Baron Pepperpot
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The postcode system was originally invented in the Brighton Ship Street post office. Bloke called Keith apparently.
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jmsc
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sams dad
I hate Palarse
Brighton has the deepest hand-dug well in the world. The Woodingdean well took four years to dig and reached a depth of 1285 feet ( 850 feet were below sea level ).
It is beneath what is now the Nuffield hospital in Warren Road.
It is beneath what is now the Nuffield hospital in Warren Road.
BHAFC_Pandapops
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In June of 1916 there were reports of people hearing the guns firing on The Somme, during a cricket match.
Super Steve Earle
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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 know 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 know 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.
Little known fact: I was head choirboy there circa 1968.
Paskman
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It is not a trebuchet, but a warning beacon on a pivoting arm to enable it to be raised easily.
ifuhatepalacestandup
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Hove village
Although a settlement of some antiquity, the Hove that we see today is essentially an affluent Victorian new town. Until the early nineteenth century Hove remained a small fishing village stretching from the coast to the ancient parish church. The Church of St. Andrews or St. Andrews Old Church, dating to the early thirteenth century, is now the only building surviving from the original Hove village, though was itself substantially rebuilt from a long-term ruinous state in 1836. At this date the village amounted to little more than a single north-south street called Hove Drove, roughly the course of modern Hove Street, flanked by flint-built and red-tiled cottages. A visitor to Hove in 1835 reported 'a mean and insignificant assemblage of huts'. Other than the church, the only substantial pre-nineteenth-century building was Hove House (c.1785), later Hove Manor, owned by the Vallance family, the local landowners and brewers. At the bottom of the street The Ship Inn (1702), the oldest pub in Hove, served local fishermen and smugglers, and was the scene of regular bull-baitings, cock-fights and prize-fighting. On the shore were a small cluster of fishermens' cottages, boatyards and curing houses. The surrounding landscape was farmland and even into the early twentieth century parts of central Hove retained a decidedly rural aspect.
Although a settlement of some antiquity, the Hove that we see today is essentially an affluent Victorian new town. Until the early nineteenth century Hove remained a small fishing village stretching from the coast to the ancient parish church. The Church of St. Andrews or St. Andrews Old Church, dating to the early thirteenth century, is now the only building surviving from the original Hove village, though was itself substantially rebuilt from a long-term ruinous state in 1836. At this date the village amounted to little more than a single north-south street called Hove Drove, roughly the course of modern Hove Street, flanked by flint-built and red-tiled cottages. A visitor to Hove in 1835 reported 'a mean and insignificant assemblage of huts'. Other than the church, the only substantial pre-nineteenth-century building was Hove House (c.1785), later Hove Manor, owned by the Vallance family, the local landowners and brewers. At the bottom of the street The Ship Inn (1702), the oldest pub in Hove, served local fishermen and smugglers, and was the scene of regular bull-baitings, cock-fights and prize-fighting. On the shore were a small cluster of fishermens' cottages, boatyards and curing houses. The surrounding landscape was farmland and even into the early twentieth century parts of central Hove retained a decidedly rural aspect.
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skipper734
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Behind the Church to the right was St Helens Youth Club. Underneath the tree on the left in 1961 a little minx persuaded me to have a go at what would become a lifetimes interest of mine!
Theatre of Trees
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Due to longshore drift, the mouth of the River Adur was pushed eastwards to Hove near where the King Alfred is today until 1815 when the current entrance was cut into the shingle bank. Shoreham harbour was developed along the course of the old river in the 1850s whilst Hove Lagoon was opened in 1930 on former marshy ground. The dried up river basin can still be made out between the A259 and sea wall between the Lagoon and King Alfred particularly where the miniature golf course and tennis courts are.
Lord Bracknell
On fire
Between 1912 and 1917, the greatest anarchist philosopher of all time, Prince Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin, lived in Brighton (9 Chesham Street) and, later, Rottingdean. He returned from Rottingdean to Russia after the revolution, to be offered the position of Education Minister in the Bolshevik government (which he turned down). He has a Brighton bus and a Moscow metro station named after him.
He was World Beard Champion nine years running.
He was World Beard Champion nine years running.
Dover
Home at Last.
The canopy of the now empty but was squatted in house on Ditchiling Road, next to the Jewish Cemetery, has the words "Fire Escape Station" in the remnants of the stained glass.