David Gray's pictures of the week 2-4-2007

DAVID GRAY photography
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This week's pictures show some of the street corners in Brighton's North Laine. This district has featured in several weekly sets on this site over the years - and justifiably so. It is one of the country's liveliest and most individual urban areas and its streets, though small, are full of visual interest and activity. The grid of streets is an unusual mixture of residential, retail and commercial in buildings that are mostly, but not all, from the 19th century. Nowadays the North Laine is a very expensive place to both live and start up a business. But what is remarkable is how the influx of money has not (yet) made the area look as glossy, clean and boring as somewhere like Weybridge. The North Laine is still a real place - and let's hope it manages to continue being so. All the pictures in this set were taken in April 2007.

Kensington Place and Gloucester Road (image 2719-5)

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