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Brighton Pier

Photos from the 1970s
Photo:The Palace Pier - early 1970s
Photo:Palace Pier - early 1970s
Photo:The Palace Pier - early 1970s
Photo:Palace Pier - early 1970s - showing the theatre which was demolished by a barge in 1973
Photo:The pier-head in the early 1970s showing the entrance fee of 6d.
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This page was added on 22/03/2006.

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Does anyone have pictures of - or recall - or even been a client of - 'Eva Petrulengo, Genuine Romany Clairvoyant' who had a palm reading business in a small kiosk to the right of the Palace Pier entrance just before the toll booths?  I seem to recall the kiosk being covered in stylised moons and planets as well as pictures of 1950s and 1960s celebrities who had consulted her (Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, maybe even Harold Wilson etc).

By Adrian Baron (25/01/2007)

Yes, I have been a client of Eva. She still reads palms.

By Anonymous (29/03/2007)

Hi Anon, can you let me know where Eva Petrulengo can be contcated or is located/works? Thanks.

By Maxine (19/08/2007)

Hello, I have been a client of her's in 1988. I still recall the reading - still have it on tape. Would like to have a follow up on that reading. Is she still alive. Where does she do readings? Hendrik from Germany

By hendrik holler (09/06/2010)

Does anyone remember the tattoo artist who had a shop at the end of the pier? I had several tattoos done there. When he had no customers, he would lift up a floorboard and go fishing through the hole. I think his name was Bob. Happy times.

By Peter Carter (21/06/2011)

I met my husband the night of August 8th 1970 and remembered going to see the bands playing along the front.

By Pattie (09/08/2011)

Have just read Eva Petrulengo's autobiography, out now in paperback. She is very much alive, I think she has her own web page. I think book called The Girl in the Gypsy Caravan.

By maggie (10/08/2011)

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