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Brighton is easy
to get to, under an hour by rail from London, about 45 minutes by road from
the M25 London orbital motorway,
and half-an-hour from London Gatwick Airport.
The nearby port of Newhaven provides the city with easy access to
northern France and the Channel Tunnel.
Brighton has much to offer with the
Brighton Marina, waterfront bars, restaurants, casino, hotels, designer
shopping, bowling and cinema complexes, health clubs. The
Brighton Pier Formerly the Palace Pier,
has numerous
attractions including arcades, rides, funfair, fortune tellers, restaurants,
bars, bingo hall and a night-club.
For indoor entertainment there is the
Sea-life
Centre featuring one of the longest underwater tunnels in England.
The Brighton Fishing Museum
contains a 27ft beach boat, prints, photographs and memorabilia of Brighton
seafront telling the history of the local industry.
The Booth Museum of Natural History
has over half a million specimens, natural
history literature and data extending back over three centuries
including a dinosaur.
Museum of Mechanical Memories
museum displays coin operated amusement machines
from c1900 to c1960... the collections also
include a fairground organ plus working pre-decimal arcade slot machines,
for which visitors can buy old pennies.
Brighton Museum and Art Gallery contains
a collection of Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and Salvador Dali's sofa based on Mae
West's lips.
A history of children's toys can be
found at
Brighton Toy Museum There are over 10,000 toys and models on
display with a priceless model train collection and many period antique toys.
Take the
Volk's
electric railway along the beach.
Opened in 1883 and running the mile between Palace Pier and Brighton Marina.
Edwardian gentry home at
Preston Manor. This delightful old Manor House evokes the atmosphere
of an Edwardian gentry house both 'upstairs' and 'downstairs'....Explore
more than twenty rooms over four floors, from the servants' quarters,
kitchens and butler's pantry in the basement to the attic bedrooms and
nursery on the top floor
Royal Pavilion, Brighton is
situated in Brighton town centre and is fifteen minutes walk from Brighton
station. Buses stop either outside the Royal Pavilion on Steine Gardens, or
on North Street which is within 5 minutes walk
There is a wide range of shops and
restaurants and a big club scene.
At
Hove Lagoon
Watersports Centre there is windsurfing, sailing, powerboating.
For those sunnier days Saltdean Lido,
with its stylish 1930's Art Deco building, has two outdoor swimming pools.
We can't mention Brighton without a
word or two of Graham Greene's famous novel
Brighton Rock, published in 1938. He describes a rather unsavoury place
(not to mention unsavoury characters). If you don't know the book then
here's a quick
review
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