Brighton and the surrounding area (original) (raw)

Brighton. It is everybody's town, for who has not lived there or been there since it grew out of the fishing village of Brighthelmstone to become the most fashionable town in Sussex, biggest watering-place in England?

It has been a royal town; it comes into Macaulay's history and Dickens's novels; it has seen Charles Lamb wandering about its hills with his sister Mary, Byron dissipating his youth, Dr Johnson walking along the front with Mrs Thrale and Fanny Burney, and a long procession of those great amd little notables who figure in the gossip of the day and cease to be. [Mee 57]

Brighton as a vacation resort

• Brighton Palace Pier
• The Remains of West Pier, Brighton
• Seafront Structures in Brighton
• David Mocatta's Brighton Railway Station (several views)
• The Victoria Fountain

Architecture

• The Booth Museum of Natural History
• Brighton Aquarium
• The Brighton Pavilion
• G. F. Bodley's St Michael and All Angels, Hove
• Richard Cromwell Carpenter's St Paul's Parish Church, Brighton
• William Hallett's St John the Baptist Church, Brighton
• John Johnson's Golden Jubilee Clock Tower (three views)
• John Nash's De Vere Grand Hotel, Brighton
• Edmund Scott's St Bartholomew's, Brighton (with furnishings by Henry Wilson and others)
• Union Church, Brighton (demolished)
• Alfred Waterhouse's Hotel Metropole

Sculpture

• Thomas's Brock's Queen Victoria Memorial, Hove
• Chantry's George IV, Brighton
• Hove War Memorial, by Sir Edwin Lutyens and Sir George Frampton

Technology

• The Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway
• The Brighton or London Road Viaduct
• Hodshrove Skew-Bridge, on the road from Brighton to Lewes
• Volks Electric Railway (and the Brighton-Rottingdean extension)

Scenes

• The Esplanades, Brighton, on a sunny summer's day
• Grand Cricket Match at Brighton, 1844
• Awful Scene on the Chain Pier (cartoon by John Leech)

Brighton in Art

• Constable's Chain Pier, Brighton
• Turner's The Chain Pier

Near Brighton

• Chattri, South Downs
• Kipling in Rottingdean
• The Parish Church of St Margaret, Rottingdean
• Edward Burne-Jones's home in Rottingdean
• Ovingdean Hall, Sussex (birthplace of Charles Eamer Kempe)
• Ruskin's Spring and Fountain, Fulking

Bibliography

Mee, Arthur. The King's England: Sussex: The Garden by the Sea. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1937.

Created 20 November 2006

Last modified 19 May 2024