Brighton picture quiz

[The Spanish]

I don't mean to hijack your thread TLO - but here is the other end of the tunnel, as Dover says, coming out under Elm Grove as a two line wide green path and then spreading out as it looks like the tracks split - one going down to Lewes Road/Bear Road and the other directly north (?).

And the second image shows where the tunnel connecting Kemp Town Station and the other end at Elm Grove/Hartington probably went.

ooh theres my old house!

 

[Acker79]

The southern portal in 1968:-

and in 1975:-

and in 1996:-

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/k/kemp_town/index1.shtml

Hasn't changed much through the years, has it?

 

[Stoichkov]

When was that? A while ago?

About a year 1/2 maybe 2?

There was a van rental company using the first 100 or so metres of the tunnel to park their vehicles. A nightmare if you needed one right up the far end!

 

[skipper734]

When they first closed it, a company took it over to grow mushrooms.

 

[The Large One]

Still in east Brighton, peasy one this...

What's this buildilng?

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Royal Sussex County Hospital?

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Royal Sussex County Hospital?

Seconded

 

[mcshane header]

Yeah, must be the hospital.


Here's one of the Seagull Shop ala 1952

 

[The Large One]

It is the RSCH, with fenced off allotments for the hospital where now the Sussex Eye Hospital and the Audrey Emerton Building sit.

 

[skipper734]

But what was there before the eye hospital bit?

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

But what was there before the eye hospital bit?

Not sure, but the Car park next to the SEH formerly was an Odeon Cinema which was Bombed by the Luftwaffe during a Childrens Matinee resulting in many dead kids.

 

[CliveWalkerWingWizard]

I've walked through that tunnel - well, from the Kemp Town entrance and up to the closed entrance in the grounds of Elm Grove School. After about 1 minute, it gets very dark and a little bit boring. Reaching the other end is fairly exciting though!

There's quite a bit of random rubbish deposited along its length and some graffiti.

I think, where Down Terrace & Pankhurst Ave meet there's a ventilation hole.

So if you had access you could still walk through the tunnel now ?

 

[The Large One]

Next...

Which street is the car on the right coming out of?

 

[The Large One]

Not sure, but the Car park next to the SEH formerly was an Odeon Cinema which was Bombed by the Luftwaffe during a Childrens Matinee resulting in many dead kids.

Talking of bombing Brighton, my great-uncle, Reg Allam (who died six years ago) recalls how the Germans had a pop at Brighton on 25 May 1943. The house he describes (which is still there) was the family home. My then two-week old father was in the house at the time.

Bombing

 

[mcshane header]

New England St? Into Trafalgar?

 

[The Large One]

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Next...

Which street is the car on the right coming out of?

Boyces Street??

 

[The Spanish]

Next...

Which street is the car on the right coming out of?

pelham street

 

[mcshane header]

Ohh its bugguing me now, gonna have to look up on google map

 

[mcshane header]

Bum, always thought that was New England St. Wont spoil it though...