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

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Man of Harveys

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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:

www.theargus.co.uk

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

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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...
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Gamut!
 


BNthree

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


Guinness Boy

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

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


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






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

flashbak.com

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






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Oh_aye

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


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

flashbak.com

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...
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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.
 






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

www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk

Photos then and now

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WATFORD zero

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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:
 


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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.
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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!
 






seagull_special

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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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