Do you remember the front page of the Argus classifieds, adverts for 20 plus cinemas? Not just Brighton eg The Ritz in Seaford.
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[Brighton] Old Brighton Postcard
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Do you remember the front page of the Argus classifieds, adverts for 20 plus cinemas? Not just Brighton eg The Ritz in Seaford.
Don’t recall that so much but I have been to plenty which have long since stopped being cinemas, like the one in Western Road, Hove that became a furniture store - the Embassy?
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
Blimey, what is that statue? Look like a replica of Nelson's Column. It also looks like it's from WW1 and an encouragement to buy War Bonds. I wonder how long it was there for?
aolstudios
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Nelson's Column at Preston Circus
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Ah thanks, so it was WW2 not WW1.Nelson's Column at Preston Circus
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Worried Man Blues
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Those buses are going damn fast! Was I really alive in that era, amazing!
Crispy Ambulance
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Superb.
Jack Straw
I look nothing like him!
I lived just down the road from where this film was shot - where Cowley Drive merges in to Bexhill Road, from 1962 to 1975, in Foxdown Road. The no. 48 green bus terminated there, whilst the no.45 red bus terminated at Cowley Drive shops, about half a mile down that road. It used to cost 5 old pence (2p), to get to Brighton. I've got an older person's bus-pass now!
The little girl carrying the ball up the hill and then dropping it. I can still remember the smell of those thin, cheap plastic footballs on a hot day. And when they broke (as they did very quickly) cutting it in half and wearing it like a hat. Was I the only one?
A mex eyecan
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no you weren’t.
Not sure if i’m mixing them up with another ball, but didn’t they have am almost metallicy ring to them when you bounced them on concrete slabs?
Yes. A sort of clangy clingy noise.
Edit: I couldn't find the noise, but there is a fascinating (?) rabbit hole to head down when you look for ball noises online - https://www.pond5.com/search?kw=plastic-ball&media=sfx
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Algernon
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And if you really wellied one it would never track in a straight line.
All over the place like a drunk returning home from the pub but 10 times as fast.
thedonkeycentrehalf
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The lack of parked cars is probably something younger people would struggle to believe these days.
1910 Charity Shield Winners?
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Uckfield Seagull
Looking their ages, I'd guess most are still alive. Although all drawing their pensions now. Anyone owning up to knowing them?
Neat front gardens and no cars parked on a grass verge
Shropshire Seagull
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I lived in Millyard Crescent until 1968. I have some old cine film my dad took of that era that I've had digitised.
Also, those back-loader busses, how we enjoyed jumping off while the bus was still moving ....
Happy days!