Brian Mitchell & Joseph Nixon’s thoroughly scurrilous Brighton column

Brighton Bus Names Explained

We show the connection to the locale of the famous names on the fronts of our buses.

The Titchborne Claimant (No 15A)
Stayed at a guest house on Lower Rock gardens for two days in 1864 while working on his proto-identity theft plan.

Colonel Blink (No 37B)
The Myopic Mr Mcgoo rip-off from the Beezer once mistook the helter skelter on Brighton Pier for the stairs to his guest house and the ghost train for his ride home in a 1974 episode of his eponymous adventures.

Louise Lombard (No 4)
The forgotten The House Of Eliott dads’ favourite sexual fantasy was namechecked in a rap performed at a ‘Battle Of The Poets’ held one Sunday at the Zap club in 1993.

Lawnmower Man (No 11)
The fictitious cyberspace felon passed briefly through Saltdean phone lines in his attempt to take over the world in the climax of the 1992 film of the same name.

Hufty (No 22A)
The shiny-pated man-a-like least-able-presenter-of-The-Word Geordie is a well-known lesbian.

Pablo Neruda (No 193)
An unread copy of his Collected Poems was on the shelf of every single student at the university of Sussex between 1978 and 1992.

Mighty Mouse (No 7C)
Treasurer of Steyning Council
1976 – 1979.

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