[Brighton] Old Brighton Postcard

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Steine Street?

 

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Sheepcote Valley?

 

[GT49er]

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

The line closed to passenger traffic (apart from the occasional 'special' referred to in the link) on 31st. December 1932. My Dad rode to and from Kemp Town on that last day - I still have his ticket! Incidentally, for a time my Uncle was the signalman in the box at the junction where the branch deviated from the East Coast line.
The bridge over Hartington Road really should have had a preservation order slapped on it - it was probably the finest example of bricklaying skill I've ever seen - it crossed the road at about a 45 degree angle, and the bricks were laid, not level, but at 45 degrees to the vertical, right up and over the top, ending up 45 degrees to the vertical in the other direction at the other side. It was truly amazing.

 

[Bodian]

The line closed to passenger traffic (apart from the occasional 'special' referred to in the link) on 31st. December 1932. My Dad to and from Kemp Town on that last day - I still have his ticket! Incidentally, for a time my Uncle was the signalman in the box at the junction where the branch deviated from the East Coast line.
The bridge over Hartington Road really should have had a preservation order slapped on it - ot was probably the finest example of bricklaying skill I've ever seen - it crossed the road at about a 45 degree angle, and the bricks were laid, not level, but at 45 degrees to the vertical, right up and over the top, ending up 45 degrees to the vertical in the other direction at the other side. It was truly amazing.

I've seen one like that somewhere - can't remember where now. But I remember being equally amazed, and sure I've got a photo of it somewhere. Engineering marvels.

 

[BN9 BHA]

The line closed to passenger traffic (apart from the occasional 'special' referred to in the link) on 31st. December 1932. My Dad to and from Kemp Town on that last day - I still have his ticket! Incidentally, for a time my Uncle was the signalman in the box at the junction where the branch deviated from the East Coast line.
The bridge over Hartington Road really should have had a preservation order slapped on it - ot was probably the finest example of bricklaying skill I've ever seen - it crossed the road at about a 45 degree angle, and the bricks were laid, not level, but at 45 degrees to the vertical, right up and over the top, ending up 45 degrees to the vertical in the other direction at the other side. It was truly amazing.

Apart from the photo in post #747 and on the link in my post #755 I don’t think I’ve seen a close up of that bridge to appreciate the brickwork.
I may have gone up Hartington Road when I was a kid but can’t remember it.
Definitely a shame it’s no longer there.

 

[Boys 9d]

With regard to the Steine Street photo, I can vaguely remember going with my parents to the Southdown Garage to catch a coach to London (I think). In those days Pool Valley would have been too full of buses to be used as a coach station.

 

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Downs Hotel?

 

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Regency Square / West Pier?

 

[Perfidious Albion]

Doesn’t that Regency Sq. pic show just how horrible the I360 must be to the immediate residents!

 

[Insel affe]

Doesn’t that Regency Sq. pic show just how horrible the I360 must be to the immediate residents!

I actually don't mind it, the whole re development in front of of it on the beach is so much better than it used to be.

 

[Insel affe]

Not an old postcard, but the last time I saw the West Pier from the Palace pier, can't think what year, but I was living in Camden.

 

[backson]

Looking at the state of that you'd think it would be the Palace Pier that fell into the sea.

(Keep up the pictures, love this thread)

 

[Insel affe]

St Barnabas Sackville Street,
My Grandfather was a vicar here until 1967, he sadly died in the house of a heart condition, which I have inherited.

St Barnabas Church, Sackville Road.

St Barnabas Church Hove, Sackville Road Hove,

hovehistory.blogspot.com

 

[Perfidious Albion]

A one-off pic from Brighton loco works. It interested me because it shows that for a time after closure it became an Isetta factory making bubble cars

 

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A little West Pier nostalgia

 

[Perfidious Albion]

The City Of Hereford that once stood in Upper St James Street.

Demolished thus

Replaced by the boxy flats called Hampshire Court.

 

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New Steine?

 

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Regency Square?

 

[Jack Straw]

New Steine?

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View attachment 157793The blue and white Agapanthus is one of the schemes I designed when I was a Park's manager. The bottom bit of hedging was left in to act as a windbreak. You'll see lots of blue and white plant themes over Brighton and Hove!

 

[Boys 9d]

Regency Square?

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Interesting that the houses in the Edwardian? photo don't seem to have been compelled to paint the exteriors cream.