[Brighton] Old Brighton Postcard

[Klaas]

Probably really doesn't deserve a thread of it's own but hey, I'm sure people would like to see this :

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Postcards from the past https://twitter.com/PastPostcard is a great Twitter account.

Anyone else got some old postcards of Brighton town? (I'm trying to give this thread some more mileage here)

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Only loosely related, but here's a poster from Brighton Aquarium circa 1870s. My son stumbled across it pasted on the the wall of the gents toilets in a random bar in Paris of all places

 

[Is it PotG?]

 

[Is it PotG?]

A slight aside, been enjoying these old Brighton Taxi teams

 

[RossyG]

Is that sand?

Since when did the beach have sand?

 

[Official Old Man]

I love these old pictures. The Kings Road card looks to have been taken in almost the same spot as the current Live Webcam is placed, on the Queens Hotel.
Little bit of history. Where the cars are parked on the right facing the building, that's the Old Ship Hotel. The first two buildings on the right were knocked down for the now Jurys Inn. In the late 70's my Father got together with all the owners of the buildings that are beyond the Old Ship, now Buddies & Burger King, with the intention of knocking the whole lot down to build a new hotel. Council said no.

 

[Barrow Boy]

If you love all things past about Brighton & Hove have a look at this site, I've been a contributor for a few years and love it.
https://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/

 

[Medwayseagull]

There is also a facebook group called Brighton-past which has a lot of photos/postcards posted.

 

[Jack Straw]

Probably really doesn't deserve a thread of it's own but hey, I'm sure people would like to see this :

[tweet]1245989359335153666[/tweet]

Postcards from the past https://twitter.com/PastPostcard is a great Twitter account.

Anyone else got some old postcards of Brighton town? (I'm trying to give this thread some more mileage here)

I'm guessing 1963 going by the bus. One of the first with electric doors.

 

[Jack Straw]

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I designed and planted the gardens either side of the steps to the entrance of the Aquarium in 1985. That scheme still exists today.
As for the Sunken Garden, I worked there in the summer of 1973. It did look pretty spectacular.

 

[el punal]

I'm guessing 1963 going by the bus. One of the first with electric doors.

I wonder if that’s the No.22 bus - to Petersfield or Midhurst, via Shoreham, Steyning and Storrington? Looking at the cars I would imagine it’s slightly earlier than 1963.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Hove Lagoon, pre social-distancing.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

I've got a couple of thousand old Brighton postcards, this one of the B&HA Moochers being a favourite. Probably what the Ist team squad is doing at the moment


It's pre Great War, as R. Whiting, the goalkeeper, is sitting on the right and he was killed in the war.

 

[Dick Head]

I'm guessing 1963 going by the bus. One of the first with electric doors.

I wonder if that’s the No.22 bus - to Petersfield or Midhurst, via Shoreham, Steyning and Storrington? Looking at the cars I would imagine it’s slightly earlier than 1963.

That's a Leyland Titan PD2/12. Southdown used them from 1956 until 1971 if that helps narrow it down.

 

[Herr Ing Gull]

I've got a couple of thousand old Brighton postcards, this one of the B&HA Moochers being a favourite. Probably what the Ist team squad is doing at the moment
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It's pre Great War, as R. Whiting, the goalkeeper, is sitting on the right and he was killed in the war.

Was that the team who first introduced a sweeper?


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[el punal]

That's a Leyland Titan PD2/12. Southdown used them from 1956 until 1971 if that helps narrow it down.

Good spot!

 

[el punal]

Was that the team who first introduced a sweeper?


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Not only that, but this must have been one of the first teams to have a flat cap four in defence, and, to introduce energy drinks during the game.

 

[Jack Straw]

That's a Leyland Titan PD2/12. Southdown used them from 1956 until 1971 if that helps narrow it down.

The average of 1956 and 1971 is 1963.5 so I was smack on!

 

[PTC Gull]

Hove Lagoon, pre social-distancing.

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Used to go to the right side lagoon to run my model sail boats.

 

[Is it PotG?]