The books are a patchwork of historical research, interviews, hitherto unpublished photographs, maps, quotations from documents, compiled with different groups of people according to the subject matter of the book.

This mixture of sources of information makes a lively account of either a particular part of Brighton, or Brighton at a particular time in its history. The conventional language of official documents is contrasted with informal memories and observations in the spoken, and, sometimes, the written word of personal accounts. Using visual material they contrast architects measured drawings with photographs, maps and plans with drawings, prints with paintings. read more about us