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Has post #122 completely escaped both your attentions?

* * Seeing as this thread has segued into a Doctors of Madness appreciation thread I may as well throw in my own recollection. I have a very vivid memory of the Bebop Delux gig at the Dome when they were supported by Doctors of Madness but only by proxy because I never actually went. My...

Sorry but when I get on to these sorts of things I'm like a dog with a bone. I've just done some more research. The "Copyright Wardell's" inscription at the bottom of your "1954" postcard indicates it was published by Bill Wardell who published and sold postcards in Brighton from around 1917...

I'm fairly certain that these two photos and the original photo you referred to were not taken in the 1950s. Men were not still wearing the two piece style swimsuit in the 1950s which many of the men in all of those photos are wearing. They were starting to go out of fashion by the late 1930s...

Portland Gate in Portland Road, Hove gained nationwide notoriety for all the wrong reasons.* Built some time in the 1930s in the modernist style it had an early close brush with tragedy in 1940 during the Battle of Britain when a Hurricane fighter piloted by a 20 year old RAF airman named...

Indeed. My error was previously pointed out in post #56. But I'd like to take this opportunity to post a larger size version of the image as my previous one was somewhat small and didn't do it justice...

Another art deco building, the old Granada Cinema on Portland Road, Hove... Most on here will remember it as the ABC Cinema in the 6Os and 70s for saturday morning pictures... Then transformed into a bingo hall, then years of neglect before demolishment and replacement with these flats and...

This art deco building on Kingsway, Hove designed in 1928 for the motor trade and used by Caffyns was demolished around 2006.... and eventually replaced with Saxon Court flats...

The Sackville Hotel in Hove started to collapse in 2006.... So they had to demolish it... And they plan to replace it with flats...