[Brighton] Old Brighton Postcard

[Dick Head]

Saltdean?

How can you be so sure?

 

[Weststander]

How can you be so sure?

I have increasing doubts, go on, put me out of my misery .... I was wrong.

 

[bhafc99]

I've got a couple of thousand old Brighton postcards, this one of the B&HA Moochers being a favourite. Probably what the Ist team squad is doing at the moment
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It's pre Great War, as R. Whiting, the goalkeeper, is sitting on the right and he was killed in the war.

Great shot. You can even spot a young Glenn Murray there, sitting second in from the right, in the early days of his Brighton career.


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[Shropshire Seagull]

I have increasing doubts, go on, put me out of my misery .... I was wrong.

I'd recognise that view with my eyes closed - I'm with team [MENTION=21158]Weststander[/MENTION]

 

[Dick Head]

I have increasing doubts, go on, put me out of my misery .... I was wrong.

No, on further consideration the green glazed roof tiles on the houses in the distance are making me come round to thinking that you might possibly be right. It's a difficult one.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Southwick?

 

[Jack Straw]

Southwick?

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That's a fascinating photo. Perhaps the Harbour Master's house? Must have had a job at the harbour?

 

[Weststander]

Southwick?

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Barcombe Mills?

 

[Boys 9d]

What was called the Brighton "A" Power Station after the more recent "B" Power Station was built in the 1950s and on whose site is the present Power Station. Beyond the Power Station in the photo it is just possible to see the Gas Works. All three plants existed in my younger days. I don't however remember the house.

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

Southwick?

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House has been photo-shopped in?

 

[Weststander]

House has been photo-shopped in?

They certainly shouldn’t wash their dirty lining in public.

 

[Is it PotG?]

House has been photo-shopped in?

No idea. Approx date is 1930s.

Did they have Photoshop then? (waits for it.........)

 

[half time scores]

What was called the Brighton "A" Power Station after the more recent "B" Power Station was built in the 1950s and on whose site is the present Power Station. Beyond the Power Station in the photo it is just possible to see the Gas Works. All three plants existed in my younger days. I don't however remember the house.

Do you remember the stench from the Gas Works?

 

[Hu_Camus]

This should be included, in my view.

 

[Jack Straw]

Do you remember the stench from the Gas Works?

I certainly do. Today, if you walk / cycle along the road by the sea behind the power station when there is a gently southerly wind, there is a fifty meter stretch where you get a whiff of the most nauseating stench imaginable. It looks like there's a sewage farm there, or is it from the power station?

 

[Stat Brother]

House has been photo-shopped in?

While the windows have been photo-shopped out,

 

[dejavuatbtn]

I remember the hot pipe coming out of the old works. It caused a lot of undercurrent that proved fatal for quite a few over the years,

 

[Is it PotG?]

House has been photo-shopped in?

Here's an earlier pic

 

[banjo]

 

[banjo]