[Brighton] Old Brighton Postcard

[severnside gull]

Just caught up with this thread.
Reminded me of my Grandad, Ernie Johnstone’s miniature coaches at Peter Pan’s Playground.
I’m pretty sure the chap in the photo in the attached article is my uncle Ernie with his 2 children.

Johnstone's coaches in the 1940s

In 1935 Ernie Johnstone lived in Brighton. Whether it was the influence of a coach works at Hove, or the ...

www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk

 

[Bodian]

That's an amazing photo! What a bizarre place.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Today the nostalgia bus visits Coldean Lane I believe.

 

[The Oldman]

Just caught up with this thread.
Reminded me of my Grandad, Ernie Johnstone’s miniature coaches at Peter Pan’s Playground.
I’m pretty sure the chap in the photo in the attached article is my uncle Ernie with his 2 children.

Johnstone's coaches in the 1940s

In 1935 Ernie Johnstone lived in Brighton. Whether it was the influence of a coach works at Hove, or the ...

www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk

I do remember going on that in Peter Pan's Playground.

 

[Brovion]

That's an amazing photo! What a bizarre place.

Yeah, what is that place? It looks like a massive hoarding, all you can see are billboards but not windows, however there's a door in the middle of it.

 

[Boys 9d]

Was it Pickford's depository? I can remember them having an office near the station end of Queen's Road. I remember as a child seeing toy removal vans in the window.

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

Today the nostalgia bus visits Coldean Lane I believe.

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Lived up Park road from the early seventies. My 88year old mum still lives there.
Had my first pints in The Hikers Rest.

 

[Is it PotG?]

116 WR I'd say

 

[Perry's Tracksuit Bottoms]

I miss the question marks. Made me laugh every time

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

I miss the question marks. Made me laugh every time

I do not.
Like a needle in my eye every time I opened the thread.
Serious point though (which may have been answered previously on here but I'm not trawling through 549 posts to see if I've missed it), why were the old photos taken? I know we think they're interesting now, but why did somebody think a lamppost on Western Road need recording for posterity?

 

[Is it PotG?]

I do not.
Like a needle in my eye every time I opened the thread.
Serious point though (which may have been answered previously on here but I'm not trawling through 549 posts to see if I've missed it), why were the old photos taken? I know we think they're interesting now, but why did somebody think a lamppost on Western Road need recording for posterity?

It's probably because it's a Fire Station?

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

116 WR I'd say

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This would seem to be one of those rare occasions where the newer building on the left, looks (from what we can see) better than the one it replaced.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

It's probably because it's a Fire Station?

Not more bloody question marks
Fair point, that wasn't immediately apparent looking at it on my phone.
Still not obvious why somebody decided to take the photo though, did somebody go around photographing all the fire stations in the Brighton / the country?
As a general query though, some of these do just appear to be "a road" that somebody decided to take a photo of. But that wouldn't have been a snap decision, there must have been some focus to it.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

116 WR I'd say
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Sorry, another question
Does anybody know what that curved pipe to the left of the lamppost is?

 

[Is it PotG?]

Sorry, another question
Does anybody know what that curved pipe to the left of the lamppost is?

Electric car charging point?

 

[Is it PotG?]

My sources tell me it's a viaduct in the London Road area.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Electric car charging point?

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Don't be silly.
You could block the fire station entrance if you parked there to charge your car.
Seriously though, electric cars were reasonably common before the 1st World War (compared to petrol cars), so that could have been quite useful.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Don't be silly.
You could block the fire station entrance if you parked there to charge your car.
Seriously though, electric cars were reasonably common before the 1st World War (compared to petrol cars), so that could have been quite useful.

I think it might be a pumpable source of water for the Fire Station, total guess.

 

[banjo]

Electric car charging point?

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Disused water pump. ?

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

I think it might be a pumpable source of water for the Fire Station, total guess.

Seems a bit more likely.

My sources tell me it's a viaduct in the London Road area.

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Can't remember if I posted this before, there are some good photos of the viaduct after it was bombed in the second world war on this site (can't get the images to embed for some reason):

Brighton Works