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Seafront Gallery 1

Can you help us date any of these?
Bert Clayton
Photo:Metropole Hotel
Photo:Metropole Hotel
Photo:Palace Pier
Photo:Palace Pier close up
Photo:Peace statue
Photo:Punch and Judy
Photo:Street lamp
Photo:Peace statue
Photo:Volks Railway
Photo:West Pier concert hall
Photo:West Pier in the distance
Photo:West Pier

These photographs come from a collection of photographs by Bert Clayton, a photographer for the Sussex Daily News. They were submitted to the site by Bert's great-neice, Tricia Leonard, who is a member of the East Brighton Bygones Local History Group.

Can anyone date any of these photos? Leave a comment on the relevant page if you can.

This page was added on 22/03/2006.

Comments:

Brighton has always been my favourite seaside town and it's great to see your wonderful pictures of Brighton as it was.
By Roger Auclair (13/02/2006)

After school in the late 50s about ten or so of us teenagers used to meet at the first beach east of the Palace Pier. We called this beach Dalton's beach. Does anybody know why we called it by that name?

By Mick Peirson (15/11/2006)

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