[Brighton] Abandoned areas of the King Alfred

[Brovion]

Not sure if any of you have seen this in the Argus, it's about the abandoned bits of the King Alfred. Check out the photo gallery. I remember the bowling alley and the Laser Warriors thing; I'd assumed the space had all been re-used but no, apparently it was all just abandoned and left to rot.

Remains of long-forgotten rooms hidden beneath leisure centre

A photographer has captured long-forgotten rooms inside a leisure centre earmarked for closure.

www.theargus.co.uk

 

[scooter1]

Thanks for posting, that takes me back....

 

[Papa Lazarou]

I 'did' 10 pin bowling there, back in the day.

 

[stewart12]

incredible stuff. I went to both the bowling alley and the laser place (was it called "Megazone"?)

It must be such a big premises to have housed both, mad that it's been left empty for what, 20 years?

 

[tronnogull]

Where I spent much of my youth !

There was /( is?) a whole other area which was a warren of corridors and little rooms just next to the bowling alley. No pics of this in the article.

 

[Dr Q]

Wow. Used to go every other week Bowling back in the early 80s with my cousins, although i seem to remember we used to spend more time playing Defender and Scramble on the arcade machines.

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

Remember bowling there many moons ago. Nice vibe and the Lazer Quest area. Always thought the ceiling was disconcertingly low when you were making your approach.

 

[juliant]

Burgess Hill to Hove changing at Brighton and avoiding the train fare. Down to the KA for those state of the art water slides. Those were the days I remember as my youth ! Sad to see it in its current state.

 

[Greavsey]

Happy days in megazone! I think it's criminal how run down the King Alfred has become.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Not sure if any of you have seen this in the Argus, it's about the abandoned bits of the King Alfred. Check out the photo gallery. I remember the bowling alley and the Laser Warriors thing; I'd assumed the space had all been re-used but no, apparently it was all just abandoned and left to rot.

Remains of long-forgotten rooms hidden beneath leisure centre

A photographer has captured long-forgotten rooms inside a leisure centre earmarked for closure.

www.theargus.co.uk

It's the Brighton & Hove way sadly

 

[Thunder Bolt]

What is now the car park, was HMS Sussex RNR until 1967, when it moved into Aldrington Basin.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

I 'did' 10 pin bowling there, back in the day.

It's where I played my first game of ten pin bowling when I was a kid.

 

[Fignon's Ponytail]

OK, who was the perv in the office who put up all the Page 3 and glamour posters in photo #21 ?!

Great pics of the centre though - and like others - takes me back to happy teenage days spent there.

 

[essbee1]

Isn't the decline and general disrepair of the King Alfred merely a reflection of the way the whole of our great city has been
left to decay/degrade and become a bloody embarassment (architecturally speaking) over the past 40 years? Makes me quite sad.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Not sure if any of you have seen this in the Argus, it's about the abandoned bits of the King Alfred. Check out the photo gallery. I remember the bowling alley and the Laser Warriors thing; I'd assumed the space had all been re-used but no, apparently it was all just abandoned and left to rot.

Remains of long-forgotten rooms hidden beneath leisure centre

A photographer has captured long-forgotten rooms inside a leisure centre earmarked for closure.

www.theargus.co.uk

How very odd, that when everything got stripped out / binned / lost / stolen they left ONE ball behind, for the photographer!

 

[nicko31]

I only have one memory of place as a kid and that was the pool water was freezing

 

[wunt be druv]

OK, who was the perv in the office who put up all the Page 3 and glamour posters in photo #21 ?!

Great pics of the centre though - and like others - takes me back to happy teenage days spent there.

A friend of mine worked as a mechanic/maintenance operative in the bowling alley, I went behind the scenes where the skittles were loaded and all the walls there were plastered from top to bottom with porn!

 

[Official Old Man]

Another 'lost' venue is the Revelution Disco underneath the Kings West building, entrance next to Costa. I saw the door open a few years back with workers moving stuff in & out. I asked to get in and saw the disco almost as it was way back in the 70's/80's, just left abandoned and used now as storage rooms.

 

[Questions]

I won a ten pin bowling Sussex title ( in the 160 to 170 average group) there in 1978. Hated the place though. It was so claustrophobic.

 

[essbee1]

I won a ten pin bowling Sussex title ( in the 160 to 170 average group) there in 1978. Hated the place though. It was so claustrophobic.

Beginners level then Questions?