Brighton & Hove through the ages
Explore the history of Brighton & Hove with this brilliant interactive timeline. Click to discover the changing face of Brighton, from 447AD to present dayRead in 2 minutes
Brighton and Hove Albion were playing at the nearby County Cricket Ground, and as their pitch was unavailable, they approached Hove FC to use the Goldstone and went on to defeat Southampton Wanderers 7-1 in a friendly on the 22nd of February 1902. The Hove FC committee realised that gate
At 1,722ft long, Brighton Marine Palace and Pier opened in 1899 is generally known as the Palace Pier for short, but has been informally renamed Brighton Pier since 2000 by its owners, the Noble Organisation, as it is now Brighton’s only non-derelict pier, a term not recognised by the Piers
The Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway was a unique coastline railway in Brighton, England that ran through the shallow coastal waters of the English Channel between 1896 and 1901
The Chain Pier, already closed and decrepit by this point, was destroyed by a storm on 4 December 1896. The remains of some of the pier’s oak piles, sunk ten feet into bedrock, can still be seen at the most extreme low tides. Masonry blocks can also be seen. The entrance
The Dyke Station opened as the terminus for the standard gauge railway line which ran from Dyke Junction Station (now known as Aldrington railway station) to 200 feet below the summit of Devil’s Dyke.
Opened in 1883, inventor Magnus Volk’s Electric Railway is the ‘world’s oldest operating electric railway’
Opened 6th October 1866. The Pier was designed and engineered by Eugenius Birch to attract visitors and survive in the hostile environment of the seashore. Originally the West Pier had an open deck with only six small ornamental houses of oriental design, two toll houses and glass screens at the
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