The Story of Queen’s Park Brighton ISBN 978-1-901454-12-3 published by Brighton Town Press 23 June 2009. 72 pages, 220mm x 180mm, spine, colour cover, 54 images: plans, prints, photographs; 45 b&w, 9 in colour.

Queen’s Park – Brighton’s most attractive park – boasts an exotic and unexpected history, told in this beautifully produced book, published by Brighton Town Press. The origin of Queen’s Park was the setting for grand villas – as shown in the watercolour by the architect Charles Barry on the book’s cover. Queen’s Park retains much of its original 19th century character. With vivid descriptions, accurate testimonies, first hand accounts and a cast of local characters the book tells the story of the park from seventy years before its grand opening, right up to the present day. After reading this book you will surely want to visit the park, if not for the first time, then with new eyes.

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Hilly Laine to Hanover : a Brighton neighbourhood : 2008 edition Price £9.99 + £2.00 p&p Paperback: 82 pages : ISBN: 978-1-901454-11-6 : BBP011

First published in 1999, the edition of 2,000 copies quickly sold out. We have received a continuous stream of requests to reprint it, so here it is at last… the 2008 edition, redesigned with some new photographs and additional text. Old Hanover has been recreated by listening to residents. They experienced a life of poverty and deprivation, but enjoyed a mutual support network. They were a close-knit interdependent community. A walk in Hanover today reflects a different scene. There are colourful painted houses, many modernised interiors, though sadly fewer neighbourhood shops. But Hanover today has a fizz, a buzz, and a liveliness… and still with a sense of community. This book links the two worlds and brings them together in a unique way, with local people telling their own story…

Preston: Downland Village to Brighton Suburb : Price £9.99 + £2.00 p&p Paperback: 120 pages. 66 illustrations: ISBN: 1-901454-07-X : PVMPO1

The original village was tiny, just three streets, the population was so small as that was all the landholdings of the surrounding area could support. When Preston Park Station was opened in 1841 the character changed dramatically with the development of new estates, such as the Clermont Estate. 120 pages, 66 illustrations: photos, maps, plans, drawings and prints.

Rose Hill to Roundhill: a Brighton Community : Price £9.99 + £2.00 p&p Paperback: 80 pages, 34 illustrations: photos, maps, plans, drawings and prints : ISBN: 1-901-45408-8

Two hundred years of history: buildings and burial grounds; industries including: Tower Mill, nurseries, laundries and Cox’s Pill Factory; healthcare and illness; life in World War One; schools. Compiled in co-operation with the Roundhill Society.

The Landscape Book of Brighton Prints : Price £14.99 + £2.00 p&p

John Coleman writes: I have long wanted my collection of prints to be seen by a wider audience….48 pages in full colour, an original collection of mainly little known prints, complete with individual commentaries and perceptions from a wide variety of people…..

Backyard Brighton : new memories, reflections and photographs : Price £12.75 + £2.00 p&p Paperback: black and white, 104 pages : ISBN: 978-1-901454-10-9 : BBP010

Forward : Selma Montford : I first heard of the collection of ’slum’ photographs from an Environmental Health Officer in the early 1980s. When I asked whether I could see them they admitted they had been lost….

One hundred and four pages in black and white, now completely re-edited, includes new background information, further interviews, quotations from official reports and newspaper articles, newly discovered photographs and a 1930s street map….two thousand copies of the first edition sold out within six weeks, followed by two more editions, it has been out of print for several years …. now republished at last…. the book that many people say made our name.