Secret Brighton

[Doc Lynam]

What do we know about Brighton in times gone by?

Post your historical/ unusual fact about Brighton.

To start off in Norman time's, the area that is now known as Patcham was given as a gift to a Norman solider shortly after the battle of Hastings. It used to be massive! Its boundaries going north to Hurstpierpoint, east to what is Moulescoomb and west to what is now Dyke Rd. Also Patcham has a very old Norman church with a rare (very faded) Doom painting on the wall.
Whoever put the concrete on the outside ruined a real Brighton treasure.

 

[house your seagull]

The French navy inavded Hove in 1545.

2 Canonballs from the failed raid are helf in Hove Museum.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

St Helens Church, Hangleton.

Oldest building in Brighton and Hove still in use. 14th century paintings were discovered during renovations in the 70's. Well worth a visit during their open day each summer to get the full guided tour and history.

 

[surrey jim]

Brighton Police force was the first to introduce two way radios.

 

[BHAFC_Pandapops]

The French navy inavded Hove in 1545.

2 Canonballs from the failed raid are helf in Hove Museum.

I think i have a drawing of that raid somewhere

 

[house your seagull]

I think i have a drawing of that raid somewhere

this is from the 1790s ... a different french invasion

 

[zfleas]

The first package holiday ever sold was a coach trip from Loughborough to Brighton

 

[Doc Lynam]

this is from the 1790s ... a different french invasion

What a great piece of propaganda art. Organised British soldiers in the back ground, whilst in the fore ground two French men beg two women not to hurt them!

 

[jackalbion]

theres a shooting range under brighton station

 

[ifuhatepalacestandup]

The Hove Amber Cup is one of Britain's most important Bronze Age finds. It was discovered in 1856 when a burial mound was excavated to make way for the building of Palmeira Avenue, in Hove, Sussex. Inside the burial mound was an oak coffin carved from a tree trunk. It contained bone fragments, a copper-alloy dagger, whetstone and an axe-head as well as the precious amber cup. These grave goods are over 3,200 years old.
The cup is made from amber from northern Europe. Its burial in Hove suggests early trade links between England and the Baltic. The presence of this unique and valuable object may signify that the Hove burial mound was the grave of a very important person.
is now back on display in hove museum

 

[Monkey Man]

Magnus Volk drew up plans for an underground railway which would have linked the station with various points of the seafront.

 

[BHAFC_Pandapops]

Figure 19: an Elizabethan drawing of a French raid on the town of Brighton or 'Brithampton'. Although dated 1545, it is believed to depict an attack of 1514. Notes the church, fire beacons and windmills; also that tenements of the 'Lower Town' and the single street of Hove Village.

 

[The Large One]

Mohandas Gandhi was a semi-regular visitor to 29 Cleveland Road.

 

[Gwylan]

The first package holiday ever sold was a coach trip from Loughborough to Brighton

No. The first package trip sold was by Thomas Cook from Leicester to Loughborough (and it was by train). Thomas Cook was a stalwart of the temperance movement and his first trips were to temperance meetings - very non-Brighton in fact.

 

[Doc Lynam]

View attachment 33560 Figure 19: an Elizabethan drawing of a French raid on the town of Brighton or 'Brithampton'. Although dated 1545, it is believed to depict an attack of 1514. Notes the church, fire beacons and windmills; also that tenements of the 'Lower Town' and the single street of Hove Village.

Great pic can't read the writing does it name any of the streets? Also like the Trebuchet in what is now Kemptown.

 

[BHAFC_Pandapops]

Middle of the picture i'm sure is the Old Steine the church just above is St Nicholas' I'm thinking North Laine area are there. The french effectively sacked the village and left the church though, so the oldest unconsecrated land is Black Lion Lane in the old town.

 

[Rogero]

Brighton Police used to have white helmets in the summer.

 

[BBassic]

I always found this quite interesting: Brighton trunk murders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Badger]

Sussex CCC used to play their cricket in Park Crescent/The Level.

 

[BHAFC_Pandapops]

I always found this quite interesting: Brighton trunk murders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

that the lover's walk road one?