fataddick
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OK, a slightly clickbaity thread title, but technically accurate. Just watched this five minute YouTube video covering some of the 50+ other Brightons (and New Brightons) around the world that are named after our one.
There's a New Brighton up by Liverpool that was created in the 1830s by a Northern entrepreneur as a copy of Sussex Brighton. As the video mentions it had a football team New Brighton Tower FC that was a league club (second division) from 1898-1901, ie before Albion was even founded. A successor team called New Brighton AFC was actually in the football league until the 1950s. They both played at a stadium with a 100,000 capacity! Weird how these clubs are so little known these days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJzbLFyoQH8
There's a New Brighton up by Liverpool that was created in the 1830s by a Northern entrepreneur as a copy of Sussex Brighton. As the video mentions it had a football team New Brighton Tower FC that was a league club (second division) from 1898-1901, ie before Albion was even founded. A successor team called New Brighton AFC was actually in the football league until the 1950s. They both played at a stadium with a 100,000 capacity! Weird how these clubs are so little known these days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJzbLFyoQH8