[Brighton] Old Brighton Postcard

[Is it PotG?]

RAH 1890?

 

[Official Old Man]

Here's a controversial question then. The Royal Albion & Queens Hotel have both seen better days and must cost a fortune to run. Guessing the Old Ship is much the same. Is it time to pull them down and build a more modern hotel. In West St there is a huge gap where the nightclub was and in its place we are getting a Premier Inn. Comments about the eyesore of the Kings West and Brighton Centre may be true now but both buildings were modern in their day.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Here's a controversial question then. The Royal Albion & Queens Hotel have both seen better days and must cost a fortune to run. Guessing the Old Ship is much the same. Is it time to pull them down and build a more modern hotel. In West St there is a huge gap where the nightclub was and in its place we are getting a Premier Inn. Comments about the eyesore of the Kings West and Brighton Centre may be true now but both buildings were modern in their day.

Parts of the Royal Albion and The Old Ship are Grade II listed so cannot be demolished. Part of a facade of the Queens is of historical interest, so unsure of the position there.

 

[Official Old Man]

Parts of the Royal Albion and The Old Ship are Grade II listed so cannot be demolished. Part of a facade of the Queens is of historical interest, so unsure of the position there.

Good point. These old buildings must be costing a fortune in upkeep though, along with most of the rooms being well past there best.

 

[A mex eyecan]

the big problem is that over decades planners have allowed countless architecturally beautiful buildings to be demolished and replaced with modern. Sadly so many have turned out to be dated, hideously decrepit blots that have done nothing to make Brighton nice. I’m sure there must be the odd one or two that don’t fall into that group. Plus one man’s blot is another man’s liked. So subjective isn’t it.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Brunswick Place 1913?

 

[Is it PotG?]

Cannon Place?

 

[Is it PotG?]

Bedford Street 1908?

 

[Perfidious Albion]

There are a couple of good ones. I love the clothes in Cannon Place and the milk cart in Bedford Street

 

[Is it PotG?]

North Street, just by Olympus Sports?

 

[talk2knighty]

North Street, just by Olympus Sports?

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The more I look at these photo comparisons you’re posting the more I think how shit Brighton & Hove looks now compared to yesteryear

 

[Comrade Sam]

North Street, just by Olympus Sports?

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Just to the left of the centre - is that a cherry picker changing a street light?

 

[Is it PotG?]

Just to the left of the centre - is that a cherry picker changing a street light?

Looks like it.

 

[Bodian]

Just to the left of the centre - is that a cherry picker changing a street light?

Looks like it.

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That's some milk-float isn't it!!

 

[dolphins]

The more I look at these photo comparisons you’re posting the more I think how shit Brighton & Hove looks now compared to yesteryear

It also highlights what's missing on the high street - the North Street picture shows there used to be an undertakers just up from the clock tower. Handy.

 

[zefarelly]

RAH 1890?

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I know, lets put a conservatory on the back, that'll improve the aesthetic no end.

said no one, ever,

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

Seems strange that the London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company had an information bureau in the middle of Brighton.

 

[zefarelly]

That's some milk-float isn't it!!

Thatas what I thought, electric vehicle with scissor lift. Things have really progressed.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Ethelbert House, 15 - 17 Regency Square?

 

[PTC Gull]

In the Cannon Place photo there is a dog in the foreground. And there it is again in Bedford St. Spooky!