[Brighton] Old Brighton Postcard

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I think I've mentioned this before, but back in the late 60's my Dad would take us to this spot to watch the lorries coming down Mill Road and having to turn around because they wouldn't fit under the low bridge.

You had to make your own entertainment in those days

 

[Brovion]

Mill Rd ?

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Wow that takes me back. You can't see the cafe itself in that picture, just the garage, but it was a little wooden hut, (or 'cottage' if I want to be kind) set back from the road. When my parents first split up and we moved to Lancing my mum would often drive us over and drop us off there. My dad would drive down from Croydon and take us for lunch/tea there and a play in the park. Then later my mum would come and pick us up.

We called it the 'doll's house'. Not sure what it's real name was.

 

[A mex eyecan]

Mill Rd ?

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just to the left of the lock up garage there used to be a little gap in the bushes that led up to the side of railway track. There was quite a large dip in the ground which my mates and I called ‘the bomb hole’. Was a great little den where we smoked many a pack of cigarettes and got my first images of dirty mags

 

[Dun Lurkin]

Ooh - there's an actual postcard of one, to fit the thread title

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Very possibly this one! https://photos.francisfrith.com/frith/southwick-the-green-c1950_s477009.jpg

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Very possibly this one! https://photos.francisfrith.com/frith/southwick-the-green-c1950_s477009.

I think all these images are before my time as when I was a lad the terminus was on the other side of the road with the buses going clockwise round the Green. My cousin lived around the corner from here and we often emptied the used ticket box to to give us tickets to play with.

 

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Bartholomews / Little East Street ?

 

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Elm Grove / Hallett Rd ?

 

[Weststander]

Bartholomews / Little East Street ?

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A scene from Quadrophenia filmed in the alley?

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

Ooh - there's an actual postcard of one, to fit the thread title

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Is that a school cricket match playing on the green?

 

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Kids with their nannies, Brunswick Square.

 

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I'm guessing that many guests of the Adelphi Hotel would be somewhat less than thrilled with their direct views of a car showroom

Was a splendid hotel

 

[Perfidious Albion]

A Victorian Seven Dials

This was in the 1930s . I read that a Copper stood in the middle to operate the stop/go signs

Trying to get the same angle the trees blocked the view so this seemed the best shot. The Dials sure looks different to when I used to hang out around there in the 70s…

 

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North Rd / Cheltenham Pl ?

 

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Dorset St / Edward St ?

 

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Hilltop Café

 

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Dean St ?

 

[dolphins]

Brighton Station? 1962.

 

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Western Road

 

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North St / Windsor St ?

 

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Church Hill, Patcham, with the ORIGINAL fountain?

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The Schooner, Shoreham?