[Brighton] Photos of Brighton 1976

[Super Steve Earle]

They still were in the 80’s, I got invites to Lombard and L&G xmas parties, nightclubs hired for the night, everyone wildly drunk out of skins.

And the 90's ...

 

[Is it PotG?]

Missed out here, I have been in the emply of both Lombard and L&G, Xmas was pretty predictable.

Did own a blue NW Globe piggy bank though, and worked out how to pilfer my sibling's millions without a key.

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Missed out here, I have been in the emply of both Lombard and L&G, Xmas was pretty predictable.

Did own a blue NW Globe piggy bank though, and worked out how to pilfer my sibling's millions without a key.

As they used to say 'NatWest is Best'

 

[Bodian]

One of my older brothers and a mate of his worked for one year at NW Castle Square after leaving school in 1974. I remember three things about his time there.

- a translucent globe NW piggy bank, given as a gift to me.
- Laurence Olivier was a customer.
- they said there was pervy assistant manager, a loser, who preyed on teenage female staff. Unrequited, these days it would be sexual assault. At their one Xmas do there, they caught the perv who’d trapped a young girl in a room who was crying. My drunken bro, a big bloke, grabbed the perv and slammed him against a wall and slurred something along the lines of “Don’t fkn touch her again”. Nothing was ever said, bro kept his job.

Phew. Glad I wasn't there in '74! Mind you staff Christmas parties were pretty close to the wire for decades.

They still were in the 80’s, I got invites to Lombard and L&G xmas parties, nightclubs hired for the night, everyone wildly drunk out of skins.

Missed out here, I have been in the emply of both Lombard and L&G, Xmas was pretty predictable.

Did own a blue NW Globe piggy bank though, and worked out how to pilfer my sibling's millions without a key.

Linking into other posts - NW used to hire out the Odeon, and we were all bussed in from far & wide. Didn't have a globe, but did have a complete set of piggy's, which were worth quite a lot when I swapped them in an antique shop for a beautiful 1910 chiming clock - but now so low in value on ebay I could hardly buy a cheap watch.

Cashed a cheque for £50 for Anne Nightingale once, and as a gent on TV is still alive I can't reveal what was on his notes from when he first had an account as a lad.

Almost got the sack for pinning this from Viz up on the noticeboard https://www.flickr.com/photos/23875695@N06/7534393746

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Linking into other posts - NW used to hire out the Odeon, and we were all bussed in from far & wide. Didn't have a globe, but did have a complete set of piggy's, which were worth quite a lot when I swapped them in an antique shop for a beautiful 1910 chiming clock - but now so low in value on ebay I could hardly buy a cheap watch.

Cashed a cheque for £50 for Anne Nightingale once, and as a gent on TV is still alive I can't reveal what was on his notes from when he first had an account as a lad.

Almost got the sack for pinning this from Viz up on the noticeboard https://www.flickr.com/photos/23875695@N06/7534393746

Sorry to the OP if it's a slight thread derailment, but seeing the Viz comment reminded me that my cousin gave me a 1976 Mayfair calender for Christmas, full frontal Linda Lusardi and all, which duly went on the wall above my desk in the main office. I have no idea why I thought it appropriate or why nobody told me to take it down. Different times I guess!

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

Ooh, another haunt I've not yet seen mentioned was Mr K's along London Road on the corner of Gloucester St - North Laine Brewhouse is there now ...

Snog and a fumble in the dark ....
Gut-buster at the all-night diner afterwards - oh Lord!

 

[Hamilton]

Just seen this thread and it’s made me tear up a bit. No idea why, but there you go. Thanks for sharing.


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[PTC Gull]

Some good memories in those pics, as others have said the drinking routes of a Sat night are coming back. The picture of the Lanes and Vassos was nice to see, as my late Dad knew the owners.

 

[dannyboy]

I have a quick question.... Is this Peppa at the hungry years a scary spanish woman ? If so i was barred too ... standing on a chair i think !

 

[BN9 BHA]

I have a quick question.... Is this Peppa at the hungry years a scary spanish woman ? If so i was barred too ... standing on a chair i think !

Sounds like a school teacher

 

[BN9 BHA]

Some good memories in those pics, as others have said the drinking routes of a Sat night are coming back. The picture of the Lanes and Vassos was nice to see, as my late Dad knew the owners.

I was looking at the photo of Vassos and couldn’t work out exactly where is/was.

 

[Gwylan]

Ooh, another haunt I've not yet seen mentioned was Mr K's along London Road on the corner of Gloucester St - North Laine Brewhouse is there now ...

Snog and a fumble in the dark ....
Gut-buster at the all-night diner afterwards - oh Lord!

Two other places I've never been to.

Reading these threads always make me think that I was living in a different Brighton from everybody else

 

[Weststander]

Some good memories in those pics, as others have said the drinking routes of a Sat night are coming back. The picture of the Lanes and Vassos was nice to see, as my late Dad knew the owners.

I went to the same place in the mid-80’s a couple of times, purely for the one lunchtime drink with girlfriends and mates.

Stepping outside hours later, everyone absolutely smashed. Great memories.

By then it was called Stenos.

 

[Weststander]

I was looking at the photo of Vassos and couldn’t work out exactly where is/was.

Do you know now?

Brighton Square, that’s the SE corner.

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

Just remembered, in the late seventies I got banned from The Druids Head after winning the £5.00 jackpot on the fruit machine.
As it was a busy Saturday night the barwoman said come back in the morning for it!
I said just pay me now out of the till - ended up a barman slinging me a fiver and escorting me out saying I was banned.
Needless to say I carried on using the pub

 

[brianwade]

https://flashbak.com/kodachrome-photos-of-brighton-in-1976-446596/

Just seen this on Twitter.

Photos of the town not the team.

Fascinating whoever uploaded that - theres one of my house on them !! Cheers RP

 

[Happy Exile]

My first memories of Brighton are a handful of years after this as I was too young/not local in 1976 but some of what's in the photos feels very familiar. The photo of radio controlled boats on the Pier especially has brought back a childhood memory I'd forgotten I had. Lovely stuff.

 

[BN9 BHA]

Do you know now?

Brighton Square, that’s the SE corner.

Thanks.
I had a rough idea but couldn’t find it yesterday evening when looking at Google Earth, I didn’t know it was called Brighton Square.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Some good memories in those pics, as others have said the drinking routes of a Sat night are coming back. The picture of the Lanes and Vassos was nice to see, as my late Dad knew the owners.

I remember taking a posh girl who smoked Sobranie Cocktails upstairs in there (sadly not a euphemism). The price of two coffees

 

[sams dad]

Ooh, another haunt I've not yet seen mentioned was Mr K's along London Road on the corner of Gloucester St - North Laine Brewhouse is there now ...

Snog and a fumble in the dark ....
Gut-buster at the all-night diner afterwards - oh Lord!

I think that was known as the Birds Nest in the 70's