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BRICKS AND MORTAR .............................. <strong>Brighton</strong>’s founding fathers… ...and their sons <strong>Brighton</strong> and Hove was built by families – from the names of our streets to the buildings themselves, our city has been marked by dynasties of landowners and of architects and developers. Streets and areas of <strong>Brighton</strong> and Hove carry the history of past ‘developer-dynasties’. One Sir Isaac Goldsmid was also Baron Palmeria, and a landowner of some substance in Hove and Preston. The Preston estate had previously been owned by the Shirley family (as in Shirley Street, BN3), related over the generations to the Westerns (Western Road) and sold on to the Stanfords (Stanford Rd BN1). ‘Kemp Town’, as known at the time, was named after Thomas Read Kemp, a member of an old Sussex family which had lived at Preston since the 16th century. He was behind the development of Lewes Crescent, Sussex Square, Arundel Terrace and Chichester Terrace. There were a number of notable architect families during the city’s Regency period and other periods of city growth. Thomas Cooper (1792–1854) was the son of a <strong>Brighton</strong> builder and was the architect of <strong>Brighton</strong> Town Hall in 1830–32. Thomas Lainson (1825–98) ran an architectural practice with his two sons, Thomas and Arthur, from premises on North Street, and were architects to the Goldsmid estate, Sir Isaac being a fan of their Italianate style. Denman & Son was a partnership of John Leopold Denman (1882–1975) and John Bluet Denman (1914–2002). John Leopold had been in the family architectural trade since graduating from Central School of Arts and Crafts in London, joining its practice on Queens Road. His partnership with his son, John Bluet, was responsible for a number of religious and commercial buildings, most extensively in <strong>Brighton</strong> for the Kemp Town Brewery. Denman is depicted in relief form on the wall of the former Citizens’ Permanent Building Society building at 20–22 Marlborough Place. Thomas Simpson (1825–1908), another name closely associated with the city, worked alongside his son, Gilbert, on the design of a number of schools between 1870 and 1903, with the extension of mass education here. Several of these are still in use as schools, many with Grade II listed status. They include: Finsbury Road Board School (1881) in Hanover; Connaught Road School (1884) in Hove; Ditchling Road Board School (1890); Stanford Road School in Prestonville (1893); Elm Grove School (1893) and St Luke’s School in Queen’s Park (1900–03). Another family that we owe much of our Regency grandeur to is the Wilds; father Amon Wilds (1762–1833) and son Amon Henry Wilds (1790– 1857), who worked with architect Charles A Busby. The huge Regency developments in Kemp Town, Marine Parade, Regency Square, and Brunswick in Hove are the work of this team. Amon Henry also went on to design Oriental Place, Park Crescent, Western Terrace and Montpelier Crescent, as well as the Victoria Fountain on the Steine. Cara Courage To find out more about who built <strong>Brighton</strong> and Hove and the family stories behind the city, visit brightonhistory.org.uk for indexes by name and by street. ....97....