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
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