A terrier map of the city from 1792, the farmland sub-divided into smaller fields called furlongs, and each furlong subdivided into long narrow strips of land called paul pieces, separated by wide paths called leak ways. All determining the street pattern that still exists in much of Brighton today.

The Royal Circus, Amphitheatre & Riding School – opened in August 1808 – brought together military horsemanship and equestrian trick-riding with acrobatic acts and pantomime – an early form of ‘circus’ which later became the ‘big top’ travelling circus we know today.

The Royal Circus building became the Brighton Picture Gallery – a ‘beautiful and splendid cabinet of the arts’, as one source described it, and a fashionable meeting place.

Within the Light & Co. Munitions Works on Circus Street, women worked throughout the First World War providing armaments to the frontlines. In one song written, they sang “We are working on munitions, Making cases for the war, And often they’re so very hard, They make our fingers sore.” The proceeds from the song went to looking after wounded soldiers.

“Even by as early as the 1880s it was recognised that the narrow, terraced streets and back-to-back houses that characterised much of the land north of Edward Street were unfit for habitation,” states a report by the Carlton Hill Conservation Area. Early slum clearance in that decade resulted in the construction of White Street and Blaker Street just off Carlton Hill.

The former Yacht and Anchor pub, on the corner of Circus Street and Morley Street, demolished in 1933 to make way for a new Municipal Market, which opened in 1936.

The Municipal Market, which supplied wholesale fruit, veg and flowers to Brighton & Hove and the surrounding county for the best part of seven decades, was opened in January 1937.