Sights of Brighton & Hove

  Working on my ‘Thirty Walks from Brighton Station’ to be published 2022 I headed with Dan Foden to Hove Lagoon via Brighton’s remarkable Seven Dials junction, St Mary & St Abraam Coptic Church heading left down Palmeira Avenue. The palmeira (Portuguese for palms) were gathered for a vast conservatory for exotic plants that collapsed spectacularly the day before its scheduled opening in 1833. After Brighton & Hove Reform Synagogue (1966) we turned onto Eaton Road and took a detour right for Sussex County Cricket Club. The picture of Dan was taken near Sussex Cricket Museum, open on match days, showing the cricket ground famed also as a concert venue.  Working on my ‘Thirty Walks from Brighton Station’ took me back to New Church Road where I used to work at Chichester Diocesan Office. The Jaipur Gate (1886) is at the opposite (east) end of New Church Road to my former workplace. Its a relatively recent arrival (2006) to the garden of Hove Museum & Art Gallery. Donated by th