#Brighton Bits

A glimpse of the lives of working people in Brighton before and during the second world war. Part of the old Lavender Street. R...

  To the left of this photo is the memorial, unveiled September 2010 , which displays the names of 53 Indian soldiers who died while hospita...

Filmed in Sheepcote Valley from a helicopter before the days of "steadicams" and CGI. All crosses planted by hand.

Only four bombs in all fell within the area of the Old Town: two on the seafront near Grand Junction Road; one in Ship Street where Duk...

This is a recap on the earlier post Albion Hill, September 1940 . September 1940:- September 2010, looking towards the corner of Be...

 70 years ago St.Nicholas churchyard was  crammed with a century's worth of stone memorials of every shape and size, which must have mad...

Terraced houses such as these, with gardens too small to accomodate Anderson shelters would still have been awaiting the alternative Mo...

Just a couple of months into the Blitz, on 14th September 1940 at 3.30 pm, a lone German plane dropped a bomb in Kemptown which killed 4 adu...

"Down Terrace" is the name of a low-budget, prize-winning, debut feature film from Brighton Director Ben Wheatley who has previous...