Other Brighton Institutions Sadly No More

[Gwylan]

Better bloody not The North Lanes are quality.

North Laine not Lanes.

When I posted similar views the last time we had this debate, I got lambasted by loads of people who said the trendy design shops were a huge improvement on the likes of Dk Rosen, Attrix, Cottage Records etc etc. Now, we have a thread mourning their passing.


Good old NSC; you never know what to expect.

 

[34064 Fighter Command]

Hanningtons.

The old WH Smith Bookstall between platforms 2 & 3 at Brighton Station.

Ditto the old, hand operated, train indicator board.

The Brighton Belle.

Subway Records.

 

[GUNTER]

Diplomat records and the Elephant & Castle in London Road

 

[GUNTER]

Also:

The level pre-'87 storm, the Wilsons Laundry Whitehawk, BP petrol station along the seafront (where the Van Allen building is now), Tesco Gardener Street (where the Komedia/Curve is) latterly the Jubilee Shopping Hall, Bejam Churchill Square, Fitzherbert School Woodingdean (knocked down and Nuffield built there), The old Salvation Army hall Park Crescent and the amusement arcades at the bottom of West Street.

 

[West Hoathly Seagull]

Hanningtons.


Ditto the old, hand operated, train indicator board.

That board was a classic. And it was deadly accurate too, with lit clocks pointing to precisely the time the train was meant to leave. It worked far better than the screens do. I think they sent it to a museum. There are similar boards at Earls Court Station. Also the trains with a proper buffet. You could get a toasted bacon sandwich, which was delicious, unlike British Rail's other offerings, and a can of beer for about £2.50. Which was much better value than the trolleys they have these days.

 

[Publius Ovidius]

Jenkinsons


Sherry's

The Derryk Carver

The Bosun

 

[Mr Popkins]

That board was a classic. And it was deadly accurate too, with lit clocks pointing to precisely the time the train was meant to leave. It worked far better than the screens do. I think they sent it to a museum. There are similar boards at Earls Court Station. .

I Think the board went to a museum in the USA.

 

[aftershavedave]

I Think the board went to a museum in the USA.

that explains that clash song then......

"i'm so board with the USA"

 

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The Paradox

 

[chip]

Coasters
Hungry Years (and the cafe up the road from it)
Subterfuge

 

[Virgo's Haircut]

SS Brighton

Sainsburys and Tesco in Churchill Square

The Bingo Hall in North Street

Southdown Buses

Buses with Conductors

British Rail Trains

 

[cloud]

Hanningtons
the old Virgin Records with milkshake bar
the original Body Shop in the lanes
the Zap club

 

[Weststander]

Coasters.
Pink Coconut.
Rounder Records.
Electric Grape bar in Queens Rd.
The noble West Pier.
Brighton having 20 odd cinemas still in the mid 70's.

 

[martyn20]

Woolies in London Road (well Woolies in general really) I remember the evening they had a fire in basement, late 1980's must have been, handy for the Fire Station though

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

Tiddiodgies by Brighton Station.

And the Guiness clock on the seafront.

 

[viscentaye]

Jubilee Games in the road one on from Bond St, used to be lots of indoor market stall type shops but this one was a regular visit to swap old computer games at.

There was another one in East St but the name escapes me.....Gamer?!

Dave's Comics - Sydney St?

 

[getz]

How about the Starlight Rooms under the Montpelier Hotel in the early sixties . A maze of small rooms with a live band in one and other music in others. A good haunt for picking-up swedish and french students.

 

[getz]

Chinese jazz club run by a real character Bonny Manzi. Every friday night under the Aquarium. All the top trad-jazz bands of the early sixties played there.

 

[worthingseagull]

who remembers Jumping Jacks down North Street :

and McCluskeys down West Street

 

[Return of the Rev]

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