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10 Clermont Road Brighton BN1 6SG t. 01273-509209 e. [email protected] www.brighton-society.org.uk March 2010

CONNAUGHT ROAD SCHOOL CELEBRATION, held on 20 March, of 125 years of educational use of Connaught Road school in Hove and its listed status grade II, following a campaign by the Brighton Society. We put up an exhibition (funded by Brighton & Hove City Council) about the building. We apologise that we only had time to notify members for whom we had email addresses . SALTDEAN LIDO The owner of the Lido proposes to demolish the listed grade II Art Deco swimming pool, though not the building, and replace it with 100 flats. The Saltdean Residents Association and the Saltdean Community Association are organising meetings at 1.30 and 3.30pm on Sunday 28 March to launch their campaign to keep the pool open. Contact them by email: A new lido was recently opened just across the Subscriptions are due on 1 April 2010 Channel in France which is heated with solar power and is therefore able to stay open all the Please ignore this notice if you pay by year around. If the French can do it why can’t we? standing order. New members who have paid during the first 3 months of 2010 will not need to pay again until 1 April 2011. The minimum subscription is £10.00 per household, £15 THE BRIGHTON SOCIETY per organisation. To: Lyn Lynch-White, 4 The Village Barn, Please send your subscription asap to: Church Hill, Brighton BN1 8YE Lyn Lynch-White, 4 the Village Barn, Name ...... Church Hill, Brighton BN1 8YE Paying by standing order is often more Address: ...... convenient for members and is helpful for the Society. Forms can be obtained from the ...... Treasurer...... Many thanks for your support and apologies if you have already sent your subscriptions for Post code: ...... the coming year. Please make your cheque payable to the email address: please write clearly Brighton Society, and send it with your name and address to Lyn Lynch-White, Hon ...... Treasurer, 4 The Village Barn, Church Hill, I enclose my subscription for 2010 Brighton BN1 8YE. A receipt will only be sent Minimum £10.00 per household, £15 per on request and with a sae. organisation M & M TOURS ST MARY'S HOUSE AND PARHAM HOUSE Sunday 18 April 2010 First stop St Mary's House at Bramber, near Steyning, a medieval timber-framed house with fine panelled interiors and a formal Victorian garden undergoing restoration. After lunch at the Fountain, Ashhurst, a 16th century inn we go to Parham House, Storrington. An Elizabethan house with gardens set in a medieval deer park.The panelled rooms, from Great Hall to the Long Gallery, house an ROYAL SUSSEX COUNTY HOSPITAL important collection of paintings, furniture, New designs for £400m redevelopment of Royal needlework and clocks. Sussex County Hospital in Eastern Road.were At both sites the staff will give a conducted tour. unveiled by the architects on 16 March. The new Our tour guide Michael Robins (01273 773052) designs reduce the height, increase green spaces will accompany the outing and garden areas on the campus and add Booking: Martin Foster, 11 Victoria Street, features more in keeping with the Regency Brighton BN1 3FP (01273 729998) by no later architecture of Kemp Town. than Mon 5 April. Cheques payable to M and M The plan is to modernise the Royal Sussex Historic Tours. Costs incl coach & entrance fees. County Hospital to develop and expand the No ...... adults & senior citizens. £37 each services provided for seriously ill and injured Total enclosed £ ...... patients, and strengthen their role as the regional teaching hospital. Name………………………………Tel ...... RSUH maintains that the main buildings at the Address……………………………………………… front of the County Hospital, which were built 180 ………………… years ago, are cramped and inadequate and there Post code……………………………………………… is an overwhelming need to replace them with Pick up points (Please Tick): - Brampton Road modern facilities in keeping with the provision of 8.45am ( ) Powis Square 9.30am ( ) Hove Town 21st century healthcare Hall (Norton Road) 9.45am ( ). Estimated time The redevelopment proposes that the Hurstwood back in Brighton 6.30pm. Park Regional Centre for Neurosciences will be Pub lunch required Yes ( ) No ( ) relocated from Haywards Heath to Brighton Name of Member's Society ...... placing neurosciences alongside other key REGENCY SOCIETY OF BRIGHTON & HOVE emergency services, enabling the County to Wednesday 14 April 2010 7pm in the Music become the Major Trauma Centre for Sussex and Room at the Royal Pavilion the South East. JOHN NASH ARCHITECT OF THE ROYAL RSUH estimates that this new centre will treat PAVILION AND HIS WORK around 360 patients with severe and multiple Speaker: Geoffrey Tyack, architectural historian, injuries every year. The redevelopment will also who is writing a book on John Nash mean that the hospital can provide state-of-the-art teaching, training and research facilities for the followed by the Society’s AGM medical school and local universities. THE ENGLISH SPEAKING UNION : BRIGHTON, Our main concern is the loss of the main building HOVE AND DISTRICT BRANCH (1826) designed by Charles Barry and at the rear Tuesday 20 April 2010 5.45 for 6.30pm the chapel (1826) designed by William Hallett. THE TWITTENS AND BYWAYS OF BRIGHTON English Heritage recently turned down the Barry A spring early evening lecture by Geoff Mead, building for listing as they considered that there local historian. had been too many alterations. A pay bar will be available as well as access to Although I have not yet seen the plans I the garden. understand that these buildings will be swept Lecture meetings of the English Speaking Union away by the new scheme. I imagined that it would are at the Hove Club 28 Fourth Avenue Hove be difficult to incorporate them into any new (opposite Hove Town Hall). proposals, but a consultant i spoke to disagreed, he claimed that you could still have a modern Visitors are welcome at all meetings (a donation is hospital behind the facade. However the Council normally expected). are opposed to facadism. SM Refreshments available before the meetings.