#Brighton Bits

An application SDNP/14/03236/FUL to the South Downs National Park Authority to fence the immediate surroundings of Patcham Place has...

One of the last acts of plunder in Preston Park, the removal in 2007 of the bronze statue of Olympic 800m champion Steve Ovett by sawing it ...

This pylon at the southern entrance provides yet another example of urban plunder. As it has the Brighton Coat-of-Arms on the south face ...

I try to keep up with the local news but have only recently come across this BBC report  from back in May. It probably explains what happe...

This plastic monstrosity may look passable to those who don't recall the original. It replaced a fine lion mask bronze casting which jus...

The southern entrance gates from a postcard dated 1915.  The carriage "in" was to the extreme left and the pedestrian entrance...

Until May this year each of the two entrances to historic Marlborough House were complemented by an elegant period lantern surmounting e...

 . . . shame about the vandals. This is the central art deco staircase in the Ocean Hotel, Saltdean. It spirals from top to bottom in a gr...