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THE BRIGHTON ROAD 



period when, deserted by Royalty, and not yet fully 

 won to a broader popularity, its older houses looked 

 shabby and its newer mean. But that period has 

 passed. What remains of the age of George the 

 Fourth has with the lapse of time and the inevitable 

 changes in taste, become almost archieologically 

 interesting, and the newer Brighton approaches a 



PRESTON VIADUCT : ENTRANCE TO BRIGHTON. 



Parisian magnificence and display. The Pavilion of 

 George the Fourth was the last word in gorgeousness 

 of his time, but it wears an old-maidish appearance of 

 dowdiness in midst of the Brighton of the twentieth 

 century. 



The Pavilion is of course the very hub of Brighton. 

 The pilgrim from London comes to it past the great 

 church of St. Peter, built in 1824, in a curious Gothic, 

 and thence past the Level to the Old Steyne. The 

 names of the terraces and rows of houses on either 

 side proclaim their period, even if those characteristic 



