A photograph from the 1870s shows numbers 65 and 66 Marine Parade as two separate slim townhouses. They are long gone. A large single dwelling replaced the two of them, and a house on Wyndham Street behind, in 1932. Bright stucco made… Read more →
The grubby façade of 2 Portland Place in Brighton gives absolutely the wrong impression as to its recent history. The building is not forgotten, or unloved. Its owner, John Atkins, simply loves it too much. John began meticulously restoring the Grade II… Read more →
My first memory of the arches beneath King’s Road on the Brighton seafront was as a student. The principal nightclubs that were there back then were The Zap, The Beach and The Honey Club. I was more interested though in how these… Read more →
It may well be that the fate of Toad’s Hole Valley on the outskirts of Hove was sealed 75 years ago when it was purchased by local builders BW Cook (Brighton) Ltd in 1937. Now that a ‘Vision Document’ has been released… Read more →
Although I don’t believe that a single shipping container home currently exists in Brighton & Hove, the general concept has been around for some time. Most of those that I have seen though have been built as architectural statements, rather than as… Read more →
I last wrote about Preston Manor in the context of mourning in the Victorian age. An event at the house, with a talk from local historian Sarah Tobias, confirmed that the aftermath of a death in Victorian times was a more creepy… Read more →
The Art Deco mansion block Astra House towers over its Regency neighbours on the Brighton seafront. But it actually took the place of a similarly tall Victorian building called the New Club. The Palladian-style five-storey New Club replaced Nos. 133 and 134… Read more →
Hove is blessed with some of the finest hidden mews streets in the country. Some of these hidden former stable streets are cul-de-sacs, such as Namrick Mews, Albany Mews and Victoria Grove. I love to vary my route whenever I walk anywhere… Read more →
I wrote in this very column, nearly eight years ago, how three different consortiums had responded to a brief that had been set by Brighton & Hove City Council for a new sports centre on the King Alfred site. The history of… Read more →
My recent column on the Hove Park Railway prepared me somewhat for a recent tour of the famous Bluebell Railway. Although the operation at Hove Park involves trains that humans can sit on, rather than in, the principle is very much the… Read more →
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