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		Hilly Laine to Hanover A Brighton Neighbourhood by Lavender Jones and Jacqueline Pollard		Available for only £7.50 from: Brighton Books Publishing c/o ETP, 9 South Road, Brighton, BN1 6SB Tel: 01273 542660

		Back to the Local History section Here are three of the fascinating black and white photographs from the book.
				The Victorian oven in the basement of a house in Montreal Road, Hanover. These houses were built in 1865, and one side of the road have front gardens, which is unusual in Hanover.

		The Home for Penitent Females, Finsbury Road, which was demolished to make way for the modern flats which stand there today. This home started life as a shelter for 'reformed' prostitutes, but became a home for unmarried mothers, and continued as such until the 1960s.


		Above, Richmond Dairy Farm in Victorian times. All that remains is the farmhouse and cowshed (see below) now mostly obscured by bushes.
				"Edward Tilbury Esq. owned 27 perches of land which was occupied by Obidiah Dray in 1851, he had a cowstall, stable and yard and eight cows. This was later to become Chate's Richmond Dairy Farm."
		On the right, the farmhouse as it is today. Below it is a steep bank, which is marked on maps as a quarry, but may have been a tin mine at one time (see local history). The tunnels below may also have been used in wartime. Below, the farmhouse and the rest of Richmond Street in 1998.