[Brighton] Photos of a lost Brighton from 1972 to 1974

Man of Harveys · Feb 4, 2025

For anyone with an interest in what was planned for North Laine. I tell ya, it pays never to get too carried away with knocking down vast tracts of a town:

Plaque set to mark Ken’s Laine legacy

A TOWN planner who saved North Laine from the bulldozers now has a permanent memorial in the area he preserved.

www.theargus.co.uk

billhems · Feb 4, 2025

AK74 said:
Fast forward to 1976, and a German tourist took these pictures of some of the nicer parts of Brighton:

Kodachrome Photos of Brighton in 1976 - Flashbak

In the hot summer of 1976 Klaus Hiltscher, aka Affendaddy on Flickr, was in London. Booked in at the Mowbray Court Hotel in Earl’s Court with his wife, the German holidaymaker took pictures of the area where they staged big motor shows and James Earl Ray, killer of Martin Luther King, stayed in...

flashbak.com

Gamut!

BNthree · Feb 4, 2025

What's the quote? The past is a different country. Certainly seems it from 50 years away.

Guinness Boy · Feb 4, 2025

AK74 said:
Fast forward to 1976, and a German tourist took these pictures of some of the nicer parts of Brighton:

Kodachrome Photos of Brighton in 1976 - Flashbak

In the hot summer of 1976 Klaus Hiltscher, aka Affendaddy on Flickr, was in London. Booked in at the Mowbray Court Hotel in Earl’s Court with his wife, the German holidaymaker took pictures of the area where they staged big motor shows and James Earl Ray, killer of Martin Luther King, stayed in...

flashbak.com

Those are great. Some look really dated and others like they could have been taken last year.

Oh_aye · Feb 4, 2025

Guinness Boy said:
Those are great. Some look really dated and others like they could have been taken last year.

Yes I was going to comment that some things haven't changed at all. The view across the road from. The pier (minus revenge) and down from the station.

I'd have liked to have gone to ASTERIX restaurant. Which I think is now Bella Italia.

And the place where they went for fish is now a Vegan Fish and Chip place.

Perfidious Albion · Feb 4, 2025

Looks grim but that’s not how I remember it … seemed good then .

Since1982 · Feb 4, 2025

AK74 said:
Fast forward to 1976, and a German tourist took these pictures of some of the nicer parts of Brighton:

Kodachrome Photos of Brighton in 1976 - Flashbak

In the hot summer of 1976 Klaus Hiltscher, aka Affendaddy on Flickr, was in London. Booked in at the Mowbray Court Hotel in Earl’s Court with his wife, the German holidaymaker took pictures of the area where they staged big motor shows and James Earl Ray, killer of Martin Luther King, stayed in...

flashbak.com

Ah, The Hungry Years. Too many Saturday nights spent in there.

Harry Wilson's tackle · Feb 4, 2025

aolstudios said:
Blimey.
Grim, wasn't it?

Yes, it was.

Oh_aye · Feb 4, 2025

Since1982 said:
Ah, The Hungry Years. Too many Saturday nights spent in there.

Do you know when that stopped being the Hungry Years. I went to uni in Brighton in the mid 90s and I seem to recognise the font - but don't know if my mind is playing tricks on me. And I wonder what the whole roofed building in the background is?

Harry Wilson's tackle · Feb 4, 2025

AK74 said:
Fast forward to 1976, and a German tourist took these pictures of some of the nicer parts of Brighton:

Kodachrome Photos of Brighton in 1976 - Flashbak

In the hot summer of 1976 Klaus Hiltscher, aka Affendaddy on Flickr, was in London. Booked in at the Mowbray Court Hotel in Earl’s Court with his wife, the German holidaymaker took pictures of the area where they staged big motor shows and James Earl Ray, killer of Martin Luther King, stayed in...

flashbak.com

My old pal Chris did the magic window clean thing on the pier forecourt in 77, and probably 76. Can't see him in the pic. He now owns a hotel up the second road (I think) on the right of the Years.

Harry Wilson's tackle · Feb 4, 2025

Perfidious Albion said:
Looks grim but that’s not how I remember it … seemed good then .

Everything takes on a lustre when viewed from a distance.

(that's a lyric from a track by Tuxedomoon, by the way. Very true. And a great track).

Harry Wilson's tackle · Feb 4, 2025

Oh_aye said:
Do you know when that stopped being the Hungry Years. I went to uni in Brighton in the mid 90s and I seem to recognise the font - but don't know if my mind is playing tricks on me. And I wonder what the whole roofed building in the background is?

It was there in around 95 when I returned after nearly 20 years.

Photos then and now

www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk

Harry Wilson's tackle · Feb 4, 2025

Brovion said:
I like the picture of the woman sitting in the cubby hole checking her phone: "Resting in peace"

Little pocket mirror for checking the lippy.

BN9 BHA · Feb 4, 2025

Harry Wilson's tackle said:
Little pocket mirror for checking the lippy.

Time traveler with an iPhone :smile:

Harry Wilson's tackle · Feb 4, 2025

BN9 BHA said:
Time traveler with an iPhone

The next Doctor Who?

Swimboy64 · Feb 4, 2025

Couldn't Be Hyypia said:
I feel very lucky to have been growing up during the 70's. We didn't have much - but we had everything. That decade took me from 5 to 15 and I loved it.

6-16 for me and exactly the same CBH
Had very little but was the best place to grow up
Not Grim at all it was f’ing brilliant

WATFORD zero · Feb 4, 2025

Looking back, it was seriously grim. Moulsecoomb, Mile Oak, Whitehawk, Fishersgate, Coldean you had to be careful at night if you're not 'from these parts'. Far more likely to get mugged than get a latte on the famous Brighton seafront after 6 o'clock.

But, as a teenager in the 70s, it was f***ing brilliant :thumbsup:

Bodian · Feb 4, 2025

Harry Wilson's tackle said:
My old pal Chris did the magic window clean thing on the pier forecourt in 77, and probably 76. Can't see him in the pic. He now owns a hotel up the second road (I think) on the right of the Years.

Really?

I would almost certainly have bought one from him then - as an excited teenager with my own room for the first time I bought one of these down near the pier to do my upstairs bedroom sash window with - that you could quite get to from the outside because of the rickety porch thing we had.

Absolute rubbish it was - fell off on the second time I used it, never to be seen again!

albionalba · Feb 4, 2025

Lovely stuff.

Only the estate agents live on.

seagull_special · Feb 4, 2025

The photos are grim and purposely so, even though it was a time of the Three Day Week, and rubbish piled up in the streets as a six year old it was just the way things were. A time of innocence and fun.

The photos make me feel sentimental and a couple of them bring back special memories. I went to Middle Street School which served the most delicious school lunches and was just a lovely school, it looks like a prison now unfortunately. I lived in St. James’s Place for 5 years, we used to play football in front of the NALGO Club and we had a street party for the Silver Jubilee.

Thanks for sharing, a lovely stroll down memory lane.

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