Category:Disappeared Brighton

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The Chain Pier (1823-1896), destroyed in a storm in 1896

The Chain Pier (1823-1896), destroyed in a storm in 1896 [image info]

Brighton Locomotive Works produced over twelve hundred steam locomotives

Brighton Locomotive Works produced over twelve hundred steam locomotives [image info]

Museum model of Magnus Volk's "Daddy Long-Legs" seagoing electric railway between Brighton and Rottingdean (1896-1901)

Museum model of Magnus Volk's "Daddy Long-Legs" seagoing electric railway between Brighton and Rottingdean (1896-1901) [image info]

The Museum has a contemporary 1930s model of the Brighton Belle luxury Pullman train undergoing restoration

The Museum has a contemporary 1930s model of the Brighton Belle luxury Pullman train undergoing restoration [image info]

1934: The SS Brighton Swimming Pool, which then became an icerink, and then a performance venue

1934: The SS Brighton Swimming Pool, which then became an icerink, and then a performance venue [image info]

2014: View East from the Brighton Wheel (2011-2016). The Wheel had planning permission to be in Brighton for five years

2014: View East from the Brighton Wheel (2011-2016). The Wheel had planning permission to be in Brighton for five years [image info]

2018: The cleared site of the Preston Park Pullman Works, to the left of the track. This is where craftsmen repaired and maintained opulent Pullman railway cars for trains such as the Golden Arrow and the Brighton Belle

2018: The cleared site of the Preston Park Pullman Works, to the left of the track. This is where craftsmen repaired and maintained opulent Pullman railway cars for trains such as the Golden Arrow and the Brighton Belle [image info]

Disappeared Brighton. Although Brighton and Hove is fiercely protective of many of the Victorian and early C20th features that make it unique, some of its original landmarks, attributes and signature businesses have unavoidably disappeared without being preserved, and now only exist as photographs, artwork, contemporary materials and models. Sometimes these lost features have left footprints in the city, sometimes they have disappeared without trace. It would have been difficult to justify preserving a derelict goods yard or sprawling locomotive works, and when shops close, new businesses take their place.

Because Brighton grew so explosively after the arrival of the London-Brighton railway line in 1841, with Victorian buildings being planted on what had previously been open ground, archaeologically-speaking, much of the city is still "first-generation", and the sites or surroundings of many of these subjects are still visible.

These pages try to document some of these pieces of lost Brighton.

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