[Brighton] Old Brighton Postcard

[PeterT]

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

Don’t think Farrow and Ball were around then

 

[dejavuatbtn]

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,

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Ah, Christmas carols there when at Goldstone junior school. I remember a lad getting his little finger crushed in the gate - ended up looking like a spoon.

 

[Daddies_Sauce]

A little West Pier nostalgia

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I used to work on the West pier amusements in the holidays on the kids rides, massive bouncy castle thing and the motor boats. The "pond" used to get drained at the start of the season, bottom full of sludge, found a huge whole stinky rotting cod that somebody decide to dump in there, plus other unsavoury items We would share out the loose change that had dropped in from punters pockets, which usual counted up to a reasonable sum for a young lad in those days. The motors on the boats had a shear pin, so if they were revved to hard, the pin would shear, engine making lots of noise, boat going nowhere. Like heros we would jump across the boats to save the mostly red faced lads and their peeved arm candy. Spent hours replacing those shear pins!

 

[Worried Man Blues]

I used to work on the West pier amusements in the holidays on the kids rides, massive bouncy castle thing and the motor boats. The "pond" used to get drained at the start of the season, bottom full of sludge, found a huge whole stinky rotting cod that somebody decide to dump in there, plus other unsavoury items We would share out the loose change that had dropped in from punters pockets, which usual counted up to a reasonable sum for a young lad in those days. The motors on the boats had a shear pin, so if they were revved to hard, the pin would shear, engine making lots of noise, boat going nowhere. Like heros we would jump across the boats to save the mostly red faced lads and their peeved arm candy. Spent hours replacing those shear pins!

There was a boating lake further west past the King Alfred where the boat had internal engines not like those outboard looking ones. I can still smell the exhaust fumes!
Unless of course my memory fails me.

 

[A mex eyecan]

There was a boating lake further west past the King Alfred where the boat had internal engines not like those outboard looking ones. I can still smell the exhaust fumes!
Unless of course my memory fails me.

I think you may right, but at the lagoon Hove?
I seem to remember that it was divided into two parts, one for model boats and the other for some wooden motor boats.
Again as you, I may be wrong.

 

[Daddies_Sauce]

There was a boating lake further west past the King Alfred where the boat had internal engines not like those outboard looking ones. I can still smell the exhaust fumes!
Unless of course my memory fails me.

Indeed the boats next to the west pier had external mounted engines, if I remember correctly, I was one of the few who did not drop an engine into the lake when having to remove it to replace the shearing pin.

 

[PeterOut]

I think you may right, but at the lagoon Hove?
I seem to remember that it was divided into two parts, one for model boats and the other for some wooden motor boats.
Again as you, I may be wrong.

You are not wrong - you are correct

 

[BrightonCottager]

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

The Article 4 direction requiring certain paint colours wasn't in force until the 70I think.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Indeed the boats next to the west pier had external mounted engines, if I remember correctly, I was one of the few who did not drop an engine into the lake when having to remove it to replace the shearing pin.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

I think you may right, but at the lagoon Hove?
I seem to remember that it was divided into two parts, one for model boats and the other for some wooden motor boats.
Again as you, I may be wrong.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Must be one or two NSCers pictured here sporting some quality denim cuts.

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

That'll be the Spurs game when the away fans broke out of the pen. I was only 9 years old and down in the south end of the West terrace but remember my dad getting ready to pick me up and get clear if the Spurs fans had got much closer.

 

[dejavuatbtn]

That'll be the Spurs game when the away fans broke out of the pen. I was only 9 years old and down in the south end of the West terrace but remember my dad getting ready to pick me up and get clear if the Spurs fans had got much closer.

They got into the north and forced fans into the chicken wire fence in the north west corner. How it didn’t collapse and cause fatalities I’ll never know and be forever grateful.

 

[dejavuatbtn]

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Back in the sixties they had canoes in the small lake and wooden motorboats in the large one.

 

[marlowe]

There was a boating lake further west past the King Alfred where the boat had internal engines not like those outboard looking ones. I can still smell the exhaust fumes!
Unless of course my memory fails me.

 

[dolphins]

Apologies if fixtures but just watched this and thought they'd done a great job matching/blending the old and new pictures:

 

[Is it PotG?]

A bustling 1940s Castle Square?

 

[Is it PotG?]

North St / West St c.1875?

 

[Perfidious Albion]

Madeira arches in the past. I wonder what became of that sailor and his girl ?

Today this is about as near as you can get .. They have been closed off for some time as unsafe . Rather sad

 

[Is it PotG?]

Madeira arches in the past. I wonder what became of that sailor and his girl ?
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Today this is about as near as you can get .. They have been closed off for some time as unsafe . Rather sad
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Similar spot in 1915