Completely RANDOM things about Brighton & Hove...

[franks brother]

The Red Arrows pilot ejecting between the piers...

I was on the Palace pier watching with my gf (now my wife ) First thing I thought was it was part of the display and musing that I didn't know they had two pilots

The noise of the jet was so loud you couldn't hear the splash the other side!

I also watched it from the beach opposite to where it crashed! it only missed the pier by a few feet.

 

[Publius Ovidius]

you must have been sat near us...my mrs and I were also sat on the beach straight opposite from where it landed...if it had landed on the beach, we would have been incinerated

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Pirates Deep (RIP)

 

[Fef]

Anyone remember The Birds Nest? Disco/Pub
Back in 1972 it had a late night supper license and you could get a drink after 11 pm but you had to buy a ham sandwich with your pint. It had a coloured lighted dance floor like in Saturday Night Fever.
Yeah Baby!

Yay! The Bird's Nest! Each table had a telephone, so you could call the totty on a nearby table, and supposedly order food, but that never worked!
The severe ultra-violet lighting made it look like women were dancing in their undies!

Anyone remember the Abinger on the seafront?

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Caps Nightclub. The main money spinner was the KEBAB shop, with a classic disco downstairs as a sideline. Again....RIP

 

[severnside gull]

Seven Stars (Duke St) go-go dancers



No 17 Southdown open-top bus painted cream and ran from Pool Meadow to Rottingdean



the Maccabi Club

 

[Gary Leeds]

Southdown was split into a few companies I beleive, one became Brighton, Hove and district (which was then renamed into the current Brighton and Hove bus company) and the rest stayed as southdown operating from Portsmouth to Brighton until it was bought by stagecoach and then was bought out by B&H a few years ago

Also the post about the 12, as far as I can remember this used to be a southdown route to Southwick which was taken over by B&H

On the subject of buses, who remembers the BATS agreement where part of it was all the revenue from both Southdown and Brighton Borough Transport was shared between both companies, regardless of which company took it?

And what about the Shuttle buses? I used to find it funny going down Ditchling Road on a 50 and all the people looking peed off because the bus would not stop for them as it was non stop from Hollingdean to the open market

 

[Chicken Runner61]

Remember the cafe at the racecourse the bus used to be there ages before it continued

 

[PCBEARDMLORD]

The Brighton Gazette !

 

[Publius Ovidius]

the seagull line on Brighton 8049 ( was it originally a 1749 or something like that)

For Albion Information 24 hours a day

" and its bad news for the Albion" How many times died I hear that in the 70's from an away game I couldn't get to!

 

[Bwian]

It was called Cinescene at the end but prior to that it was called Princes, Jacey's and the Brighton Film Theatre (it was probably called something else before these but that was before my time). I loved the BFT, they showed some fantastically obscure foreign films.

There was also the Essoldo on the other side of North Street

Prince's News Theatre
Photo:Image shows Princes Cinema in 1933.

A potted history
Reproduced with permission from the Encyclopaedia of Brighton

The Bijou Electric Empire opened in 1911 at no.63a North Street, the former printing works of the Southern Publishing Company. In 1915 it became the Prince's Electric Theatre, the Bijou Select Palace in 1918, and the Prince's Cinema the following year.

Sound equipment in 1929
Sound equipment was installed in late 1929, and the building was transformed with a new foyer and neon-lit facade in 1933. In 1947 the cinema became the Prince's News Theatre and then the Jacey in 1967, but was taken over in association with the British Film Institute in February 1969 and showed specialist films as the Brighton Film Theatre.

Closed in 1978
This venture closed in late 1978 following financial difficulties, but the building was reopened as the Cinescene on 10 September 1979 by Myles Byrne, and continued until June 1983. In 1988 the building was refronted as a Burger King restaurant.

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

P.S. Does anyone know where this picture is taken?...

Bodium Avenue in Lower bev.

Many a time I've ran down the 109 steps from norwich Drive only for the bus to pull away from the stop!

 

[Publius Ovidius]

two totally uninteresting facts:

1. I saw A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch at the cinema there

2. I used to do the accounts and tax stuff for Myles Byrne

 

[Publius Ovidius]

Bodium Avenue in Lower bev.

Many a time I've ran down the 109 steps from norwich Drive only for the bus to pull away from the stop!

was that anywhere near Plymouth avenue?

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

These are the ones i remember, no 13 that went along Lewes road

The 13 went to the promised land of Coldean.

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

How about the low metal fence around the Steine, Victoria Gardens etc to keep people from walking on the grass?

If you were pissed and taking a short cut home, that fence was a proper death trap

About time they brought it back, except the council 'lost it'.

Victoria Gardens when they looked nice.

 

[Lush]

Tuning into BBC Radio BRIGHTON (RIP), broadcasting from Marlborough Place on the Steine, the day after the 1987 Hurricane ...

 

[Stoichkov]

About time they brought it back, except the council 'lost it'.

Victoria Gardens when they looked nice.

There's probably a happy medium somewhere. The council went from a total 'keep off' the grass like it was sacred turf to allowing the Lady Boys of Bangkok to turn it into The Somme.

 

[LowKarate]

The Embassy Cinema in Western Road. In the early 80s all the films they showed had been at the Odeon 6-12 months before and the seats were falling apart (arms broken and springs poking through the seat covers).

Also have fond memories of Gamleys toyshop in Church Road and only a few doors away, Combridges (not a mis-type) bookshop.

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

was that anywhere near Plymouth avenue?

No, Bodium is up the far end of the valley. In regards to your other comments, the 12 did not serve Lower bev but Seaford. It's the 1 & 11 that did Bev and, before them, 110 & 111.

I probably appear a bus nerd, well i've used them enough, but somebody else posted about Southdown and, I believe, is slightly wrong.

Southdown were the major bus operators in the South and were green. We also had Brighton & Hove buses in red and also brighton Corporation, which were a darker red.

The Corporation later changed to blue then B&H were absorbed by Southdown and became green only for Southdown to later split up and B&H buses, as they are now came along and they later took over the corporation.

Simples!