brighton & hove TRANSPORT 1946-1959
Pictured through the lens of a Sussex Daily News photographer.
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Some great expressions and lots of thoughtful faces on these people just embarking a train at Brighton Station.
Some have suggested that it was perhaps a Bank Holiday or Race Day. One poster on Brighton Past commented: Trains would arrive at Brighton from many parts of the country, interspersed with the additional trains laid on from London etc. A trainspotting paradise! However, although the trains arrived from early morning right into the afternoon, there was usually a rush to get back home and the queues for the trains stretched right down Queens Road. By the time I had left school and joined BR at Brighton, bank holiday traffic was a shadow of what it was in the 50s and 60s.
However, my favourite comment was someone who suggested that it was not uncommon for trains at this time to have no toilets. Hence, perhaps why many are concentrating very carefully!
Picture 40: 1958
Picture 40A: 1958
BALMORAL took part in the 1953 Coronation Naval Review and then carried the Duke of Edinburgh on board for the opening of the new locks at Shoreham in 1958.
One person commented on social media: ".I was one of the naval cadets that you can see in the photo."
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Marlborough Place, Brighton, just outside the King & Queen pub. Although, it has been pointed out on Brighton Past that this was probably 'Race Day' at Brighton Racecourse. It does indicate that traffic in Brighton is not just a modern problem and there seems to be countless Trolley buses in this picture.
With the new Valley Gardens project in this area now. It should now at least be easier to cross the road!
This photograph was taken from where Chandlers Timber yard is now, in Hove and it looks like they are loading or unloading baled paper perhaps for recycling in Rotterdam, a regular trade in the late 50's.
The clue to the location of this photograph are the houses in 'Millionaires Row,' Hove pictured in the background.
Recycling is not a new concept and I can remember as a child in the early seventies knocking on doors and collecting old newspapers. For a 13 year old child this was quite lucrative.
Picture 193: Circa 1960
A trollybus making its way up Ditchling Road, Brighton The trolleybus has just turned right from Woodbourne Avenue.
Although environmentally friendly, trollybuses had high maintenance costs and were very slow.
However, many would like to see a return of this transport which would be cleaner than some other forms of transport in the city.
Picture 192: Circa 1962
Children pushing a car outside Bevendean Infants school in 1962.
Surrey Street, Brighton. with Brighton Station in the background.
I think many would argue that this area looks better now with more private dwellings and less shops etc.
1960 and a crashed Vauxhall PA Cresta.
It. It is hard to imagine how this vehicle has managed to crash on Madeira Drive, Brighton and ended up on the Volks Railway line, given it is a straight road. Perhaps drink driving?
It is thought likely that this photograph was taken at Lancing or Brighton Carrieage works. Possibly an Open Day.
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This is Beachy Head, the last of the Brighton Atlantic locos to be scrapped. They were used to haul the Southern Belle, the steam predecessor of the Brighton Belle. This loco is currently being rebuilt at the Bluebell Railway.
This picture was taken at Aldrington basin near Shoreham (looking West). The Power Station Chimneys can be seen in the distance.
The vessel pictured is an “Isles” class armed trawler and there are a couple of schools of thought in terms of its identity. one being that it is the 'Curzon' which was based at Maxwell's Wharf in the basin. The 'Curzon' was renamed Fittleton on 1st January 1976.
Hove Fire Station, Hove Street.​