No. 7, article, pp.28-30)

'Drastic Measures for Sturdy Loafers'. Brighton Guardians and the Able-Bodied Men in the Workhouse, 1909-1914, by John Jacobs, published 1990 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 128, article, pp.225-242) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 11106] & The Keep [LIB/500301] & S.A.S. library

Access to and development of secondary and technical education in Brighton in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, by David Alan Stainwright, 1990 at Sussex University (Ph.D. thesis)

The Craces: Royal Decorators 1768-1899, by Megan Aldrich, published 1 January 1990 (John Murray, ISBN-10: 0948723130 & ISBN-13: 9780948723131) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

The Crace family were the most important firm of interior decorators working in Britain in the 19th century. They worked for every British monarch from George Ill to Queen Victoria and on a range of buildings that include royal palaces (among them the Royal Pavilion at Brighton, Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle), the Prince of Wales' Carlton House, Leeds Town Hall, the Houses of Parliament, Knightshayes, Ickworth, Chatsworth, Cliveden, the Great Exhibition building of 1862 and numerous others. To study the Craces is to study the design of an age. This book is illustrated in colour and black-and-white showing the designs for furniture, ceilings, panelling and interiors in general together with photographs showing the interiors themselves.

The "System of pleasure": liminality and the Carnivalesque at Brighton, by Rob Shields, published 1 February 1990 in History, culture & society (7(1), article, pp.39-72)

An analysis of the history of the cultural positioning of Brighton as a seaside resort

Life in the Georgian City, by Dan Cruickshank and Neil Burton, published 29 March 1990 (304 pp., Viking, ISBN-10: 0670812668 & ISBN-13: 9780670812660) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Putting the Record Straight, by R. C. Grant, published March 1990 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 9 no. 1, article, pp.15-17) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 11999] & The Keep [LIB/501261] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The story of the 23 or 24 year old James Rook, highwayman, hanged and gibbeted near Brighton in 1793.

Moulsecoomb Days: Learning and Teaching on a Brighton Council Estate, 1922-47, by Ruby Dunn, published 1 May 1990 (74 pp., Brighton: QueensSpark Books, ISBN-10: 0904733351 & ISBN-13: 9780904733358) accessible at: The Keep archive of QueenSpark Books & British Library & West Sussex Libraries

George Duddell, 1821-87: A Hong Kong Pioneer and a Brighton Notability, by K. D. C. Vernon, published August 1990 (107 pp., published by the author, ISBN-10: 0951642200 & ISBN-13: 9780951642207)

Religious Survey 1851 - Brighton district, edited by John A. Vickers, published August 1990 in The Religious Census of Sussex 1851 (Sussex Record Society, vol. 75, pp.95-106, ISBN-10: 085445036X & ISBN-13: 9780854450367) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10578][Lib 13824] & The Keep [LIB/500452][LIB/507827] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Encyclopedia of Brighton, by Timothy Carder, published 1 November 1990 (326 pp., Lewes: East Sussex County Council, ISBN-10: 0861473159 & ISBN-13: 9780861473151) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/504679][Lib/508889] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Brighton Behind the Front: Photographs and Memories of the Second World War, edited by Michael Corum and George Heffaran, published 7 December 1990 (65 pp., Brighton: QueenSpark Books, ISBN-10: 0904733408 & ISBN-13: 9780904733402) accessible at: The Keep archive of QueenSpark Books & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Produced in collaboration with the Lewis Cohen Urban Studies Centre. It brings together a collection of Brighton wartime reminiscences and documents how ordinary people were affected by the war.
This was a challenging time in British history, giving rise to moving accounts of individual lives set against a society undergoing profound changes. Using personal recollections, contemporary photographs, letters, a logbook and diaries, Brighton behind the Front vividly portrays what it was like to live in this south coast town during the Second World War.

American Express: The Impact of a Large Multinational Organization on a Small Local Economy, by Michael Barrow and Mike Hall, published 1991 (Brighton Polytechnic) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/507978]

Brighton Cemeteries, by Antony Dale, published 1991 (Brighton Borough Council) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502501][Lib/501544] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Brighton - Land Tax 1785, edited by Roger Davey, published 1991 in East Sussex Land Tax, 1785 (Sussex Record Society, vol. 77, pp.29-43, ISBN-10: 0854450386 & ISBN-13: 9780854450381) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 11681][Lib 13075] & The Keep [LIB/500454][Lib/507860] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Setting Brighton's Poor to Work: the Work of Brighton Distress Committee 1905-1914, by John Jacobs, published 1991 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 129, article, pp.217-238) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 11694] & The Keep [LIB/500295] & S.A.S. library

Brighton Paupers, by Roy Grant, published March 1991 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 9 no. 5, article, pp.170-174) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 11999] & The Keep [LIB/501261] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

A list of unsettled poor giving name, age, number of years resident, period of relief and Union for the years 1831 - 1846 in Brighton.

Underdog Brighton: A Rather Different History of the Town, by Rocky Hill, published 1 June 1991 (278 pp., Brighton: Iconoclast, ISBN-10: 0951521810 & ISBN-13: 9780951521816) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries

William Constable: Brighton's first photographer, by Philippe Garner, published September 1991 in History of Photography (vol. 15, no. 3, article, pp.236-240, ISSN: 0308-7298)   View Online

Number 57 Marine Parade is a large, four-storey house along Brighton's sea front, about half a mile east of Nash's Royal Pavilion, within the stretch of terraces and crescents developed during the Regency period when Brighton first regularly played host to the royal Court.

The Town Beehive: A young girl's lot in Brighton 1910-1934, by Daisy Noakes, published 7 October 1991 (new edition, 60 pp., Brighton: QueenSpark Books, ISBN-10: 0904733459 & ISBN-13: 9780904733457) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/504088] & The Keep archive of QueenSpark Books & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Brightonian, Daisy Noakes, tells her story from the age of fourteen, when she went into service. She gives us an insight into the life of a woman born and brought up in Brighton. Daisy documents - with humour - her inevitable trials and tribulations in the often physically demanding world that she inhabited during her working life.
The autobiography covers her childhood, as one of a family of ten, living in Prince's Road and Vere Road, and her working days in service in different parts of the town. This is a special insight into Daisy's world and is a shining example of true grit and fortitude!

Brighton and Hove: Volume 1 - A Portrait in Old Picture Postcards, by Judy Middleton, published 22 November 1991 (112 pp., Seaford: S. B. Publications, ISBN-10: 1870708997 & ISBN-13: 9781870708999) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

Blighty Brighton, published December 1991 (60 pp., Brighton: QueenSpark Books, ISBN-10: 0904733556 & ISBN-13: 9780904733556) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502551] & The Keep archive of QueenSpark Books & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

This book (produced in collaboration with the Lewis Cohen Urban Studies Centre), is all about memories of Brighton during the First World War. Through an examination of ephemera such as posters, photographs, pictures, songs and personal recollections, it portrays a collective memory of the city. Photographs are central to this work; for example Brighton Museum, Preston Manor and Brighton Reference Library are all featured pictorially. This book provides a valuable and important source of local history - a must for all those passionate about the city and its historical roots!

C. A. Busby: the Regency Architect of Brighton and Hove, by Neil Bingham, published 31 December 1991 (106 pp., R.I.B.A. Heinz Gallery, ISBN-10: 1872911102 & ISBN-13: 9781872911106) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503774] & R.I.B.A. Library & West Sussex Libraries

Daring Hearts: Lesbian and Gay Lives of '50s and '60s Brighton, by Brighton Ourstory Project, published 1992 (124 pp., Brighton: QueenSpark Books, ISBN-10: 0904733319 & ISBN-13: 9780904733310) accessible at: The Keep archive of QueenSpark Books & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

This is a collection of life stories of people who are members of the gay and lesbian community in the Brighton area. The book is based on taped interviews with forty lesbian and gay men who spoke openly about their lives in and around Brighton.
In the fifties and sixties the town enjoyed a national reputation as a haven for gay people and it was viewed as a relatively tolerant place for people to visit and live. Lesbians and gay men came from all over Britain for holidays and to settle down. Brighton was considered a type of 'Eldorado', a promised land, and this tradition remains today, where its thriving gay community is one of the largest in the country, outside London.

On foot in East Sussex : 27 rambles based on the Eastbourne, Herstmonceux, Lewes, Seaford, Brighton, Rye, Ashdown Forest areas, by Society of Sussex Downmen, published 1992 (10th edition, 72 pp., Hove) accessible at: British Library

Seven Brighton Brewers, by Peter Holtham, published 1992 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 22, article, pp.9-14, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506526]   Download PDF

The early nineteenth century saw the emergence of the "common" brewer, that is one who brewed not for direct retail sale and/or consumption on his own premises but for sale elsewhere. Several factors contributed to this, the most significant being the invention of the steam engine in the previous century for use in pumping and operating the brewing machinery.

• The Black Lion Brewery
• The West Street Brewery
• The Cannon Brewery
• The Rock Brewery
• The North Street Brewery
• The Phoenix Brewery
• The Kempton Brewery

Pullman Craftsmen: Life in the Pullman Car Company's Preston Park Works, Brighton, by Don Carter, Joe Kent and Geoff Hart, published 1 May 1992 (76 pp., Brighton: QueenSpark Books, ISBN-10: 0904733505 & ISBN-13: 9780904733501) accessible at: The Keep archive of QueenSpark Books & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

This work records the reminiscences of three craftsmen who were employed in the Preston Park Works of the Pullman Car Company during the fifties and sixties. As well as giving the reader a flavour of life in the engineering industry in those times, it also provides a fascinating post-war history of the automobile.
The authors record the rise and fall of the company, from its heyday in 1948 to its decline and ultimate bankruptcy in 1963. In its day, it was a successful and valued company in the Brighton area, and it supported the local economy to a great extent. This knowledgeable account provides a testimony to a craftsmanship of a bygone era!

The Brighton Metropole, by Judy Middleton, published 1 May 1992 (66 pp., published by the author, ISBN-10: 1873624026 & ISBN-13: 9781873624029) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502593] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Brighton's Tramways, by Robert J. Harley, published 19 October 1992 (96 pp., Midhurst: Middleton Press, ISBN-10: 1873793022 & ISBN-13: 9781873793022) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Onward and Upward: York Place to Varndean 1884-1975, edited by Tony Allt and Brian Robson with a foreward by Paul Schofield, published 1993 (Old Varndeanian Association)

St Michael & All Angels Church, Brighton. A history & guide, by David Beevers, published 1993 (20 pp.)

Memories of Brighton Cinemas in 1963, by David A. Ellis, published 1993 accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502545]

A.H.C. Corder: Postcard Publisher of Brighton - a revised list of postcards, by John Robards, published 1993 (published by the author) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502570]

A Three-headed Cerberus. Brighton and the Health of Towns Bill 1847, by Margaret Whittick, published 1993 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 131, article, pp.159-171) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12210] & The Keep [LIB/500300] & S.A.S. library

Brighton's Ragged Schools, by R. C. Grant, published March 1993 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 10 no. 5, article, pp.187-189) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14877] & The Keep [LIB/501262] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Victorian press reports of 1850 about education in Brighton

East Sussex Walks: Brighton, Eastbourne and Lewes Area, by Sandy Hernu, published 25 June 1993 (80 pp., Seaford: S. B. Publications, ISBN-10: 1857700457 & ISBN-13: 9781857700459) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The Story of a Brighton Carrier, by Mrs. Joan Hardcastle, published June 1993 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 10 no. 6, article, pp.239-240) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14877] & The Keep [LIB/501262] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Five generations of Stapletons and their Brighton business 1790 to 1989 - Stapletons, then Express Carriers, then National Carriers, then Atlas Express

The History of Beachwood, by Martyn Webster, published September 1993 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 10 no. 7, article, pp.282-284) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14877] & The Keep [LIB/501262] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The detached Victorian residence, known as 'Beechwood', on the London Road at Withdean formerly belonged until its sale in 1956 to W. H. Vokins, Esq., founder of the family store 'Vokins' of Brighton.

A Pictorial History of Brighton, by David Beevers and John Roles, published 20 October 1993 (224 pp., Derby: Breedon Books, ISBN-10: 1873626541 & ISBN-13: 9781873626542) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The Theatre Royal, Brighton, by Christopher Robinson, published October 1993 (Theatre Royal, ISBN-10: 0952227606 & ISBN-13: 9780952227601) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503778] & West Sussex Libraries

Patrick Hamilton: A life, by Sean French, published 22 November 1993 (258 pp., Faber & Faber, ISBN-10: 0571143539 & ISBN-13: 9780571143535) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

Patrick Hamilton, born in Hassocks, author of "Rope" and "Gaslight", had a life full of strange contradictions. He came from a family of powerful literary failures, and yet he made his name internationally while in his mid-20s. He became a committed Marxist but married - twice - into the aristocracy and although his family was wealthy, he was drawn to the poor and genteel.

Deckhand, West Pier, by Arthur Thickett, published 1 December 1993 (42 pp., Brighton: Queenspark Books, ISBN-10: 0904733246 & ISBN-13: 9780904733242) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/508088] & The Keep archive of QueenSpark Books & British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

This is a fresh and often humorous look at a young man who came to Brighton in the summer of 1970, full of hope and optimism - his goal was to find adventure and ultimately love. Written in a witty prose style, we learn that on his first day he found digs, on his second day, he walked into a job, but cupid's arrow was to prove more elusive! Haunted by memories of the Second World War, Arthur Thickett tried to reconcile himself to his past and find friendship and laughter. He describes a town that behind the bright and lively holiday facade was full of lonely people.

Admission registers to St. Joseph's Roman Catholic School 1891 - 1938, by R. C. Grant, published December 1993 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 10 no. 8, article, p.313) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14877] & The Keep [LIB/501262] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

A list of pupils who attended St. Joseph's R.C. School, Milton Road, Brighton, and later emigrated. Each entry has the name of the pupil, date of birth, where came from, date left school, and destination.

D-Day: Brighton remembers, published 1994 (Brighton: Lewis Cohen Urban Studies & Southgate Publishers, ISBN-10: 0948992069 & ISBN-13: 9780948992063) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Brighton Festival Surveys Report, by Sue Berry, published 1994 (University of Brighton and Brighton Council)

Index of the memorials in St. Paul's Church West Street Brighton, compiled by Yves Le Juen, published 1994 (Brighton: St Paul's Church) accessible at: British Library

Brighton and Hove in Old Photographs: A Second Selection, by Judy Middleton, published 1994 (160 pp., Stroud: Sutton Publishing Ltd., ISBN-10: 0750906510 & ISBN-13: 9780750906517) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/508906] & East Sussex Libraries

The Origins and Development of Policing in Brighton and Hove 1830-1900 with Special Reference to Local Political Context: vol. 1, by Derek John Oakensen, published 1994 (The University of Brighton) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502097]

The Origins and Development of Policing in Brighton and Hove 1830-1900 with Special Reference to Local Political Context: vol. 2, by Derek John Oakensen, published 1994 (The University of Brighton) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502098]

The origins and development of policing in Brighton and Hove, 1830-1900 with special reference to local political control, by Derek John Oaksden, 1994 at University of Brighton (Ph.D. thesis)

The Brighton School Board and Technical Instruction Committee: a study in conflict, by David Stainwright, published January 1994 in Vocational Aspect of Education (vol. 46, no. 1, article, pp.17-30, ISSN: 0305-7879) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502578]   View Online

This article describes the strained relationship between the Brighton School Board and the Brighton Technical Instruction Committee in the late nineteenth century, putting the Brighton events into a national context. The troubled relationship between the two organisations is explained in terms of the overlap of their functions, which, in turn, stemmed from the imprecise definitions of technical and secondary education prevailing in the nineteenth century. However, a comparison of relationships between school boards and technical instruction committees in other towns indicates that a number of factors were involved in determining the degree of cooperation, or its absence, between the two organisations and not just a lack of clear demarcation of their respective roles. Some comments are made on the possible significance of the events described in the nineteenth century and developments in education and training during recent years.

The Phoenix Brewery, by Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Tamplin, published March 1994 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 11 no. 1, article, p.20) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14878] & The Keep [LIB/501263] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The story of Phoenix Brewery in Brighton which was built in 1821 for Richard Tamplin (1799-1849)

Brighton's Music Halls, by D. S. Adland, published May 1994 (140 pp., Quotes Ltd., ISBN-10: 0860235319 & ISBN-13: 9780860235316) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503783] & Brighton History Centre & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

East Sussex Census 1851 Index: Brighton, Hove, Preston, Patcham, West Blatchington, Hangelton, Portslade, Aldrington, Southwick, Kingston-by-Sea & Shoreham, by June C. Barnes, published June 1994 (vol. 24, booklet, C. J. Barnes & printed at Battle Instant Print Ltd.)

Her Story: Life of Phoebe Hessel, by Ruth Moorhouse and Chris Randall, published 1 August 1994 (28 pp., Brighton: Queenspark Books, ISBN-10: 0904733599 & ISBN-13: 9780904733594) accessible at: The Keep archive of QueenSpark Books & British Library & East Sussex Libraries

Phoebe Hessel nee Smith (1713-1821), born Stepney, disguised herself as a soldier in the British Army, probably to be with her lover Samuel Golding. She lived in Brighton in old age and is buried in St Nicholas churchyard.

William King (1786-1865): Physician and Father of the Co-Operative Movement, by John Grenville Corina, published August 1994 in The Journal of Medical Biography (vol. 2, no 3, article, pp.168-176)   View Online

A Letter from Brighton - 1841, by Mrs. Susan C. Djabri, published September 1994 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 11 no. 3, article, pp.92-100) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14878] & The Keep [LIB/501263] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The story of the family of William Cabell (1784-1853), the son of William Cabell and Martha Scutt, who married Elizabeth Savage in 1826 and their nine children. The story includes a letter from William to his daughter Elizabeth to which are attached extensive notes on Brighton.

Glimpses of Old Brighton: From the Robert Jeeves Collection, by Ernest Ryman and Geoffrey Mead, published 1 October 1994 (32 pp., Brighton: Dyke Publications, ISBN-10: 0950975672 & ISBN-13: 9780950975672) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502530] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Brighton Boy: A Fifties Childhood, by Andy Steer, published 1 November 1994 (35 pp., Brighton: QueenSpark Books, ISBN-10: 0904733742 & ISBN-13: 9780904733747) accessible at: The Keep archive of QueenSpark Books & East Sussex Libraries

This autobiography takes as its subject matter the local areas and geography of post-war Brighton, seen through the eyes of Andy Steer. It includes descriptions of institutions in the city that were important to Andy such as Stanford Road School, the now defunct Brighton Cycle Club and the Shiverers Swimming Club at the King Alfred swimming pool in Hove! The book also brings alive those boyhood times when he and his friends played in Cherry Woods, near Withdean Stadium. Here they spent timeless hours on their endless games - lost in their own joyful, imaginary world. In short, Brighton Boy is a schoolboy's tale of Brighton in the fifties which is sure to bring back memories of forgotten times for many local people.

Sheltered Lives: Ditchling Road School: The War Years, by Downs Junior School project organised by Diana Knapp, published 1995 (28 pp., Downs Junior School, Brighton, ISBN-10: 0952578204 & ISBN-13: 9780952578208)

Brighton General Hospital and Warren Farm School, by Ron Martin, published 1995 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 25, article, pp.25-28, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506527]   Download PDF

The 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act advocated the formation of unions at several parishes to operate efficient new workhouses. The Brighton Guardians had already built a new workhouse only twelve years before, located above St. Nicholas' churchyard to the north of Church Street (TQ 307047). For this reason Brighton was the only parish in East Sussex not to conform to the pattern of joining a union to carry out the policy of the New Poor Law. However by the late 1840s the existing workhouse was found to be inadequate and the Guardians decided to build a larger one and also an industrial school. The latter was built in 1859 to the designs of George Maynard, the parish surveyor, on the land occupied by Wick Farm (TQ 351056). It comprised a two storied E-shaped block fronting onto Warren Road, the central seven bays and the central wing behind being three stories high. The design is plain with rendered walls and a hipped slate covered roof and mainly casement windows with mullions and transoms.
The school which was known as the Warren Farm Industrial Schools ceased its original function and became a children's home in the 1930s and subsequently had various other uses. In about 1955 it became the Fitzherbert R.C. Secondary School and was finally closed in 1987. It was proposed that it would become one of the new City Technology Colleges but this came to nothing and the buildings were finally demolished in 1994. Currently a Nuffield Hospital is being erected on the site.
In 1866 the Brighton Workhouse was built in Elm Grove (TQ 328052) on a seven acre site to the designs of George Maynard. The buildings erected at that time comprised the Workhouse proper (A Block, now Arundel building), Casual Wards adjacent to the main entrance (now demolished), the Infirmary (F Block, now Fletching Wards), Workhouse Nursery (G Block, now Glynde Building), Lunatic Wards (H Block, now Hollingbury Building), Fever and Foul Wards (probably J,K or L Blocks, now Jevington Building, Keymer Building and Lancing Building), together with a complete range of service buildings. Most of these buildings survive to this day but have been changed from their original use in many cases.

Space matters: situating the beach in the history of Brighton, by Elias Georgantas, 1995 at Sussex University (Ph.D. thesis)

Redesigning a Chapter in the History of British Design: The Design Council Archive at the University of Brighton, by J. M. Woodham, published 1 January 1995 in Journal of Design History (vol. 8, no. 3, article, pp.225-229)

Doctor Brighton: Richard Russell and the sea water cure, by Alex Sakula, published February 1995 in The Journal of Medical Biography (vol. 3, no 1, article, pp.30-33)   View Online

Life in Late Victorian Brighton, by William Ransom, published March 1995 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 11 no. 5, article, pp.167-170) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14878] & The Keep [LIB/501263] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Edited (by P. B. Evershed) extracts from notes written in 1962 about his early life in Brighton by William Ransom (1881-1967)

Thomas Cubitt: Master Builder, by Hermione Hobhouse, published October 1995 (2nd revised edition, 656 pp., Mercury Business Books, ISBN-10: 1852511486 & ISBN-13: 9781852511487) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

Brighton revealed: through artists' eyes c.1760-c.1960, edited by David Beevers, published November 1995 (176 pp., Brighton: Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery and Museums, ISBN-10: 0948723254 & ISBN-13: 9780948723254) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

Jobs for life, by Joan Parsons, published December 1995 (72 pp., Brighton: Queenspark Books, ISBN-10: 090473384X & ISBN-13: 9780904733846) accessible at: The Keep archive of QueenSpark Books & British Library

Unearthing our past : the Brighton and Hove Archaeological Society, 1906-1996, published c.1996 (17 pp., Brighton & HoveArchaeological Society, ISBN-10: 0952958902 & ISBN-13: 9780952958901) accessible at: British Library

Oh! What a lovely pier, by Daphne Mitchell, published 1996 (43 pp., Queen Spark Books, ISBN-10: 0904733513 & ISBN-13: 9780904733518) accessible at: R.I.B.A. Library

Working on the West Pier from 1956 to 1970, Daphne Mitchell's story evokes the atmosphere of the seaside in bygone times. Daphne recalls seaside shows that featured acts, such as the Great Omani, floating by on a bed of nails. She describes scenes with dolphins basking in the sea and aerial displays by the Red Arrows; all things that made the West Pier 'the pier of piers.' During the season, it was so hectic that Daphne comments `you didn't know whether to laugh or cry'. In this account, the life of the West Pier is vividly brought to life for the modern reader, who today can only view a ghostly wreck that echoes to the seabirds' sad songs. The subject is of particular relevance in view of the current debates that are taking place over the future of the West Pier.

The problems of boy labour and blind-alley occupations within the context of the labour markets of Brighton and Portsmouth, 1870-1939, by Roy Edward Bowden, 1996 at Southampton University (Ph.D. thesis)

London, Brighton and south coast religion? : Tractarianism and ritualism in Brighton, Hove and Worthing, by Ruth Cowl, 1996 at University of Keele (Ph.D. thesis)

The Sea House Hotel, Brighton, by Geoff Mead, published 1996 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 26, article, pp.16-19, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506527]   Download PDF

The Sea House is a pub of some antiquity and of considerable historic interest, its past closely linked with Brighton's history, in particular its seafaring heritage, currently being promoted so assiduously by Brighton Council.
First noted in documentary sources in 1791 when James Leach was proprietor, it must have pre-dated this as a 19th century source describes its appearance in 1800 as "a wretched looking miserable old building" in spite of which the Town Vestry is reported as holding meetings there regularly between 1790 and 1804.
At that date and in the period prior to 1832 its name was the Ship in Distress and was one of a number of town taverns with seafaring signage, such as The Anchor in East Street, the Old Ship in Ship Street, and the Last Sr Fishcart in Black Lion Street. This was a reflection of Brighton's role as one of the principal fishing towns on the south coast, one whose economy was, at an earlier time, bound up in shipping, rope and net making, and boat building.

Bread oven at 15 Western Street, Brighton, by Ron Martin, published 1996 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 26, article, pp.36-37, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506527]   Download PDF

In the course of renovation work at No.15 Western Street, Brighton a bread oven was uncovered in the basement. This property was built as a semi-detached pair (with No.16) between 1808 and 1821 and is three stories high with a projecting bay to each property and a parapet. From 1822 - 1850, No.15 was occupied by William Hearsey a baker, and from 1852 - 1862 by Henry Ewer, a bread and biscuit maker. It was known as No.2 Norfolk Street until 1833 and No.9 Western Street, until 1939. Presumably Henry Ewer died and his widow Elizabeth took over the business and carried it on until 1875. In the 1876 Directory James Smith is listed as the occupier and from 1877 to 1916 Ben Bishop, as a baker. For the next two years it was used as a registry office and from 1920 to 1940 by a Mrs. Otway, a hairdresser, then by Harold Ruddick & Co, mechanical engineers and for a few years by Mrs. Wagstaff an antique dealer. Since 1964 it has been occupied by various restaurants, the Cafe Mignon, the Safari Room, Au Pied du Cochon and latterly Le Grandgousier.

The Burgesses of Brighton, by Don Burgess, published March 1996 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 12 no. 1, article, pp.34-37) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14879] & The Keep [LIB/501165] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Henry Burgess (1805-1901) married Elizabeth Parsons at St Nicholas' Church in Brighton 3 September 1828. He had a successful butcher's shop at 41 Meeting House Lane where he supplied produce to such customers as the Royal Pavilion. They had four children who died early followed by Elizabeth who died 7 October 1864. Henry married Eliza Lidbetter in October 1866, moved to Ringmer where they had one child, Frank Walter Burgess, born 29 August 1867 who married Mary Ann Paris in March 1893.

Brighton in the Fifties, by Brigid Chapman, published 23 April 1996 (112 pp., Book Guild Publishing Ltd., ISBN-10: 1857761510 & ISBN-13: 9781857761511) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Catching Stories: Voices from the Brighton Fishing Community, by Brighton Fishing Community Project Team, published 1 May 1996 (144 pp., Brighton: QueenSpark Books, ISBN-10: 0904733467 & ISBN-13: 9780904733464) accessible at: The Keep archive of QueenSpark Books & West Sussex Libraries

This comprehensive account of the fishing industry documents how it has changed since the beginning of the century. At that time, fishing boats landed on the beach and the fish market was actually on the seafront. On a more personal level, Catching Stories is a living record, told in their own words, of the individuals who made up Brighton's fishing community.
Their past is remembered with humour and honesty, as are the bygone traditions and lifestyles of their families. This unique and valuable document of social and oral history reveals the details of a traditional profession in an informative and enjoyable way. Listen to 'hidden voices' that clamour to be heard!

Unusual and Notorious Brightonians - 1, by Roy Grant, published June 1996 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 12 no. 2, article, p.52) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14879] & The Keep [LIB/508809] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Jeremy Botting who lived at the back of Westfield Lodge in the Cannon Street area of West Brighton and died in Brighton on the 1st October 1837 was the official executioner in London's Newgate Gaol and occasionally commuted from Brighton to do his unsavoury duty in the city.

The Graham Family: from Cumberland to Brighton & Beyond, by Mrs. Pat Graham, published June 1996 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 12 no. 2, article, pp.55-56) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14879] & The Keep [LIB/508809] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Henry Graham was baptised in St. Nicholas Church, Brighton in 1822 the eighth of ten children of William Graham from Cumberland who had married Elizabeth Charman.

Old Brightonian Lodge No.4104: A Short History 1920-1995, by K. W. Winslow, published 5 July 1996 (48 pp., Chippenham: Picton Publishing, ISBN-10: 0948251867 & ISBN-13: 9780948251863) accessible at: British Library

Romance of the Old Chain Pier at Brighton, by Ernest Ryman, published 1 August 1996 (32 pp., Brighton: Dyke Publications, ISBN-10: 0950975680 & ISBN-13: 9780950975689) accessible at: R.I.B.A. Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Snapshots: Childhood Memories of Southampton Street 1942-55, by Janis Ravenett, published 1 September 1996 (68 pp., Brighton: QueenSpark Books, ISBN-10: 0904733998 & ISBN-13: 9780904733990) accessible at: The Keep archive of QueenSpark Books

In this autobiography, Janis Ravenett recalls her memories of Southampton Street, situated in the Hanover area of Brighton, during the years between 1942 and 1955. Janis includes many vignettes of family life, recalling a childhood that was happy and full of fun, and recounts the inevitable good and bad times that she experienced, especially in the transition from childhood to adulthood.
The stories reveal a child's vivid perception of the love, excitement and disappointments that are all part of the growing up process. These memories cannot fail to touch the child in all of us. They are presented as self-contained snapshots of Janis's life, woven together to form an overall picture that represents her life's experiences.

Unusual and Notorious Brightonians - 2, by Roy Grant, published September 1996 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 12 no. 3, article, p.112) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14879] & The Keep [LIB/508810] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The 1820 Cato Street Conspiracy was lead by Arthur Thislewood and his lieutenant James Ings, a Brighton Butcher

Exploring Brighton and the South Downs, by David Harrison, published 1 October 1996 (Seaford: S. B. Publications, ISBN-10: 185770102X & ISBN-13: 9781857701029) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

The First Indian Author in English: Dean Mahomed (1759-1851) in India, Ireland and England, by Michael H. Fisher, published 7 November 1996 (386 pp., OUP India, ISBN-10: 0195638999 & ISBN-13: 9780195638998)

This book makes accessible the work of the first Indian to write and publish in English, Dean Mahomed (1759-1851). It also provides a detailed life-history of Dean Mahomed, together with related historical analyses and assessments. His book, The Travels of Dean Mohamet [sic], is reprinted here for the first time since its publication in 1794.

Painting it Pink!: Homes and Haunts of Creative Talents of Queer Interest in Brighton and Hove, by Andrew Le Flohic, published 1 December 1996 (15 pp., Brighton: Home Made Books, ISBN-10: 095287010X & ISBN-13: 9780952870104) accessible at: British Library & East Sussex Libraries

Brighton Fishermen in 1864, by R. C. Grant, published December 1996 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 12 no. 4, article, p.137) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14879] & The Keep [LIB/508811] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

A list of 43 local seafaring men listed under the title: A Group of Tee-total Seamen, Fishermen & Boatmen of Brighton and its Vicinity, Members of the Philanthropic Society

Unusual and Notorious Brightonians - 3, by Roy Grant, published December 1996 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 12 no. 4, article, pp.149-150) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14879] & The Keep [LIB/508811] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Henry Fauntleroy (1785-1824) was a wealthy banker who lived at the west end of Codrington Place, Western Road, Brighton. He misappropriated over £17,000 of other peoples' securities and investments, imprisoned in Newgate Gaol and executed on 30 November 1824 in front of a crowd estimated as over 100,000.

Excavation of a Bronze Age Settlement at Varley Halls, Coldean Lane, Brighton, East Sussex, by Ian Greig, published 1997 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 135, article, pp.7-58) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13642] & The Keep [LIB/500290] & S.A.S. library

Excavations at Rocky Clump, Stanmer Park, Brighton, 1951-1981, by Oliver J. Gilkes, published 1997 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 135, article, pp.113-126) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13642] & The Keep [LIB/500290] & S.A.S. library

The Brighton Public Chess Room, by C. P. Ravilious, published 1997 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 135, article, pp.283-296) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13642] & The Keep [LIB/500290] & S.A.S. library

Brighton's Tunbridge Ware Industry, by Brian Austen, published 1997 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 27, article, pp.8-17, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506527]   Download PDF

The popularisation of sea-bathing from the mid-eighteenth century was, in the matter of a few decades, to transform Brighton from a decaying town reliant on fishing and the sea-carrying trades, to a thrusting boom town dedicated to health and the pleasures of life. The first sea-bathers, concerned to promote their health. had arrived in the 1730s and it was the publicity given to sea water cures by Dr. Richard Russell, and his residence in the town from 1754, which stimulated growth. As at inland spas medicinal requirements were rapidly overtakes by the need for facilities that would promote social activity and entertainment. By 1754 an Assembly Room existed at the Castle Inn and another was added at the Old Ship in 1761. Six years later a Master of Ceremonies was appointed. The first visit by royalty was in July 1765 by the Duke of Gloucester. Tradesman were attracted to the town to serve the visitors, such as booksellers and librarians, toymen, perfumers and milliners. There was a demand for attractive and fashionable objects that would provide memories of the time spent in the town, or presents for those family or friend at home. It was to service this need that the Tunbridge ware industry developed in Brighton.

The Brighton Garrison 1793-1900, by Roy Christopher Grant, published March 1997 (pamphlet, published by the author, ISBN-10: 0953033201 & ISBN-13: 9780953033201) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13702] & The Keep [LIB/503452] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Brighton and Hove: the Archive Photographs Series, by Tony Wales, published 29 May 1997 (128 pp., The History Press, ISBN-10: 0752407554 & ISBN-13: 9780752407555) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Oh What a Lovely Shore: Brighton in the Twenties Through the Eyes of a Schoolboy , by Leonard Goldman, published 1 June 1997 (116 pp., published by the author, ISBN-10: 0953059308 & ISBN-13: 9780953059300) accessible at: British Library

Records of the French Community in Brighton, by Vincent Tickner, published June 1997 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 12 no. 6, article, pp.218-220) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14879] & The Keep [LIB/508813] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The Brighton Blitz, by David Rowland, published July 1997 (88 pp., Seaford: S. B. Publications, ISBN-10: 1857701240 & ISBN-13: 9781857701241) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503771] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Brighton Mechanics' Institute Members & Donors 1825-1828, by Mike Strong, published September 1997 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 12 no. 7, article, pp.252-255) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14879] & The Keep [LIB/508814] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Lists name, occupation and address

Dress Uniforms of Regiments Stationed in Brighton Barracks in the 19th Century, by Roy Grant, published September 1997 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 12 no. 7, article, pp.259-260) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14879] & The Keep [LIB/508814] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Lists year, regiment, coat and facings

William Hallett of Brighton, by A. B. Warrick, published September 1997 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 12 no. 7, article, pp.265-266) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14879] & The Keep [LIB/508814] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The life of William Hallett (c.1773-1862) who was one of the pioneers, a small phalanx of builders, who set themselves to develop Brighthelmston at the time when George IV had begun to reign.

QueenSpark Books - publishing life histories for the local community, by Lorraine Sitzia, published November 1997 in The Local Historian (vol. 27, no. 4, article, pp.218-224)   View Online

This article describes the work of QueenSpark Books, a community publishing group which works in Brighton and Hove with local people to publish their life stories. The article gives a historical introduction to QueenSpark, from its beginnings as a local campaign to stop a casino development, to its position today as one of the largest and most successful community publishing groups in the country. QueenSpark's involvement in written life histories and oral histories aims to give ordinary people a voice, and to present an aspect of history which is often overlooked or rejected by commercial publishers. The structure of the organisation is described, with particular emphasis on the processes by which local life histories are produced and marketed by a team of volunteers. Two of QueenSpark's most recent publications, Catching Stories: Voices from the Brighton Fishing Community and Take Him Away, are used as examples to illustrate the types of books produced and the production process itself. The former is the result of a community oral history project, the latter an autobiographical account of childhood written by an ex-convict. These two books highlight alternative approaches to the presentation of life stories. The article emphasises the empowering nature of this work, both for the authors and the book-producers, and argues that life histories of ordinary people can give others the courage to write or tell their stories, and help us to question the past and to ask 'whose history are we presented with?'.

Steine House - the Manor House of Brighton and the Royal York Hotel, by Roy Grant and Susan C. Djarbi, published December 1997 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 12 no. 8, article, pp.283-288) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14879] & The Keep [LIB/508815] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Waste strategy : dealing with the waste of East Sussex and Brighton and Hove, by Bob Wilkins with contributions by Alam McCarthy, published 1998 (52 pp., Lewes: East Sussex County Council, ISBN-10: 0861474465 & ISBN-13: 9780861474462) accessible at: British Library & East Sussex Libraries

Flying Sparks, by Tim Wren, published 1998 (56 pp., Brighton: QueenSpark Books, ISBN-10: 0904733653 & ISBN-13: 9780904733655) accessible at: The Keep archive of QueenSpark Books & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

This autobiography depicts the trials and tribulations experienced by a hard-working apprentice electrician, as well as documenting times of laughter and fun. Tim Wren was fourteen when he left school and started work in wartime Brighton. In time, the opportunity arose to become a full apprentice and 'go out on the tools'.
Tim's work took him to many different places, including the Royal Pavilion, when it was converted into an army hospital for Indian soldiers and an Italian prisoner of war camp in Billingshurst, West Sussex. However, if the truth be told, Tim seemed to spend most of his working hours with his colleagues, frequenting the teashops of Brighton!

Brighton - 18c. Schools, edited by John Caffyn, published 1998 in Sussex Schools in the 18th Century (Sussex Record Society, vol. 81, pp.55-74, ISBN-10: 0854450424 & ISBN-13: 9780854450428) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13825][Lib 13828] & The Keep [LIB/500458][Lib/507864] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

'The First Architect of the World' in Brighton. Robert Adam, Marlborough House, and Mrs Fitzherbert, by Chris Miels, published 1998 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 136, article, pp.149-176) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13921] & The Keep [LIB/500297] & S.A.S. library

Bevendean Isolation Hospital, Brighton, by Hugh Fermer with a postscript by Pat Bracher, published 1998 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 28, article, pp.19-26, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506527]   Download PDF

The story of Bevendean Hospital, originally called the Brighton Sanatorium, began early in 1881. A letter from the Workhouse Master at Elm Grove dated early in 1881, informed the Sanitary Committee of Brighton Corporation that there was a depressing need for more accommodation for smallpox victims. There were, he said, only five places now available at Elm Grove. This was repeated in a further letter to the Committee in May 1881. On 31 May 1881 the Sanitary Committee resolved that 'The Surveyor do forthwith erect a temporary building to be used as a sanatorium on part of the land acquired by the council as a site for such an establishment.' This resolution went on to say that wards were to be fitted up for not less than forty patients and requested the Medical Officer of Health to report on the staff that he required.
The site referred to in the Sanitary Committee resolution was on the Downs at the back of the town. It was ten acres in extent and 326 feet above sea level and it sloped towards the west and south in the direction of the sea. It was acquired by the Corporation in 1881 for £5,000 subject to restrictions preventing the Corporation from erecting buildings for the infectious sick except on a limited portion of the site.
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The hospital closed on 24 April 1989. The ten acre site was to be sold and the proceeds spent on the new hospital at Hove and a new ward at the Royal Sussex Hospital. The last part of the hospital to close was Willow Ward, the day ward for psycho-geriatrics which was to remain open until a new home for it was found in September 1990. The site was bought by Croudace Housing who planned to build 128 houses and demolition began in April 1993. Nothing is now left of the hospital except the high flint wall which marks the boundary of the housing estate.

Mark Whenman's Photographic Memories of Brighton and Hove, by Mark Whenman, published 1 February 1998 (18 pp., Brighton: Brighton Books, ISBN-10: 1901454029 & ISBN-13: 9781901454024) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries

This booklet was compiled by Selma Montford, Jacqueline Pollard and Robert Sanderson

A woman's place 1974 - 1999: a celebration of women's lives in Brighton over the last 25 years, by Women's Words, published 1 March 1998 (122 pp., Brighton: Open-Sez-Me Books, ISBN-10: 1874548307 & ISBN-13: 9781874548300) accessible at: British Library

Ha'porth of Sweets: A Child's 1930s-40s, by John Knight, published 1 April 1998 (75 pp., Brighton: Queenspark Books, ISBN-10: 0904733661 & ISBN-13: 9780904733662) accessible at: The Keep archive of QueenSpark Books & British Library

Moulsecoomb Memories: Growing up in North Moulsecoomb in the thirties, by Sheila Winter, published 1 April 1998 (56 pp., Brighton: QueenSpark Books, ISBN-10: 0904733602 & ISBN-13: 9780904733600) accessible at: The Keep archive of QueenSpark Books & West Sussex Libraries

This personal history features the growth of the community of North Moulsecoomb in Brighton. These are the reminiscences of Sheila Winter, who was born, raised and married in the community, and who narrates the story of her life during the years between 1929 and 1950. Through her eyes, the reader learns of the pleasures of childhood, despite the hardships and restrictions brought about by the Second World War. Sheila shares with the reader her personal hopes, fears, struggles and achievements as she describes her life's progression. Above all, the resilience of the human spirit shines through this honest and reflective account of one woman's life history.

Breakfast In Brighton: Adventures on the Edge of Britain, by Nigel Richardson, published 7 May 1998 (224 pp., London: Gollancz, ISBN-10: 0575066008 & ISBN-13: 9780575066007) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Inspired by the idea of Brighton as a state of mind as much as a place, Nigel Richardson returned after a gap of twenty years. The result is a narrative of rare imagination, woven from strands of memoir, travelogue, reportage and fiction. Breakfast in Brighton is about the actors and fantasists, drunkards and writers, chancers and maniacs who haunt the streets that slope to the sea on the very edge of England.

Ferry Services of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, by Steve Jordan, published 30 June 1998 (112 pp., The Oakwood Press, ISBN-10: 0853615217 & ISBN-13: 9780853615217) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Building the Georgian City, by James Ayres, published 9 September 1998 (286 pp., Yale University Press, ISBN-10: 0300075480 & ISBN-13: 9780300075489)

Georgian architecture had its roots in the Great Fire of London in 1666. Out of that disaster grew the need for rapid redevelopment which was accomplished through standardization and the relaxation of restrictive practices in the building trades. This book investigates the decline in crafted buildings of the traditional client economies and the introduction of mass produced components which characterizeed an emerging consumerism. It is an approach which offers insights into our architectural heritiage by focusing on the traditions and innovations in the building methods of the time - the construction processes, the role of the building craftsmen, and the tools and materials they used. James Ayres describes how builders in London developed the terraced house and town centre building systems which influenced the architecture of Bath, Edinburgh, Dublin and distant Philadelphia. He takes us through the building processes craft by craft, from the work of the surveyors and labourers who established the foundations to the joiners and painters who finished the interiors. Ayres outlines the ways in which forms do not only follow functions but are also conditioned by materials and methods. He describes how, with the burgeoning industrialization of the second half of the 18th century, a separation emerged between making and designing, a division which led to the decline of the craftsman as designer. This led to a shift in power, a move from the empirical understanding of those involved in the processes of making to the theoretically based activities of architects.

The Tree Climbers: A Childhood in Wartime Brighton, by David J. Knowles, published 30 November 1998 (189 pp., Knowles Publishing, ISBN-10: 0953435806 & ISBN-13: 9780953435807) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14073] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Walking on Water: The West Pier Story, by Fred Gray with a foreword by Asa Briggs, published 31 December 1998 (Brighton West Pier Trust, ISBN-10: 0950408255 & ISBN-13: 9780950408255) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503767] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Little to Spare and Nothing to Waste: A Brighton Boyhood in the Hungry Thirties, by Robert Hayward, published December 1998 (34 pp., Brighton Books, ISBN-10: 1901454037 & ISBN-13: 9781901454031) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Another late marriage, by Richard Collins, published December 1998 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 13 no. 4, article, pp.141-143) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14880] & The Keep [LIB/508819] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The story of the Barnards who were blacksmiths in Brighton for nearly 200 years between 1700 and 1900

A Life Behind Bars, by Marjory Batchelor, published 1999 (93 pp., Brighton: QueenSpark Books, ISBN-10: 0904733750 & ISBN-13: 9780904733754) accessible at: The Keep archive of QueenSpark Books & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Born in 1908 at the Marquess of Exeter public house, which was run by her parents, Marjory Batchelor spent her working life as a barmaid and pub landlady in and around the Brighton area. Marjory recalls her experiences of the licensed trade through two World Wars up to the present day.
From the days of spit 'n' sawdust and horse-drawn drays, to the arrival of fruit machines and 'pub grub' - Marjory remembers it all with humour and affection. Her account documents the many changes that have taken place in pub life in Marjory's lifetime, and provides an interesting social history of the industry, through first-hand experience.

The crowd roars: tales from the life of a professional stuntman, by The Great Omani [Ron Cunningham], published 1999 (111 pp., Brighton: QueenSpark Books, ISBN-10: 090473370X) accessible at: British Library

Ron Cunningham is a Brighton resident.

St Bartholomew's, its History & Development, by Christopher R. Tullett, published 1999 (Brighton) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/507985]

They Called Him Mr. Brighton: Biography of Labour Peer Lewis Cohen, by David Winner, published 1999 (136 pp., Book Guild Ltd., ISBN-10: 185776269X & ISBN-13: 9781857762693) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

Sexuality, communality and urban space: an exploration of negotiated senses of communities amongst gay men in Brighton, by David Nicholas Merle Wright, 1999 at Southampton University (Ph.D. thesis)

Brighton in the early 19th century, by Sue Berry, published 1 January 1999 in An Historical Atlas of Sussex (pp.94-95, Chichester: Phillimore & Co. Ltd, ISBN-10: 1860771122 & ISBN-13: 9781860771125) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14026][Lib 18777] & The Keep [LIB/501686][LIB/508903] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The Brighton Run, by Lord Montague of Beaulieu, published March 1999 (32 pp., Shire Publications, ISBN-10: 0747800995 & ISBN-13: 9780747800996) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Every year on the first Sunday in November four hundred pre-1905 cars gather in Hyde Park for the annual Brighton Run, at one time unfortunately known as the Old Crocks Park. It is one of Britain's greatest annual motoring spectacles. Organised by the Royal Automobile Club with the co-operation of the Veteran Car Club, this event is reputedly watched by a million people over the 52 mile (84km) route. Its origins go back to 1896 when the law changed and the light locomotive was at last allowed to travel up to 12 mph (19km/h) and did not have to be preceded by a man walking in front. To celebrate this change in the law the Motor Car Club ran 'The Emancipation Run' from London to Brighton. Revived in 1927, veteran cars have been making this annual pilgrimage ever since - war years and 1947 excepted.

A High Diving Brightonian, by Terence Roy Evershed, published March 1999 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 13 no. 5, article, pp.162-163) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14880] & The Keep [LIB/508820] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Ornamental Swimming by Miss Louie Leonard

Palace Pier, Brighton in Old Photographs, by Albert Bullock and Peter Metcalf, published 8 April 1999 (160 pp., Stroud: Sutton Publishing Ltd., ISBN-10: 0750919744 & ISBN-13: 9780750919746) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Trimingham's Brighton, by Adam Trimingham, published 6 May 1999 (80 pp., Westmeston: Pomegranate Press,, ISBN-10: 0953349322 & ISBN-13: 9780953349326) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

An insider's view of the town from the celebrated Evening Argus columnist

Just take your frock off: a lesbian life, by Barbara Bell, published 7 June 1999 (192 pp., Brighton: Ourstory Books, ISBN-10: 0953588009 & ISBN-13: 9780953588008) accessible at: British Library

The 'Commonwealth Gap', by Fank Leeson, F.S.G., published June 1999 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 13 no. 6, article, pp.206-207) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14880] & The Keep [LIB/508821] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The recording of marriages in Brighton during the Civil War

Travel to Midhurst by Train, published July 1999 in Midhurst Magazine (Volume 11 Number 4, article, pp.34-35, Summer 1999) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15969]

An account of a seven year old boy who tried to travel from Midhurst to Brighton in 1841. Reprinted from Sussex County Magazine 1954.

The Fuller Family of Brighton, by Michael Thompsett, published September 1999 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 13 no. 7, article, pp.241-242) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14880] & The Keep [LIB/508822] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

James Fuller and Deborah Russell Ware married at Lewes St Thomas in 1814 and they had four sons: James, William, Henry and John. Henry married Sarah Ann Beck at Lewes, All Saints in 1849. The family moved to Brighton and had eight children. Henry was a tinpate worker and gas fitter of Crown Street, Brighton.

Hilly Laine to Hanover: A Brighton Neighbourhood, by Lavender Jones and Jacqueline Pollard, published 1 December 1999 (78 pp., Brighton Books (Publishing), ISBN-10: 1901454045 & ISBN-13: 9781901454048) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

Shocking Affair in Islingword Street, by Dennis Plank, published December 1999 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 13 no. 8, article, pp.268-276) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14880] & The Keep [LIB/501178] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Albert Edward Plank died on 9th February 1912 of coal gas poisoning at the age of 24. This was less than 2 months after marrying Ellen Body. The article covers the initial reporting of the death in the Brighton Gazette, the inquest, the funeral and the subsequent inquiry.

St Paul's, Brighton, 150 years: a celebration, by Rev. Gordon O'Loughlin and D. Robert Elleray, published 2000 (xi + 70 pp. & 8 pp. of plates, Worrthing: Optimus Books Ltd., ISBN-10: 0953313239 & ISBN-13: 9780953313235) accessible at: R.I.B.A. Library & West Sussex Libraries

The Dyke Golf Club, 1906-2000, by Clifford Allen Stuart, published 2000 accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502525]

St Bartholomew's Parish: a Glimpse into the Past, by Christopher R. Tullett, published 2000 (Brighton)

Pleasure gardens in Georgian and Regency seaside resorts: Brighton 1750-1840, by Sue Berry, published 2000 in Garden History (vol. 28, no. 2, article, pp.222-300) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14536] & The Keep [LIB/502414]

Promoting Independence in Brighton and Hove, by P. Dale and P. Letchfield, published 2000 in Managing community care (Vol 8, part 2, article, pp.23-35)

The Shampooing Surgeon and the Persian Prince: Two Indians in Early Nineteenth-century Britain, by Kate Teltscher, published 2000 in Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies (vol. 2, issue 3, article, pp.409-423)   View Online

The south coast bubble: the emergence of the moving-image in Brighton before 1914, by Garrett Monaghan, 2000 at Sussex University (Ph.D. thesis)

A.H.C. Corder of Brighton, by John Robards, published January 2000 in Picture Postcard Monthly (no. 249, article, pp.18-20)

Brighton: The Century in Photographs, volume 1, by Christopher Horlock, published March 2000 (144 pp., Seaford: S. B. Publications, ISBN-10: 1857701984 & ISBN-13: 9781857701982) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

A Brighton Celebrity: James Botting the Executioner, by Michael Burchall, published March 2000 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 14 no. 1, article, pp.5-11) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14881] & The Keep [LIB/508823] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The expanded and corrected story of James Botting (1783-1837) who, in his professional capacity, executed possibly 175 individuals.

Brighton and Hove: Photographic Memories, by Helen Livingstone, published 28 June 2000 (96 pp., London: Frith Book Co., ISBN-10: 1859371922 & ISBN-13: 9781859371923) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries

The Old Ship, Brighton Its colourful history dates back to 1599, but now this stalwart of the promenade has had a £2 million makeover that is designed to steer it into a four-star berth, published September 2000 in Hotel & restaurant magazine (article, pp.40-42)

Reform in the Air, by Jennifer Smith, published September 2000 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 14 no. 3, article, p.114) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14881] & The Keep [LIB/508823] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Extracts from the journal of Daniel Constable (1775-1835) and his friends in Brighton who were followers of Thomas Paine and involved in parliamentary reform.

The British seaside resorts: holidays and resorts in the twentieth century, by J. Walton, published 1 November 2000 (228 pp., Manchester University Press, ISBN-10: 0719051703 & ISBN-13: 9780719051708) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

Brighton: The Century in Photographs, volume 2, by Christopher Horlock, published 4 December 2000 (144 pp., Seaford: S. B. Publications, ISBN-10: 1857702190 & ISBN-13: 9781857702194) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The Church round the corner: St Anne's, Kemp Town, by Maurice Packham, published 14 December 2000 (96 pp., Brighton: QueenSpark Books, ISBN-10: 0904733815 & ISBN-13: 9780904733815) accessible at: The Keep archive of QueenSpark Books

This book examines the social and religious history of St. Anne's Church, which was located in the heart of Brighton. Maurice Packman, the author, was a choirboy at St. Anne's in the 1930s and he takes a gently humorous look at the community of his fellow worshippers. The church has been demolished, but memories of the trials and tribulations of its parishioners live on through the eyes of the author.

A Far Cry from a White Apron, by Michael & Leslie Wilson, published 14 December 2000 (76 pp., Brighton: QueenSpark Books, ISBN-10: 0904733807 & ISBN-13: 9780904733808) accessible at: The Keep archive of QueenSpark Books & East Sussex Libraries

This book is about a young boy's experiences during the Second World War. The content is frank and occasionally disturbing and harrowing, even more so because Leslie Wilson was only eighteen years' old when he made the harsh transition from working as a shop assistant to working in a Welsh coal mine. This is a fascinating biography, co-authored by the protagonist, and describes with poignancy, stories of lost youth and a harsh life spent during a turbulent historical period.

Index to the 1851 Census, Vol 24 Brighton Area, published 2001 (Family Roots) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14374]

Queensbury Mews Brighton 1818-1962, by Suzanne Hinton, published 2001 accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502540]

Viva! guide to vegetarian Brighton, edited by Jo Lacey, published c.2001 (138 pp., Brighton: Viva!, ISBN-10: 0953280055 & ISBN-13: 9780953280056) accessible at: British Library

This 138-page pocket guide to veggie heaven lists more than 150 restaurants, cafes, hotels, guest houses and shops, giving prices, opening times and even sample menus.

The History of the Brighton Lifeboats, by Jeff Morris, published 2001 (2nd edition, published by the author) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

The Lost Churches of Brighton & Hove, by Berys J. M. Shipley, published 2001 (40 pp., Worthing: Optimus Books, ISBN-13: 9780953313259) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502522] & R.I.B.A. Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Project profiles Landscape Design looks at the regeneration strategy for the historic Headland in Hartlepool, Teesside; and the Seafront Development Initiative at Brighton and Hove, published 2001 in Landscape Design, the journal of the Landscape Institute (Issue 300, article, pp.25-27)

Surfing with spirochaetes: an ongoing syphilis outbreak in Brighton., by M. Poulton, G.L. Dean, D.I. Williams, P. Carter, A. Iversen, and M. Fisher, published 2001 in Sexually Transmitted Infections (vol. 77, no. 5, article, pp.319-321)

Chimney Cowls with particular reference to Brighton, by John Redfern, published 2001 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 31, article, pp.2-8, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506529]   Download PDF

Wind figured largely in the domestic and economic fortunes of seaside towns, and Brighton with its long history of fishing, seaside therapy, varied attractions and thriving social life was no exception. As Brighton expanded and houses appeared on the banks and steep slopes on either side of The Steine, mostly in close proximity and at the same time rising in narrow steps one behind another, problems arose, particularly in the area of heating and in venting the smoke and fumes that came with it. It was here that the very wind, that frequently caused rooms to be almost uninhabitable, was harnessed to provide the remedy for the nuisance of which it was the main cause. A diversity of unique cowls and smoke cures was developed to ameliorate the problem of the vagarious currents of air that the complex developments promoted and the stiff winds that are a feature of our coastline. What is now an almost forgotten industry came into its own. It could be said that this 'hidden' industry produced a range and number of essential artefacts over a period of many years that could rival the output of any similar enterprise in the town to date. There have always been cowls on the scene. Charles I is said to have granted a patent to the inventor of a rotating smoke cure (probably a "Lobster Back") and there are earlier references to creaking apparatus on the chimney. Prince Albert applied his considerable engineering talents to the chimneys of Osborne. It is said that on the night of his death the cowls that he had designed roared and ground in the vicious tempest that assailed the house. Chimney cowls, (the word derives from the Latin cucullus: a hood), became an established and profitable industry early in the nineteenth century when a plethora of shapes, shafts and erections appeared almost overnight. For the Victorians decoration, even on the heights of the house, exemplified in these artefacts the principle that anything on which time, trouble and money had been expended should be decorous and effective and should be seen to be so.

The Tickets of the Brighton Corporation Tramways, by P. S. G. Lidgett, published 1 January 2001 (81 pp., Alfriston: Omnibus Society, Ticket Fare Publications, ISBN-10: 0901307580 & ISBN-13: 9780901307583) accessible at: British Library

Brighton and Sussex, by Geraint Tellem, published 1 October 2001 (128 pp., Jarrold Publishing, ISBN-10: 0711720193 & ISBN-13: 9780711720190) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

Sussex is one of the most ancient and fascinating of England's countries offering diverse attractions from stunning downland scenery and dramatic seascapes to historic market towns and fashionable bathing resorts. This new title from Jarrold Publishing features superb and highly evocative photography by Geraint Tellem, taking us on a tour of the highlights of this beautiful part of the country. The book includes cosmopolitan Brighton, with its unique Royal Pavilion, famous piers and The Lanes, along with the delightful towns of Chichester, Arundel and Lewes. Highlights also include the charming villages of Amberley, Poynings and Alfriston, the breathtaking coastal views of Beachy Head and Seven Sisters, and the remarkable heritage of the county, embodied in places such as Nymans Gardens, Wakehurst Place, Sheffield Park, Herstmonceux and Charleston. In between glimpses of the timeless South Downs and The Weald complete this portrait of Sussex, with carefully selected quotes from writers and travellers offering a truly original experience.

Brighton & Hove: Then & Now Volume 1, by Christopher Horlock, published 1 December 2001 (144 pp., Seaford: S. B. Publications, ISBN-10: 1857702425 & ISBN-13: 9781857702422) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Brighton Ghosts, Hove Hauntings: True Ghost Stories from Brighton, Hove and neighbouring villages, by John Rackham, published 1 December 2001 (vi + 366 pp., Brighton: Latimer Publications, ISBN-10: 0953959201 & ISBN-13: 9780953959204) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

A Quiet Revolution in Brighton: Dr Helen Boyle's Pioneering Approach to Mental Health Care, 1899-1939, by Louise Westwood, published December 2001 in Social History of Medicine (vol. 14, issue 3, article, pp.439-457) accessible at: British Library   View Online

At the close of the nineteenth century, the English lunacy laws in relation to pauper cases made no concessions for acute, temporary, or recoverable cases. They were all located in the asylum along with severe and chronic cases. Dr Helen Boyle worked among London's poor in the 1890s and observed the deterioration of cases of nervous disorder and borderline insanity due to their lack of treatment. The early treatment of borderline cases was the aim of Boyle's charitable hospital, founded in 1905, for nervous disorders in women and girls. Boyle's interest in mental disorder included the mentally defective and she was a founder member of the Guardianship Society which sought to keep those defined as such within the community. The history of the care and treatment of the 'insane' has concentrated largely on the public and private asylums. London-based facilities such as the Tavistock clinic and the Maudsley Hospital, which both treated rate-aided patients in the interwar period, have been given a great deal of attention because of wealthy benefactors and the involvement of high profile individuals. Boyle's unique in-patient facility in Brighton preceded the Maudsley by almost 20 years and as such fills an important gap in mental health history. Boyle's work challenged the lunacy laws and set out to establish a holistic system of care for recoverable conditions outside the asylum system. This essay concentrates on the work of Dr Helen Boyle in Brighton but also highlights other facilities that were available for rate-aided patients, which have been neglected in the historiography of mental health care.

Brighton Town, Sussex: Rate Book 1826, published 2002 (booklet, PBN Publications) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14711]

The Brighton & Hove fleet 1986-2001, published c.2002 (84 pp., The Southdown Enthusiasts' Club, Crowborough) accessible at: British Library

Based upon the work of Jim Jones

Write from the beginning: special childhood days, edited by Jackie Blackwell, published 2002 (36 pp., Brighton: Queenspark Books, ISBN-10: 0904733955 & ISBN-13: 9780904733952) accessible at: The Keep archive of QueenSpark Books & British Library

An anthology by writers belonging to QueenSpark, a community writing and publishing group based in Brighton.

Brighton boozers: a history of the city's pub culture, by Rose Collis, published 2002 (82 pp., Brighton: Brighton & Hove City Council, ISBN-10: 948723602) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

Booklet written to accompany exhibition at Brighton History Centre, 11 Jan 2005-11 Feb 2006.

The Brighton & Hove fleet 1986-2001, by Jim Jones, published c.2002 (84 pp., Crowborough : The Southdown Enthusiasts' Club) accessible at: British Library

Downland Settlement and Land-use; the archaeology of the Brighton by-pass, edited by David Rudling, published 2002 (353 pp., London: Archetype) accessible at: & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

This volume builds on a long history of archaeological work in the Brighton area. As a study of settlements, field systems and colluvial sequences, it provides a significant advance in our understanding of the prehistory of the South Downs.

Kiss & Kill: Film Visions of Brighton, edited by Nicola Coleby, published 2002 (83 pp., Brighton: Royal Pavilion, Libraries & Museums, ISBN-10: 0948723491 & ISBN-13: 9780948723490) accessible at: British Library

Myth and reality in the representation of resorts: Brighton and the emergence of the 'Prince and fishing village' myth 1770-1824, by Sue Berry, published 2002 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 140, article, pp.97-112) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15109] & The Keep [LIB/500299] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Many localities have two histories, the actual and the mythical. Myths can become so well-established that they overshadow the history of a place, as demonstrated in the first part of this study. In this instance the myth is that Brighton was a fishing village that from the 1780s was transformed into a resort by the patronage of the Prince of Wales. Having shown how much influence myths can have on our perception of the history of a place, a short review of our understanding of the history of Brighton's successful development as a resort between 1730 and 1783 disproves the claim that Brighton was a fishing village when the Prince arrived. The study ends with an examination of how the myth evolved. The myth began in the 1770s with Dr Richard Russell transforming Brighton from a fishing village. A subsequent but less popular version was that the Duke of Cumberland's arrival resulted in the town's development. Finally, the Prince of Wales became the subject of the story.

Fieldwalking at Varley Halls and Marquee Brow, Stanmer, Brighton, by John Funnell, published 2002 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 140, shorter article, pp.144-148) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15109] & The Keep [LIB/500299] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Tamplins, Brewers of Brighton, by Peter Holtham, published 2002 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 32, article, pp.24-29, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506530]   Download PDF

Radon levels in dwellings in chalk terrain: development and analysis of distributional and causal models, by Ian Richmond Killip, 2002 at University of Brighton (Ph.D. thesis)   View Online

This thesis investigates the range, distribution and causes of high radon levels in dwellings in the Brighton area of Southeast England. Indoor radon levels were measured in more than 1000 homes. The results show that high radon levels can arise in an area previously considered to offer low radon potential from local geological sources. Climate and building-related factors were found to affect significantly the radon levels in dwellings. Multiple regression was used to determine the influence of the various factors on indoor radon levels and an empirical model developed to predict indoor radon levels. The radon hazard, independent of building-related effects, was determined for each surveyed location by adjusting the radon measurement to that expected on the ground floor of a 'model' dwelling. This standardised set of radon levels was entered into a geographical information system (GIS) and related to surface geology. The geometric mean radon level for each lithological unit was plotted to produce a radon hazard map for the area. The highest radon levels were found to be associated with the youngest Chalk Formations, particularly where they meet overlying Tertiary deposits, and with Clay-with-Flints Quaternary deposits in the area. The results were also converted to the radon activity equivalent to that expected from the NRPB's standard dual-detector dwelling survey method and analysed by lognormal modelling to estimate the proportion of dwellings likely to exceed the UK Action Level of 200 Bq/m3 for each lithological unit. The likely percentages of dwellings affected by radon thus obtained were mapped to lithological boundaries to produce a radon potential map. The radon hazard map and the empirical radon model facilitate the prediction of radon levels in dwellings of comparable construction and above similar geology and should further the understanding of the behaviour of radon gas in buildings to allow indoor radon concentrations to be controlled. The radon potential map is directly comparable with those produced by NRPB and BGS and can be used to assist in environmental planning and development control.

All at Sea: House prices have doubled in parts of Brighton and Hove in the last three years. But the city is also home to estates where poverty stands in stark relief to the plusher neighbourhoods, by B. Randall, published January 2002 in Housing : the magazine of the Chartered Institute of Housing (article, pp.28-31)

Back to Brighton: Return to That Lovely Shore, by Leonard Goldman, published 1 June 2002 (192 pp., published by the author, ISBN-10: 0953059359 & ISBN-13: 9780953059355) accessible at: British Library & East Sussex Libraries

Brighton in the News, by David Arscott, published 1 September 2002 (128 pp., Stroud: Sutton Publishing Ltd., ISBN-10: 0750931345 & ISBN-13: 9780750931342) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

Brave New City: Brighton & Hove, Past, Present, Future, by Anthony Seldon, published 9 September 2002 (160 pp., Pomegranate Press, ISBN-10: 0954258711 & ISBN-13: 9780954258719) accessible at: R.I.B.A. Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Brighton Remembered: A Century in Pictures from the Archives of the Argus, by The Brighton Argus, published 31 October 2002 (192 pp., Breedon Books Publishing Co. Ltd., ISBN-10: 1859839304 & ISBN-13: 9781859839300) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

Hanningtons: A Brief History 1808-2001, by Sidonie Bond, published 1 October 2002 (64 pp., Seaford: S. B. Publications, ISBN-10: 1857702522 & ISBN-13: 9781857702521) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Memories and Photographs of Brighton in the 20s and 30s, by H. T. Dawes, published 28 October 2002 (41 pp., Brighton Books, ISBN-10: 1901454053 & ISBN-13: 9781901454055) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502587] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

A History of Brighton & Hove: Stone age Whitehawk to Millennium City, by Ken Fines, published 7 October 2002 (192 pp., Chichester: Phillimore & Co. Ltd., ISBN-10: 1860772315 & ISBN-13: 9781860772313) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Twin towns with a fascinating history, they constitute the Sussex resort that, to mark the Millennium, the Queen declared to be a City. A giant step from the Neolithic camp built on Whitehawk Hill in the fourth millennium B.C. The author, who since 1950 has worked as a planner in Brighton, has now produced the first integrated history of the two towns. His sense of humour is evident on every page of an entertaining and richly illustrated narrative, through prehistoric downsmen to the trippers and the technocrats of today's proud City.

Churchill Square Revisited: A Lost Brighton Community, by Andrew Walker, published 27 November 2002 (48 pp., Brighton: Brighton Books (Publishing), ISBN-10: 1901454061 & ISBN-13: 9781901454062) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502552] & British Library & East Sussex Libraries

War in the City: Volume 1, by David Rowland, published 4 December 2002 (128 pp., Peacehaven: Finsbury Publishing, ISBN-10: 0953939219 & ISBN-13: 9780953939213) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The Brighton Jazz Line, by Keith Samuel and Peter Simkins, published 30 December 2002 (viii + 193 pp., Craigweil on Sea: Evergreen Graphics, ISBN-10: 1900192055 & ISBN-13: 9781900192057) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

School wildlife: the biodiversity of school grounds in Brighton & Hove, published 2003 (22 pp., Brighton & Hove City Council, ISBN-10: 0948723521 & ISBN-13: 9780948723520) accessible at: British Library

Out of the Blue: The Story of Brighton's Worst Air Raid, by David Rowland, published 2003 (112 pp., Peacehaven: Finsbury Publishing, ISBN-10: 0953939227 & ISBN-13: 9780953939220) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

De-mystifying 'partnership' and 'governance': the case of Brighton and Hove, by Rebekah G. Southern, 2003 at Nottingham Trent University (Ph.D. thesis)   View Online

The aim of the thesis is to gain insight into the contemporary system of urban governance through an analysis of multi-sectoral regeneration partnerships. It specifically seeks to contribute to an understanding of urban governance through an investigation of three inter-linked themes. These are firstly, the power relations that governance entails; secondly, the quality of the relationships between those involved, with particular regard to the existence (or otherwise) of trust; and, thirdly, the democratic implications of the system. Three conceptual lenses were developed to investigate those central concerns, the first drawing on insights from regime theory, the second employing the literature on social capital and the third utilising the principles of deliberative democratic theory. These lenses were applied both separately and holistically to concrete examples of three different types of multisectoral regeneration partnerships operating within the geographical location of Brighton and Hove. The purpose was firstly, to ascertain whether when viewing the partnerships holistically the exercise of power, the development of trust and the engendering of democracy were compatible with one another; secondly, to gauge whether success in one of those dimensions was to the detriment of one or more of the others; and thirdly, to examine how different types of partnerships dealt with those issues. From the case study it was found that the exercise of power, the development of trust and the engendering of democracy were difficult goals for all of the partnerships studied. It was also found those goals were incompatible with one another and that success in one was to the detriment of one or more of the others but that the different types of partnership dealt with those issues in different ways. These findings contribute to a fuller understanding of multi-sectoral regeneration partnerships in and of themselves and they also provide insights into the contemporary system of urban governance. For the practice of urban governance they indicate, for example, that policy makers may be faced with incommensurable goals. At a conceptual level the findings suggest the need for a holistic approach to the subject.

Brighton and Hove's brief-less Black Rock project, published 2003 in Architects' journal (vol. 218, part 14, article, pp.22-23)

Local Connection Criteria and Single Homeless People's Geographical Mobility: Evidence from Brighton and Hove, published 2003 in Housing Studies (vol. 18, part 1, article, pp.29-46)

The Visual Arts in Regency Brighton and Hove, by Jill Seddon, published 2003 in The Georgian Group Journal (vol. XIII, article, pp.273-280)

H A Waller & Sons of Whitecross Street, Brighton: A Brief History of a Family Firm, by John Redfern, published 2003 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 33, article, pp.2-5, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506531]   Download PDF

In a world of corporate business, far-flung enterprise, bids, take-overs and mergers, it is hard to recall the era of private enterprise, personal drive, application, self-denial and sheer hard work of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Brighton, like many towns of similar capacity, well-versed already in the world of leisure and entertainment, expanding in many directions with an excellent connection to the capital, offered opportunity to verve and talent. Henry Waller had both.

Net generation, net class or net culture? : uses of the Internet by the young people in Brighton, by Lisa Monique Lee, 2003 at Sussex University (Ph.D. thesis)

The Brighton Races, by Jim Beavis, published 3 May 2003 (120 pp., published by the author, ISBN-10: 0954332202 & ISBN-13: 9780954332204) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503786] & West Sussex Libraries

A Seaside Album: Photographs and Memory, by Philippe Garner, published 13 June 2003 (144 pp., London: Royal Pavilion, Libraries & Museums, Brighton & Hove in association with Philip Wilson, ISBN-10: 0856675601 & ISBN-13: 9780856675607) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries

This study tells the parallel stories of the evolution of Brighton, and neighbouring Hove, and the development of the practice of photography, from its invention through to the 1990s. It is also the story of the author's search for the photographs that illustrate the book so eloquently, and his investigation, through these images, of his own social, cultural and geographical roots. The majority of the 145 photographs are previously unpublished and provide a vivid evocation of the varied artistic aspirations and vernacular applications of the photographic medium. The book includes images by such internationally renowned masters as William Henry Fox Talbot, Bill Brandt, Walker Evans and Henri Cartier-Bresson.

School Reports: Past Pupils' Memories of St Luke's, edited by Jackie Blackwell, published 5 July 2003 (120 pp., Brighton: Queenspark Books, ISBN-10: 0904733173 & ISBN-13: 9780904733174) accessible at: The Keep archive of QueenSpark Books & British Library

This book contains reminiscences and anecdotes from past pupils who attended St. Luke's School, in the Queens Park area of Brighton in the years between 1908 - 1983. It contains an eclectic mix of anecdotes that express both fond memories and less happy recollections of pupils' schoolday experiences and the reality of belonging to a close-knit community. It also provides the reader with valuable first-hand accounts of the changing education system during that period, covering the First form through to the Sixth form.

Who was Harry Cowley?, edited by Jackie Blackwell, published 5 July 2003 (2nd revised edition, 47 pp., Brighton: Queenspark Books, ISBN-10: 0904733181 & ISBN-13: 9780904733181) accessible at: The Keep archive of QueenSpark Books & British Library

Harry Cowley was a Brighton born social activist, born in 1890. He worked as a chimney sweep and became involved in grass-roots social activism from the 1920s until his death 1971.

The First Names of Brighton and Hove: 1909-1999, by Carol O'Neill, published 1 July 2003 (104 pp., Southwick: Taurean Press, ISBN-10: 0954557301 & ISBN-13: 9780954557300) accessible at: British Library

Maintaining Groundwater Supplies during Drought Conditions in the Brighton Area, by R. Miiles, B.Sc., C.Eng., M.I.C.E, published August 2003 in Water and Environment Journal (vol. 7, issue 4, article, pp.382-393)   View Online

The very low level of recharge to the chalk of the South Downs, which provide Brighton with its water supply, has meant that the groundwater levels are very low. Despite this, no restrictions have been necessary since February 1991. This is perhaps due to the instigation of public information campaigns, together with media coverage of the drought, as well as a successful programme of leakage control. This paper looks at how the growth of public water supply has been accommodated operationally while ensuring that groundwater quality is maintained. Options for the future expansion of supply, and their cost-effectiveness, are also considered.

Sussex Remembered: A Century in Pictures from the Archives of the Argus, by The Brighton Argus, published September 2003 (192 pp., Breedon Books Publishing Co. Ltd., ISBN-10: 1859833705 & ISBN-13: 9781859833704) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths Around Brighton, by Douglas D'Enno, published 28 October 2003 (285 pp., Wharncliffe Books, ISBN-10: 190342562X & ISBN-13: 9781903425626) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502322] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

This gripping volume covers two centuries of murderous doings in Brighton portrayed in fifteen vivid case histories. All the crimes took place within the town except two, where the victims were prominent Brighton citizens travelling on business. The accounts are arranged in an unusual yet logical manner, namely by theme. The categories comprise trunk murders, poisonings, child murders, killings over nothing, deaths suffered on journeys, and provocation, infidelity and lust. Surprisingly, no single volume devoted to murders in Brighton has ever appeared before. This is extraordinary considering the town has been dubbed the 'Queen of Slaughtering Places'. As well as filling a void in the field of true crime on this part of the Sussex Coast, the book contains many rare images of Brighton in the past which admirably complement the text. Local historians and general readers alike will be fascinated by this pictorial material, much of it previously unpublished.

Brighton and Hove Cinemas, by Allen Eyles, published 15 November 2003 (128 pp., The History Press, ISBN-10: 0752430696 & ISBN-13: 9780752430690) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

This fascinating collection of over 150 photographs provides a unique view of the cinemas of Brighton and Hove. In 1896 Brighton became the first town outside of London to show films and has had a remarkable range of picture houses over the years. These include the Duke of York, the Regent and the Astoria. Each picture is accompanied by detailed text providing the salient details of each cinemas history.

Brighton & Hove: Then & Now Volume 2, by Christopher Horlock, published 1 December 2003 (126 pp., Seaford: S. B. Publications, ISBN-10: 1857702859 & ISBN-13: 9781857702859) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

A further seventy-five old views of Brighton and Hove, some dating from the early 1830s, are contrasted with photographs taken at exactly the same location in 2003. In a few, little has changed, but in most the scene has altered completely, with buildings, streets - even whole areas rendered unrecognisable by redevelopment of one kind or another. This then is the changing face of Brighton and Hove over nearly two centuries, with pictures showing how changes have been made for the better or for the worse, accompanied by detailed captions which explain why and when the changes occurred.
The author, Christopher Horlock is a teacher and lives in Shoreham by Sea

Salvaged: cast up by the waves between two piers, by Denis Doran, published 2004 (looseleaf, 62 leaves, Brighton: Photoworks, ISBN-10: 1903796113 & ISBN-13: 9781903796115) accessible at: British Library

52 objects collected during walks on Brighton beach in Sussex, and Whitley Bay beach, Tyne & Wear

Brighton: the international chess tournaments, by Raymond Keene, published 2004 (120 pp., Aylesbeare: Hardinge Simpole Publishing, ISBN-10: 1843821419 & ISBN-13: 9781843821410) accessible at: British Library

Streets of Brighton, by Glyn Kraemer-Johnson and John Bishop, published 2004 (80 pp., Ian Allan Publishing, ISBN-10: 0711030073 & ISBN-13: 9780711030077) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries

Brighton, as a population centre, grew rapidly in the 19th century as a result of the boom in the domestic holiday market and with the vastly improved travel connections to London. For the continuing development of Brighton and neighbouring Hove from the late 19th century onwards, the provision of good quality public transport became imperative. Three main operators came to dominate the local scene - the vehicles of Brighton Corporation, Southdown and Brighton, Hove & District. Brighton Corporation had electric trams until 1939, but had already largely switched to trolleybus operation by that date, while both Southdown and BH&D were bus operators. However, the area was to see one of the earliest exercises in jointly operated, revenue sharing routes, with the result that BH&D acquired a small fleet of trolleybuses for use of the Corporation-owned trolleybus system. Both operators were, despite this, to see their trolleybus routes converted to bus operation in 1959/61, as the traffic co-ordination policy was further extended. In their latest joint publishing venture, the authors examine the history of transport in Brighton and Hove in the 30 years after the end of World War 2. Using photographs from their own collections, along with those of other notable transport photographers, the authors have carefully selected over 80 evocative photographs that portray the area's public transport from the familiar backdrop of the Prince Regent's Brighton Pavilion to the sea front and the suburbs.

A Portrait of Brighton and Hove: City by the sea, by Iain McGowan, published 2004 (144 pp., Tiverton: Halsgrove, ISBN-10: 1841143766 & ISBN-13: 9781841143767) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Archaeological investigations at The Bostle, Bronze Age and Anglo-Saxon barrow cemeteries, Balsdean, East Sussex, 1997, by Jacqueline I. McKinley, published 2004 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 142, article, pp.25-44) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15489] & The Keep [LIB/500360] & S.A.S. library   View Online

In the summer of 1997, an archaeological monitoring programme by Wessex Archaeology during trenching along the route of a water pipeline from Falmer to Balsdean, culminated in an excavation at The Bostle (TQ 537100 105400) adjacent to the scheduled Bronze Age and Anglo-Saxon barrow cemetery.
A small, mixed rite Bronze Age cemetery was excavated including four adult cremation burials, two of which were securely dated to the Early Bronze Age period, and five infant inhumation burials, one of which was radiocarbon dated to the Late Bronze Age. Four Saxon ring-ditches were excavated, three of which surrounded central graves containing the remains of inhumation burials. Evidence suggests that at least one of the latter was coffined and one shrouded. A radiocarbon date range of ad 640 - 879 was obtained from the coffined burial.
The temporal and spatial extent of The Bostle cemeteries has been shown to be greater than was previously appreciated. The dating of the Bronze Age burials and implied temporal variation in rite carries interesting implications for our understanding of Bronze Age mortuary rites and how they may have reflected the society burying its dead at The Bostle.

H. A. Waller & Sons of Whitecross Street, Brighton, by Michael M. Chapman, published 2004 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 34, article, pp.40-40, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506532]   Download PDF

In Sussex Industrial History 33 (2003) appeared an article on the history of H.A. Waller & Sons which contained an illustration of a petrol-driven drill produced for British Railways. This was stated to be a product of H.A. Waller. A member, Michael M. Chapman, has supplied additional information and a correction.

The Brighton School: George Albert Smith, James Williamson and the early development of film in Brighton & Hove, 1895-1901, by William Francis Drayton Gray, 2004 at University of Brighton (Ph.D. thesis)

This study is devoted to the work of two early English film-makers, George Albert Smith and James Williamson, and the films that they made around 1900. Internationally, they are known collectively as the "Brighton School" and positioned as being at the forefront of Britain's contribution to the birth of film language. The years 1895 to 1901 provide this study with its focus as it was during this short period that film emerged as a new technology and a new form of entertainment. Smith (1864-1959) established his film factory at Hove in 1897 and from here produced his major films. For this work, he drew upon his knowledge of contemporary music hall, theatre, pantomime, popular literature, mesmerism, the magic lantern and the work of other film-makers. Out of this context, Smith made two very significant edited films: The Kiss in the Tunnel (1899) and Grandma's Reading Glass (1900). Williamson (1856-1933) drew on similar impulses for his films as well as photography and current events such as the Boer War and Boxer Rebellion. His films of 1900 and 1901 were inspired by Smith's concept of the edited sequence and, as a result, he produced his first multi-shot narrative films, Attack on a China Mission (1900) and Fire! (1901). This work by Smith and Williamson provided their contemporary film-makers with a new understanding of the edited film - a concept which would enable film-makers to move beyond the paradigm of theatre and into a consciousness determined by the developing nature of cinematography itself.

Brighton and Hove: a natural festival city, by Paula Murray, published 11 January 2004 in Local Economy (vol. 19, no. 4, article, pp.420-422)

The Spicers of Brighton, by Allen E. Spicer, published June 2004 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 16 no. 2, article, pp.52-56) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508835] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Spicer families in Brighton commence with a John Spicer who died 2 August 1680 being 'an old man' and is likely to be the John who was born 1 January 1617. The author traces other Spicers including Ashby Spicer who was a police constable in 1890.

Country Bank Failures - The Brighthelmston Bank of Messrs,Wigney,1842, by Peter R. Jenkins, published 26 July 2004 (36 pp., Pulborough: Dragonwheel Books, ISBN-10: 1870177835 & ISBN-13: 9781870177832) accessible at: British Library

Injecting drug use in Brighton, Liverpool, and London: best estimates of prevalence and coverage of public health indicators, by Matthew Hickman, Vanessa Higgins, Vivian Hope, Mark Bellis, Kate Tilling, Angeline Walker and John Henry, published September 2004 in Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (vol. 58, no. 9, article, pp.766-771)

Rose Hill to Roundhill: A Brighton Community, published 15 December 2004 (80 pp., Brighton Books, ISBN-10: 1901454088 & ISBN-13: 9781901454086)

Missing the Nile: Experiences of Sudanese People in Brighton, published 2005 (28 pp., Brighton: QueenSpark Books, ISBN-10: 090473322X & ISBN-13: 9780904733228) accessible at: The Keep archive of QueenSpark Books

This book examines the customs and culture of the Sudanese community in the Brighton and Hove area.
The British and Sudanese cultures are very different to one another and the narrative includes comparisons of the two cultures, as well as giving first-hand descriptions of festivals, celebrations including weddings and funerals, and food.
Missing the Nile: Experiences of Sudanese people in Brighton is written in both English and Arabic, making it accessible to the widest possible audience and will be especially enjoyed by the second generation of the Sudanese community, living in the Brighton and Hove area. It also fulfils the function of recording a culture's history for future generations.

The Constables of Brighton and Reigate: William - the Photographer, Clair - the Town Clerk, by Claire Constable, published 2005 (xiii + 272 pp., Lewes: Book Guild Publishing Ltd., ISBN-10: 1846240050 & ISBN-13: 9781846240058) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

This work presents a detailed picture of middle-class family life in mid-Victorian England, which is full of charm and wit and is almost without parallel. Claire Constable's happy discovery of the vast Constable family archive of letters and personal journals has allowed her to share this remarkable story of one of photography's pioneers. In the current digital age, when pictures are instant and disposable, it is hard to imagine the excitement that greeted the opening of William Constable's Photographic Institution in Brighton in 1841. However, the excitement was such that even Prince Albert and his brothers came to have their portraits made. Before taking up photography, William Constable's life had been far from dull. In 1806, William, his brother Daniel and their dog Frank went to America and travelled for two years. They covered thousands of miles, largely on foot, while writing letters home that vividly described the new world. The Constables of Brighton and Reigate also details William's nephew Clair James Grece who was also a pioneer, but in the field of local democracy.

Brighton's war: as recorded in the diaries of Helen Roust, a local schoolteacher, compiled by Teresa Dennis, published 2005 (204 pp., Seaford SB Publications, ISBN-10: 1857703057 & ISBN-13: 9781857703054) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries

Streets of Sussex, by Glyn Kraemer-Johnson and John Bishop, published 2005 (80 pp., Ian Allan Publishing, ISBN-10: 0711031355 & ISBN-13: 9780711031357) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The latest title in the very successful 'Streets of' series. The book is an excellent pictorial record to the changing streetscape of Sussex over the years and covers the entire county of Sussex with particular emphasis on the major centres of population such as Brighton, Hastings, Eastbourne, Uckfield, East Grinstead, Lewes and Bognor Regis.

New media: the affects of networking and cluster co-location upon learning and innovation: a case study of Brighton and Hove, by Clifford Conway, 2005 at Kingston University (D.B.A. thesis)   View Online

This thesis builds on the findings from previous research, where the conventional wosodm suggests that cluster co-location and networking have a positive affect upon small firm learning and innovation. The researcher perceived the need to test the efficacy of these findings with the claimed 'new-media' cluster in the city of Brighton and Hove. A detailed analysis of the literature contributed to the development of a conceptual framework from which five propositions and 23 research questions were derived. The researcher's philosophical stance recognised the subjective nature of the social world and therefore a largely qualitative epistemology was followed. An interview instrument was designed and implemented through 17 new media owner-managers, and the findings were compiled, coded, analysed, and then compared to the previous research studies. The analysis found some evidence of new media clustering, but it was clear that some of the key characteristice were missing, namely the co-location of customers and competitors, thus forming a hybrid cluster. The networking practices of the sample new media firms were found to be limited to working with complimentary digital services suppliers and freelancers, while suppliers and key institutional agencies, although co-located, were not considered important networking partners. The paradox that arises is that customers are considered the most important networking partner but they are generally not co-located. Learning and innovation are very important to the new media sample firms, because of the need to manage discontinuous technological and market changes. The hybrid nature of the cluster, however, and the limited networking practice of the respondent firms, limits the full potential for learning and innovation to occur. In addition, factors such as firm size and limited resources also dictate that most innovation is customer-driven and of an incremental rather than a radical nature. The thesis concludes that the conceptual framework is only partially proven and using Pooper's (1964) falsification principle, the research propositions do not hold. From this, a series of recommendations are made concerning theory development, future research and professional practice, that should help enhance new media firms' ability to learn and innovate in the future

Brighton Women's Peace Camp, 1983: Second Wave Feminism and the Womens Peace Movement, by Sam Carroll, published 2005 in Journal of Contemporary History (vol. 8, Winter issue, article)

Brighton Women's Peace Camp was set up on a stretch of land known as ?the Level' in Brighton on 15th February 1983. It was one of many short lived satellite camps that appeared throughout the U.K in support of Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp. This article explores the oral narratives of two women who were involved in the Brighton camp. By examining their motivations, conflicts, resolutions and reflections, this paper illustrates the participants personal and collective identities and how these have evolved over time. Their stories reveal that experiences within the camp strongly reflect some of the experiences and issues raised in research about Greenham; especially concerning the camp's purpose, it's limitations of involvement and it's public face. Many of these issues indicate the wider feminist debates of the time such as the conflicts of Socialist Feminism and Radical Feminism and the emergence of identity politics. This is a small scale, qualitative study which brings to light a previously ignored event in local history.

'MMR talk' and vaccination choices: an ethnographic study in Brighton, by Mike Poltorak, Melissa Leach and James Fairhead, published 2005 in Social Science and Medicine (vol. 61, no. 3, article, pp.709-719)

The role of soldiers in the origins of Wesleyan Methodism in Brighton and other towns on the Sussex Coast, by Michael R. Hickman, published 2005 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 143, article, pp.257-266) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15610] & The Keep [LIB/500361] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Methodism spread in England fairly unevenly and by different means. The most common ways in which Methodist societies began were through the journeys of the Wesleys, the preaching of their assistants and the arrival into an area of Methodist families who brought their faith with them. Methodism in the coastal towns of Sussex had a very unusual origin in that it was Methodists in the army who were the main or contributory founders of Methodist societies along the coast from Chichester to Bexhill and at towns like Lewes. This article looks at the role of soldiers, especially those in the Militia, in establishing and sustaining these Methodist societies, focusing on their role in Brighton. It shows that it was not until the legal changes in 1803, which allowed Methodists and others to worship freely on Sundays, that Methodist soldiers could found or support Methodist societies on such a scale.

On-and-offline community spaces: Brighton's lesbian and gay internet, by Elizabeth H. Bassett, 2005 at University of Brighton (Ph.D. thesis)

This thesis presents research into the development and deployment of web sites and email facilities by members ofthe Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community in Brighton, UK. It contributes to an understanding of localised and specific Internet use, asking in what ways Internet technologies are impacting community practices. The scope of the research is restricted to this localised study in order to facilitate an understanding of the relationships between actions and artefacts made in online spaces, and their counterparts in offline, localised space. An approach is taken that gives equal weighting to the analysis of social practices and structures in the offline LGBT community and to the nascent online practices. The thesis proposes four interconnected hypotheses relating to patterns of Internet usage and the relationship these bear to existing communication practices. Findings are presented from four studies. These approach the field of study from different vantage points, combining quantitative and qualitative data. The studies are linked through common considerations of three key aspects of LGBT community life: the notion of community; deployments of space; and identity politics. The research finds the LGBT community under study structured by complex interpersonal identifications and group hierarchies. Particular spaces in the city offer possibilities for actions that counter hegemonic norms. The Internet is conjectured as another possible site of resistance and an entry point to the community. Four studies present an overview of the community's Internet use, exploring the content of a selection of web sites, and the construction of a website by a social group. The majority of non-commercial, LGBT community websites in Brighton are found to be underused, and at risk of becoming unrepresentative of the extent of LGBT culture in the city. The level of Internet use by members of the LGBT community in Brighton is. however, high, with users seeking information and social contact via nationally based websites and through email.

History of Brighthelmston or Brighton as I view it and others knew it, with a chronological table of local events, by John Ackerson Erredge, published 14 September 2005 (facsimile reprint with an introduction by John Farrant, 437 pp., Forest Row: Brambletye Books, ISBN-10: 0952175711 & ISBN-13: 9780952175711) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502557] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

John Erredge's History of Brighthelmston or Brighton as I View it and Others knew it (1862) is a typical classic of nineteenth century town history. Combining vivid personal accounts with narrative details derived from local records, antiquaries and other sources, the work remains an engaging read today.
Written by a man who lived all of his life in the town, the History opens a remarkable window onto early Victorian Brighton. The text ranges from the speculative early history of the settlement to accounts of the goings-on in fashionable society in the town's heyday. Including many familiar features of Brighton's past, such as Charles II's escape to France, the martyrdom of Derek Carver, the Pavilion, race course and the Chain Pier, Erredge's journalistic eye does not neglect the crime and charities, politics, trains and trade.
This new edition includes an extensive index, which the original lacked, and a fascinating introduction by John Farrant, detailing the life of the author, his sources and audience. It also places Erredge's History in the context of its historical predecessors, describes the sources on which he drew, and outlines the key historical writings on Brighton's history since. It is a valuable work for anyone interested in Sussex local or family history.

Brighton Trolleybuses, by Andrew Henbest, published 17 September 2005 (96 pp., Midhurst: Middleton Press, ISBN-10: 1904474349 & ISBN-13: 9781904474340) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Georgian Brighton, by Sue Berry, published 1 October 2005 (208 pp., Chichester: Phillimore & Co. Ltd., ISBN-10: 1860773427 & ISBN-13: 9781860773426) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16429] & The Keep [LIB/503781] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Brighton was a decayed seafaring town in 1740, but by 1780 it had been transformed into a prosperous seaside resort that attracted many famous people. When George, Prince of Wales made his first visit in 1783, Brighton was already a fashionable place to visit. By 1800, this resort was Britain's largest and most popular seaside watering place, remaining so well into the 20th century. Brighton emerged as a Georgian seaside resort during the key period of British resort development, between about 1730 and 1780. After 1780 Brighton had surpassed her competitors and had the full panoply of resort facilities. This charming book explores why resorts developed when they did - and why Brighton surged ahead. Between 1780 and 1820 the development of new suburbs to accommodate the influx of visitors was crucial. Without the ability to expand, Brighton would have failed to develop as a resort. From 1820, visitors' expectations changed, and the heyday of Georgian seaside resorts was at an end. This engaging narrative will interest Brighton's residents and visitors alike, and the splendidly reproduced images will evoke an era gone by for local historians everywhere.

Banfields of Brighton 1856-2006: 150 Years of Endeavour, by Marcus Banfield, published 2006 (Brighton: M. L. Banfield & Sons Ltd.)

The Transorma at Brighton: the first letter-sorting machine in the United Kingdom, by Douglas N. Muir, published 2006 (vi + 78 pp., London: Postal Mechanisation Study Circle, ISBN-10: 0952143410 & ISBN-13: 9780952143413) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502350] & British Library

Agricultural workers in mid nineteenth-century Brighton, by June A. Sheppard, published 2006 in Agricultural History Review (vol. 54, no. 1, article, pp.93-104)   Download PDF

Like many other English towns, Brighton had a number of residents who described themselves as agricultural workers in the 1861 census. This article examines where they were born, when they moved to Brighton, their housing and occupational histories. Most seem likely to have been casual workers on South Downs farms within walking distance of the town.

Brighton's West Pier, by Fred Gray, published 2006 in Designing the seaside: architecture, society and nature (article, pp.207-227)

Bangla Brighton, published 1 March 2006 (64 pp., Brighton: QueenSpark Books, ISBN-10: 0904733327 & ISBN-13: 9780904733327) accessible at: The Keep archive of QueenSpark Books

Here, for the first time in print, is a celebration of Brighton's Bangladeshi community. The stories and essays presented in this book were written, gathered and selected by members of the community and have come from men and women, young and old, and people from a wide range of backgrounds and viewpoints.

The Faith Project: Faith Communities in Brighton and Hove, edited by Peter Oakes, published 1 March 2006 (50 pp., Brighton: QueenSpark Books, ISBN-10: 0904733521 & ISBN-13: 9780904733525) accessible at: The Keep archive of QueenSpark Books & British Library

Haunted Brighton, by Alan Murdie, published 1 July 2006 (96 pp., The History Press, ISBN-10: 0752438298 & ISBN-13: 9780752438290) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

On the Brighton Beat: Memoirs of an Old-time Copper, by David Rowland, published 10 July 2006 (208 pp., Peacehaven: Finsbury Publishing, ISBN-10: 0953939243 & ISBN-13: 9780953939244) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

A coordinated response to the high drug death rate in Brighton & Hove, by Jennifer Bennett, Graham Stevens, Angeline Walker, Hugh Williams, Andy Winter, Veronica Hamilton-Deeley, published 1 September 2006 in Probation Journal (vol. 53, no. 3, article, pp.265-277)

Concern about the increasing number of drug related deaths in Brighton & Hove prompted a Confidential Inquiry into 69 deaths. This led to recommendations concerning better data collection, identifying vulnerable populations, improving responses to overdose, and modifying service organization. Heroin-related deaths were halved between 2000 and 2003, but the rate for total drug deaths remained the highest at 25.3 per 100,000 (2003) in participating coroners' jurisdictions. In a subsequent Capture Recapture study, the prevalence of intravenous drug use in Brighton & Hove was estimated at 2 per cent of people aged 15-44, higher than Liverpool or London. The proportion of opiate drug users dying from opiate overdose was also highest in Brighton & Hove, at 2.1 per cent. A network of interlocking services was established within strong multi-agency partnerships, supplemented by: increasing the numbers in treatment; fast tracking hospital discharges and prison releases into treatment; new specialist posts in the local prison, the accident and emergency department and police custody suite; and participation by pharmacists and primary care services. This was underpinned by good liaison with the coroner.

Women's Hospitals in Brighton and Hove: The Story of The Lady Chichester Hospital and The New Sussex Hospital, by Val Brown, published 1 October 2006 (Hastings Press, ISBN-10: 1904109098 & ISBN-13: 9781904109099) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502165] & East Sussex Libraries

In 1898 two young women doctors arrived in Hove and nervously set up in general practice. Twenty eventful years later Brighton & Hove had two women's hospitals. This book is a unique blend of social and local history set against a vivid backdrop of Edwardian Brighton, World War I, and the struggle for women to forge a place in public life.

Pebble on the Beach, by Tony Diamond, published 23 October 2006 (248 pp., Brighton: QueenSpark Books, ISBN-10: 0904733629 & ISBN-13: 9780904733624) accessible at: The Keep archive of QueenSpark Books & East Sussex Libraries

"Back in the 1950s and 60s what the man in the white coat said, stood . ."
Pebble on the Beach is the true story of one boy's ability to survive. Growing up in Brighton, England, Tony was subjected to a childhood of physical and mental abuse - including electric shock treatment at the age of ten - abandoned by his family at fifteen, and sent to Australia to fend for himself.
Unable to settle, wandering from place to place, he plotted his return to England, but an ill-fated attempt to stow away led to imprisonment in New Zealand and his eventual deportation. Having visited four continents, survived four brushes with death and a journey of 30,000 miles, he arrived back in England profoundly changed - but were things at home any different?

Brighton in the Sixties, by Christopher Horlock, published November 2006 (144 pp., Seaford: S. B. Publications, ISBN-10: 1857703049 & ISBN-13: 9781857703047) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

For Brighton the years 1960 - 1969 were the most controversial of the whole of the twentieth century. Massive redevelopment projects were to change the face of the town in an unprecedented way and all manner of educational and cultural innovations would see the traditional seaside image lost forever.
The building of Churchill Square and the top Rank Entertainment Centre, the Beatles' shows at the Hippodrome, plans for Brighton Marina, the loss of SS Brighton Skating rink, the mods and rockers, royal visits, the first Brighton festival, the opening of Sussex University - are all fully described and illustrated with over a hundred and fifty rare photographs bringing the decade vividly to life.
Christopher Horlock has delved deeply into local newspaper archives to find many smaller stories of the 1960s, which reveal much about the social outlook of the time. These, along with details of all the major films, seasonal shows and pop concerts make this book a real time capsule on the whole evolution of Brighton over ten short, but startling years.
Christopher Horlock lives in Shoreham and is a teacher in Worthing. He has written five other very successful books on Brighton and writes regular monthly columns in Sussex Life magazine.

A Story to Tell - 200 Years of Methodism in Brighton and Hove, by Michael R. Hickman, Paul Harrington and Shirley Veater, published 2007 (160 pp., Brighton and Hove Methodist Circuit, ISBN-10: 0955650607 & ISBN-13: 9780955650604) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502418]

Around Brighton & Hove, from the Judges Postcard Archive Collection, by Dave Randle, published 2007 (128 pp., Stroud: Sutton Publishing, ISBN-10: 075094000X & ISBN-13: 9780750940009) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

War in the City: The Bombing of Brighton and Hove, Volume 2, by David Rowland, published 2007 (124 pp., Peacehaven: Finsbury Publishing, ISBN-10: 0953939251 & ISBN-13: 9780953939251) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

Surveying the Sexual Behaviour of Teenagers in Brighton and Hove, by V. Lader, published 2007 in Education and health: journal of the Schools Health Education Unit, Exeter University (vol. 25, no. 2, article, pp.34-35)

Roofless: Homeless in Brighton, edited by Peter Oakes, published 15 January 2007 (92 pp., Brighton: QueenSpark Books, ISBN-10: 0904733726 & ISBN-13: 9780904733723) accessible at: The Keep archive of QueenSpark Books

Roofless is a collection of photographs, essays, stories and poems by homeless and ex-homeless people from Brighton. It is about survival, about battling poverty, rejection, ill health and loneliness. There is anger, sadness and rebellion, but also instances of hope and solidarity and writing that, whilst often raw and uncompromising, possesses a surprising generosity of spirit. Roofless attacks many commonly held prejudices and provides not just a window on the world of the homeless, but a valuable insight into the society that so often lets them down.

A party with politics? (Re)making LGBTQ Pride spaces in Dublin and Brighton, by Kath Browne, published February 2007 in Social & Cultural Geography (vol. 8, no. 1, article, pp.63-87)

Brighton & Hove, Historic Character Assessment Report, compiled by Roland B. Harris, published March 2007 (Sussex Extensive Urban Survey (EUS), 93 pp. + appendices, E.S.C.C., W.S.C.C. & Brighton and Hove City, funded by English Heritage)   Download PDF

Without the Faith: Freethinkers and Freethought in Brighton and Hove, by W. J. McIlroy, published 1 March 2007 (23 pp., Brighton: Brighton and Hove Humanist Society, ISBN-10: 0955525705 & ISBN-13: 9780955525704) accessible at: British Library

Made in Brighton, by Julie Burchill and Daniel Raven, published 5 April 2007 (xxiii + 183 pp., London: Virgin Books, ISBN-10: 185227395X & ISBN-13: 9781852273958) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

At the beginning of the 21st century, Britain seems to be experiencing a sudden reckless rush of liberalisation: 24 hour licensing, gay marriages, the upper classes derided and the celebrity class revered. How did we get here? Only 50 years ago we couldn't get enough of Grace Kelly and Prince Rainer; today our poster couple is Kate Moss and Pete Doherty. Made in Brighton takes a cold, hard look at the changing face of Britain, using Brighton as a focal point. Brighton has long been at the vanguard of English tastes - in its attitudes towards homosexuality, the rise of the chav and binge-drinking, as well as its music and drug cultures. Julie Burchill and Daniel Raven, who have lived in Brighton for many years, interweave their personal stories and experiences of Brighton with larger themes of sex, politics and class to explore the changes in British society over the last 20 years. Funny and bittersweet, part memoir and part analysis, Made in Brighton is for anyone with a curiosity and a love for Britain, for those who are aware of a cultural shift but can't put their finger on what's happening - and anyone looking for an excuse to be beside the seaside.

Backyard Brighton: New Memories, Reflections and Photographs, by Jacqueline Pollard, published 1 June 2007 (140 pp., Brighton Books (Publishing), ISBN-10: 190145410X & ISBN-13: 9781901454109) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

41 Places - 41 Stories: True Tales from Brighton, compiled by William Shaw, published 1 June 2007 (96 pp., Brighton: UnMadeUp Books, ISBN-10: 0955586003 & ISBN-13: 9780955586002) accessible at: British Library

41 Places: 41 Stories is a book of found narratives, true stories picked up on street corners, taxi ranks, pubs, car parks - even in public toilets. Each tale inhabits its own geography: a specific place in the centre of a British seaside town. If the essence of narrative is change, William Shaw distils it here in these tales of love, loss and self-discovery. Brighton is, after all, a place where people have always come to transform themselves.

4 Baker Street, Brighton: the last years, by Adrienne Gurr, published June 2007 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 17 no. 6, article, pp.268-270) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508990] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Description of an early Victorian, or possibly late Georgian, house on four floors in the middle of Brighton, just off the London Road

Brighton Crime and Vice, 1800-2000, by Douglas D'Enno, published 19 July 2007 (224 pp., Wharncliffe Books, ISBN-10: 1845630300 & ISBN-13: 9781845630300) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

Deckchair guide to Brighton and Hove, by the people who live here and edited by Tim Lay, published 1 August 2007 (160 pp., Brighton: QueenSpark Publishers, ISBN-10: 0904733289 & ISBN-13: 9780904733280) accessible at: British Library & East Sussex Libraries

Brighton & Hove is a multi-faceted city and it is possibly its trendy, cosmopolitan side most people recognise. Local residents however are familiar with a much more fascinating, diverse place. What is it really like to live here? Is it just 'London by the sea' as the media portrays? Or does it have its own unique identity? Hundreds of local people shared their knowledge and opinions in this guide book and many others volunteered their time to poll local people, source images, and write about why they love this city (warts and all).

Sussex parish records, Brighton 1558-1701, published September 2007 (S & N Publishing, ISBN-10: 1847272398 & ISBN-13: 9781847272393) accessible at: British Library

Trolleybus Memories: Brighton, by Glyn Kraemer-Johnson and John Bishop, published 27 September 2007 (80 pp., Ian Allan Publishing, ISBN-10: 0711031991 & ISBN-13: 9780711031999) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/509270] & East Sussex Libraries

A Century of Brighton & Hove: events, people and places over the 20th century, by David Arscott, published 1 November 2007 (128 pp., The History Press, ISBN-10: 0750949074 & ISBN-13: 9780750949071)

This fine selection of photographs illustrates the transformation that has taken place in Brighton and Hove during the 20th century, offering insight into the daily lives and living conditions of local people during a century of change.

Hilly Laine to Hanover: A Brighton Neighbourhood, by Lavender Jones and Jacqueline Pollard, published 1 December 2007 (2nd edition, 96 pp., Brighton Books (Publishing), ISBN-10: 1901454118 & ISBN-13: 9781901454116) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502508] & British Library

A Quiet Corner of Regency Square , by Suzanne Hinton, published 2008 in Journal of the Royal Pavilion (article)

Brighton and Hove, by T. D. Jones, published 2008 in Church building (Issue 114, article, pp.50-54)

Our Navy and patriotic entertainment in Brighton at the start of the Boer War, by Frank Gray, published 2008 in Early Cinema and the "National" (edited by Richard Abel, Giorgio Bertellini and Rob King, pp.79-89, John Libbey publishing, ISBN-10: 0861966899 & ISBN-13: 9780861966899)

Early municipal bacteriology in Brighton, Aberdeen and Bristol: blessing or burden ? , by S.P. Hardy, F.R. Watson, published 2008 in British Journal of Biomedical Science (65(2), article, pp.109-118)

An Early Bronze Age burial and Iron Age ditch at East Brighton Golf Club, by John Funnell, published 2008 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 146, short article, pp.199-202) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15997] & The Keep [LIB/500364] & S.A.S. library   View Online

The Brewers of the Brighton Area, by Peter Holtham, published 2008 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 38, article, pp.2-8, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506536]   Download PDF

Brighton's last historic brewery, Tamplin's Phoenix brewery, closed in 1973. Listed in this article, alphabetically under streets, is a comprehensive list of all brewers known to have operated in the Brighton & Hove area up until World War II. Sadly there are very few remains, but where some do exist these are marked followed by a map reference.

CVA at Coombe Road, Brighton, by Peter Groves, published 2008 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 38, article, pp.38-39, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506536]   Download PDF

In the spring of 1917, the question of training soldiers disabled in the First World War arose. As a result of a successful pilot scheme, work started in 1918 to build a special factory in Coombe Road, Brighton, opposite Preston Barracks. The factory was known as the Bernard Oppenheimer Diamond Works, and was the backbone of a large undertaking, where the war disabled were trained to polish diamonds. The factory was one of the largest in the Brighton area. In the early days among the names of important visitors were General Smuts, Lord Haig, John Galsworthy and Mr. Horatio Bottomely. Of particular interest was the well-equipped clinic, specially set up to deal with the employees, many of whom had lost limbs and needed specialist treatment.
The factory was acquired by Hove Machine Tool manufacturer CVA in 1945. CVA had expanded in the post-war period, and the old diamond works was one of a number of factories they acquired in the Brighton area in the 1940s and 1950s. CVA used the factory for a number of its departments, and it was home to many projects, fractional horsepower motors, drill chucks, lathe chucks and, surprisingly, domestic appliances.

Neighbourhood, family and home: the working class experience in mid-twentieth century Brighton , by Benjamin Jones, 2008 at Sussex University (Ph.D. thesis)

This thesis focuses on the working class in Brighton in the period c.1920-1970. I argue that despite rising living standards and increasing mobility rates (among men) classes remained culturally and spatially distinct. While working and middle class lifestyles converged somewhat, class differences were maintained and classes themselves reproduced through the uneven accumulation of economic and cultural capital. Foregrounding the analysis of life histories, class processes are seen to work structurally and biographically; shaping life chances and subjectivities. While work is conceived as significant in configuring social trajectories I demonstrate the degree to which occupational experiences intersect with domestic, familial, associative and neighbourhood cultures to mould social identities. I further investigate how class intersects with gender and generation to mediate experience, and evaluate the relationship between experience, discourse and memory in the formation of accounts of the past.

The Brighton Factor: New Graduates and Their Local Labour Market, by Emma Pollard, Linda D. Barber and Bridget Millmore, published 1 March 2008 (54 pp., Brighton: Institute for Employment Studies, ISBN-10: 1851843930 & ISBN-13: 9781851843930) accessible at: British Library

Target Brighton, by David Rowland, published 15 April 2008 (182 pp., Peacehaven: Finsbury Publishing, ISBN-10: 095393926X & ISBN-13: 9780953939268) accessible at: British Library & East Sussex Libraries

The Illustrated Brighton Moment: True Stories, edited by Susanna Jones and Lawrence Zeegen, published 1 May 2008 (166 pp., Brighton: UnMadeUp Books, ISBN-10: 0955586011 & ISBN-13: 9780955586019) accessible at: British Library & East Sussex Libraries

The Illustrated Brighton Moment compiles fifty-three moments, each with Brighton as the backdrop. Of these moments, over half are illustrations and the rest are short stories.

Brighton's County Hospital, 1828-2007, by Harry Gaston, published 11 June 2008 (289 pp., Newhaven: Southern Editorial Services, ISBN-10: 0955846706 & ISBN-13: 9780955846700) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502162] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Brighton's County Hospital describes the development of the hospital, its patients and the people who worked in it from its early years until the present day. Some of the high (and low) points along the way include the bravery of staff during the fire on New Year's Day in 1872 that threatened to destroy the hospital, the rivalry between physicians and surgeons revealed at the Sussex Assizes in 1908, the financial crisis of 1922 that almost closed 100 beds, the dangerous operation to remove a live shell from a sailor's thigh during the Second World War and the way staff dealt with the aftermath of the IRA bombing of Brighton's Grand Hotel in 1984. Brighton's County Hospital contains more than 160 photographs. The Foreword is provided by Baroness Cumberlege, a former chairman of Brighton Health Authority and former junior health minister.

Bent Cops: The Brighton Police Conspiracy Trial, by David Rowland, published 24 June 2008 (150 pp., Peacehaven: Finsbury Publishing, ISBN-10: 0953939278 & ISBN-13: 9780953939275) accessible at: British Library & East Sussex Libraries

A Church with a Mission: The History of Dorset Gardens Methodist Church, Brighton and the Dome Mission, by Michael R. Hickman and illustrated by Shirley Veater, published 28 September 2008 (200 pp., Brighton and Hove Methodist Circuit, ISBN-10: 0955650615 & ISBN-13: 9780955650611) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502512]

The Tale of a Boy Soldier: Memories of the Great War, by George Parker and edited by Anne Morrison, published 25 September 2008 (72 pp., Brighton: QueenSpark Books, ISBN-10: 0904733432 & ISBN-13: 9780904733433) accessible at: The Keep archive of QueenSpark Books

George Parker was born into poverty in Brighton in 1898 and joined up to fight in the First World War at the age of just 15. He fought in the trenches in both Ypres and on the Somme and, although wounded, survived the horrors of the 'war to end all wars'. In 1969 George wrote this memoir which provides us with a first-hand account of life in Brighton before the First World War and, in particular, of life for a young soldier in the trenches.

Birdwatching at the Seaside: Living with Peregrines and Other Birds in a Sussex Coastal City, by Brian Easlea, published 27 October 2008 (viii + 186 pp., Brighton: Pen Press Publishers, ISBN-10: 1906206953 & ISBN-13: 9781906206956) accessible at: British Library

The Victorian Development of the Clifton, Montpelier and Powis Estates of Brighton, by Steve Myall, published 6 October 2008 (187 pp., Lewes: Pomegranate Press, ISBN-10: 0955900603 & ISBN-13: 9780955900600) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/508918] & British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Home Was a Grand Hotel: Tales of a Brighton Belle, by Pamela Sydney Wilson, published 30 October 2008 (x + 184 pp., Brighton: Book Guild Publishing, ISBN-10: 1846242592 & ISBN-13: 9781846242595) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Growing up in Brighton's Grand Hotel - a life of luxury beyond many people's imagination, or an artificial environment where, as a young girl, you had to be on your best behaviour at all times? For Pamela Sydney Wilson, it has truly resulted in a love-hate relationship with the venerable old building. She was the first baby ever to be born in the Grand, and it loomed large in her life, right up until her father retired as the hotel's general manager after a distinguished 40-year career. Famous for its wealthy and well-known guests, infamous for the disasters that have befallen it over the years, the Grand Hotel has a fascinating and colourful history, and within these pages, there are humorous and tragic tales of what went on and who 'Miss Pam' rubbed shoulders with, both in the Grand and during her five wartime years as WAAF Corporal Sydney-Smith. The Grand Hotel has held many in its thrall, and such is its appeal that Pamela Sydney Wilson was drawn back there to celebrate her 80th birthday in the place she called home so many years before.

Brighton and Hove Murders and Misdemeanours, by Janet Cameron, published 23 December 2008 (128 pp., Stroud: Amberley Publishing, ISBN-10: 1848681674 & ISBN-13: 9781848681675) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

A look at the dark side of life, Victorian-style, when nothing was quite as it seemed and a public execution could be an entertaining family day out. Murderers, poachers, thieves, pickpockets and vagabonds all went about their business with impunity. Crime took place on the streets, on public transport, in homes, pubs, prisons, asylums, workhouses and brothels - it was all part of everyday life in Brighton and Hove in the late 1800s. Read about the notorious railway murderer, Percy Lefroy, who appeared at his trial in full evening dress and went to the gallows in an old brown suit. Gasp at the audacity of a temptress who fell in love with a doctor and tried to poison his wife, with strychnine laced chocolate. Then there's little Emily, a girl who received imprisonment with hard labour for stealing a few tempting pieces of gingerbread while a gaggle of disruptive young women loved causing a riot, flirting with men and smashing windows. It was madness and mayhem in those weird and wonderful times - and it's brought vividly to life by Janet Cameron.

The Brighton Trunk Murders, by David Rowland, published 20 December 2008 (142 pp., Peacehaven: Finsbury Publishing, ISBN-10: 0953939286 & ISBN-13: 9780953939282) accessible at: British Library & East Sussex Libraries

The death and times of Chief Constable Solomon, by David Rowland, published 2009 (94 pp., Peacehaven: Finsbury Publishing, ISBN-13: 9780953939299) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/507983] & British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Henry Solomon (1796-1844) was appointed Chief Constable of Brighton police in 1838. This was an unusual position for a Jew at the time. He was mortally wounded by John Lawrence while questioning him in his cell about a theft of a roll of carpet

Thomas Read Kemp and the shaping of Regency Brighton, c.1818-1845, by Sue Berry, published 2009 in The Georgian Group Journal (vol. XVII, article, pp.125-140) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502509]

Acupuncturist Stephanie Downey talks about Brighton's Dolphin House Children's Clinic: a natural therapy centre for children and their families, by Stephanie Downey, published 2009 in Complementary therapies in clinical practice (vol. 15, no. 1, article, pp.26-28)

Out in the open: A breastfeeding drive in Brighton and Hove began by asking what was holding some mothers back, by S. Curtis, published 2009 in Health service journal (no. 6144, article, pp.30-32)

Saint Nicholas' Brighton: Part 1 - The History and its people, by R. Minton, published 2009 in Church building (issue 116, article, pp.46-49)

Sweet nothings: suggestive Brighton postcard inscriptions, by Annabella Pollen, published 2009 in Photography and culture (2(1), article, pp.77-88)

Flinn -- silk dyers of Dublin and Brighton: 1700-1960, by Nicholas Fleischmann, published 2009 in Dublin Historical Record (vol. 62, no. 1, article, pp.78-82)

A Buddhist Approach to Alternative Schooling: The Dharma School, Brighton, UK, by Clive Erricker, published 2009 in Alternative Education for the 21st Century: Philosophies, Approaches, Visions: The Dharma School, Brighton, UK (article, p.83)

Queerstories in Brighton, by Alan Sinfield, published 2009 in New Formations (no. 67, article, pp.110-119)

Discusses a range of books of gay and lesbian testimonies, focusing on their framing in archival and published form - an analysis which reveals some of the dilemmas and achievements which highlight the fault lines of the genre. Sinfield also interviews people from Ourstory in Brighton.

Primary Foreign Language Pathfinders: the Brighton and Hove experience, by J. Enever and C. Watts, published 2009 in Language learning journal - journal of the Association for Language Learning (vol. 37, no. 2, article, pp.219-232)

A terrible toll of life: the impact of the 'Spanish Influenza' epidemic on Brighton 1918-19, by Jaime Kaminski, published 2009 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 147, article, pp.193-210) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 17254] & The Keep [LIB/500365] & S.A.S. library   View Online

In 1918-19 Brighton was hit by three waves of the 'Spanish influenza' pandemic. A comparatively mild outbreak in July and early August 1918 was followed in October and November by a devastating and lethal outbreak. The epidemic culminated in a less deadly recrudescence in February and March 1919. As with much of Britain, the Brighton press generally played down the magnitude of the epidemic. But the high morbidity caused both social and economic disruption. This article considers how Brighton was affected by the pandemic and how the local authorities responded.

Taking the waters at Brighton, 1750-1850, by John Mather, published 2009 in West Sussex History, the Journal of West Sussex Archives Society (no. 77, article, p.8) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16404/77] & The Keep [LIB/500501]

Gideon Mantell and the Brighton Press, 1834-1838, by John Cooper, published 2009 in West Sussex History, the Journal of West Sussex Archives Society (no. 77, article, p.33) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16404/77] & The Keep [LIB/500501]

Art and design at Brighton 1859-2009: from arts and manufactures to the creative and cultural industries, edited by Philippa Lyon and Jonathan Woodham, published 16 January 2009 (408 pp., Brighton: University of Brighton, ISBN-10: 1905593589 & ISBN-13: 9781905593583) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502262] & British Library

The anniversary book examines the role that the School of Art, now the Faculty of Arts & Architecture, has played since it was first established in rooms within the Brighton Royal Pavilion in 1859. It maps the development of the School against a variety of significant regional, national and international contexts, including interactions with local educational authorities, changes in art and design education and the symbiotic relationship between design and industry.
Features on a selection of staff and alumni of the School are a major part of the book, as is an account of the School's dynamic and integral role in the social and cultural life of Brighton and the South East over the last 150 years: from the art students' seaside pageants in the 1920s to alternative performance at the Zap Club.

Brighton Churches: The Need for Action Now, by Thomas Cocke, published 1 February 2009 (108 pp., London: Save Britain's Heritage, ISBN-10: 0905978560 & ISBN-13: 9780905978567) accessible at: British Library

The Alex Story: A Portrait of Brighton's Children's Hospital, by Harry Gaston, published 27 February 2009 (128 pp, Newhaven: Southern Editorial Services, ISBN-10: 0955846714 & ISBN-13: 9780955846717) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502161][Lib/507945] & British Library & East Sussex Libraries

In August 1868, one of England s earliest children s hospitals opened in two or three rooms in a property Western Road in Brighton. From this modest beginning emerged what was arguably to become the town s best-loved hospital, the royal Alexandra hospital for Sick Children. Certainly the news that the building it eventually occupied in Dyke Road was to be replaced with a brand new building on the Royal Sussex County Hospital site was not greeted with universal approval. Indeed, a campaign was launched to convert doubting parents and some hospital staff of the necessity for change. Using pictures and material from hospital archives and a range of other sources including former patients and members of staff, this book charts the development of the Alex as it was affectionately known, from its humble beginnings to become one of the country s leading children s hospitals and its eventual closure in 2007.

Designing the Seaside: Architecture, Society and Nature, by Fred Gray, published 15 March 2009 (336 pp., London: Reaktion Books, ISBN-10: 1861892748 & ISBN-13: 9781861892744) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Surprisingly, the common notion of taking a seaside vacation has only existed since the eighteenth century, with a growing acceptance of the idea that fresh air and sea water are good for one's health. Since then, seaside resorts for all budgets have sprung up around the world. In Designing the Seaside, Fred Gray offers a richly illustrated history of seaside architecture and culture, from the smallest beach hut to the grandest hotels. Through over 400 illustrations that include historic photographs, pamphlets, guidebooks, postcards, and posters, Gray explores the changing attitudes toward shoreline vacations.

Research Project: Sue Berry on the City of Brighton and Hove, by Sue Berry, published April 2009 in Sussex Past & Present (no. 117, article, p.5, ISSN: 1357-7417) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/500475] & S.A.S. library   View Online

The Victoria County History (VCH) series is to include a volume on the City of Brighton and Hove. This will cover twelve of the ancient parishes of Sussex: Aldrington, Brighton, Falmer, Hangleton, Hove, Ovingdean, Patcham, Portslade, Preston, Rottingdean, Stanmer and West Blatchington.

Piers of Sussex, by Martin Easdown, published 18 May 2009 (160 pp., History Press, ISBN-10: 0752448846 & ISBN-13: 9780752448848) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Remembering the glory days of Sussex piers including Hastings and Brighton.

The Story of Queen's Park Brighton, published 23 June 2009 (72 pp., Brighton: Brighton Books, ISBN-10: 1901454126 & ISBN-13: 9781901454123) accessible at: British Library

Ambles along the Promenade, by Richard Sayer, published 27 June 2009 (v + 186 pp., Pomegranate Press, ISBN-10: 0955900670 & ISBN-13: 9780955900679) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries

Here's a striking gallery of images which shows the Brighton & Hove seafront in all its moods.
Seasonal shifts, subtle changes of light, maritime flora and fauna, people at work and at play, half-hidden curiosities, piers, statues and beach huts - Richard Sayer's photographs, taken at all times of the day and at every time of the year, introduce us to a promenade by turns beautiful, quirky, human and elemental.
From the finely veined detail of a fig leaf to a little girl blissfully asleep in her carrier; from the drama of an electric storm to a swarm of starlings over the gaunt West Pier, these are compositions that will long stay in the memory.
Some of the sights will be familiar to us all, but many will surprise and delight even the most observant of Brightonians.

The Flinn silk dyers of Dublin and Brighton, by Nicholas Fleischmann, published June 2009 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 18 no. 6, article, pp.288-292) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508973] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Out of the blue in the 1980s, my uncle Patrick Flinn received a letter asking for information about his branch of the FLINN family. The letter was from David Flinn, a retired businessman, who thought various FLINN families in the south, midlands and north-west, who were once active its the cloth and dyeing trades, might be related. He was looking in particular for links through Huguenot trading families, refugees from Catholic persecution in northern France and the Low Countries. We were interested in view of the family dyeing and cleaning business of Flinn & Son of Brighton, which had been founded in early Victorian times by FLINNs unknown.

Back Row Brighton: Cinema-going in Brighton and Hove, edited by Sarah Hutchings and John Riches, published 30 September 2009 (70 pp., Brighton: QueenSpark Books, ISBN-10: 0904733637 & ISBN-13: 9780904733631) accessible at: The Keep archive of QueenSpark Books & East Sussex Libraries

Back Row Brighton transports us back to the heyday of cinema-going in the company of those who were there. Alongside evocative archive photographs, names such as the Astoria, the Granada, the Continentale and the Regency are recalled in touching and humorous stories of romance, excitement, grandeur and, occasionally, fleas.
Some of these recollections are drawn from QueenSpark's rich archive, others are the recorded reminiscenses of elders of the city asked to recall cinema-going in Brighton & Hove in the 1930s and 1960s.

Thermal behaviour of an earth-sheltered autonomous building - The Brighton Earthship, by Kenneth Ip and Andrew Miller, published September 2009 in Renewable Energy (vol. 34, no. 9, article, pp.2037-2043)