Brighton's underground tunnels

[Wilko]

Did anyone know about this?


http://m.theargus.co.uk/news/141330...ion_to_open_to_the_public_for_the_first_time/

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Yes OWL I knew they were there and any tour of the Pavilion tells you that. What I didnt know was the opening to the public bit.

 

[happypig]

I've been through it !
Years ago I was sent to the Royal Pavilion to fix a couple of extension faults on their switchboard. There are a load of passages and rooms in the basement/cellar and a lot of phone cables run through them. I was tracing what I thought was the cable I wanted along a passage which ended in a door, so I opened it and found myself in the basement of the Dome by the cloakrooms.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

along a passage which ended in a door, so I opened it and found myself in the basement of the Dome by the cloakrooms.

Are you a friend of Dorothy?

 

[atomised]

Also knew of the existence but will be very interested in the chance to visit

 

[MattBackHome]

Interesting tidbit about it being built after the relationship with Mrs Fitzherbert ended. Though I'm guessing he would have used it for other, later liaisons? Unless he was off interfering with his horses in the small hours.

 

[CHAPPERS]

So THAT'S why Mrs Fitzherbert's is so-called.

As a lifelong Brighton resident I'm almost ashamed I didn't know that.

 

[mune ni kamome]

I've been through it !
Years ago I was sent to the Royal Pavilion to fix a couple of extension faults on their switchboard. There are a load of passages and rooms in the basement/cellar and a lot of phone cables run through them. I was tracing what I thought was the cable I wanted along a passage which ended in a door, so I opened it and found myself in the basement of the Dome by the cloakrooms.

Me too when I worked for telecoms company back in the 1970's

 

[Man of Harveys]

Great news, can't wait to see that.

I also keep hoping that they'll one day get round to opening up the Bottle, the servants quarters located up in the large central onion dome. It has a load of WW1 soldiers' graffiti on the walls too. I doubt B&H Council has got much spare dosh to spend on the Pavilion these days though.

 

[AmexRuislip]

Thought this was an extension of the new underground tube the Seagulls line

 

[glasfryn]

from the old YMCA building( which was and someone might correct me was Fitzherberts residence) to the pavillion

 

[MattBackHome]

I also keep hoping that they'll one day get round to opening up the Bottle, the servants quarters located up in the large central onion dome. It has a load of WW1 soldiers' graffiti on the walls too.

Blimey - I never knew that.

I saw the WW1 graffiti at the Hidden Gardens of Heligan in the summer. That was qualla.

 

[Seasidesage]

That's where they hid the cup final money...

 

[Hamilton]

I've been through them too.

Don't get too excited. It's just a dark tunnel.

The Tunnel through to the Dome was put there in case Georgie Porgie had to make a fast exit if the local peasants turned rebellious.

 

[Nibble]

Interesting tidbit about it being built after the relationship with Mrs Fitzherbert ended. Though I'm guessing he would have used it for other, later liaisons? Unless he was off interfering with his horses in the small hours.

Did he not use the tunnels as he had become so corpulant that he did not wish to be seen by the public? Nothing more romantic than that. That's what I heard.

 

[manintheblackpajamas]

Great news, can't wait to see that.

I also keep hoping that they'll one day get round to opening up the Bottle, the servants quarters located up in the large central onion dome. It has a load of WW1 soldiers' graffiti on the walls too. I doubt B&H Council has got much spare dosh to spend on the Pavilion these days though.

There is BHA graffiti too as well as a thoroughly succinct and none too eloquent bit of modern day tagging from a break in a while back.

The staircase was really dodgy and only allowed one person on at a time when I went up, so I imagine it would be an expensive job to make safe for the public.

 

[Worthing exile]

Did he not use the tunnels as he had become so corpulant that he did not wish to be seen by the public? Nothing more romantic than that. That's what I heard.

That is my understanding. It was too public and he used the tunnel to get to his horses that were stabled in the Dome and ride them inside the Corn Exchange.
The openness of the Pavilion is why Queen Vic didn't like it.

 

[Wilko]

Yes OWL I knew they were there and any tour of the Pavilion tells you that. What I didnt know was the opening to the public bit.

So THAT'S why Mrs Fitzherbert's is so-called.

As a lifelong Brighton resident I'm almost ashamed I didn't know that.

Same I had not heard of them before.

 

[Notters]

I knew they were there, they go all over the place, from the Pavilion to the clubs on the seafront, and cellars of places like the Cricketers and Hotel du Vin.

 

[Return of the Rev]

I knew they were there, they go all over the place, from the Pavilion to the clubs on the seafront, and cellars of places like the Cricketers and Hotel du Vin.

Chapel royal?