new year 2009 = happy

new year january 2009 = happy

and the dogs will be happy too

New rules on keeping dogs under control and making our city safer and cleaner come into force on 1 January 2009.

lovely day

it was a lovely day, looking east =

working programme includes

AGM /party

posting copy of the lease on this blog

more beach hut (his)stories

improving access and repairs

getting the huts listed

tide tables on message board, sun dial on the water tap post,

monitoring planning and licence applications in the vicinity

red boat, beached

december 17th at 2pm 2008

view from east end of the chalet row

view from east end of the chalet row looking west, where fishermen lockers were to be built

old view from Royal Crescent hotel

old view from Royal Crescent hotel -- not many cars on the road or people on the beach

my brighton cribbed

I still cannot find any pics of the chalets --- this old card seems to show bathing machines near where the chalets are now, being where the Royal Crescent steps are.

The first road along the base of the base of the East Cliff. In the 19th century it was a popular promenade, especially for invalids. It was known as Madeira Road until the First World War.

really old post card

The street, then called Madeira Road, had been paved so early motoring events could be staged there.
There were also gardens and lawns roughly where the Yellowave beach sports centre is today, about half way between the Palace Pier and the marina.
The Madeira Lift, now promised restoration, was then fairly new. It took people from the King’s Cliff area down to the seafront through a shelter hall, now Concord 2.

some postcard views

this train runs behind the huts every 20 minutes in the summer. it is not very noisy.

with a zoom, you can just see the huts, if you know where you are looking. it seems to have been taken from a window at the top of the Royal Albion Hotel at long time ago.

even with a zoom, you cannot see the huts as the tide is so low.....

i liked this postcard as a small piece of local history. This concrete sculpture was in Churchill Square, behind B&H and opposite Habitat. The chalet beach huts are in the same material.

argus report

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/3873527.Changes_needed_at_future_Fatboy_gigs/

Fatboy gigs

as some of you know, our Norm gave us some free tickets for the Big Beach Boutique 4 on Saturday 27th September 2008 on Madeira Drive in compensation for the disruption -- one post-mortem takes place on 27 November 2008 Licensing Committee item 20 : Big Beach Boutique 4 Review -- see also the Argus today Nov 24th page 16 --

We are denied the right to object to any such licence, as we are neither close residents or businesses, despite the obvious disruption caused. Neither the local MP or cllrs seem interested enought to do anything about this gagging. This is a denial of justice, and a matter of principle viz: "taxation without representation is tyranny" ........
Guidance issued under section 182 of the Licensing Act 2003 states
8.6 It is expected that “a person involved in business” will be given its widest possible interpretation, including partnerships, and need not be confined to those engaged in trade and commerce.
9.12 The Secretary of State recommends that in borderline cases, the benefit of the doubt should be given to the interested party making the representation

In the event, the chalets were not trashed or urinated on and the inconvenience was not getting access to the huts on the day.

WEATHER FORECAST

USE THE LINK PROVIDED BY OUR LANDLORDS, brighton and hove council, to see the weather

BEACH HUTS IN MADEIRA DRIVE

BEACH HUTS IN MADEIRA DRIVE , Kemp Town, Brighton

The purpose of this blog is serve as a message board for tenants of the 23 chalets and to record the existence and celebrate the beach huts per se.