[Brighton] Old Brighton Postcard

[Weststander]

175 Preston Road (now an NHS premises), opposite Preston Park for lunchtime footie and the Crown and Anchor for very long Friday lunchtimes. The departments there moved down from London around 1970 I think.

Were you still going to L&G Xmas do's in nightclubs in the early/mid 80's?

A mate worked there, he took us ..... wild evenings

 

[dejavuatbtn]

Were you still going to L&G Xmas do's in nightclubs in the early/mid 80's?

A mate worked there, he took us ..... wild evenings

I have to confess to organising them from 1979 onwards! We used to raise a load of money for charity and, as you say, ensure everyone had a good time. Happy days.

 

[Weststander]

I have to confess to organising them from 1979 onwards! We used to raise a load of money for charity and, as you say, ensure everyone had a good time. Happy days.

Thank you

I remembering staggering round Busby's, also a club upstairs in Middle Street .

 

[banjo]

Thank you

I remembering staggering round Busby's, also a club upstairs in Middle Street .

Busby’s, blimey that takes me back.

 

[dejavuatbtn]

Thank you

I remembering staggering round Busby's, also a club upstairs in Middle Street .

Over the years we used the Birds Nest, Concorde, Busby’s, Sherry’s (which became the Pink Coconut), Top Rank - basically wherever we could get a good deal and the numbers in. Sherry’s had the bar upstairs and the balcony all the way round.

 

[Southern Scouse]

Busby’s was always a favourite of mine, as was Sherry’s. I can even remember the occasional weekend!

 

[Weststander]

Over the years we used the Birds Nest, Concorde, Busby’s, Sherry’s (which became the Pink Coconut), Top Rank - basically wherever we could get a good deal and the numbers in. Sherry’s had the bar upstairs and the balcony all the way round.

I remember them all well, but haven't heard of the Bird's Nest. I managed to visit Sherry's a couple of times age 16 and 17, prior to becoming the PC.

 

[Brovion]

I remember them all well, but haven't heard of the Bird's Nest. I managed to visit Sherry's a couple of times age 16 and 17, prior to becoming the PC.

Bird's Nest became the Gloucester.

 

[Weststander]

Bird's Nest became the Gloucester.

Was the Bird's Nest any good, what type of music?

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Was the Bird's Nest any good, what type of music?

Disco

 

[Weststander]

Disco

Awful then ….. too many young females and dancing.

Missing out on all those sweaty blokes in dirty denim jackets headbanging to Saxon at ‘the Years’.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Awful then ….. too many young females and dancing.

Missing out on all those sweaty blokes in dirty denim jackets headbanging to Saxon at ‘the Years’.

Saxon? Pfui! Montrose (Space Station), Led Zep, Hawkwind, Eno (3rd Uncle), Floyd (One of these days), Edgar Broughton (Out Demons Out).

 

[Southern Scouse]

What was the club called opposite the pier next to the Brighton Centre… was good in a basement, lots of rocker types.
Actually, could have been Worthing seafront… ��*

 

[Is it PotG?]

Accession of King George V?

Reading of the proclamation by his Worship the Mayor (Councillor E Geere), Brighton Town Hall, 9 May 1910?

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

Description says Brighton 1976, I was only 6/7 then and don't recall it like this.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Description says Brighton 1976, I was only 6/7 then and don't recall it like this.

Deffo not Brighton.

Brighton 1974?

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

Deffo not Brighton.

Brighton 1974?

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New Brighton ?

 

[Brok]

New Brighton ?

Great Yarmouth?

 

[sydney]

What was the club called opposite the pier next to the Brighton Centre… was good in a basement, lots of rocker types.
Actually, could have been Worthing seafront… ��*

Royal Stewart.

 

[Brok]

Royal Stewart.

I don't think the Royal Stewart was a basement.

Could be the place by Steyne Gardens, whose name escapes me....


Edit... The Viking?