North Brighton Preston, Withdean & Patcham Through Time

''Preston, once a village with an independent life, is now Brighton'', wrote Edward Verrall Lucas of the main subject of this volume in 1904. The same thing might also be said of Patcham and its hamlet of Withdean, which are the other protagonists within these covers. Preston and Withdean were noted for their trees in the ''barren waste'' of Brighton. Their modern development followed the 1854 rem...