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If we look closely at our top photograph, we will see that the turrets and tower of the New Brighton Tower building are missing.
Horley was a series of hamlets on the London to Brighton Road which only began to expand when the London to Brighton railway arrived in 1841.
It is thought that he named this new town to rival Brighton on the south coast, but his home in North Everton was next to Brighton le-Sands, a part of Liverpool, so maybe that is where the name came from
Like Brighton Chain Pier, Margate Jetty once had a camera obscura.
It was for many years an important staging post on the Hastings to Brighton turnpike road.
This exotic architectural confection reminds us of the Pavilion at Brighton, with its oriental domes and minarets.
Many travellers on the Brighton line will remember the Monotype name, as it was advertised along the factory buildings which backed on to the railway line.
Jill is a timber construction built in nearby Brighton and transported to this site by teams of oxen in 1852.
The Dutch gables on the hotels and apartments are typical of Bexhill's Victorian architecture, although the seaside buildings favour the Moorish look: provincial and dim echoes of the Brighton Pavilion
On the left is one of the finest stucco terraces in Eastbourne, the Burlington and Claremont Hotels of 1851: worthy of Brighton.
Looking westwards along the Esplanade with the Lawns on the right, the pho- tographer has captured a superb view of genteel Hove, a cut above its alto- gether more cosmopolitan neighbour, Brighton
Every south coast town had to have its 'Steyne', copying the name from Brighton.
This view shows a ferry, probably the 'Brighton Queen', leaving the West Pier.
Based on Blackpool Tower, New Brighton' tower was built between 1897 and 1900 at a cost of £120,000.
Its railway and pier, both now gone, prompted ambitious plans to transform the town into a major seaside resort similar in size to Brighton or Bournemouth, but the scheme failed to make the grade.
mock-Tudor fronted Charrington's pub stands at the crossing point of the old parish boundary of Gander Green Lane with the Sutton by-pass, which had been constructed in 1927 on the A217, and carried Brighton-bound
It became such a popular resort at the end of the 19th century that it became known as the second Brighton.
New Brighton was originally conceived as 'The sea-bathing rendezvous par excellence of the Lancashire people of note', but things soon went awry.
This Edwardian photograph somehow captures the feel of an English village; note the sign beneath the tree, which points towards Brighton and Shoreham.
The gap in the buildings marks the south side of the green, down the middle of The Steyne, laid out in 1807; it copied that in Brighton and borrowed its name.
