brighton & hove people 1927-1945 (1)
Pictured through the lens of a Sussex Daily News photographer.
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A game of 'Leapfrog' taken on what seems a hot sunny day on Brighton Seafront. The faces of the picture paints a picture of a care free day out at the seaside.
Donkey rides were a regular feature on Brighton Seafront right up to the early 1960s. There were many comments about this picture with happy memories of stroking the Donkeys as a child because they could not afford the cost of the ride.
Children from London County Council boarding a Brighton Corporation's AEC bus (new in 1939) in Queens Road outside Brighton Station. It had previously been thought this might be a picture of evacuees but looks likely it was a day trip to Brighton.
Picture 22: Circa 1929
There were several regular circuses that visited Brighton in the 50s and 60s and the train would deliver animals to Brighton Station, followed by a short walk to The Level, Preston Park or The Hippodrome, Brighton.
Billy Smarts Circus & Chipperfields were perhaps the most well known. One person commented on social media, how they remembered as a child seeing elephants parading down Queens Road, each elephant wrapping its trunk round the tail of the one in front.
A mystery picture from 1929.
The location of this picture is currently unknown. However, is an interesting looking tandem with what appears is a baby in the middle?
It is really difficult to pinpoint the exact location of this picture, but according to some ‘eagle eyed’ research on the Brighton Past Facebook site, it is thought to be the Army Recruitment Office at 10 Waterloo Place, east of The Level/St Peter’s Church.).
Most of the buildings in this image are still there but it looks like number 10 went to make way for the Phoenix, Brighton building (Close to St Peters Church).
There was lots of debate about this photo on social media. Was it Hanningtons, Vokins or Wades etc. Not many clues. But for sure shopping habits have changed over the last 70 years.
The proclamation 'notice' that has been pasted onto the window is headed 'God Save The King', which acts as confirmation that this is a notice about the Accession of Edward Vlll in January 1936.
The eagle eyed amongst the Brighton Past Facebook group point out that this is outside Brighton Town Hal,l Bartholomews Square, with the Floral Hall in the background.
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An interesting debate on the Brighton Past Facebook page about this wonderful picture, full of so many characters. As to how women always used to where hats when indoors and men would take theirs off when they entered the room.
Also, it looks cold because there is no central heating.
It is thought this is likely to be the demolition of the original Volks Railway Station on Brighton Seafront which sat where The Aquarium now stands and was moved west further up Marine Drive, near what is now Brighton Marina.
Many of the posters on Brighton Past had happy memories of working at one of the Brighton Telephone exchanges in Brighton & Hove.
The main exchanges were at North Road and Withdean.
A busy scene on Brighton Seafront sometime in the 1930s. Comments on Brighton Past were very complimentary in terms of the dress code of the many promenading on a weekend and memories of a bygone era.. Someone else pointed out the reality for the poor in the 30s had the challenges for some: TB, Rickets, Diphtheria, Slums and high infant mortality rates,
One theory according to the Brighton Past website is that the Arab in this photograph is Sheikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa who is the current Amir of Bahrain's grandfather.
Who according to some reports made an official state visit to Brighton. This picture is thought to be somewhere around East Brigthon Park and might involve visiting children of Brighton College?
The mystery face. As yet the answer to this cryptic pictures location remains unanswered.
Although not confirmed, this is likely to be members of the Brighton Swimming Club pictured on what could be Christmas Day?
One 'eagle eyed' member of Brighton Past even identified the numbers of these houses pictured in the background of this photograph which is Bevendean Crescent, Brighton - numbers 32 34 36 & 38.
The photograph appears to be somone pointing out some bones in a newly dug hole.
Tommy Trinder CBE (24 March 1909 – 10 July 1989), pictured outside the Brighton Hippodrome. Tommy was an English stage, screen and radio comedian of the pre- and post-war years whose catchphrase was 'You lucky people!'