Parkside Estate, Coldean, Brighton, 1951

Coldean was formally known as Cold Dean and has been continually inhabited since the Bronze Age, some 4000 years ago. Until the 1900s, Coldean was a small rural area. In 1900 it featured only two cottages and a single road, Cold Dean Lane.

In 1923 Coldean was sold by its owner, the 5th Earl of Chichester. Along with the Earl's other Sussex estates, it was sold for £50,000 to three buyers. One of the buyers, Sussex Estates Limited, eventually became the sole owner. In 1934 the company's chief architect, George Walter Warr, drew up plans for the estate's redevelopment. Parkside Estate was completed in 1948, and subsequent extensions were made up to 1955.

View photographs of the Parkside estate.