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Photograph of the Colonnade pub
Image reproduced with permission from Brighton History Centre
Photograph of the Colonnade pub, New Road
Photo by Mike Snewin
Always a pricey place to drink but worth it now and then to see and hear the over the top theatrical "luvvies" and Brighton characters who used to frequent it. This was Brighton's version of bars in Fitzrovia. Can't imagine many of the luvvies drank that awful 1970s slop Red Barrel though....what were brewers like Watneys thinking in those days?
I remember seeing Arthur Askey and Kathy Kirby waving to us from an upstairs balcony of this pub. I also saw Hermoine Gingold, had had a few drinks myself to see the actors come in from the Theatre Royal.
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