Aldrington! These days it’s a typical middle-class enclave where the tapping of Apple Mac keys mingles with the scent of freshly-baked homemade bread, but what was it like way back in the 1930s? Local resident, 99-year-old Samson Flywater remembers… “Oh yes, Aldrington… Read more →
RATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL A bunch of slightly smug atheists bang on about not believing in God, as if doing so is, in 2012, actually something brave. Then a couple of scientists come on and talk about black holes almost as if this… Read more →
We take a look at Brighton’s more celebrated public houses No. 4: The Salisbury Arms – This Tichborne Street pub, which first opened its doors in 1889, was a licensed inn, attached to the Hassocks brewers Palgrave & Cobb. It is best… Read more →
We explain the connections to Brighton of those names emblazoned on the front of local buses Lord Northcliffe (No. 34B) – The late press baron officially opened Duke’s Mound as a gay cruising area, cutting the ribbon on March 15th, 1941. Denny… Read more →
For the last two weeks we’ve asked Latest 7 readers to write in and suggest challenges to put to crazy, madcap Bare Cheek Supremo Joseph Nixon. Here he replies to those who wrote in. Thanks to Mrs Margaret Parsons of Hove, but… Read more →
Yes! It’s 2012 and in a few short months it’ll be time for the olympics – the event that will finally put London on the map after all these years. We asked our readers what they thought of it all and have… Read more →
Predictions Yes – once again we at Bare Cheek have been scattering chicken entrails and scrutinising tea leaves like men possessed to predict what will occur in the coming year. JANUARY Everyone keeps the snow boots, tire-chains, and industrial-sized bags of rock… Read more →
Reflections on the Royal Wedding We here at Bare Cheek have invited readers to write in on the great occasion and its earth-shattering significance. Below is a selection of the ones that were legible… I think it was a lovely occasion –… Read more →
Choice Cuts As we’ve already discussed, the government of privately-schooled millionaires have decreed that we should all live a hand-to-mouth existence for the next 50 years and it’s the turn of Brighton Council to tighten its belt, but where should the axe… Read more →
What’s on TV? GRINDERMAN ABOUT THE HOUSE (MONDAY 15 NOV, BBC1, 6.30PM) New family sitcom in which the garage rock foursome share a flat. Episode 1: ‘Grind Over Matter’. The boys are late for a concert, and the Grindermobile’s got a flat… Read more →
