When I was a lad Fiveways Village was........

[timbha]

The piers had sections taken out.
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I understand this was the start of the demise of the West Pier. The sections were taken out for two reasons: 1) to stop the Germans using the piers as a landing stage, and 2) the steel was used for weapons, etc. Apparently much cheaper steel was used to patch up the West Pier after the war.

Fascinating insight SotW - more please

 

[melias shoes]

Brighton was Brighton and Hove actually was Hove.

Hove actually....now West Brighton!

 

[skipper734]

The gaps in the West pier although created by Canadians, cost this brave man his sight.
A photo is here. ( shamefully there aren't many) D-Day Brighton - Ken Revis, MBE | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
A bit more of his story. Jo Revis | West Pier Trust

 

[Cappers]

Waitrose used to be the Curzon cinema.

Wasn't it The Classic ?

 

[Cappers]

The Coop in hive was a huge car park for the digs. White chalk or something like that. I just remember it being white

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Wasn't it The Classic ?

It's had many names.

1909 Electric Bioscope
1910 Queen's Electric Theatre, complete with dimmable auditorium lights, curtains revealing the screen and an orchestra
1915 Queen's Picture Theatre
1919 Picturedrome
1922 Scala Cinema
1932 Regal Cinema
1936 Curzon Kinema
1975 Classic Cinema
1979 Closed

Brighton cinema directory

 

[South Stand Bonfire]

There has never ever, ever, ever been a village in Kemp Town.

Hollingdean.

New England Quarter - Brighton Station Car Park.

Hove Polyclinic - The Knoll

The Goldstone Retail Park - The Goldstone Ground.

North Laine's - North Laine

South Lanes - The Lanes.

Brighton Pier - Palace Pier

Nivea Yellowwave Barefoot Park - Peter Pans Playground.

King George XI Avenue - Snakey Hill

A27 Brighton By Pass - Toads Hole Valley

West Hove Sainsburys - West Hove Golf Club.

Any others?

 

[upthealbion1970]

There has never ever, ever, ever been a village in Kemp Town.

Kemp town village garage may think differently

 

[skipper734]

It must be a village, It's full of cottaging.

 

[sully]

Patcham Fawcett was a school not a housing estate called whatever the feck it is.

It was just a field I played in when I lived in Tangmere Road.......