A charming film about a Regency period ghost revisiting Brighton in the 1950s - some great archive reels (and renditions of GOSBTS at the beginning and end!)
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Does 1a still exist?
This is the back of the gym on the left then the terrace starts at No 3. I often took a short cut down Haddington St to get to the Stirling Arms (my local) but never noticed the house numbers until looking on GE just now.
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A slight twist on old places but I thought interesting- Why our old football ground got its name, the Goldstone - the “Godstone” - dug up and moved in 1906 to Hove Park
The gardens are beautiful now - I remember when they were being restored in the 1980’s and all the work that had gone in to find archives and literary references to the original Regency gardens that were designed by John Nash in 1815-22
(after the Prince Regent’s acquisition and conversion of...
Disagree with this completely- Almost the whole of Brighton’s seafront (behind the modern hotels are from the regency era - wide sweeping crescents, town houses and public facilities- Brighton has a fantastic regency heritage and was turned into a leading fashionable bathing resort by the...
View of Preston Circus from London Road - I lived right next to the Fire Station for years
Yes, corner of Western Road, Montpelier Road - lived there too
What a great thread this is - its making me very homesick though! 🙂