[Brighton] All Change for ... Brighton. 1980 BBC2 documentary

[Dick Swiveller]

I have seen a few old videos about Brighton crop up on here but hadn't seen this one until it came up on my suggested list on Youtube last night. It is a lament about the change in Brighton by Jack Tinker, an arts critic for the Mail and Argus. Loads of footage on the decaying West Pier as well as North Laine area. Probably has been on here before but even if it has, I can't be the only one who had seen it before.

 

[zefarelly]

Don't think I've seen that before . . .when my parents split up, we lived in a house on Foundry street for a few months, a few doors down from the pub, not long before this film, all looks very familiar!

 

[MattBackHome]

Great little film.

"Robin Maugham was giving a little supper party for Hermione Baddeley, and the Oliviers popped in..." He's like a Fast Show character

 

[Dick Swiveller]

This has now produced a couple more short ones from Youtube recommendations with a low number of views so these may be new on here as well.

 

[Dick Swiveller]

Go on then, one more

 

[Seasidesage]

Christ I remember all of that. A sobering reminder of how old I now am. Cheers

 

[Live by the sea]

Aah the good old days in Brighton .

 

[Papa Lazarou]

This has now produced a couple more short ones from Youtube recommendations with a low number of views so these may be new on here as well.

In the 1st video, at 3:47 there is a graffiti on a wall in The Lanes which reads "The West is White"... what can that mean?

 

[Invicta]

Looks interesting, will watch. Cheers for posting

 

[banjo]

Blimey! no health and safety on the trains back then.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I have seen a few old videos about Brighton crop up on here but hadn't seen this one until it came up on my suggested list on Youtube last night. It is a lament about the change in Brighton by Jack Tinker, an arts critic for the Mail and Argus. Loads of footage on the decaying West Pier as well as North Laine area. Probably has been on here before but even if it has, I can't be the only one who had seen it before.

Unbelievable that it was being mooted in the 40s to knock down the Royal Pavilion to build some furkin FLATS.

FFS Brighton

 

[MTSeagulls]

Blimey! no health and safety on the trains back then.

Nope, I remember late one night getting to the platform at Southwick station just as the train started moving. I ran, opened the door and almost slipped under but just managed to haul myself in.
I was probably around 17/18 and stupid but never did it again

 

[zefarelly]

Nope, I remember late one night getting to the platform at Southwick station just as the train started moving. I ran, opened the door and almost slipped under but just managed to haul myself in.
I was probably around 17/18 and stupid but never did it again

My mate decided to jump off the train at Shoreham whilst it was still doing about 30 . . . He didn't look so clever the next morning. went to college with a lad who stuck his arm out the window Vyvian style, never saw it again.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

If he was as depressed as he sounds about Brighton as it was THEN, imagine what he'd think about the place NOW

Edit: he also seems to have a very strange fascination with car parks

 

[Lady Whistledown]

In the 1st video, at 3:47 there is a graffiti on a wall in The Lanes which reads "The West is White"... what can that mean?

Are those ladies sunbathing naked in the second video there? Seems a little bold, bearing in mind they don't appear to be on the nudist beach

 

[albionalbino]

Are those ladies sunbathing naked in the second video there? Seems a little bold, bearing in mind they don't appear to be on the nudist beach

Flesh coloured bikinis as opposed to full nudity.

 

[Gwylan]

Nope, I remember late one night getting to the platform at Southwick station just as the train started moving. I ran, opened the door and almost slipped under but just managed to haul myself in.
I was probably around 17/18 and stupid but never did it again

I was travelling back to Brighton one Christmas Eve when a drunk fell against one of those slam doors and it opened - as the train was bombing along at 60mph. Fortunately, the bloke next to him grabbed him before he fell out. I've no idea whether he'd opened it deliberately or it was an accident but I bet it sobered him up.

 

[Gwylan]

If he was as depressed as he sounds about Brighton as it was THEN, imagine what he'd think about the place NOW

Edit: he also seems to have a very strange fascination with car parks

I think he'd more approving. There are at least some concerted attempts to keep traffic down and reduce car use. The pier has regained its rightful name, the Pavilion looks good, North Laine has gone through a complete transformation and most other old buildings have been saved.

He'd regret the West Pier of course and the fact the Hippodrome hasn't reopened but Brighton has done OK in the last forty years - most of the damage was done in the 60s and 70s

 

[Pint of Ale and a Burger]

At 3:55 she seems to have a premonition of our stadium.fantastic.