#Brighton Bits

This November, the LEGO® Wind Turbine moves to its new home at Park Square, Brighton Marina, in celebration of LEGO reaching its target of 1...

The sculpture isn't rubbish - it's clever - it's just made of rubbish.

and in verse:- Six hundred years ago or more or, if you please, in days of yore, A wicked wight yclept 'Old Nick', renowned for...

 . . also some interesting visuals of a part of the Lanes that isn't built yet!

Twenty-four of the original cast- iron columns removed from the West Pier have been transported to a foundry for professional treatment a...

Photo:Tony Mould A key to the Clock Tower that was presented to the town of Brighton in 1887 has travelled all the way across the world ...

Seems to work . . . :-p

Marine Parade Although most public telephones have now been made redundant by the mobile phone network,  the familiar red boxes are s...

As part of the forthcoming exhibition "The Magical Machines of Rowland Emmett" the Featherstone Kite-flying Machine has swoop...

 17.15 on 27 March 2015 It's not an urban myth! There IS a pheasant in Valley Gardens.

St. Peter's church.

A RIOTOUS DAY AT THE SEASIDE   It was a glorious sunny Saturday morning of Whitsun Bank Holiday weekend 1964. My best friend, Teresa, a...

Although today £3 3s seems a derisory amount, in 1916 it was nearly 4 times the average weekly wage of 16s 9d, putting   "Millio...

It is said that figs like to have their roots restricted but this is ridiculous. This tree is on the top of the cliff-retaining wall op...

Click on image to enlarge Two tickets each  purchased on the Southern Railway website on the evening of the 16th August 2013 for the sam...

I suppose it's nice for the workmen to be doing it in the summer . . . .

A busy shop, a busy bank, a busy street and a narrow pavement obstructed in short order by a telecom cabinet, two phone boxes (does anyo...

Another Brighton first? http://www.simonclare.co.uk/site/