Churchill Square Pictures

[¡Cereal Killer!]

Has anybody got any pictures of Churchill Square and area surrounding it BEFORE the redevelopment?

No real reason, just want to know what it looked like because my memory is not so good as I was only like 7 or 8 when it was developed and the only thing I remember was that Virgin Megastore was down Western Road around about where Top Shop and Argos etc is.

Thanks for any help.

 

[jonny.rainbow]

Here's one of the bandstand from 1994

And the weird opticians building out the front

Behind BHS

Tesco's after the 1987 hurricane

 

[Barrel of Fun]

That Bandstand was the biggest waste of money. It can't have been there for very long before the whole place got torn down.

Does anyone remember Sarah's Cafe? Quality all day breakfast there....

View of the front....

http://3401.e-printphoto.co.uk/nqsu...32512&y=y&p_id=2282057&c_id=14973&action=view

 

[cannedheat]

This website has some.
http://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/index.aspx

 

[jonny.rainbow]

Does anyone remember the whisling Pavarotti man who used to perform under the BT building.

He mimed to a tape player and earnt quite a lot of money on a Saturday afternoon.

Old chap with white hair and gloves.

 

[Soul Finger]

Does anyone remember Eddie the Eagle jumping off Surf and Ski's roof?

f***ing hilarious it was

 

[surrey jim]

what year was the new centre opened??

 

[smudge]

Anyone else remember a shop on the lower level called "Orange Hand" in the 70's? Top quality clobber.
I used to get my caudroy flares & tear drop collar, polka dot shirts there. Not to mention the odd tank top!

Happy days

 

[jonny.rainbow]

what year was the new centre opened??

September 1998

 

[surrey jim]

September 1998

cheers

 

[The Clown of Pevensey Bay]

God, it really was a post-war horror, wasn't it?

I remember buying my first ever single (Simon Says, by the 1910 Fruitgum Company, fact fans) in the WH Smith record place on the corder for 45p.

 

[Basil Fawlty]

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

What was that daft old AncientInca-style monument in the middle of the windswept dump all about?

 

[Shizuoka Dolphin]

Pictures like the above make me so glad I was not alive during the 70's.

Grim.

 

[Man of Harveys]

What was that daft old AncientInca-style monument in the middle of the windswept dump all about?

It was called "The Spirit Of Brighton". I know, baffling.

I did used to like that weird high-level bridge at the back that led into the Brighton Centre. For a while in my teenage "hanging around aimlessly in shopping centre" years, they actively encouraged people to use it to get to the beach.

But they never got the circulation of people right in those old shopping centres - apart from the school uniform place, the shops near those big ramps always went out of business in five minutes.

 

[Timbo]

I was given a cracking book this week called Brighton - Then and Now (I think). It's got some amazing old photo's in it.

 

[Basil Fawlty]

After that picture was taken, the bloke in the white shirt lean't back and fell to his death.

 

[Shizuoka Dolphin]

After that picture was taken, the bloke in the white shirt lean't back and fell to his death.

Tit.

You, not the bloke in the white.¡¡Best make that clear.

 

[Basil Fawlty]

Tit.

You, not the bloke in the white.¡¡Best make that clear.

Why am I tit?

 

[Publius Ovidius]

This website has some.
http://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/index.aspx

that site has been added to my favourites.

Absolutely excellent site.

well done.