what is your first ever memory of Brighton

[glasfryn]

talking to a friend I have not spoken to for nearly 35 years (we were both babies and boys in Mighell street) my first memory was and he had to give me the name was walking through a place called Boss's alley which runs adjacent to Mighell street.
anyone else live in that area ?
and what was your first memory of Brighton?

 

[desprateseagull]

had a look at
My Brighton and Hove dot org dot uk: a community archive ?

Mighell Street, i thought, was a dead end, off Carlton Hill that went towards the (old) Amex House? slope on right hand side went down to carpark, and the social club.

 

[smudge]

I'm sure I have a memory of a big elephant on wheels on the seafront. I mean I'm sure it was an elephant!

 

[jackalbion]

some withdean game was about four we won from then i was hooked more my dad taking me but by six i was aware i was hooked

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Arriving at Sussex University for an interview for a place. It had been snowing and the pesky students had heaped a pile of snow across part of the concrete sign outside the front of the campus. This made it read UNIVERSITY OF ... SEX

The sixties ... what were they like?

 

[Bill Cassidy's tie up]

Got a feeling nothing exists now hasn't the new Amex building been built on what was left?

 

[brakespear]

first things I remember of Brighton would be visiting by train as a small child living in Crawley - probably the rotating 'star' on the seafront, the glass animal man and the polystyrene 'stone' sculptures in Churchill Square.

 

[Bill Cassidy's tie up]

Sorry been hitting the vodka again I was talking about Mighell Street, but my first memory of Brighton was moving here aged 5 from a small town in Dorset and every thing seemed so big with great wide roads with lighting.

 

[skipper734]

Top floor, 12 Cambridge Road. Waving goodbye to my big Sister, put my tiny hand through the window. Hitler failed to break it but I succeeded.

 

[Bill Cassidy's tie up]

first things I remember of Brighton would be visiting by train as a small child living in Crawley - probably the rotating 'star' on the seafront, the glass animal man and the polystyrene 'stone' sculptures in Churchill Square.

Sorry back on again yes the Glass Animal man and Rockos, was that the right name? which just sold everything, used to spend hours just looking in the window.

 

[Mattstrugnell]

Outdoor escalators in Churchill square.

 

[Blackadder]

Getting off the bus with my mum at Poole Valley.

 

[Seagull on the wing]

Air raids.....big guns that went Boom! Boom! Boom!... (pinched from Baldrick!) vapour trails across the sky, soldiers everywhere, Two Canadians taking me ice skating..trams,( later trolley buses,) Phoenix horse drawn brewery carts ..bombed buildings...street parties after VE Day....circus on the Level...Festival of Britain 1951...walking from Coldean to Elm Grove for Sea Cadets then walk home...just faded memories now...

 

[brakespear]

oh and the carpet shop outside the station with the rotating carpet display.

 

[Seagull on the wing]

Sorry been hitting the vodka again I was talking about Mighell Street, but my first memory of Brighton was moving here aged 5 from a small town in Dorset and every thing seemed so big with great wide roads with lighting.

Marine Gate has been there all my life...it was the most attacked building in Brighton by the Luftwaffe..

 

[Winker]

Visiting my grandparents and travelling on the trolley buses, where a man with a long pole had to hook the pick-up on the bus onto the live rail over the road.

 

[Silverhatch]

Louis Tussauds on the seafront. The dungeons downstairs really freaked me!

 

[catfish]

The dolphinarium in 1971.

 

[glasfryn]

Sorry been hitting the vodka again I was talking about Mighell Street, but my first memory of Brighton was moving here aged 5 from a small town in Dorset and every thing seemed so big with great wide roads with lighting.

Mighell street was a full street when I lived there I also remeber looking out of the window as lightning struck the road an there being a huge hole in the road next day.
talking of the Luftwaffe my mum came down during the war to visit her sister and was walking along the grass where they could along by Tellcombe and both were strafed by a german plane who they claim deliberately missed them then flew back the opposite way and the pilot waved at them, coming down for that few days my mum fell in love with Brighton and as they say the rest was history

 

[Seagull over Canaryland]

Being taken to the cinema in Brighton on the old red and white B&H buses from sleepy Shoreham - think it was the Astoria, sometimes followed by a visit to the Golden Egg - and seeing the Glass Animal man for me too. Recall thinking the Royal Pavilion was a weird looking castle. All circa 1965.

First ever visit to the Goldstone was for a night match Nov 1966, was amazed to see the colour of the pitch and the teams strips under floodlights having only seen footie in black and white on telly. Was hooked from that night on.

A bit later on the old Virgin Records shop at The Clock tower circa 1971/72. Used to dread being taken to a dental specialist (think he was German or Austrian) at Arundel Terrace on the seafront in Kemptown but recall each visit seeing how construction of the Marina was progressing. Took years to complete, so did the treatment on my teeth.