In the bank building on the right can be seen Pitts the greengrocers, who were there until c. 1959. The bricks used to wall up the frontage are a slightly different colour. The shop row on the left was demolished in 1973, and replaced by a red brick row with a startlingly white taller office building by Station Road at the far end.

Station Road is on the right, and the building on that corner became the silent cinema, the Picture Playhouse, late in 1913 (see below).

On the left is the Spread Eagle Inn. The original street level frontages suit the upper storeys rather better than the modern ones.

This opened shortly after the Station seen just beyond, which took passengers from 1853. It was demolished in the mid-1950s, and replaced with a rather less interesting new version.

 
This stood where the pedestrian lights near Victoria Road are now. The licensee, Matthew Bissell, liked to call it the "Manor House", which it was not. The Spread Eagle was demolished in 1928, but a new restaurant with the name has opened recently in the Co-op supermarket row on the Warwick Road.

Warwick Road by the Red Lion pub, c. 1915

The Picture Playhouse is visible in the background, while on the right are hedges to the first Eastbourne House School and a large house later occupied by Dr. Dain.

The new library is on the right, and the corner of a tram can be seen on the far right, waiting at its new terminus. "Our car" belonged to Fred Cowan, owner of Fred's cafe. This postcard was lent by his granddaughter Dianne Kenny.

This is by the gates to Fox Hollies Hall, on a card posted in 1908. Both pillars and new gates in the original style now stand by the bus stop. The Hall was demolished by 1937, and three tower blocks were built at the back of the site in the mid-1960s.

This attractive Inn was at the edge of the countryside, and at the old hamlet of Acocks Green, away from today's centre. It was demolished in 1930, and replaced with a typical roadhouse of the 1930s, which in turn was taken down in 1991 and replaced by the Aldi supermarket. The shops by Oxford Road can be seen on the right

The Picture Playhouse is being built on the corner of Station Road in this postcard of the Warwick Road (Carl Meddings)