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.