Category: Miscellaneous
Esplanade, Brighton
BPC00023 Steel engraving published by Rock & Co, London, 4 April 1853. The Albion Hotel is the large building right of centre. Images of Brighton 16 See all images of the beach in the beach galler... Read More
The Beach at Brighton, Sussex
BPC00022 Copperplate line engraving by George Cooke after Henry Edridge (1768-1821). Published by John Murray, Albemarle Street, London, June 1814, then published again later as plate 23 in the folder... Read More
Sussex the Chain Pier (detail of ‘Sussex’) (Map)
BPC00007 Many county maps, like View of Sussex, were illustrated with small vignettes of important buildings. Obviously the Pavilion was a favourite choice, but in this map of Sussex the Chain Pier is... Read More
Plan of Brighton and its Environs including the Recent Improvements
BPC00006 There is a close-up view of this image. Click here if you would like to look at the detail. Published in W Saunders’ Stranger’s Guide to Brighton, being A Complete Companion to that Fash... Read More
Map from ‘Stranger in Brighton’ guide
BPC00003 Map from Baxter’s Stranger in Brighton guide, published 1824, but the map, by W. Belch, is dated 1822. The map shows the west side of Church Hill that is now the residential area of Powis ... Read More
The New and Correct Map of Brighthelmstone
BPC00002 by Thomas Budgen 1788. At this date the route we know as Church Street is called Spring Walk, and Mighell’s Field (to the right of the map) is where Grand Parade will later stand. Today the... Read More
Map of Brighthelmstone
BPC00001 There is a close-up view of this image: click here to see the detail Map of Brighthelmstone surveyed by Yeakell & Gardner, copperplate engraving by Whitchurch, published by R. Thomas, Bri... Read More