I had no idea that the gates were made of gun barrels!!! I'm going to go to the station and have a closer look now! Thanks!

There are in fact three guns, the third is to the right of the picture. I was told they were from a Russian gun battery at Sebastapol.

I regret to say that the gateposts at Brighton station near the porte-cochre are NOT gun barrels. They were cast in that form but made of cheap cast iron that would never have withstood a charge fired out of them. (Information from tour guide 7/4/06)

I remember going to London twice a year because I was a size 10 shoe when I was only 14. This meant it was so hard to get shoes to fit in Brighton, this was in 1970. Mum and I went to London and came home with 3 pairs of shoes and a day in the 'big smoke' as we used to call it. The Station was always so busy people coming and going. I ended up going to Smith's to buy a mag and a mars bar for the train ride .....I loved to look out of the window, but I hated the smell of smoke as in those days you could smoke on the trains. Oh the memories, but they were not the cleanest of trains either I remember getting home with all these shoes and been so dirty on the face and hands !! I couldn't wait to have a bath. Bomb scares was another thing at the Station, they were pretty scary, all the police not to mention the delays too. I remember the lovely flowers sold at the station too. All the taxis outside in a line waiting to take folk to their homes.