Rich Suvner
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you beat me to it - i'd also suggest that 'HMS King Alfred' would definitely have had much to do with this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_King_Alfred_(shore_establishment_1939)
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you beat me to it - i'd also suggest that 'HMS King Alfred' would definitely have had much to do with this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_King_Alfred_(shore_establishment_1939)
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The Frankland monument in Coledean woods always fascinates me.
Monument to Frederick Frankland:: OS grid TQ3309 :: Geograph Britain and Ireland - photograph every grid square!
Monument to Frederick Frankland:: OS grid TQ3309 :: Geograph Britain and Ireland - photograph every grid square!
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I thought it was Hollingdean that both fascinated you and made you crap your knickers at the same time Timothy, not Coldean Woods!
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Hollingdean fascinates everyone I thought. It hasn't 'dipped' in my affections.
Lord Bracknell
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Why Montpelier? Where does the name come from? And why isn't it spelt "Montpellier", like the French do?
I'd like to visit Brighton and Hove before I die. Brighton always seems a fascinating place full of interesting buildings and Hove was the birthplace of one of my favourite actresses.
I've never been to the South coast of England and probably never will.
I've never been to the South coast of England and probably never will.
Why did Charles Parnell live in Hove? It seems a genteel place for such a radical and significant figure to end his days (and a rather long way from home).
And why isn't more made of this? I only found out by accident after playing cricket in Wish Road and seeing the plaque on the wall. When we learned about him at school, there was no mention of him living (and dying) in the area. Is he really such a divisive figure a 100 years after his death.
And why isn't more made of this? I only found out by accident after playing cricket in Wish Road and seeing the plaque on the wall. When we learned about him at school, there was no mention of him living (and dying) in the area. Is he really such a divisive figure a 100 years after his death.
Sergei Gotsmanov
Russian international
On the undercliff pass between the Marina and saltdean there are some seriously heavy duty doors built into the bottom of the cliffs. Always wonder what's inside. Guess it something to do with the sewers.
Mendoza
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Regency Square Car Park
You go in, drive down three levels to get out, and you end up on the same level as you started at
You go in, drive down three levels to get out, and you end up on the same level as you started at
34064 Fighter Command
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I'd love to take a peek inside the Hippodrome in Middle Street, although when it was being operated as a bingo hall I really couldn't have been bothered. Must be getting old..........
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Escape passages in case of nuclear explosion or attempted abduction of pupils from Roedean.
34064 Fighter Command
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East of the Marina is one of Brighton's most unusual and inspiring walks, along the bottom of the chalk cliffs that run from the Marina to the suburb of Saldean, a distance of about 4.5 km. The cliff is a part of a longer line of cliffs that reach along the coast to the port of Newhaven.
However, this is not a walk along a sandy or shingle beach but along what is known as a seawall. To do the Undercliff Walk is to walk along a battlement, but the enemy is not an army or even a navy, but the sea. The coastline, literally the line between the sea and the land, is ever changing. Left to nature the cliff face would recede as erosion by wave, wind and rain brings about rock falls, year on year, perhaps by as much as 0.5 metres per year. But on top of the cliff runs the busy A259 coast road, not so very far from the cliff's edge. And in the cliff at about the level of the seawall runs the main trunk intercepting sewer from Brighton to Portobello where it discharges into the sea via a long sea outfall. This sewer is about 7ft in diameter.
Culture: Undercliff Walk
Lord Bracknell
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... although there is a tunnel through the cliffs that goes directly into Roedean School.
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I do wish you'd change your custom user title, it annoys the pedant in me.
Gotsmanov was from Belarus, not Russia. His international career started with the Soviet Union, but when it split, he played for Belarus, NEVER Russia.
Soviet international or Belorussian international - either will do.
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My old man claims there's a passage to the school that he and some his mates used to meet the girls during and just after the war. (...and before the paedo jokes start, he was 14 when the war ended).
Could be that if it's in the right place.
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Not Andy Naylor
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I thought the same until I went round some of the artists' open houses in the Festival this year. I was surprised, especially by the size of some of the back gardens. Much more light and space than you'd expect.
The Large One
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Has anyone got a map of the tunnels under Brighton - especially the ones used by the Prince Regent?