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Brighton Station

Victorian cobbled road

By Farid, railway worker

This particular photograph is my favourite. It's the road that runs parallel to platform seven, the original road that runs out under the platform towards London into Trafalgar Street, with its archways, its cobbled road. I imagine it to be full of life. It shows Brighton as it was in Victorian times. Unfortunately it is not open to the public. in fact very few Brighton people know of it.

Old cobbled road

Photo by Farid

Image and text from the 'My Brighton' exhibit

This page was added on 22/03/2006.

Comments:

Hello Anthony - if you look on this page http://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/brighton_station_images.htm you will find some old pictures of Brighton Station. If you visit Brighton and Hove Library online at this page http://www.citylibraries.info/pictures/you will find lots of images of WW2 Brighton - including the seafront.

By Jennifer - Volunteer Editor (09/05/2005)

I find web sites like this very interesting but do you know of any web sites with pictures of Brighton seafront during WW2 and Brighton station during this period?

By Anthony (09/05/2005)

Hi Antony, I read your comments about the tunnels under B'righton Station with interest. There's another one which runs from the track to Hove and has been closed for years but is still there. I know it was used as a rifle range for a while and housed some kind of war room but has been bricked up and little known about for years. I've spent the last eight years trying to put together a project on the lost railways of Brighton and Hove, purely for fun and some of the stuff I found along the way would blow your socks off! Off the top of my head, check out sussexhistory.com, as it shows the platform 7 access road in good detail, and possibly the other tunnel as well. Enjoy

By Loz Russell (29/05/2008)