Pride Parade route

2016

The Pride Community Parade will set off at 11am from Hove Lawns on Saturday 5 August.

The parade will travel east along Kings Road, north up West Street, east along North Street and north to Preston Park. The rear of the parade is estimated to arrive at Preston Park around 2pm

The Pride Village Party takes place on both Saturday 5 August and Sunday 6 August. St James' Street and surrounding roads will be road closed.

Road closures
Bus service disruptions

Save Madeira Terraces Fund - video

Make your pledge here:- https://www.spacehive.com/madeira-terrace

Pavement closed at the RSCH

Construction traffic to the hospital has to enter and leaves the site through gates on Eastern Road and has to cross the pavement to do so. For future building works this traffic will increase in intensity. To help keep everyone safe the pavement in front of the construction site is going to be closed from Monday 7th August until the new building opens in the winter of 2020/21.

The closure will be between the pedestrian crossing in front of the hospital and the east end of the hospital site, at the junction of Eastern Road and Bristol Gate. A new pedestrian crossing is being put in next to Eaton Place and will be ready for use before 7th August. Once it opens there will be a pedestrian crossing near to both ends of the closed pavement.

Editor's note: This is going to seriously increase the congestion on the narrow pavement opposite, particularly around the bus-stop. 

The pavement opposite

Andrew's Cottage

6 Little East Street

These shop windows date from c1800. They were combined into one shop in 1845 for Samuel Andrew's rope & fishing tackle business and his family continued to run the business for the following 100 years.

The photo above by George Girling was published in the Sussex County Magazine for December 1944. It seems safe to assume that the gentleman pictured is Henry Andrew, one of Samuel's descendants. He certainly looks the part. 

2017

It is amazing to consider that these shop fronts with all the original detailing and delicate glazing bars have survived, apparently intact, for over 200 years. The cottage is grade II listed.

An overlooked, but attractive, corner of the Old Town

Save Madeira Terraces - crowdfund.

Madeira Terrace, a Grade II-listed structure running half a mile along the seafront, is falling into irreversible disrepair. This crowdfunding campaign is the crucial first step in a £24m plan to save the arches.

This campaign aims to restore at least three arches, but it will also do a whole lot more; helping the community to reimagine how all 151 could be used, unlocking £1m from the council, and proving a strong public mandate for future funding applications.

With your pledges, ideas, and volunteering we can return them to their former glory, and beyond! Once restored, Madeira Terrace will become the catalyst for regeneration of the eastern side of Brighton’s famous seafront.

Editors' note: The aim is to raise £432,589. So far the Council has donated £100,000 and 90 other backers have donated an average of about £24 each leaving about £330,000 to be raised. In the unlikely event that the rest of Brighton's adult population feels moved to donate this would require about £2 from each.