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The main difference (and the main reason there aren't kids playing in the street) is the enormous line of cars parked down the road in the modern photo.

I've always been of the understanding that Ian Anderson was comfortably the least "exciting" (I.e. the least into drugs etc.) of all the 60/70s rock stars. Never quite understood why some people (not accusing you of this) assume that somebody with a big on stage performing personality must be...

A friend of mine assured me she'd served Ian Anderson at the then Colston Hall in Bristol a few years ago. My faith in this claim was somewhat undermined by her initially claiming that the same man was Robert Fripp.

"Yes ladies and gentlemen, you only have to be this high to get any reception at all on one of our radios."

I'm pretty sure that outside a few notable buildings, most of Brighton in the regency/early victorian era would have been ramshackle fishing / semi agricultural slums. On the plus side, most people would have been too busy dying of cholera or being hanged for sheep rustling to tag anything.

That just looks like one of the 50,000 pointless photos I take every day whenever I do site supervision. "Here's the signs out as they should be. Again. It was a bit cloudy that day."

I've only just noticed looking at these two photos, that the architect will have been having ecstatic convulsions at the thought of "evoking" the old railway arches in the facade of Sainsbury's. And I'm sure lots of people have appreciated the hard work.

Long and thin, slips right in.

I'd like to think I'm strong enough to resist this temptation, but clearly I'm not. Annoyingly it turns out I don't have to be anywhere near 64 to start losing my hair.

I was 1. God I feel old.

Not sure exactly when that was, but I might have been born then.

One day somebody will post a photo of a Stagecoach 712 and I'll feel really old.

One thing that's never changed - the railways in this country making no sense.

I see they moved the lamppost to keep it in the centre of the shot.

You could, but the answer is just "it comes from google street view". I'm not being abstruse, it's a genuine question - were they for postcards, some sort of survey or catalogue? With the photos from before WW1 there'd be a lot of equipment to lug around and set up, they won't just be taken on...

Seems a bit more likely. Can't remember if I posted this before, there are some good photos of the viaduct after it was bombed in the second world war on this site (can't get the images to embed for some reason): https://www.brightonlocoworks.co.uk/london-road-viaduct-old-photos.php

Don't be silly. You could block the fire station entrance if you parked there to charge your car. Seriously though, electric cars were reasonably common before the 1st World War (compared to petrol cars), so that could have been quite useful.

Sorry, another question Does anybody know what that curved pipe to the left of the lamppost is?

Not more bloody question marks :lolol: Fair point, that wasn't immediately apparent looking at it on my phone. Still not obvious why somebody decided to take the photo though, did somebody go around photographing all the fire stations in the Brighton / the country? As a general query though...

I do not. Like a needle in my eye every time I opened the thread. Serious point though (which may have been answered previously on here but I'm not trawling through 549 posts to see if I've missed it), why were the old photos taken? I know we think they're interesting now, but why did somebody...