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Brighton & Hove Libraries, the city's library service, is provided by the city council under the terms of the Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964. Jubilee Library is the main facility in central Brighton; there is another central library in Hove; and 12 "community libraries" (branch libraries) are located in suburban areas.
The Jubilee Library is the largest running public library in the English city of Brighton and Hove. The Jubilee Library forms part of the Jubilee Square development in central Brighton, as a £50 million endeavour to regenerate a 40-year-old brownfield site .
Hove Library is a public lending library serving Hove, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove.The "highly inventive" Edwardian Baroque/Renaissance Revival-style building, a Carnegie library designed by the architects Percy Robinson and W. Alban Jones of Leeds, opened in 1908 on Church Road, succeeding a library founded in 1890 in a house on the nearby Grand Avenue.
The Keep is a purpose-built archive and historical resource centre which stores, conserves and gives the public access to the records of its three managing partners: The East Sussex Record Office, The University of Sussex Special Collections, and Brighton & Hove Museums Local History Collections.
At the time, 19 of Hove's 30 councillors were opposed to the plans, as were three-quarters of the borough's residents; [8] but on 1 April 1997 the district was abolished and merged with Brighton to form "Brighton and Hove" [9] which is a unitary authority thus not governed by East Sussex County Council.
The rapid residential development of Hove in the early and mid-19th century revived Aldrington. As demand for land and housing grew, development spread westwards and Church Road — the continuation of the main east–west route through Hove and Brighton — was extended from the edge of Aldrington into Portslade.
As of February 2001, there were 1,124 listed buildings with Grade II status in the English city of Brighton and Hove. [2] The total at 2009 was similar. [3] The city, on the English Channel coast approximately 52 miles (84 km) south of London, was formed as a unitary authority in 1997 by the merger of the neighbouring towns of Brighton and Hove.
As of February 2001, there were 1,124 listed buildings with Grade II status in the English city of Brighton and Hove. [2] The total at 2009 was similar. [3] The city, on the English Channel coast approximately 52 miles (84 km) south of London, was formed as a unitary authority in 1997 by the merger of the neighbouring towns of Brighton and Hove.