“Thomas Packham, my great great grandfather, was living at 7 Albion Street in 1839 when it was a drayman’s store belonging to Tamplin’s Brewery. He had arrived some ten years earlier from Lewes with a sack on his back and eleven pence in his pocket, hoping to make a better living in Brighton. By 1851 the family had moved to Number 4 Albion Street which still exists. Thomas would have known the patio as a backyard where his wife hung out the washing and laboured over the tub on sunny days. The rest of the washing would have been strung across the street. Harriet, his daughter aged twenty-two, did ‘flat trimming’, while sixteen year old Eliza helped with the ironing. Young Charlotte, aged fourteen was a nursemaid.”

Turn left onto Richmond Parade, crossing the road to the passage leading to Ivory Place.