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Brighton in the past
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scottdaboss
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No problem, mate. Just came across these images after googling. The thread I found links all the pictures from here - The James Gray Collection::historic photographs of Brighton and Hove
James Gray, 1904–1998, was a local collector with a passion for the streets of Brighton and Hove, and, as time went on, further afield.
Working all his life in insurance, his initial collection of stamps gave way to local topographical photographs with the chance acquisition in the 1950s of a few images of Western Road. From then on he built up a massive collection: many of the entries are copies, exchanged with other collectors, others are views that he purchased or, more recently, that he commissioned.
Purchase cards from the Collection here.
Although there is today a strong general interest in old photographs, both for their factual content and also for their artistic value, when James Gray started his collection there was little:we must be grateful that he had the foresight and the single minded dedication to assemble this unique record of our City.
Upon his death, the Regency Society purchased the collection, and with help from our sponsors, has digitised it, to make it available to all, as James Gray wished.
There are 39 Volumes in all, (a typical one is shown here) some 7500 annotated photographs, sub-divided into areas of the city.
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Seagull on the wing
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Lovely pics,....I'm sure my grandfather saw as lot of those scenes....he got wounded at the second battle of the Somme and died 9 days before the war ended.....RIP FREDICK BRIGGS........
Well done...they are really superb. Hadn't realised that the Palace Pier was no more than a jetty compared with the West Pier
Tom Hark Preston Park
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Tremendous photos! 
(its a shame you seem to have randomly clicked a horsey thingie against the thread cos it'll probably stop a lot of people opening it. Maybe you could unclick it?)
(its a shame you seem to have randomly clicked a horsey thingie against the thread cos it'll probably stop a lot of people opening it. Maybe you could unclick it?)
Luckily James Gray was also a big Albion fan and there are many photos / postcards in his collection taken in and around the Goldstone.
Not quite sure how to link them onto here, but they are easily found on the Regency society web site mentioned above.
Well worth a look.
Not quite sure how to link them onto here, but they are easily found on the Regency society web site mentioned above.
Well worth a look.
smudge
Up the Albion!
As a kid in the 60's, West Pier was the one we always wanted to go to. More rides, more to see. Bloody shame what they let happen to it.
glasfryn
cleaning up cat sick
great stuff
thank you
thank you
skipper734
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Days disappear when you are immersed in the James Gray site.
KZNSeagull
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Excellent.
Seeing that wartime picture, I am wondering if Brighton beach was ever mined (as in land mines) during the war?
Seeing that wartime picture, I am wondering if Brighton beach was ever mined (as in land mines) during the war?
Mtoto
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Very much so, my Mum was 14 when it started and living off Hove seafront and has often told me about it. The piers were barricaded shut and covered in barbed wire and explosives too. She also reckons that some unfortunate person was killed by one that the army forgot to retrieve a few months after the war ended.
KZNSeagull
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Thanks for that - I know that they were still digging mines up on the Channel Islands long after the war finished.
Northstandite
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Cheers. Amazing pictures.
Would be amazing to be beamed into that time, just for a day, to sample Edwardian Brighton.