Completely RANDOM things about Brighton & Hove...

[Freddie Goodwin.]

The Brighton Gazette !

And the Herald too, both weekly papers which later merged.

 

[severnside gull]

The guy who used to walk his sheep round town on a lead

Leo Sayer singing to himself on his way home on the 49 bus before he was a success

 

[severnside gull]

Southdown were the major bus operators in the South and were green.

Quite right. All trolley buses were corporation run and although you are correct that Southdown buses were green with cream lettering there were two exceptions - the coastal run to Rottindean which operated an open top cream bus (No 17) and a similar cream liveried bus to Arundel (which I think only ran at weekends). Both ran out of Pool Meadow which was the Southdown terminal while Corporation services ran from the Steyne.

Of course in those days the likes of you and I would be reliant on bus services as relatively few families had cars and when they did they weren't usually available for running the kids around in the manner of today's Chelsea taxis

 

[bigc]

I love that photo of the bus with the massive uncle sams advert!

To continue the thread, when the Mazda fountain used to light up at night and each one of the water jets was lit a different colour.

 

[skipper734]

Unique to Brighton Police in the summer. 1970 saw the end of these better than a blue flashing light.

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

And how about the multi-coloured (lit) Royal Pav? That was flair.

 

[Return of the Rev]

On the beach

that was a good bit of free entertainment. Must have been cool to actually see it come in.

who remembers the brighton band who sprayed there name on the hull?

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

The mangle in the changing rooms at the King Alfred

White & Wilson grocers on Robertson Road, next door tot he basketworks and opposite the butchers.

(aal a bit local to where we lived, but a clear part of my childhood - now all sadly gone) The Hovis bakery on The Drove, and opposite, the sweet shop on the corner of Reigate Road and that opposite the Off Licence.

 

[MOG]

The coach park in Whitehawk Road. The coaches used to unload the day trippers in town and then come to park for the day. On a hot Sunday in summer there could be dozens of them. Groups of us kids would 'borrow' the dustpans and brushs from home, then go down there and offer to clean them out ready for the return journey. The drivers would pay you and any money you found that the passengers had dropped was yours (a great way to earn extra pocket money). This was during the 1950s.

 

[andybaha]

Now that's what I call an old bus!!

 

[Carrot Cruncher]

Surprised noone's mentioned...

Also Vokins on North Street.

 

[Carrot Cruncher]

The WH Smith record shop opposite the main WH Smith in Churchill Square. I bought my first ever LP there.

 

[Return of the Rev]

who remembers the brighton band who sprayed there name on the hull?

peter and the test tube babies

 

[The Large One]

Tuning into BBC Radio BRIGHTON (RIP), broadcasting from Marlborough Place on the Steine, the day after the 1987 Hurricane ...

*COUGH*

It would have been Radio Sussex then.

 

[severnside gull]

Brighton & Hove Albion....... The Dolphins

 

[Chicken Runner61]

Fogels Bakery Upper St James Street

 

[Deleted User X18H]

The mangle in the changing rooms at the King Alfred

White & Wilson grocers on Robertson Road, next door tot he basketworks and opposite the butchers.

(aal a bit local to where we lived, but a clear part of my childhood - now all sadly gone) The Hovis bakery on The Drove, and opposite, the sweet shop on the corner of Reigate Road and that opposite the Off Licence.

Now a mobile phone repairers and a poofy hairdressers

 

[Deleted User X18H]

I also watched it from the beach opposite to where it crashed! it only missed the pier by a few feet.

My Mum got some great photos of the actual indeident the wing hitting the mast and actually contacted the pilot, his name was Squadren Leader Steve Johnson. She has loads of correspondence with him and receieved a Christmas Card until well into the 90's. The Red Arrows seldom came back to Brighton after that!!

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Would you Adam and Eve it they are only booked in for 18th of September

 

[Barry Izbak]

Changing trains at Brighton station on the way to school, or the Albion, and trying to work out when the next train was from this board.