Left: This photo shows the original Railway Works Access way and steps up to the Works Buildings at their zenith in around 1930. The main bulk of the Works building can be seen in the upper right hand corner of the photo. New England Street is seen at the bottom of the photo running from left to right, flanked by houses on the eastern side (which is now New England House in the present day) and on the western side of the road by Ffyfes Banana Warehouses, which are widely referred to in this website as Cliffords, John's Camping or Martha's Barn (in the present day, swallowed up by the OneBrighton Development). The goods yard (referred to mostly as Harvest Forestry on this website and in the present day is Citypoint and London Road Sainsburys) can be clearly seen top left corner of the photo.

 

ABOVE: The view looking north along what was originally the Lower Goods Yard Track bed. The rears of John's Camping, Martha's Barn Funiture, Cliffords Auto Factors and The Church of Christ the King can all be seen on the right. This area is now the rear of OneBrighton in the present day. This image is owned by The Isetta Owners' Club of Great Britain. 

ABOVE: This photo shows the rear of the Loco Works access way and foot bridge over the path of The Lower Goods Yard Trackbed as it appeared in March 2003. CCK can be seen to the left of the pay office and the northern edge of New England House on the extreme right. This photo is owned by brightonbits.blogspot.co.uk and can be seen in original context via the link. 

ABOVE: This photo shows the Pay Office and Loco Works Access way in the process of demolition, around the back end of 2003. The photo is taken from New England House and is owned by Mr. Michael Brittain.

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Below: Martha’s Barn Furniture. Clifford Auto Factors can be seen far right and the post office car park and Clifford parking is on the left.

ABOVE: Image owned by Mr. Michael Brittain. 

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BELOW: This photo shows New York Street (later New England Street) before it was widened in 1962. All the buildings in the photo here were demolished, despite being perfectly sound structures, and a thriving community was lost. The picture (ABOVE) shows the same view in the present day; it is sterile and bland & has lost all of its original character, although the City Point development is slowly returning the area to dwellings. Note the small building next to C.C.K. to the far left of the picture. This is part of the stairway to the pay office and the main entrance to The Works. Both photos are owned by Mr. Christopher Horlock.

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ABOVE: This area was mostly residential housing until 1962, when the entire area was rationalised and unfortunately left us with the bland and uninteresting thoroughfare which makes up the northern end of New England Street in the present day. The road was widened to accommodate business traffic and was used to relieve traffic from London Road until it was severed as part of the current redevelopment and traffic diverted through the new road scheme around Billington Road. With the widening of the road and demolition of surrounding houses, a thriving community was lost, as many perfectly serviceable houses were demolished. In later years, various buildings bordering New England Street would be cut into this bank. The Industrial Tribunal Courts of St. James's House are seen here.

ABOVE: Geo E Richardson Scrap Metal Merchants and The Cobbler's Thumb. This diminutive little pub is full of character and is one of very few buildings in the area to survive the widening of the road in 1962.

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Below: The south-eastern corner of the coal yard is seen here in 2005. The site has been levelled in preparation for the Citypoint development. Trafalgar Place and Mocatta House loom in the backgroundbehind the excavator and the red brick DVLA building stands on the site of what was once the old Pickfords Warehouse next to the Goods Shed and United Carriers Buildings. The Tall, architecturally barren block of flats on the left is Trafalgar House, built in the 1970s,which stands atop a car park in Blackman Street.