Dover
Home at Last.
The MK1 Concorde was where I had my first pint as a Brighton citizen, and of all things, a certain Rockin' Bill was doing an afternoon set. That was August Bank Holiday 1997.
The red bus is an old trolley bus, you can see the wires above it going up Preston Road. The last one ran on 30 June 1961 therefore the picture is correctly dated.
Some good snaps there.
In this one of the pier, you can see a sign that says CONCORDE. Is this a sign pointing down Madeira Drive to the Concorde 2 or was there another Concorde to which is refers?
My memory is that Norman cook was already pretty big at the time Big Beat Boutique started. I am pretty sure that he had already released Better Living Through Chemistry as Fat Boy Slim. (Although I will concede that my memories of that time are a little hazy).
The Chemical Brothers Dj'd at the opening Big Beat Boutique as I remember and they were incredible. They were truly some of the best nights of my life.
Wow. As recently as that??
Shocking I can't remember it then
I suspect that's more to do with the (high) quality of the print, and the lack of 'noise' in the picture.
I can well believe those dates on the photographs.
The red bus is an old trolley bus, you can see the wires above it going up Preston Road. The last one ran on 30 June 1961 therefore the picture is correctly dated.
am I the only one getting a load of red crosses and pictures unable to load?
Picture No 3.
Shows Speedway Motorcycles - always good for a browse.
They moved out to Lewes Road - by the gyratory - about 1978-ish
I was working in Redhill Motors at the bottom of North Road at the time
Picture No 9.
In the background you can see the roof of the music hall / cinema before it was knocked down and turned in to Boots
There is a good facebook page for all things Brighton past.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/176086192429776/?hc_location=stream
This is a very good video of Brighton past.
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/brighton-1/query/brighton
Just skip the first 4 and a half minutes unless your into racing.
Me too; I worked in the Western Road branch for 7 years.Great pictures. Those later ones bring back lots of memories. I also spent lots of my time in the virgin record shop and when it moved to Western Road.
Jeez...apart from the first pic I was about the town on all the rest of them...tempus fugit...