[Brighton] Old Brighton Postcard

[BN9 BHA]

Thanks- fascinating. I’ve seen the tunnel exit in the Freshfield industrial park and would love to have seen the railway fully operational

I was lucky enough to travel on that line.
In 1971 there was a day with trains running from Brighton to Kemptown, my father was a train driver and took me on one of the trains, I wasn’t very old but I do remember he knew the driver and we were in the cab with him.

I’ve just found this link about the day.

nick phillips remembers the last train to kemptown

 

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Entrance to Mill Road P&R ?

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A little later than the first one, pre-roundabout & petrol station?

 

[A mex eyecan]

Remember my mates family lived in one of those houses. Up by the white van was a little path went through the scrub to what we called the bomb crater, nit sure if it really was or just us kids thinking it was. We used it as an occasional den and a place for a quick cigarette.

 

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Waggon & Horses?

 

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Upper St. James's Street / Grafton Street?

 

[Perfidious Albion]

Given the interest in the Kemp Town railway, this is the line that once ran from Aldrington to The Dyke … before our time though.This The Dyke station.

 

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The undertakers opposite the Imperial Arcade?

 

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Hare & Hounds, somewhere in Brighton?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Hare & Hounds, somewhere in Brighton?

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Preston Circus. Was recently given a makeover and is now adorned with bright new murals of giant fluffy creatures. Squirrels

 

[A mex eyecan]

Preston Circus. Was recently given a makeover and is now adorned with bright new murals of giant fluffy creatures. Squirrels

who paid for that ?.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

who paid for that ?.

The pub presumably, without first checking what the finished artwork looked like

 

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[Insel affe]

Bus w@nker

 

[Worried Man Blues]

At least they didn't cover the wonderful Brickwoods tiles, poss. listed? Many of their pubs in Gosport have colourful tiles.

 

[A mex eyecan]

what a friggin mess …

lord I’m getting old and exceptionally grouchy

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

what a friggin mess …

lord I’m getting old and exceptionally grouchy

How can you say such a thing?

 

[Is it PotG?]

Castle Square?

 

[Perfidious Albion]

52/53 Gloucester Road. Would you fancy eating that meat ?

That address no longer exists. The best I could work out from old street directories was that it was up at the top , near The Quadrant and Frederick Place. Not much to see these days .

 

[Bodian]

The pub presumably, without first checking what the finished artwork looked like

Without first checking the difference between a squirrel and a hare.

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Castle Square?

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Fun fact. Unusually for these pictures, the main building featured was a bank then and now with the current owners descended by mergers and acquisitions from the original.