Completely RANDOM things about Brighton & Hove...

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The Embassy Cinema in Western Road. In the early 80s all the films they showed had been at the Odeon 6-12 months before and the seats were falling apart (arms broken and springs poking through the seat covers).

Anyone else remember that being turned onto Laser Warriors in the 90s? Awesome stuff, much better than the later one at the King Alfred.

I remember they did it there because Brighton wouldn't give them a licence but Hove would and that building's JUST inside Hove, the Hove Borough Council boundary sign use to be nailed to its wall.

 

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Ex Mayor visits ex swimming pool. What's that kid doing underneath Carol?
That's the Black Rock pool, for the youngsters out there.

The black rock pool! Used to go there regularly as a small child.

Don't remember her being there though!

 

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You mean apart from the Virgin shop opposite?

I remember Fine Records in Brighton Square - that was the place that I used to buy most of mine. They had a particularly good reggae selection. The people there were also amazingly tolerant of herberts hanging around all day but buying very little.

There was also the shortlived record shop in Waterloo Place in Hove run by Kaz from Fine Records. He used to offer massive discounts to his regulars and not surprisingly went bust after a few months.

Fine Records in George Street is still open. I uised to go there after school, must have spent a fortune in the place.

Last went there two years ago after accidentally discovering it was still open, and found a copy of Vaultage 78. Awesome.

I remember getting a copy of the punk compilation Maggie! Maggie! Maggie! Out! Out! Out! from there. It was banned everywhere else, but I ordered it from fine records by catalogue number. When I picked it up, he said he wouldn't have ordered it if he'd realised it was that record.

Classy sleeve:

 

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Did you mean Coopers in Baker Street?

He still used to do haircuts for a pound in the mid 90s, right up until he died.

 

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In Hollingbury they had the bread man in the 70's/early 80's and a library van.

Oh and a rag and bone man every now and then as well!

In Portslade, there was a "fizzy drinks van", 22p for a big bottle of Corona fizzy drink, and you got the 2p back when you gave the bottle back.

Aah, Dandelion and Burdock!

 

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Wasn't there a joke shop on Western Road as well - opposite end from Churchill Square?

Oh yes, it was called "Only Joking" when we used it in the 70s. Best fake blood in town!

 

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...and Thomas Tilley buses - red! Check.

Couldn't find a brighton picture from when they actually ran, this is an original that was "bought back" by Brighton and Hove.

I swear I remember white buses when I was a kid as well.

We just saw a load of Southdown buses just like that in Paul ......Sorry Pool Valley. Something to do with the remembrance parade I think.

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Actually they were green Southdown.

 

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Trolley buses in the Steine.

Ok, I'm not that old really....

 

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Anyone else remember the high diving board at the Lido ?

 

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The megazone next door to King Alfreds

 

[HovaGirl]

The Cardinal Newman uniform was only available iin Cobley's, on Church Road.

Not Broadley Bros at the bottom of George Street?

 

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Oh yes, it was called "Only Joking" when we used it in the 70s. Best fake blood in town!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2ydQM5SHhM

1:42 in, the said Jokeshop, but called 'Trends' in 1983, with a couple of questionably dressed customers !!!

 

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We just saw a load of Southdown buses just like that in Paul ......Sorry Pool Valley. Something to do with the remembrance parade I think.

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Actually they were green Southdown.

It's an awesome thread. Tilley's were one of the first bus companies in Brighton, they were merged with Southdown sometime in the very early 70s I think, but it took a while to repaint all the buses, so there were red southdown ones for a while. I was born in '68 and can vaguely remember red buses.

 

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Not Broadley Bros at the bottom of George Street?

No, Cobleys, it was opposite Broadley Bros on the other side of Church road. Big shop on the corner of the road that the Sussex pub is at the bottom of!

 

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It's an awesome thread. Tilley's were one of the first bus companies in Brighton, they were merged with Southdown sometime in the very early 70s I think, but it took a while to repaint all the buses, so there were red southdown ones for a while. I was born in '68 and can vaguely remember red buses.

TiLLINGS (Thomas) my great uncle was quite high up with them.

 

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2ydQM5SHhM

1:42 in, the said Jokeshop, but called 'Trends' in 1983, with a couple of questionably dressed customers !!!

LOL, awesome! That was the place.

 

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TiLLINGS (Thomas) my Grandad my great uncle was quite high up with them.

OK, fair point, here's an earlier example:

 

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OK, fair point, here's an earlier example:

My Grandad's brother not my Grandad

 

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How about the dirt car parks - Belmont St etc - behind London Road near to the new station development sites. One was always full of yellow BT vans / red post vans

There was also a Comet near there somewhere accessed by a steep staircase. Loked like an electrical jumble sale inside. Where was it exactly?

 

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It's an awesome thread. Tilley's were one of the first bus companies in Brighton, they were merged with Southdown sometime in the very early 70s I think, but it took a while to repaint all the buses, so there were red southdown ones for a while. I was born in '68 and can vaguely remember red buses.

Brighton, Hove & District (the former Thomas Tilling company) and Brighton Corporation agreed to a common livery of red buses (with only minor differences between the two fleets) when the first BATS agreement came into effect in 1939. It was only when BH&D were absorbed by Southdown (after the National Bus Company was set up in 1968) that things started to change and 'Southdown' became the fleetname of all NBC buses in Brighton. The Corporation fleet then turned blue and all Southdown buses adopted the green version of the NBC corporate image.

Southdown and Brighton buses