#Brighton Bits

64 Brunswick Street West. 64 Brunswick Street West, built 1855-56 by a Mr Russell for the Brunswick Commissioners, has had its  history comm...

The City Mayor, Cllr Alan Robins, today unveiled a plaque at 18 Riley Road to the Hilton Twins.   The twins, although exploited during their...

A plaque was unveiled by the City Mayor today at 7 Ship Street to commemorate Rabindranath's connection with the city. Brighton & Ho...

This plaque has now been installed at 24 Montpelier Crescent. Due to infection control measures it was deemed unadvisable to hold an unveili...

The semi-detached cottage shown on the left in the above postcard (see also:  Rottingdean ) was at one time known as '"Smuggler...

In the early 19thC. 10 Ship Street was occupied by a Ladies Seminary. By the mid 19thC.  a Civil Engineer & Architect was in residence. ...

In the closing decades of the 19thC sources as diverse as the writings of William Morris and the cottage paintings of Helen Allingham had cr...

In the evening sunshine which only reaches it at this time of year. The gate posts & fencing. The KSD Group took over the leas...

This brownfield site’s use as a gasworks dates back to 1818 and the days when coal was unloaded from colliers on the beach and ha...

Visualisation of the hotel viewed from King's Road The owners of the Hilton Metropole Hotel (Topland), are seeking the views of ...

This central circular feature of Hove Recreation Ground dates from its opening in 1891. It once comprised a complete circle of trees w...

There is some mystery about how the Brangwyn Estate between Withdean and Patcham Village was so named. It was built in the 1930s by...

Then. The pumping station, which can be seen beyond the railway line, was built in 1889 so this postcard is dated later than that bu...

  Through the scaffolding it is already possible to get some idea of how All Saints will look stripped of its modern drab rendering...

1 Spring Street The Shakespeare's Head was built in the 1830s as part of the development of Spring Street which had started in the l...

84 Western Road Brighton Street Directory for 1845 Brighton's famous Regency architect built the Western Pavilion for his o...

Before it was cleared in the 1960s, for the building of Churchill Square, Upper Russell Street ran parallel to Western Road from Clarence...

At 11 Clifton Road. The plaque was unveiled by Deputy Mayor Cllr Alan Robins with Rear Admiral Richard John Lippiett CB, CBE, DL, i...