Whats Brighton Famous for?

[tomysupercup]

Thanks guys thats a lot of stuff to write

Wikipedia kinda sucks!

Irrelevant information:

"The Green Party held a relatively high 22% of the vote in the Brighton Pavilion constituency in the 2005 general election, compared with 1% nationally, in addition to holding one of the ten European Parliament seats for the constituency."

do I give a Shit!!

 

[realfan]

Brighton is famous for the Largest Gay community in England (I think ?) :safeway:

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

Brighton is famous for the Largest Gay community in England (I think ?) :safeway:

largest gay population as a % of the entire population


there are clearly more gay people in bigger cities

 

[Mark Ormerod's Gloves]

the west pier. surely your friend would want to live in a city with a burnt down pier? it's a winner

 

[bigc]

well uncle sams is nearby said burnt out husk.

 

[ditchy]

It was the only Town/ now city to have two victorian piers

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Brighton Rock (film, book and confectionary)
Quadrophenia
Dukes Mound
The Brewery Tap

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

(1) Having a top flight football club
(2) The PALACE Pier
(3) The Prince Regent

 

[NMH]

That tramp bloke who George Michael was caught getting bummed by lives in Brighton.

What do I win?

 

[Jesus Gul]

one of the puffs from 4 puffs and a piano from Brighton (Dave Wickenden - went to school with his brother, Wayne)
Michael 'Cambo' Campbell lives in Brighton

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

brighton rock- the sticky teeth breaking stuff (although i beleive its actually made elsewhere..), and also the book/film.

quadrophenia - mods n rockers 'remodel' the seafront..

having two piers ( or 1.5 now)...

King Charles(?) escaped revolution, and went to France via the town, staying overnight at the Old Shop hotel, if my sketchy history serves me right..?

Abba won the Eurovision song contest, at the Dome (c. 1974)

Some famous names that live/have lived here-
Lord Laurence Olivier
Captain Sensible
Norman Cook (aka fatboyslim) & Zoe Ball

and many more..

Thought Captain Sensible lived in Ýcklesham.....

Dora Bryan had a hotel in Brighton for years!

Didn't Christopher Timothy live in Brighton too?

 

[realfan]

Haha - You win a Session of Loving From George Michael

That tramp bloke who George Michael was caught getting bummed by lives in Brighton.

What do I win?

 

[fork me]

Has to be the Royal Pavillion - the first ever building to have under-floor heating

Bollocks, the Romans had under floor heating!

fork Me

 

[fork me]

Its proximity to Portslade,a majestic harbour town which has its own town hall opposite Victoria Park.


Also the deliberate wrecking of the Athena B which was lured ashore by false lights and its freight of Brandy and cigarettes stolen ashore by the old smugglers footpath near Marine Parade.

The anchor was never found,so a replica was bought from Brighton Station boot sale and erected to the memory of the 300 women and children who never found room in the life boats,and therefore disappeared from history.

Brighton is also famous for the Lanes,where modern day pirates lurk to part the innocent from their purses,or the contents thereof.

Nice!

Fork Me

 

[mona]

Brighton is famous for the Largest Gay community in England (I think ?)

As there are no questions on your sexual preferences in the government census, I wonder where this often quoted statistic comes from. Are market researchers knocking on people's doors and asking them if they are gay?

 

[surrey jim]

Brightons police force were the first force in the world to use wireless radios to communicate

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

And Theres More:

Brighton Had (I think) one of the first telephone networks in the world (Magnus Volk to Magnus Volks mates house)

The Longest team name for it's soccer team in the English League

Cannons as gateposts to the station (taken from the battery which once stood opposite the Grand Hotel)

One of the oldest elevators in the land (Madeira lift)

Probably one of the oldest sites of continual worship in the country (St. Nichola's and churchyard)

2 underground Rivers

One of the finest examples of 19th and Early 20th century town planning courtesy of Thomas Read-Kemp

The Fountain on the Old Steine is famous worldwide for being on a Ley Line which a global community use as a focus to bring about world peace (I kid you not)

One of Britains newest Cities

Close to one of Britains finest Chalk Down fissures (Devils Dyke)

3 major Iron Age Romano British and Neolithic Hill Forts (Ditchling Hollingbury and Whitehawk)

anything else?

 

[surrey jim]

The Longest team name for it's soccer team in the English League

Wolverhampton Wanderers

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Wolverhampton Wanderers

apart from them.

And I like to Prefix us with "The Mighty" SJ.

 

[bhanutz]

f***ing annoying beggars and junkies!