Should Hove have independence from its imperialist sister Brighton?

[symyjym]

I said this 20 years ago when the Londoners arrived in droves and forced property prices up out of reach of the indigenous population.

Brighton used to be a great town and built at the height of the Regency and Victorian era when anything was considered possible. Unfortunately once we hit the 60’s corruption and incompetence set in.

We lost our ice skating rink and the Brighton Tigers, and then the Brighton Bandstand sat neglected since 1972, shortly followed by the abandoning of the West Pier 1975. Even when the Brighton Marina was built it was never really finished to the true design or original aspirations and was left for decades as a slab of concrete in the sea.

To top that we lost the seafront illuminations.

 

[The Large One]

Brighton used to be a great town and built at the height of the Regency and Victorian era when anything was considered possible. Unfortunately once we hit the 60’s corruption and incompetence set in.

We lost our ice skating rink and the Brighton Tigers, and then the Brighton Bandstand sat neglected since 1972, shortly followed by the abandoning of the West Pier 1975. Even when the Brighton Marina was built it was never really finished to the true design or original aspirations and was left for decades as a slab of concrete in the sea.

To top that we lost the seafront illuminations.

Someone has refurbished the bandstand at least...

 

[symyjym]

Someone has refurbished the bandstand at least...

Yep it only took them 40 years, probably more through being an embarrassing stain on our seafront, complaints from the residents and the lesson learnt from the West Pier burning into the sea.

The Beach Boys played on the Bandstand just before it closed. Video below which included the West Pier in its final glory.