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Jaime
Kaminski
Sussex Archaeological Society
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An area close to the railway stations and engineering works is identified as Brighton's Railway District c. 1860. It comprised streets of small terraced houses built between 1820 and 1860, most rented for a few shillings a week, where railway employees formed at least 10 per cent of household heads. Rateable values, though generally low, varied from street to street, and there was a broad correlation between these values and the employment grades of the railwaymen household heads who resided in each street. Four sample streets illustrate the income levels and some of the other factors that influenced the choice of place of residence.