Places in Brighton that are a mystery to you

[Gary Leeds]

Just found a pic of the proposed Old Steine terminus



And if you want a link to the full article you can find it here http://www.semgonline.com/RlyMag/BtonDirectScheme.pdf

 

[CHAPPERS]

This thread is the coolest.

 

[Hiney]

Just found a pic of the proposed Old Steine terminus

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And if you want a link to the full article you can find it here http://www.semgonline.com/RlyMag/BtonDirectScheme.pdf

Some great stuff in there, including:

"the villianous Brighton Railway Company enforce(d) excessive fares by the fast trains and provide(d) a service of unparalleled slowness and unpunctuality for the multitude"

Some things just don't change over the years.

 

[Mellotron]

This thread is the coolest.

Dave: "Of course it's cool. It's awesome as shit."

 

[34064 Fighter Command]

Another before and after shot - this one of the windmill.

The owners - none other than the Cuttress family.

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You'd have thought they would have called it Mill Rd. instead of Belton Rd. ( I guess that name was already spoken for - would have confused the Post Office ! ) but I see someone has called No. 25 'Mill House'. The houses in the background are those in Prince's Rd. I take it - this is great, I can tour the area from my computer without having to worry about all those hills, but at some point I shall have to get off at London Rd. and have a gander (using various watering holes as stop-offs. I should think getting to Cobden Rd. will require a long rest in 'The Constant Service' , hopefully they'll live up to their name and keep the Harvey's flowing) .

 

[Shy Talk]

Wow, I used to live in that house! The one where the shopfront was.No. 1 Roundhill Road.

 

[Gary Leeds]

Some great stuff in there, including:

"the villianous Brighton Railway Company enforce(d) excessive fares by the fast trains and provide(d) a service of unparalleled slowness and unpunctuality for the multitude"

Some things just don't change over the years.

I loved the bit about the Brighton Electric Railway that were planning a terminus at Furze Hill with a non stop journey time of 42 minutes to London, they cant even do that now. And when the residents of Croydon complained they didnt get a train the solution was to slow the train down as it approached, automatically uncouple a carriage and let it run into Croydon itself. And to connect a carriage from Croydon to a Brighton train they basically did the reverse and let the carriage crash into the back of the moving fast train!!!

 

[34064 Fighter Command]

One thing that hasn't changed in Edward St. is the Oakley Marine outboard motors business, although I remember him also as a Fiat / Yugo dealership before they concentrated on marine outboards. Their website says they moved to a Suzuki dealership in 1983 and I can remember noticing the change of signeage outside the shop as I went past.

Plus of course there's the National Spiritualist Church dating from 1965 - now used as a Brighton Fringe Festival Venue. Possibly the strangest building on the whole of Edward St. - apparently built to replace an earlier chapel demolished to make way for the Amex building.

Looking at my walking route I can't believe I went that way every time as it looks far too steep - I must have taken the less steep route along Mt. Pleasant ( by the Brighton Boys Club building ) and down Carlton Hill - John St. if I had a lot to carry (or had been crocked during a games afternoon - usually had a pulled muscle at some point but that's why footballers have these fancy ice baths nowadays, we weren't molly-coddled like that ), but after a saturday morning of school it was the quickest way to get to the Goldstone early - I wasn't entitled to stay for lunch on saturday as the fees were 'extra' for that and it was meant for boarders only so I used to get something to eat at the station.

 

[Nibble]

Lovin this thread, especially as a lot of it has centred on the area I have lived for a while now. Top effort!

 

[34064 Fighter Command]

One alternative route to school for me ( as an alternative to the usual run down the A23 ) was to go over Ditchling Beacon and down Ditchling Road to the Level, but I never had an opportunity to explore any of the side roads - however the BP Garage on top of the London Rd. Station 'tunnel' was a familiar landmark, and I'd always known that was where the railway line to Lewes went underneath - now I have the chance to go underneath on every trip to the Amex.

The building on the corner of Ditchling Rd. and Viaduct Rd. always reminded me of Brighton College and I'd assumed it was designed and built by the same man, George Gilbert-Scott ( who also taught Thomas Graham Jackson, an OB - responsible for most of the Eastern Rd. frontage. Gilbert-Scott had only done the main building, Chapel and Headmasters ( now Head's house ) house ). The Ditchling Rd. building turns out to be the work of William and Edward Habershon and was originally an Anglican womens teacher training college - when I went past it would have been the Royal Engineers archive and record office, so I guess was part of Preston barracks.

 

[Frutos]

There's a series just starting on Sky Atlantic called "Urban Secrets" which features the actor Alan Cumming going around one of Britain and Ireland's cities each week and uncovering bits of it which are off the beaten track and largely unknown, even to residents.

This week is about London but, to judge from the montage at the start of the programme,one of the episodes is going to be about Brighton.

 

[Mackenzie]

My grandad used to own the Great Eastern pub which was opposite what is now the Gala bingo hall on Eastern Road.

Proper den of iniquity.

 

[Worthing exile]

Just thought I would bump this excellent thread back to the top lol

 

[Stewart]

I will never, ever, know my way round Mile Oak. The place is a maze.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

I'm thinking I could team up with [MENTION=2019]jevs[/MENTION] and break in to the PP clocktower.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

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I'm thinking I could team up with [MENTION=2019]jevs[/MENTION] and break in to the PP clocktower.

Who would have the key?

 

[TheMajor]

This is Portslade manor

Manor Lodge

Loxdale

Last but not least, my old youthclub

It's right posh in Portslade Old Village

Were you an Easthill lad ?

 

[glasfryn]

I will never, ever, know my way round Mile Oak. The place is a maze.

I lived in 3 different places there
Mile Oak rd
Broomfield Drive
Graham Ave
and it was only when we moved to the last I started to get to know my way around
its a great place for children plenty of open spaces

 

[Weststander]

Mile Oak ... yuk.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Mile Oak ... yuk.

Where do you live then?