‘I like Hove. I like its surroundings and I like its climate King Edward VII 22 January will mark the 110th anniversary of King Edward VII’s accession to the throne. Unlike his mother, Queen Victoria, Edward was fond … Continued
This year’s Burning of the Clocks will be held tomorrow, Tuesday 21 December. This is a contemporary British folk tradition of Brighton, which originated in 1993. A magical winter white lantern festival, it takes the form of a street procession with thousands of performers, … Continued
[slideshow] This pair of stereoscopic prints was produced in around 1857 by William Mason Junior. Mason’s father owned one of Brighton’s earliest photographic studios, the Repository of Arts and Talbotype Gallery in the King’s Road. Although only an apprentice in … Continued
It is the 27th October, 1886. Alone in her room, Mary Burchett takes a photograph of herself using a remote device to operate the camera. When she develops the image on paper, she finds that her face is obscured by … Continued
This photograph shows Circus Street School, Brighton, in the late 1930s. It was taken shortly before the area was redeveloped in 1937. But this photograph is not merely a record of a vanished school; more surprisingly, it shows how the Spanish Civil … Continued
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