[Brighton] Old Brighton Postcard

[Boys 9d]

I seem to remember there being underground toilets, and also a street fire alarm facing West Street.

BTW notice the Oxford comma above. Hope the Health Secretary doesn't see it.

 

[Official Old Man]

I think I've mentioned Mill Road and my Dad before but I'll mention it again.
Back in the day (60's or early 70's) and well before there was a bypass, Mill Road was the main road around Brighton. We'd park up close to the bridge armed with sarnies and squash and take bets with each other which lorries would get under the bridge and which would have to turn around.

 

[Comrade Sam]

Dr Who's Tardis at the Clock Tower?

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I showed my daughter that Doctor Who had been in Brighton, now she's freaked out I've shown her a picture of a Weeping Angel (at the foot of the Clock Tower) and apparently that's bad.

 

[Brok]

The statues depict the four seasons, apparently. I never knew that.
https://statues.vanderkrogt.net/object.php?webpage=ST&record=gbse033

 

[Is it PotG?]

Bottom of Edward Street?

 

[Is it PotG?]

The Gaiety, Lewes Road?

 

[Jack Straw]

The Gaiety, Lewes Road?

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I watched Zulu there when it was first released, around 1964 I think.

 

[dolphins]

The Gaiety, Lewes Road?

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Did it change its name to Vogue later? Or was that also in that area? (It's obvs the reason it is known as the Vogue Gyratory)

 

[Is it PotG?]

Did it change its name to Vogue later? Or was that also in that area? (It's obvs the reason it is known as the Vogue Gyratory)

Here's The Gaiety being built in 1937 (1,400 seats).



...and just before being demolished in '83

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

Here's The Gaiety being built in 1937 (1,400 seats).

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...and just before being demolished in '83

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Great photos ...

My Granny used to live in one of those terraced houses off to the right.
Forced out by compulsory purchase to make way for the gyratory / Sainsburys in 1983 - she died 3 years later ...

 

[Brovion]

Here's The Gaiety being built in 1937 (1,400 seats).

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...and just before being demolished in '83

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A pedant writes ....

Actually that 'before demolition' photo is before 1983 as in the background on the left of the picture you can see the Lewes Road viaduct for the old Kemptown branch line. That was demolished in 1976, ergo that photo must be '76 or earlier.

Anyway only a pedantic ******** would point that out as the photos themselves are brilliant. I always like it when I can see you've posted on this thread.

 

[Wrong-Direction]

The Gaiety, Lewes Road?

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Are they building sainsbury's in the background?
I remember watching lampards goal against Germany in the white crow before they knocked it down

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[BN9 BHA]

Are they building sainsbury's in the background?
I remember watching lampards goal against Germany in the white crow before they knocked it down View attachment 151998

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Yes in the black and white photo they are building Sainsburys, early 80s I think, the pub was called The Allen Arms back then.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Devonshire Place, and the splendour of modern street art?

 

[Is it PotG?]

Brighton Pier, 1945?

 

[Jack Straw]

Brighton Pier, 1945?

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Come on. Do it properley!

 

[South west gull]

IIRC, Fozzie's Club in the late 1980s.

& Rita's round the corner

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[Is it PotG?]

Southover Street?

 

[Jack Straw]

That looks like 1960 ish? I lived in Hanover Street from when I was born in 1956 until the end of 1962. I remember all the shops in that area before most of them were converted to be part of the terraced houses. There used to be five shops and a laundry in Hanover Street back then.

 

[Is it PotG?]

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