Matt Bartsch, owner of Riptide Gym on the Lower Esplanade in Brighton, was more than a little surprised when landlord Brighton & Hove City Council gave him just three weeks to leave so that structural works can be undertaken. Riptide consists of… Read more →
It was 12 years ago that the closure of the iconic Caffyns garage on Kingsway in Hove was announced. Demolition followed, despite the building’s status as one of the finest examples of inter-war development in the town. The adoption of the Modernist… Read more →
I remember pressing my nose up against dirty glass from the outside when I wrote about the abandoned Co-op department store on Brighton’s London Road. My own hope was that Brighton & Hove City Council would sell its palatial (well, on the… Read more →
It was five years ago, back in May 2008, that I wrote about my trip to Grand Designs Live. A central tenet of the exhibition was the construction in six days of The House That Kevin Built – which now returns as… Read more →
I t was over two years ago that I wrote about the impressive refurbishment of the Grade II Listed seafront home of Pink Floyd rock god Dave Gilmour. The location of the Hove mansion is no secret locally and the quality of… Read more →
I have mentioned the quality of the mews of Hove in the past. One of my favourites is Wilbury Grove. It was only recently though that I discovered a hidden mini-mews, running parallel with Wilbury Grove, that serves just one house –… Read more →
A s the Small Batch Coffee empire stretches out across Brighton & Hove, I keep finding myself unable to write columns quickly enough. It was not long ago that two new outlets of this local enterprise opened on Wilbury Road and Jubilee… Read more →
I know all too well that Brighton & Hove has more than its fair share of subterranean spaces. I’ve had a lot of fun in exploring its plethora of cellars, tunnels, arches and reservoirs over the past ten years. But this did… Read more →
A planning application for a plinth on King’s Espanade on the Hove seafront is to be decided next month by Brighton & Hove City Council. The idea for a 2.5m high stone-clad plinth sprung from a conversation in the queue at the… Read more →
Exeter Street Hall was a hive of activity when I visited. The building and the surrounding streets of Prestonville were covered in a thick layer of snow, which meant that sodden coats were drying all around the building. But, most importantly, the… Read more →
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