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Old 26-09-09, 13:03
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Brighton Street is listed on the various censuses up to 1911 as in Landport, Portsmouth, but I can't find it today. I don't suppose anyone knows if it's been renamed?

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Old 26-09-09, 16:49
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I don't know Portsmouth (you probably guessed that!) but Brighton Street is mentioned in this memoir, although I haven't figured out what date the author is talking about when he mentions it!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/s...a5356271.shtml

Maybe there's more about that area in part 1 or part 2 - Google took me straight into part 3!
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So according to that memoir, Brighton Street and Town Street were two of the streets off Crasswell Street. This link should take you to the modern-day map of that area but neither of those streets is shown so either some of the streets have had their names changed or Town Street and Brighton Street have been demolished, perhaps replaced with that blue bit, not worked out what it is yet!
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You could look at an old directory or a census to see if all the streets shown on the map as being off Crasswell Street existed back then to rule them out.
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I'm now wondering how much this area was bombed in WW2?
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Old 26-09-09, 18:57
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I've just found this, which doesn't really help much:

http://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/media/Penc_Upload.pdf

Brighton Street
Runs north from Crasswell Street to Commercial Place
Crosses Church Path North

None of those roads are on a current map!

There are quite a lot of references to the various joining roads on that site, but it's making my brain go fuzzy trying to take it all in.
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Landport was heavily bombed during WW2, and most of what was left was subsequently demolished. I doubt that any streets from before WW2 survive today.
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Old 27-09-09, 08:37
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Thanks Terri
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I know this is an old pose but this website gives you overlaps off old maps and new so you can see exactly where roads use to be. https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side...right=BingRoad
You have to physically search but if you can find out roughly which road they were close to its quite easy to find.
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Hi Chloelouise, welcome to the site.

Thank you for this information.....if only I knew why I wanted to know about Brighton Street! lol
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Merry, I've got out all my old maps of Portsmouth, but it's impossible to tell where Brighton Road is as there is no key and it is very heavily built up.

My mother marked on the maps all the places of relevance to our family, so at least I can find them!
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