Places
36 places found.
Those places high-lighted have photos. All locations may have maps, books and memories.
- Brighton, Sussex
- Hove, Sussex
- New Brighton, Merseyside
- Rottingdean, Sussex
- Saltdean, Sussex
- Woodingdean, Sussex
- Portslade, Sussex
- Mile Oak, Sussex
- Ovingdean, Sussex
- Brighton le Sands, Merseyside
- Patcham, Sussex
- Brightons, Central Scotland
- Brighton, Cornwall
- New Brighton, Yorkshire (near Morley)
- New Brighton, Hampshire
- New Brighton, Clwyd (near Mold)
- Brighton Hill, Hampshire
- New Brighton, Yorkshire (near Shipley)
- New Brighton, Clwyd (near Wrexham)
- Preston, Sussex
- Black Rock, Sussex
- Hollingbury, Sussex
- Hollingdean, Sussex
- Moulsecomb, Sussex
- North Moulsecoomb, Sussex
- Westdene, Sussex
- Whitehawk, Sussex
- Aldrington, Sussex
- Coldean, Sussex
- Kemp Town, Sussex
- East Moulsecoomb, Sussex
- Roedean, Sussex
- West Blatchington, Sussex
- Bevendean, Sussex
- Stanmer, Sussex
- Withdean, Sussex
Photos
540 photos found. Showing results 121 to 140.
Maps
181 maps found.
Books
2 books found. Showing results 145 to 2.
Memories
187 memories found. Showing results 61 to 70.
Brighton Jazz Club
Used to visit the Brighton Jazz Club - at the Aquarium, at about the time this photograph was taken
A memory of Brighton by
Marine Crescent
I recall as a child in the 1950s, being taken on outings from my grandparents' home in Litherland via Seaforth/ South Road stations to the beach at Marine Crescent, Waterloo. On a recent nostalgic trip there I was surprised ...Read more
A memory of Waterloo in 1956 by
Weekend Visits From School
I was a partially deaf pupil at Ovingdean during the 1970s and as my home was a long way from there, I was one of the very few pupils that resided at the school during the weekends. I do remember two very profound ...Read more
A memory of Newhaven in 1974
Re The Buffs
The Royal order of Buffalos..... Next door but one to the nurses home (as was), now a nursing home. I was born in Highfield hospital, Mill Lane, lived in Wallasey until I was 62 and now live in the north of Scotland. When I was a ...Read more
A memory of Wallasey in 1993 by
Cosy Corner Cafe
My grandparents (Mr and Mrs Riches) owned the cosy corner cafe on the Brighton Road and we lived at 93 Brighton Road. I've been told it is now a Costa Coffee or something like that. The last time I went there is was a Happy Eater ...Read more
A memory of Hooley in 1950 by
Dunstaffnage The War Years 1942 45
In 1942 aged 5 due to my father being a shipwright in the Portsmouth Dockyard he was transferred to a satellite dockyard at Dunstaffnage where we stayed as a family until the war finished and we then moved back to ...Read more
A memory of Oban in 1942 by
My Time In Liverpool
My memory of Liverpool was living in number 12 Kensington Rd near the corner of Hall Lane where the post office was. My parents' landlady was Mrs Elizabeth Smith, I think she was Tommy Smith's mother? I remember my father ...Read more
A memory of Liverpool in 1957 by
Growing Up In Brighton Road
I remember my happy childhood in Brighton Road so well. We lived at 114, heading toward the Portsmouth road. My grandfather had built the house. It lay back from the road. Mr and Mrs Harper ran the paper shop that had ...Read more
A memory of Surbiton in 1952
My First Job!
I was born in Hooley, so I am an original "Hooligan"!! My family lived in Brighton Road, Hooley, about 300 yds to the left of this photo, in fact my mother still does. My first Saturday job was in the newsagents, Fords, which is the ...Read more
A memory of Hooley by
An Evacuee During World War Ii
My name then was Babs Collins and my memory goes back to World War II, when I and others from my school in Victoria, London were evacuated to both East & West Clandon. We had been moved very hurriedly in July ...Read more
A memory of East Clandon in 1940 by
Captions
170 captions found. Showing results 145 to 168.
This took in the UDCs of Egremont, New Brighton, Leasowe, Poulton, Moreton, Seacombe and Wallasey.
The area was never as commercial as its sister New Brighton, but it was still a popular holiday destination.
William Phelps, alias Brighton Bill, the pugilist, died here after his brutal encounter with Owen Swift in 1838. The white milestone (centre) is the last of a series measuring the route to Cambridge.
There was something for everyone at New Brighton. On the beach there was a children's boating pool, and the Pier had a bar and an amusement palace on it.
We are on the Downs between Brighton and Lewes. Near the rebuilt church there is a thatched barn and an early dewpond.
Two phases of Victorian expansion are shown here in this view along the Brighton Road heading south-east from the town.
Bolney is a quiet village, located just off the main London to Brighton trunk road.
Seaforth, Bootle, Crosby, Brighton-le-Sands, Blundell Sands and Formby were easier to reach along the firm sand during the wet winter months.
There are examples of Chailey pottery on display at the Brighton Museum and Art Gallery.
The inn in the photograph is offering Tamplins Brighton Ales.
Redhill grew from nothing after the building of the London to Brighton road in 1807 and the railway in 1841.
Brighton made the seaside fashionable for the upper crust, and its wider popularity was settled when the railway made the connection in 1841.
These were retained as a feature when part of the Brighton Road was widened on either side and renamed The Broadway.
Unlike Brighton, Eastbourne and Hastings, Worthing never aspired to having an opulent purpose built Victorian hotel.
Harry Treacher Harry Treacher was a bookseller from Brighton. In 1864 he was looking for a suitable site in Haywards Heath, where he wanted to build himself a house.
An Eiffel Tower at New Brighton was part of the original dream of James Atherton as he planned his new holiday resort. It was started in 1896 and opened in 1898.
They did not sink, and the two lighthouses on this coast were built on this same principle: Leasowe first, then New Brighton in 1827 at a cost of £27,000.
…Cornfields were seen where the Fairdene Estate now rises whilst High Street, Coulsdon [Brighton Road] did not exist.
Little Terrace (centre on above photograph) was built as a terrace of fashionable lodging houses by a Brighton bricklayer named William Hall circa 1794.
New Brighton is situated on the extreme tip of the Wirral Peninsula, and is separated from the busy city and port of Liverpool by the River Mersey.
An unsuccessful candidate for Brighton at the general election in 1832, he was returned for London in August 1833, and sat until he was defeated in June 1841.
An unsuccessful candidate for Brighton at the general election in 1832, he was returned for London in August 1833, and sat until he was defeated in June 1841.
A few late Georgian buildings brighten up this otherwise dull street-scene. At least the shops still retain well-mannered fronts.
Neatly-kept gardens and colourful flowerbeds brighten the station buildings at Burgh-by-Sands, a small village near the mouth of the Eden on the Solway Firth.
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