#Brighton Bits

The first part of the Albion groyne was built in 1876 but its width was doubled in 1896 when it was extended over the storm water outfa...

View east from West Pier This postcard from  the early 20thC shows, in the bottom LH corner, an exposed sea-wall on the east of the West...

A brilliantly captured instant by Paul Cahill Concrete groynes (in calmer weather)

The Norfolk Groyne, opposite the Norfolk Hotel, was completed in 1894, the fourth and penultimate of Brighton's concrete promenade g...

The first two concrete groynes to be built were the East Street groyne (in the distance) in 1867, followed in 1876 by the Albion groyne...

It is interesting to ponder that a few simple structures like this began in the 1720's to stabilise Brighton's seafront along bas...

Tetrapods protecting the wave-spending beach at Brighton Marina. They were invented over 50 years ago in France as a substitute for large...

A view from the Palace Pier shows a corner of Roedean school on the extreme left  and the West Quay (Wetherspoons) on the extreme right...

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

During a recent low tide the remains of the track bed of the Rottingdean Railway were revealed; curving in to the Banjo Groyne, where it use...

This postcard from 1905 shows the eastern end of the sea-wall looking down from the West Pier. The wall is still there but has been buri...

This great bank of shingle stretching from the Peace Statue to the remains of the West Pier and beyond is about 15 feet deep where it me...