Where in Brighton quiz

[Theatre of Trees]

Following on from yesterday, here is a little quiz based on old photos. I'll post answers around lunchtime.

1. This picture was taken in 1868.

a) What is the name of the building in the picture?
b) What two important Brighton landmarks are missing?
(2 points)

2. This picture was taken in 1974.

a) Where is this in Brighton?
b) What is the building on the left now?
c) Which famous person once worked on the building on the left?

(3 points)

3. This picture was taken in 1890

a) Where is this?
b) What are the names of the two pubs in this picture?
c) What was the building in the middle replaced by?

(4 points)

4. This picture was taken in 1932

a) Where is this?
b) What were these buildings replaced with?

(2 points)

5. This picture was taken in 1988

Who is the Albion number 10?

(1 point)

Enjoy

 

[Safeway]

Question 1:

a) The Royal Albion Hotel
b) The Palace Pier and the aquarium?

Question 2:

a) The Clock Tower
b) Boots
c) Dunno

 

[The Large One]

1 a. Royal Albion Hotel
b. Palace (Brighton) Pier and West Pier

2a. top of North Street (the sign is a bit of a giveaway)
b. Clock Tower
c. Um....

3a. Preston Circus
b. Stanford Arms (now Circus Circus) and the Hare & Hounds
c. Fire Station

4a. Gloucester Place
b. The telephone exchange - now TSB

5. Wendy?

 

[aftershavedave]

1 royal albion hotel
palace pier and aquarium

2 junction of north street
on the right is boots
no idea

3 no idea

4 western road?

5 wilkins

 

[ditchy]

1 a. Royal Albion Hotel
b. Palace (Brighton) Pier and West Pier

2a. top of North Street (the sign is a bit of a giveaway)
b. Clock Tower
c. Um....

3a. Preston Circus
b. Stanford Arms (now Circus Circus) and the Hare & Hounds
c. Fire Station

4a. Gloucester Place
b. The telephone exchange - now TSB

5. Wendy?

2c richard branson

 

[Theatre of Trees]

Answers and scores

1a) Royal Albion
b) Palace Pier and Aquarium

2a) Clock Tower
b) Boots
c) Richard Branson - it was a Virgin Store for a while.

3a) Preston Circus
b) Hare and Hounds and Stanford
c) Fire station

4a) Gloucester Place
b) Astoria Cinema which is being restored at the moment.

5. Wendy

Those scores

Safeway = 4
Large One = 10
afters = 5
Ditchy = 1

 

[Dave the OAP]

2c - Branson owned the Virgin store at the Clock Tower didn't he?

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

That is an excellent photo of the Royal Albion - it would be interesting to see it alongside a contemporary photo.

You can see the line of the beach where the groyne by the pier is, do you think the water line is currently significantly further out? If so did they shovel the pebbles down the beach from what is now Marine Parade, or import a load from elsewhere ?

 

[Theatre of Trees]

They built better sea defences at the front and over the years the shingle has built up on the beach.

 

[ditchy]

My answers were the same as The large ones with the exception of 2 c couldnt be arsed to type out
1

 

[Lord Bracknell]

c) Richard Branson - it was a Virgin Store for a while.

"a" Virgin store? It was the only Virgin store anywhere.

With mattresses on the floor, headphones on the walls, sleeping hippies everywhere. And a strange smoky aroma about the place.

Marvellous scenes.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

"a" Virgin store? It was the only Virgin store anywhere.

With mattresses on the floor, headphones on the walls, sleeping hippies everywhere. And a strange smoky aroma about the place.

Marvellous scenes.

Used to always be so shit-scared of Virgin shop-staff sneering at me vinyl purchases that wherever possible I'd pay the extra non-sneer surcharge by going that extra mile to shop at Our Price

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

1. a) The Royal Albion Hotel
b) West Pier and Palace Pier

2. a) Clock Tower junction with North Street
b) Boots
c) Richard Branson

3. a) Preston Circus
b) Hare and Hounds, Circus Circus
c) Firestation ( previously amber ale brewery as shown in pic)

4. a) Gloucester Place
b) The Astoria Cinema, then a Bingo Hall, now empty awaiting redevelopment!

5. Dean Wilkins

 

[Gwylan]

"a" Virgin store? It was the only Virgin store anywhere.

With mattresses on the floor, headphones on the walls, sleeping hippies everywhere. And a strange smoky aroma about the place.

Marvellous scenes.

It was great and there was added kudos for having a Virgin bag to carry your schoolbooks around.

My mother used to think that the place was full of 'pot-smoking weirdos" and that just going into the place was a prelude to drug-induced depravity.

If only ....