When a Troll comes Calling . .

. . . is the title of a recent article in "The Freethinker", as always, a witty, scathing, sometimes scurrilous read. The magazine was first produced in 1881 for which the publisher, G W Foote, was sentenced to 12 months hard labour. It continues to be published by Brighton's Barry Duke.

Brighton Station Site

The old goods line became a wilderness over the 40 years it stood unused. This building stood at the end of Boston Street and was provided with a bridge to the old Locomotive Works. It looks domestic in scale and perhaps was originally used by an employee of the Locomotive Works.

This site now lies under the "One Brighton" development at the junction of Stroudley Road and Fleet Street.  Stroudley Road runs to the left of this photo, Fleet Street runs behind the building to the right.  

Photo taken in March 2003.

The Long Goodbye . . .

Photograph taken in February 2003

The Seven Stars

This extravagant late-Victorian frontage (Grade II listed) in Ship Street was once complemented by an equally sumptuous interior  -  all polished wood, etched glass and mirrors. This was  all removed in the 1980's when it became the Helsinki Bar, later O'Neill's as shown. Ironically it has now been returned to a vaguely Victorian style but with very little hint of the former opulence.  The name "Seven Stars", first recorded in 1785, has now been readopted. 

Inside the "Bottle". . .

This is a view through the georgian glass of one of the windows of the"bottle" looking roughly north-east. The "bottle" was the nickname given to the central, onion-shaped dome of the Royal Pavilion. It certainly is very similar in shape to those large glass bottles filled with coloured liquid that one still sees in chemists' windows. These may have been a more familiar sight in the early 19th. century.

The inside of the bottle is divided up into small rooms some even with a small fireplace (don't ask me where the smoke went) that were once used by visitor's servants. Access is via a spiral staircase on the south-west side and on the north-west side there was  a dumb-waiter.