#Brighton Bits

Chain Pier Brighton 1826-27 Go visit the current exhibition at the Art Gallery if only to see this much-reproduced image "in the pa...

Remains of the wooden piling just breaking surface at today's low tide.    They probably align with the second pier out from t...

The Chain Pier, Brighton by J M W Turner RA, 1775 -1851 This wonderful watercolour, painted shortly after the Pier was completed in 182...

Images of the Chain Pier, paintings, drawings, photographs, are plentiful, but it is strange that few Victorian visitors seem to have ...

A photo taken on 11th August, at one of this year's extra low tides, shows rock-like objects but no wooden stumps. This can be compared ...

Unlike his successor, William IV was a Brighton enthusiast, visiting at least once a year during his reign. He visited the Devil's ...

The Chain Pier in the foreground was destroyed by storm in 1896 and the Palace Pier, started in 1891, was a recognizable pier by then e...