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The Knowhere Guide - Best and Worst in Brighton



Sep 24, 2003
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The Knowhere Guide

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Best and Worst in Brighton

Favourite Building

west pier. unfortunately the uk planning policy is so ultra conservative, and no doubt run by a bunch of daily mail reading cretins, that i cant see a time when we have any decent architecture. dont blame the architects... i hope im wrong, but i aint.
The West Beach Hotel in Kings Road, Brighton is a stunning Victorian-style listed building. www.westbeachhotel.co.uk
the old pier - shame someone burnt it down
brightons architecture sucks. i blame the planners. the west peir is fav building.
hmmm... just add water cos of the smell! daffy
the Pavilion at night. Or Concorde2 are playing a really great gig.
Who is the idiot who described St Bartholemew's as 'horrifically evil'? Step inside you fool - absolutely beautiful, and you might even learn to be a bit less negative (well, we can always hope).
the pavillion, I'm gonna buy it when I am a gillionaire and if anyone tries to stop me I'll just pay them off
metropole or the grand.
poor old west pier
That special building with the red door half-way up Elm Grove.
Embassy court.
the Pavillion lit up at night
pavillion
The Pavilion is superb, as is the Dome next to it - if they'll ever !"£!ing finish the work they're doing to it! Churchill Square looks a million dollars since its overhall, as do those two horrible factory buildings overlooking Lewes Road - whoever thought up turning them from disgusting derelict factories into achingly desirable apartments using just a lick of paint is a genius.
The Argus building. Shame on you Ternece Conran for turning it into loft apartments that no-one can afford. And what happened to its lovely clock?
The West Pier. It's been left to rot for too many years and is supposedly being renovated at some point with lottery funding. For 6 quid you can take a tour of the shut-down building pier with a specialist guide; go to the hut at the entrance to the pier.
You might want to put the web-site of S. Bartholomew's Church on your Links page. It has more than 50 pictures. Richard Jess
Palace Pier, now renamed 'Brighton Pier'.
Hove town hall, I don't expect anyone to agree especially if they work there.
I know it is a little boring but The Pavilion...it is one of the few things that I miss about Brighton...there is nothing in Britain to compare
anywhere with decent graffiti
Tne public toilet in St.James Street.
Go see Foredown Tower ( Hangleton ) - it has a camera obscura to view surrounding area - Town & Downs.
The pier at night
Not so much a building, but the pier is pretty cool, especially when its lit up at night.
Varndean (Boys) School. Imposing with a fantastic view across Brighton to the sea.
home.
Western front Pub.
Most of the seafront.
St Bartholemew's church

Demolish It Now Building

John St. Police Station (with the coppers in it).
the parking attendants building flattened with them all inside. the brighton peir detroyed complete with its pay load of dfl's "dahn from landan"
church hill square
The Council offices. Every church in Brighton blown up... but that`s my opinion \m/
brighton centre
I haven't been to Brighton fo a while, but I went on A sunny Sunday with some of my students. It was very nice except for the place with the chain stores, the Marks and Spencers and so forth which occupied a newish, square, brick edifice. It was ugly, closed, litter strewn and wind-blown. It looked like any other shopping centre of the like which can be found in every other town and city in the UK. These chain store sites do nothing for the locality in which they are located. Rather, they suck the life and character out of a place. Brighton doesn't need this. Demolish it now.
The Block of flats on the seafront should be burnt down.Th
the rusty old building outside the west pier uugghh - Daffy
the West pier! whats the point of spending money on another pier that will never be used again?
the Brighton centre and Jordan's House even though its not here anymore
Hilton West Pier Hotel Odeon Brighton Centre
the odeon. without a doubt. or hove town hall.
Amex House, looks like the Dalek's headquarters from "invasion Earth 2025". Most people who work there have about as much charm/personality as Davros anyway.
The Brighton Charter Hotel
damn it the brighton pier- someone just burn it.. ok, someone just flatten it.
Churchill Square!!
churchill square
london rd where 7 11 was
St. Bartholemews and the brick church in Lewes Road are horrifically evil/ugly respectively, as is the Brighton Centre. It'd be nice if they either demolished or did up the West Pier too.
That really scummy high-rise building on the seafront between
Brighton and Hove - you can't miss it!
down under hostel and the pub next to it...extend their visas: we don't want 'em...return to sender..etc
The Brighton Centre is hardly a credit to the seafront.
Churchill Square
Brighton Uni, Falmer Site! It's all asbestos!!!
The West pier. Its had it so why waste all that money?
Cardinal Newman School and Hove Town Hall ...and well all of Hove too while you are at it...and could someone oblterate the abomination that is Hangleton
Priory House and anything run by Brighton and Hove Town Council
The Leveller's house
All the flats in Brighton, and build some AFFORDABLE houses for people in Brighton to BUY. Who wants to live in a flat, surrounded by scummy students, and pay a fortune for it as well? Demolish Brighton and start again. Don't ever move to Brighton if you want to buy a house, there are none! It's all flats.
The residential building along the seafront with all the paint peeling off, near the Brighton centre
The old Top Rank building.
hove town hall
Outreach Centre

The Best Things

the winter when the town is returned to its residents the summer when its buisy.
The West Beach Hotel in Kings Road offers comfortable, cheap rooms, friendly staff and has an nightclub on site too! www.westbeachhotel.co.uk
There is a goob kebab house in Brighton, so good that two of my Turkish friends use it, that is Delight Kebab in Preston Circus. My boss who is a kitchen manager and a previously a kebab chef says it is the best kebab he has had in a long time
going out on week-day night
summer
The seafront,the pier and the lanes
skating, punks (hell yeah we aint dead!), music and the neverending supply of dope from the basketball courts lol! - Daffy
the atmosphere in Brighton is vibrant, fiesty, varied and never fails to bring a smile to the face!
Topless bathing The Train Station to London The Thistle hotel
Its got loadsa cool little shops for the skate community and loadsa good independent music shops.
Brighton & Hove Albion!
Sea World
Swimming in the sea.
Sundays
The beach in summer!!!
hot skate/hiphop/ dread men grrrrrrrr
brighton by the see
Everyone who visits Brighton likes it.
cod and chips on the pier...food's not bad for england. and hove's just up the road.
The Pussycat Club, 176 Church Road, Hove. Fantastic girls, great entertainment.I guarantee it will put a smile on yuour face!!
-Chilled out atmosphere! -Friendly locals -The beach!!!
The beach in the evening, can we say communal!
The Record Shops, the Sea, the Downs
Brighton Station Carpark...all day for £3.50 (or less if the barriers are up!) The shops Choice of pubs and clubs
Nightlife best outside London. Great women and great men too!
The high quaklity and number of nice cheap restaurants
Restaurants The Lanes jewellery shops.Better than Hatton Garden or Bond street! Even better than Antwerps Diamond district! Hanningtons old fashion dept.store. Easy going streets.
The clubs, the pubs, the care-free, student friendly atittudes (hardly any dress codes). The North Laines are superb for shopping and the pier is always good for wasting your cash on.
The nightlife is amazing, there's just so many clubs, and because of this there is loads of competition, and therefore loads of cheap drinks. Shopping in Brighton is also completely tops.
seaside, easy going atmosphere, countryside, plenty pubs, walking distance to ,ost places
To happen, you're my world. you're the best thing.
The crusties, arty types, thesps, students, oldies, londoners, all having an icecream on the seafront all together.
It's about the only Southcoast town that's still alive & (around the lanes) kicking!
Pretty much always something to do.
Nightlife, food, the sea, the surrounding Downs.
There's paragliding on the hills nearby!

The Worst Things

The walk up the hill to the station from Churchill Square where the buses seem to stop... especially in winter
Having a partner who thinks it's great and wants to visit every weekend.
Finding a place to live and rental prices!
the labour conference the council seagulls ripping all the trash up the bolshevic bin men the council dfl's ('down from london' pronounced as scumbagly as you can)
going out friday and saturday when all the chavs decend on the town
chavs
traffic wardens, and the council for introducing the most agressive parking control in the country. theres just no need for it.
The seagulls
townies, they just create pointless trouble and look like idiots, trouser too short for them, all wear hats TN?? whats that about?? (Total Nobs)! they si around all day smokin theyre stupid fags and wearin the most expensive repulsive clothes imaginable, dudes chill
centre of town on a Friday or Saturday night-drunken idiots throwing up everywhere.
Regardless of this deadend seaside town being rewarded city status. It is actually a inbred shit hole! It consists of small minded racist tossers who give Dick Van Dyke a run for his money on fake cockney accents. Decpred pensioners who are a constant pain in the backside. Fatboy Slim The Education authorities are secret members of the Nazi party, get the point. The girls are the biggest tacky tarts you will ever see.
pricks and prickettes
Stuck up locals and students with their heads up their own arses. Too much traffic and locals who can't drive.
empty shops opposite st peters london road
The Brighton Charter Hotel One bathroom on each floor and someone had decided to have a cr*p in the bath. There was urine stains on the carpet in our room and semen on the bed covers. All for the fantastic price of 60 quid a night, oh yeah and they had the cheek to ask us to sign a declaration that we wouldnt smash our room up. Looked like someone had beaten us to it when we opened the door...
All the tosspots who move there to study because they think it makes them alternative and interesting, as though they're living in a UK San Fran, with every intention of getting a nice safe job a mortgage and a couple of grandchildren for your darling parents.
Move to Brighton and work for £4 an hour with some late twenty something ex-graduate failed DJ/Actress because there are no decent jobs as big companies locate all their call centres there because the town is full of losers who only aspire to earn enough to pay for their squalid room in a shared slum, travis haircuts, beer and rizla papers.
Yuppies and their expensive habits.
Mondays
wetherspoons
west street saturday night bish bash bosh Barbies and kens
the vagrents
too many townie bastards!
Brighton has a reputation for two types of people: Gays and Tramps. You wouldn't notice any gays except for the Gay Pride festival every summer - it's not in your face like some people fear it would be. However there are bloody homeless people everywhere - I don't mind people who don't have a place to live but when they LINE THE !$#%ING STREETS asking me for money or parade up and down Western Road shouting abuse you start to wonder why the dogs haven't been called in. Also there are simply too many Big Issue sellers and people petitioning for money up North Street and Western road.
The tourists!
the down under hostel near the beach...as an australian tourist, i refute it completely as unrepresentative. full of the neds we send back to mother's hairy arm-pits...and what's more russell crowe is a kiwi!
Moulscombb. Its f***ing disgusting. The rotting council houses filled with pikeys who set fire to the police station and any passer by very frequantly are bloody mouldy. My gran lived 2 miles from it and now has to have councilling just because she walked near it a few times. Knock it down please, the whole estate was built in the 20s/30s and has been neglected ever since. And its only on the outskirts of town!
Fighting and drunk lads tussling on West Street at eleven on a Saturday night.
the fact that your partner will go there a nice normal person , become obsessed with the place for some unknown reason, become an alcoholic, develop homosexual tendancies and eventually dump you for some scummy minger because they are as deluded as each other that it is the best place in the universe. SAD!!
-The freshers -The water, unswimmable!
stupid f***ing groupies of the Levellers whos biggest dream is only to move to Brighton (because the levellers live here) and only then will they be "cool". Shoot them on entry, PLEASE!!!!!!!!
The townies looking for a fight on a saturday night!
Constantly getting stopped in the street by people collecting for charity,aggressive beggars, market researchers etc. Try getting a cab after 6 in the evening Fri to Sun. House prices/rent
Fake Irish pubs.
The People
The council Parking in Brighton No Hungry Years No HVR
Seagulls. Students who actually left uni 5yrs before. Boy racers.
"S.I.T.A " the compant Brighton Council employ for rubbish collection - take a tip from the Continent - Shouldn't we invest in nightly street washing. Seagulls- open shooting season should be declared.
Brighton is a dirty, filthy place, with dirty, filthy people; a never-ending collection of crusties, drop-outs, drunks, beggars and worst of all, those people who were students once and have now decided they're going to be students forever - get a life! Ten years ago, Brighton was a nice, clean place - now the streets are littered with filth, rubbish and general scum. Brighton in the anus of the UK: all the sh*t ends up there, before dropping out. Move to an inner-city, northern location - it's cleaner and nicer, and there's no filthy people messing up the street as they stay at home (too scared to go out in case they get beaten up for being scum - good!!).
New Stein and Regency Square hotels all full up most summer Sats Suns. Even more full up during a triple conference week. Beach totally empty when skies are overcast
Hotels all full up all summer every Saturday Sunday. Big shortage of hotel space rest of time too unless you want to spend a grand.
Zel pubs. Full of vacuous Brighton trendies, and there are virtually no other pubs left.
dog shit - everywhere
damm tourists!!
Trying to rent a flat in Brighton or Hove off Satanic Estate agents.
Pollution on a hot Summer's day - and bird shit.
an unending number of 'Big Issue' sellers and a very sex mad amosphere means if your girlfriend goes there she wont come back
 
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Everest

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Jul 5, 2003
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Where's the "build it" section?
 


Scotty Mac

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Jul 13, 2003
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Jul 20, 2003
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Jonathon Livingstone said:
The Knowhere Guide

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Blah blah blah blah..............

an unending number of 'Big Issue' sellers and a very sex mad amosphere means if your girlfriend goes there she wont come back


......I think if your girlfriend runs off with a big issue salesman the relationship was on rocky ground to say the least
 








Jahooli

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Feb 12, 2008
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My apartments are cheaper, cleaner and have better views including the famous "theatre of trees", the magnificent "back of the old market" and "you can just see my old school from that corner of the window (if you stand on a chair)".

Also why are you ruining this fascinating thread with yer fancy ads?
 


The Large One

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We have an extensive portfolio of privately owned luxury apartments and cottages for short term holiday and business rental. Our Properties cover coastal Sussex from Worthing to Eastbourne, as well as our newest city, Brighton and Hove. We also have some rural cottages further inland. Our sea view properties, overlooking the English Channel, are much sought after as self catering accommodation - book early to avoid disappointment! :yahoo:

I already live somewhere nice, thanks.
 




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