Completely RANDOM things about Brighton & Hove...

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Did you mean Coopers in Baker Street?

Yes I did indeed!!!

 

[The Large One]

My mate once went into that barbers and asked for a haircut that 'Michael Jackson' had. Five minutes later, the barber had finished, and shown my mate his proud work. It was a No.1 all over.

"That's not how Michael Jackson has his hair cut."

"It would be if he came in here..."

 

[Man of Harveys]

Cox's Pill Factory, you say...?

Where are those fine pictures taken from? What's that road in the foreground, is it the one where Kwik Fit is?

Fascinated that, even for a sad Brighton history anorak like me, a part of town I find myself driving through all the time these days can have changed beyond all recognition.

 

[Stoichkov]

Where are those fine pictures taken from? What's that road in the foreground, is it the one where Kwik Fit is?

Fascinated that, even for a sad Brighton history anorak like me, a part of town I find myself driving through all the time these days can have changed beyond all recognition.

Isn't that far house on the right still there? On that little island that includes, apart from those couple of houses, the petrol station & pub?

 

[The Large One]

Where are those fine pictures taken from? What's that road in the foreground, is it the one where Kwik Fit is?

Fascinated that, even for a sad Brighton history anorak like me, a part of town I find myself driving through all the time these days can have changed beyond all recognition.

The colour one was taken in about 1978. The mono one was probably taken sometime after 1971, but before 1976.

The street in the foreground is Melbourne Street. In the mono picture, on the left you can see the entrance to the timber merchants. For years, it was called Covers. I think it's changed hands now. In the space on the right (boarded up in the colour one, waste ground in the mono) is where the mobile phone shop was - it's something else now.

The building to the right of it as we look is still there, and is on the corner of the junction. The bridge there is where the junction itself it now.

 

[SuperMario]

I remember the night when Lewes Road Sawmills caught fire the heat was intense.

 

[Barrow Boy]

How the West Pier used to look at night.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

My mate once went into that barbers and asked for a haircut that 'Michael Jackson' had. Five minutes later, the barber had finished, and shown my mate his proud work. It was a No.1 all over.

"That's not how Michael Jackson has his hair cut."

"It would be if he came in here..."

Alan that was used in a lager advert about years ago.

Make me look like Lionel Blair...

Best bit was the end of the advert where Lional Blair goes into the pub and orders a pint with the same hair cut.

 

[happypig]

The Red Arrows pilot ejecting between the piers...

I was on the Palace pier watching with my gf (now my wife ) First thing I thought was it was part of the display and musing that I didn't know they had two pilots

The noise of the jet was so loud you couldn't hear the splash the other side!

I was down the marina with a couple of mates and we were at the lock gates when the boat came in with the top couple of feet of mast bent over. I can still remember :
1. the mast wasn't that tall so the plane must have been really low.
2. the faces of the people on the boat; "ashen" doesn't begin to describe it.

 

[BeardyChops]

I was down the marina with a couple of mates and we were at the lock gates when the boat came in with the top couple of feet of mast bent over. I can still remember :
1. the mast wasn't that tall so the plane must have been really low.
2. the faces of the people on the boat; "ashen" doesn't begin to describe it.

Yup it was low.

The pilot lifted the nose slightly before he ejected - which meant it went over the pier and into the sea the other side - instead of taking out the pier and all of us on it.

Ih he hadn't done that, the boat owners would have had a lot on their conscience.

Just found this on http://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk

17 May 1980.

A Saturday crowd witnessed a spectacular display of aeronautics when a Red Arrow's "Hawk" piloted by Sqn Ldr S. Johnson, clipped a yacht's mast and plunged into the sea between Brighton's two piers.

The incident left the pilot rather wet and shaken, and the Royal Air Force revising the minumum flight height above sea level from 35 to 100 ft.

 

[DIFFBROOK]

Amusement Arcade at the bottom of West Street - Crystal Rooms. With the Pool Parlour on top. My then girlfriends uncles place. There was some right dodgy clientele there.

 

[Jambo Seagull]

I have a vauge memory of a Casino collaspsing in Western Road near Waterloo Street!

Might have been called the 'Mint' anyway I remember the massive congestiuon along Western Road at that time although I was about 5!!

I'm pretty sure there was a casino called the Mint Casino. We moved to Brighton in 1973 and it was around then because my Dad was made the general manager of the Sergeant Yorke's Casino in Queens Road, which of course is another building that isn't there anymore.

 

[Jamon Jamon]

I remember the night when Lewes Road Sawmills caught fire the heat was intense.

yes, mid/ late 70's. around that time Dentsply burned down as well (between The Ship, Lewes Rd and Dewe Rd)

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

I'm pretty sure there was a casino called the Mint Casino. We moved to Brighton in 1973 and it was around then because my Dad was made the general manager of the Sergeant Yorke's Casino in Queens Road, which of course is another building that isn't there anymore.

The building is still there but the casino (Sgt Yorkes) isnt.

 

[BeardyChops]

Hove Town Hall fire, 1966

(It was a big fire)

 

[SuperMario]

Also remember the night the grand got bombed heard a dull thud thought nothing of it went to work in shoreham via kingsway early in the morning absolute chaos.As an after thought anyone remember the gas works at portslade always stank of rotten eggs along the bottom of boundary road.

 

[Gwylan]

The colour one was taken in about 1978. The mono one was probably taken sometime after 1971, but before 1976.

The street in the foreground is Melbourne Street. In the mono picture, on the left you can see the entrance to the timber merchants. For years, it was called Covers. I think it's changed hands now. In the space on the right (boarded up in the colour one, waste ground in the mono) is where the mobile phone shop was - it's something else now.

The building to the right of it as we look is still there, and is on the corner of the junction. The bridge there is where the junction itself it now.

The building on the right was a pub called The Alexandra Arms, it's now an African food shop I believe.

What you can't see is the building on the left, which used to be a sweetshop called Candy Corner but is now one of Lewes Road's many cheap booze shops.

 

[The Large One]

The building on the right was a pub called The Alexandra Arms, it's now an African food shop I believe.

What you can't see is the building on the left, which used to be a sweetshop called Candy Corner but is now one of Lewes Road's many cheap booze shops.

... and porn emporia.

Apparently.

 

[Dave the OAP]

My Mrs's Nan was the landlady of the Golden Cannon in Kemptown for many years, The Constant Service and a few others around Kemp Town back in the 50's. She lived out her later life in the Licensed Victulars Houses off Coombe Road.

The Mrs' Dad and his dad delivered bread to the Snowdrop Inn in Lewes from what is now the Cliffe Industrial Estate where there was a bakery.

Also, his claim to fame was he won a competition run by the local council to design a frontage to their housing stock. The houses opposite the bottom of Coldean lane in Moulescombe were the first ones to use the design!

I think he won £10 as aprize

 

[SuperMario]

They were at the end of Riley Road [victular houses] the other end was millers pies,and a sweet shop ran by an old couple called the carters.Great grandfather used to drive the trams he lived in dewe road told me they were the first council houses in brighton.