#Brighton Bits

Following the recent heavy rainfall, the Environment Agency has issued a flood alert for ground water flooding in Patcham. Residents are adv...

So far, apart from a few persistent puddles and a local estate agent pumping out his cellar, there has been none of the predicted general...

The cinema in the Marina has excellent car-parking facilities. in fact it is nearly surrounded by covered parking space. It has parking t...

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

According to a Council leaflet, circulated to properties in Patcham Village today, the ground water level is still rising, although now at a...

Patcham in the snow

West East

See also: Winter sunshine.

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...

100 years ago, on the 22 June 1911, the country awoke on the coronation day of King George V and Queen Mary and it seems that Brighton had e...

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In the north-eastern corner of the park the original gate pillars still stand together with a small section of the original railings. They a...

At the time of posting, I wondered if an ironic reminder about past flooding might just do the trick . . . It has. Over the last 24 hours t...