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Back in about 1979 I dropped my motorbike coming round that corner from Hove in to Western Road - spilt diesel was like black ice .... G/f on pillion was none too pleased either ....

Is that a school cricket match playing on the green?

Have you got a date for the snap with "Home Lighting" shop in it? My next-door neighbour from early 70s owned an electrical shop in Portland Road - but I can't remember what it was called.

Is it a Specsavers now?

Crikey, a number 4 bus! When was that route dropped? I started using buses from late 60s and can't ever recall a 4?

First one - "turn of the century"? Presume you mean 1899-1900 and not 1999-2000? Looks like maybe Arundel Castle in the background? Second picture - my little sister lives right on the bend there on Neville Road

My 96 year old dad tells a story of being at Varndean and out on a school trip on the cliff tops near Roedean when a Dornier German bomber dumped a load of bombs close by, all landing harmlessly in the sea. He reckons it was because the schoolboys were all wearing red caps so easy to spot from...

Great thread Keep em coming...

I recall in the late 1960s doing a guided tour of Brighton sewers - we went in somewhere around West Street Arches and after walking what seemed like ages, resurfaced in the middle of Old Steine gardens. Think there was lots of storm-drainage so the tubes were big enough to drive a car through...

Yeah, I can remember playing there once. No changing rooms if I recall? I also complained bitterly to the ref that he was not officiating on a level playing field ....

I can faintly recall being driven in my dad's car past the scene. Fire engines everywhere and flames leaping into the sky. Never seen anything quite like it ...

First pic, the West Pier in all it's splendour Marvellous scenes ....

Ha, indeed - the chimney looks like an attempt to use up all the remaining leftover bricks from the main build.

Great photos ... My Granny used to live in one of those terraced houses off to the right. Forced out by compulsory purchase to make way for the gyratory / Sainsburys in 1983 - she died 3 years later ...

Just looking at that picture of "Daddy Long-legs" - the single lifeboat that probably managed 10 - they weren't very good back in those [Titanic] days of getting this H&S aligned.

I can recall being driven past there circa 1967 with M&D + us 3 kids. My big sister [~11 y/o] commented along the lines of "Poo, what a stink of gas!" Mum replies: "Breathe through your mouth then." To which big-sis retorts: "But then it tastes horrible!" Bantz from the 1960's

House has been photo-shopped in? :shrug:

I'd recognise that view with my eyes closed - I'm with team Weststander

Ahh, my back yard ... from 1967 to 1983 - my house is just out of picture off to the right, round the back of the shops off Longridge Avenue Could tell so many stories from that one picture Bunking into Butlins Playing "mad-hole" pitch 'n' putt Youth-club disco upstairs above the Lido First...