In his letter about the Tissot painting, depicting somewhere in Brighton in its background, Ken Fines asked for a picture of West Street before it had been widened (Letters, October 10).
This sketch was made in 1881, about three years after Tissot's painting.
It shows high and low rooflines and a low Regency terrace.
The spire of St Paul's Church towers skywards, even from North Street, from where the sketch looks.
It shows the Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) turning into Queen's Road after opening the Royal Alexandra Children's Hospital, in Dyke Road.
A royal sketcher would probably have been accurate, no doubt spending hours drawing it before the royal carriage arrived.
This painting is reproduced on the back of Brighton Revealed, edited by David Beevers.
-Laurie Keen, Hove
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