Yeah, leaning against a wall I've seen, ditto chaining to railings. It's the old school 'parked on the road' that I don't remember seeing for ages. As you say nowadays the bike would probably be a) nicked, b) hit by traffic, c) removed as an obstruction
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[Brighton] Old Brighton Postcard
- Thread starter Klaas
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Interesting that the sailor/pirate figure outside the Rose & Crown is without the bow of the boat beneath his feet. Recently the boat which was there for many years has been removed and the same brackets seem to be in evidence.
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Thrifty non-licker
Windsor St / Church St ?
Psychobilly freakout
HellBilly
Druids head
Psychobilly freakout
HellBilly
Albion Hill
BrightonCottager
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Thanks for posting. These photos were taken before the seawall and Undercliff were built. Current best estimates of coastal erosion are that with no active intervention in maintaining the beach and sea wall, the cliffs would erode 20m by 2055 and 40m by 2105, taking the A259 with it.
dejavuatbtn
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What, no pot holes?
dolphins
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Trafalgar Street
Psychobilly freakout
HellBilly
Right which one of you was one of these hippies..
dejavuatbtn
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Auditions for Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.
Me - I still wear normal clothes. But then I have an e-bike, so I can cycle to work in normal clothes - hop off and walk straight in a sit down. No changing/showers or any of that nonsense.
I did also actually put my pedal down on the kerb to park my bike recently - as I always used to. But I found that as the e-bike is so much heavier, it really didn't want to just stand there, not even with the wheel turned in slightly.
Jeffro Tull’s Ian Anderson on the right.
A friend of mine assured me she'd served Ian Anderson at the then Colston Hall in Bristol a few years ago.
My faith in this claim was somewhat undermined by her initially claiming that the same man was Robert Fripp.
I was pleasantly surprised to see some of JT are still with us. Despite his persona at the time and that era, Anderson wasn’t into narcotics he says.
I've always been of the understanding that Ian Anderson was comfortably the least "exciting" (I.e. the least into drugs etc.) of all the 60/70s rock stars.
Never quite understood why some people (not accusing you of this) assume that somebody with a big on stage performing personality must be on drugs, frankly. It's like assuming that somebody playing Macbeth must be into stabbing people.
Reading a stack of musicians autobios revealed all, plus some BBC4 docs. Perhaps naively, I didn’t realise some of my idols were pretty ‘ill’ during their peak through Class A drugs and/or booze. Blondie, Soft Cell, Billy Idol, Hookie and Sumner, Andy Rourke, Adam Clayton, Marianne Faithful. I never hold it against them, the polar opposite, I want them be healthy and to live forever.
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Thrifty non-licker
Lewes Rd / Elm Gr ?
Psychobilly freakout
HellBilly
probably posted before, but a great photo.
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Thrifty non-licker
Castle Square ?
Perfidious Albion
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The Same Old House, said to have been on the South side of Anne Street , off London Yoad.
Today the street is totally different, even from when I last knew it in the 80s/90s
Today the street is totally different, even from when I last knew it in the 80s/90s