Brighton guidebooks (misc)

From The Brighton Toy and Model Index
Jump to navigationJump to search
Exhibit

Brighton guidebooks (misc)

BTMM map 083.gif
location:

Arch One , Area 83
Visitors' Brighton (display)


Glamour of Brighton


A selection of old Brighton guidebooks and local catalogues.

  • A.T. Sallis (Brighton) mail order catalogue October 1959
  • Ward Lock & Co's "Brighton, Hove and District" (Illustrated Guide Books)
Old red cloth cover, front-cover map shows an area centred on Devil's Dyke, encompassing Steyning, Lewes, Hayward's Heath, and Brighton.
  • K.R.G. Browne Brighton "The official handbook of the corporation of Brighton"
White soft cover with purpley-red, dark green, dark blue and gold inks.
Front cover illustration, caption is "H.R.H. The Prince of Wales at Brighton 1784"
  • Hamilton Fyfe Brighton
Front cover illustration by Aubrey Hammond shows a bon viveur in the window of a Brighton Belle Pullman railway car.
  • Clifford Musgrave The Royal Pavilion
A thin booklet with yellow cover.
  • Jeffery Farnol Hove
Cover illustration of woman in swimsuit with ball, by A.K. Macdonald.
  • Gamley's catalogue
"Gamley's: The Hove Hornby Train Store"
78, Church Road, Hove