On 27 December 1830, Amelia Fitzclarence, one of King William IV’s illegitimate daughters with Mrs Dorothea Jordan, married Lucius Cary, 10th Viscount Falkland, at the Royal Pavilion. This may sound odd, but the many children William IV had with Mrs … Continued
Royal Pavilion curator Alexandra Loske takes a look out of her office window, and reflects on the historic changes that have taken place in Brighton’s Church Street. My office is in the Old Court House, a sturdy Victorian building in … Continued
The magnificent gateway at the northern entrance to the Royal Pavilion dates from 1832 and is an often overlooked and underappreciated Brighton building. As with the south gate, we don’t know exactly how it looked in the late 18th and … Continued
One unsung element of Regency garden style, as seen at the Royal Pavilion, is the use of different greens. The evergreen envelope acts as a foil for the more showy, or even to modern eyes, gaudy colours of the flowering … Continued
Zippo’s Circus arrives in Brighton on the 18 August but Victorian Brightonians would have been entertained by an equally famous circus troupe run by the Ginnett family. John Ginnett was born in 1826 in Lea, Essex, son of a Frenchman, … Continued
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