Is this Brighton?

[herbicide]

Anyone please identify the location?

 

[Perry's Tracksuit Bottoms]

Some nice photos on your imageshack site. Are they yours?

 

[herbicide]

I don't have an imageshack site. Just use it to upload pics for posting.

 

[Man of Harveys]

Could be wrong but I very much doubt that's either Brighton or Hove tbh. Don't recognise any of the buildings in it and those streetlight is different.

 

[Mackenzie]

I don't think it's Brighton.

 

[CROWN25]

Grand Avenue, Hove.

 

[herbicide]

This might be the building on the left side of that photo. I am told it is Old Steine.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Pall Mall?

 

[Grendel]

This might be the building on the left side of that photo. I am told it is Old Steine.

That's the Royal Albion Hotel, on the Old Steine.

 

[Hiney]

Looks like a floodlight pylon on the roof

 

[herbicide]

That's the Royal Albion Hotel, on the Old Steine.

Yes. I thought so.

So that is not Old Steine in the first picture, is it?

 

[Taybha]

1st picture is croydon ,taken yesterday in rush hour, ffs he is trying it on

 

[herbicide]

1st picture is croydon ,taken yesterday in rush hour, ffs he is trying it on

It was a serious request.

Sigh.

 

[The Large One]

I'm pretty certain that first image is NOT Old Steine.

I've just had a look on another Brighton image archive, and the original buildings are the ones still standing. In other words, it's not as though those buildings in your picture have since gone and been replaced by anything else.

It's that statue on the right that has me scratching my head. Again, can't see any reference to it anywhere. Will keep digging later.

 

[Grendel]

Yes. I thought so.

So that is not Old Steine in the first picture, is it?

I don't think so. Some of the buildings architecture is similar but that could be said of a lot places. The lamppost in the foreground doesn't look like a Brighton lamp, but the main thing that makes me think it isn't the Old Steine is the fountain, which I've never seen any pictures of before. Either the fountain is long gone and there's not much photographic evidence of it, or the picture isn't the Old Steine.

 

[Pot noodles for everyone]

I thought it might be a view from the South West of the Old Steine looking towards the road where the 3 in 10 bar is but this photo kind of disproves that. Looks like the fountain has always been a 2 tier affair therefore not a photo of the Old Steine there

 

[Pot noodles for everyone]

What about the fountain with the old police box at the bottom of North Road? Near the Richmond/Pressure Point

Could it be that?


edit - nah:

 

[Insider]

First image is defo the Old Steine. The six buildings to the right of the picture have been demolished though. It's the view from the Steine, looking towards the block between Edward St and St James' St.

 

[herbicide]

Thanks for all the help.

Insider. The building on the far left of the original photo definately looks like The Royal Albion. Amazing bit of Brighton history. Cheers.

 

[Danny-Boy]

I like the traffic sign "Keep to the Left" on the lamp-post.

They should put that up again when the Labour Party has another conference in Brighton....