I was interested in Stanley Allen's 1921 postcard (The Argus, March 23) - judging by the costumes, it could have been from a painting done just a few years previously.

I am sure it is a view south over the cutting on the main line just north of Preston Park Station.

Corkscrew Road and Snaky Lane would undoubtedly have been popular descriptive names for Withdean Road which, according to Kelly's street directory, was so-named formally by 1930 and runs from Tongdean Lane to Dyke Road Avenue.

By then some of the large detached houses had been built and the road did have a link across the railway although it was behind the viewpoint, where the ground levelled off at the end of the cutting and before an embankment started.

I would have thought the church on the hill to which you refer would be The Good Shepherd in Dyke Road but the print doesn't extend far enough to the west.

What I find amusing is the pedestrians in the picture would have known the Albion happily settled in successfully at the Goldstone under manager Charlie Webb.

If they had waited until the end of the century, they might have been surprised to see the team playing at the famous Withdean Stadium just behind them on the right.

-Ken Fines, Hove