Settle an arguement about old Brighton

[glasfryn]

there was a bar on kings road very near the palace pier well above pavement height with a guy playing a piano in the window the place was as rough as a bears arse and there was always trouble there
my Mrs recons it was called Chatfields but I am sure that was at the bottom of West street and was full of right mingers

well?

 

[wilko1]

It was rough, I seem to recall it being at the bottom of West Street

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Wasn't that Dr Brightons? Funny looking bloke, in a suit, with a massive head, cross eyes and glasses.

 

[glasfryn]

Wasn't that Dr Brightons? Funny looking bloke, in a suit, with a massive head, cross eyes and glasses.

it was fairly near there and the place was always full of sailors from Pompey and I might be wrong but I am also pretty sure they had sawdust on the floor

 

[World of Sport]

Alhambra.

 

[c2duns]

there was a bar on kings road very near the palace pier well above pavement height with a guy playing a piano in the window the place was as rough as a bears arse and there was always trouble there
my Mrs recons it was called Chatfields but I am sure that was at the bottom of West street and was full of right mingers

well?

Alhambra and the Inn Place was downstairs in the same building - Happy days!

 

[The Large One]

http://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/page_id__8032_path__0p116p1486p1500p.aspx

This chap says Chatfield's was at the bottom of West Street, and Harrison's along King's Road.

 

[osgood]

The alambra,
inn place downstairs

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Alhambra.

You're right. Thats the one that had the weird guy in the window. Never went in as I was too young.

 

[Return of the Rev]

the alambra,
inn place downstairs

thursday nights early 80's at the inn place

LATE 70'S UPSTAIRS ON A SUNDAY,PIRANHAS THEN LATER DADDY YUM YUM

 

[glasfryn]

Alhambra.

Alhambra and the Inn Place was downstairs in the same building - Happy days!

thank you gentlemen I think you might have it
I remember passing there one night and some guy came out through the plate glass window and as the fight went on the pianist played faster just like a scene from an old cowboy film

 

[skipper734]

Think Chatfields was West Street Glas. Dr Brightons had a pianist. Later they put a new round set of windows in the corner of the Queens Hotel, I remember a pianist in that window on the first floor. Sorry for the delay Rog but it got me reading my Brighton and Hove, ounce you start you can't stop.

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[Shy Talk]

Pretty sure it was Harrison's and was formerly part of Harrison's Hotel, which became Council offices, where I used to work. The pub was very rough and the basement was turned into a 'German beer keller' , in the late 60's. Now has a hotel on the site again.

 

[mona]

I'm sure you're thinking of Harrisons. In its last year or so it became a small rock music venue. Before then there was a piano player and it was notoriously rough.

 

[Shy Talk]

I think the Alhambra was west of the Metropole, near the Norfolk Hotel. Used to see the Albion players in there after a match on weekdays.

 

[Nibble]

He had really bad cross eyes. One eye was on the way to the shops the other one was coming back with the change.

 

[ditchy]

I think the Alhambra was west of the Metropole, near the Norfolk Hotel. Used to see the Albion players in there after a match on weekdays.

i think you are thinking of the Abinger which is now flats ,, The Alhambra is now where the American diner is on the corner of the Ship hotel

 

[wilko1]

Spot on

 

[Shy Talk]

i think you are thinking of the Abinger which is now flats ,, The Alhambra is now where the American diner is on the corner of the Ship hotel

YES! you're right! 'Tis the Abinger I was thinking of. Had a big staicase with a waterfall next to it. Thanks.

 

[bassking]

Alhambra.

Exactly what i was thinking