Completely RANDOM things about Brighton & Hove...

[Stoichkov]

Does anyone remember the old Comet store on what is now the Brighton Station development site?

Not really a warehouse, you had to go up a steep staircase to the upper floor where all the stock was.

Also in that area during the 80's was the gravel car parks such as Belmont St etc

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

Does anyone remember the old Comet store on what is now the Brighton Station development site?

Not really a warehouse, you had to go up a steep staircase to the upper floor where all the stock was.

Also in that area during the 80's was the gravel car parks such as Belmont St etc

I parked my Post Office Engineering van in Belmont Street car park, the fuel used to get siphoned out of a colleague's Transit quite often. My van got nicked one day and I was hoping for a new one, but it was found abandoned in Whitehawk, still with the tools in!
Royal Mail also had a car park up behind the wood recycling place.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

... the butchers opposite what is now the Western Front. There were always rabbits & other 'exotic' meats hanging outside ...

I remember being invited by some friends to go round for a meal at their place. We had a very tasty Seagull Pie. Mr Bullock supplied the meat.

 

[BeardyChops]

Does anyone remember the old Comet store on what is now the Brighton Station development site?

Not really a warehouse, you had to go up a steep staircase to the upper floor where all the stock was.

Yes - not amongst other shops, and not in a trading estate like nowadays. Can't remember what I bought there though... certainly wasn't a DVD player, a PC, a DAB radio etc etc

 

[Ernest]

 

[timbha]

who used to jump over the foot bath at St Luke's swimming pool because it was too cold?....and the swinging doors on the Girls and Boys changing rooms....next to each other - you had to get your timing right for a peep (nb/ when i was 10).

 

[BeardyChops]

Does anyone remember the organ at the west street (Top Rank?) ice rink?! Was it a Hammond?

 

[spanish john]

the sweeps name was john marshall

 

[Taybha]

who used to jump over the foot bath at St Luke's swimming pool because it was too cold?....and the swinging doors on the Girls and Boys changing rooms....next to each other - you had to get your timing right for a peep (nb/ when i was 10).

Praise the lord i thought i was the only wet blanket that used to hop the foot bath

 

[Jamon Jamon]

Not according to here http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/k/kemp_town/index19.shtml

What makes you think its 1978?

its not 1982, I lived on the manor at the time and I know which year I moved from there

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[Slowhand]

Was there a club/disco called Markwicks, somewhere near Palace Pier.

Thanks for reminding me of Clapshaw and Cleave, did they also sell Subbuteo stuff.

Being in the Top Rank Suite and having to eat a lettuce leaf, a slice of tomato and a piece of spam which constituted a meal and then we could drink until late.

The New Heart and Hand, and the Spotted Dog, allegedly gay pubs where you used to dare your mates to go in!

A shop near Brighton station where they had juke boxes and pinball machines in the window!

The old platform on the extreme right of the station which used to be the train for Lewes, last one on a Saturday was something like 16 minutes past midnight and occasionally BR tossers would say that because it was past midnight getting that train didn't constitute a day return!!

Upstairs at the Richmond, some decent bands there.

 

[Nottseagull]

I remember being invited by some friends to go round for a meal at their place. We had a very tasty Seagull Pie. Mr Bullock supplied the meat.

Please tell us you're having us on.

Please.

 

[skipper734]

My Dad was born here. Bunkers Hill off West Street. Demolished in 1933 the family was then sent to Whitehawk. In 1940 he went off to fight the Germans, leaving his MG outside and some tard nicked the wheels off it. Nothing changes.

 

[Nottseagull]

The old platform on the extreme right of the station which used to be the train for Lewes, last one on a Saturday was something like 16 minutes past midnight and occasionally BR tossers would say that because it was past midnight getting that train didn't constitute a day return!!

I thought services extending into the early hours always counted as the same day. I never had trouble presenting my cheap day return ticket on the last train back to West Worthing from Brighton in the late 1970s (01.33?)

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

Yes - not amongst other shops, and not in a trading estate like nowadays. Can't remember what I bought there though... certainly wasn't a DVD player, a PC, a DAB radio etc etc

I splashed out on a Spectrum ZX (or somthing like). A smart new computer, in black, and you'd sit and follow ours of instructions to enter a programme that would make a spinning ball or other such random things happen.

Cost me a couple of hundred £, much more than I could afford.

 

[Weatherman]

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.

Saw emmanuelle there.

 

[Vegita]

He's going to want that cappucino machine...

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Waht about the Subway from Trafalgar Sreet to The Statiuon and the Barbers within and the smelly Toilets. I thought they were going to reopen that is definatley still there somwhere!!

 

[Gwylan]

Saw emmanuelle there.

Anyone remember seeing The Jam play a gig at the Embassy cinema? There was a massive punch-up in the audience and the band played "There's a riot going on" in response.

 

[Gwylan]

So, is it Kemptown or Kemp Town? Don't sit on the fence!

It's neither. The Constant Service is Hanover

Also anyone remember in the 70's the silver mobile shop that used to go thru Moulsecoomb every morning? in the evening we used to get a bakers van called 'Day-Jan' and in the summer we had an ice cream man called Joey

I lived in Moulsecoomb throughout the 70s and I have no recollection of any mobile shops or baker's vans - were they regular?

I do remember the Moulsecoomb adventure playground, until it was taken away after one too many fractures.