[Brighton] Old Brighton Postcard

[zefarelly]

My first car was a Rapier series IV, lovely car. Wanted a Lotus Cortina though

THere are several Rapiers and a MInx racing in 50's saloons . . .and Alpines. I built quite a few engines for them. 1725's make great torque, but for class victories the latert 5 bearing 1500, with MGB steel rods, Forged bespoke pistons, a cam and webers, 140 BHP at 7000rpm. Cars are heavy though.

a Lotus twin cam is hard to beat. great sountrack, only the Alfa sounds as good/better without adding more cylinders.

dragging vaguely on topic . . . The Rootes group were well represented locally, and Harringtons had dealerships in Worthing as well as the coachworks in 'Ove actually, a few hundred yards from the Goldstone.

 

[Comrade Sam]

Western Road?

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Was this taken during or just after the war? I remember 25 years ago an old communist told me he was arrested holding a political meeting on a bombsight during the war, he pointed in the direction of where the rubble is in the picture.

 

[Weststander]

Western Road?

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Wow.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Montpelier Road?

 

[Is it PotG?]

Queen Square?

 

[Is it PotG?]

Lion Mansion, Brighton?

 

[Is it PotG?]

Cranbourne Street / West Street ?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Queen Square?

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For younger viewers, there used to be a little ice rink where that white hotel in the third photo now stands. Used to take my kids skating there in the late 80s/early 90s. Can't quite remember now, but I think it may have succumbed to a classic Brighton mystery fire

 

[Brovion]

Queen Square?

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Blimey, I never knew there used to be a church there.

EDIT: I've just researched it and apparently the church was still there until 1984! I don't remember it at all.

 

[Is it PotG?]

By The Aquarium?

 

[Official Old Man]

By The Aquarium?

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You cant just put this photo up without at least giving us a hint to the event that drew in so many people. Some kind of London to Brighton run but which one.
Also that church in Queens Square. Who on earth allowed its demolition?

 

[Is it PotG?]

Western Road?

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[Barrow Boy]

Cranbourne Street / West Street ?

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Love the photo of 'The Model Aerodrome', back in the 1960's I always used to stop and have a look in the windows on my way to skating at the SS Brighton and later the Top Rank ice rink.

 

[dejavuatbtn]

You cant just put this photo up without at least giving us a hint to the event that drew in so many people. Some kind of London to Brighton run but which one.
Also that church in Queens Square. Who on earth allowed its demolition?

You cant just put this photo up without at least giving us a hint to the event that drew in so many people. Some kind of London to Brighton run but which one.
Also that church in Queens Square. Who on earth allowed its demolition?

This was a photo from its reopening in 1929 - could be the same event?

 

[Is it PotG?]

Edward Street?

 

[Is it PotG?]

Western Road ?

 

[Is it PotG?]

London Road?

 

[Is it PotG?]

Marine Parade?

 

[Is it PotG?]

London Rd ?

 

[Official Old Man]

Check out this lot of pics. Just released photos taken by the US Army Air Force in WW2
For those with nothing else to do after the football.

Baseball and Bombers: USAAF Reconnaissance Photography During the Second World War | Historic England

The Historic England Archive’s USAAF Collection comprises over 20,000 photographic prints taken by USAAF photographic reconnaissance (PR) aircraft.

historicengland.org.uk