Tag Archives: Brighton Pier

Two piers

Sunday 7th July 2024, 2.40pm (day 4,700)

Two Brighton piers, 7/7/24

Since the 10th April, which was day 4,612 and hence 88 days, or 12.5 weeks ago, there have only been 8 pictures taken in Hebden Bridge, a sign of how much travelling I have been doing. But today was the last full day of it all. I may still get another Brighton or London picture on my way home tomorrow but after that I am at home for most of the rest of the summer. It’s been good to use my sabbatical properly, and valuable to have a change of scene: but I also want to go home, not move around so much, settle back in to home comforts, food, the movie collection, friends, that kind of thing.

To bring it all this to an end, then: more Brighton. Both piers, the active and the ruined, have appeared on here before — but not together, I think. Farewell to the south coast, for now: how long before I am back? No idea.

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The dodgems await high season

Friday 5th July 2024, 12.55pm (day 4,698)

Dodgem cars, 5/7/24

It’s still not high summer tourist season yet — give it another week or so, until the kids start finishing school. Anyway, today the weather was very poor, so no one felt like going to Brighton Pier to drive around in little electric vehicles and wondering whether they will obey the ‘no bumping’ signs. While I do like this shot (which is why I chose it), it is another example of how true symmetry in life is only occasionally achieved.

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Brighton Pier

Sunday 26th February 2017, 12 noon (day 2,012)

Brighton pier, 26/2/17

To conclude a very good weekend in Brighton…. The half-marathon is finishing off behind me (with the wife due in at any moment) but I have pictured that before, so here is a different scene, one of the city’s most famous buildings, crowned by soaring seagulls, which seems appropriate….

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Brighton pier, Wednesday morning

Wednesday 9th October 2013, 9.15am (day 776)

Brighton Pier, 9/10/13

Finished work last night too late to get home, but not too late to get down to Brighton and spend the night there rather than in the suburbs. And, well, sometimes you just have to say that you made the right choice.

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Brighton Beach

Wednesday 24th July 2013, 3.45pm (day 699)

 

Brighton beach, 24/7/13

Ah, the English seaside on a hot summer’s day. Sand? That’s for those continentals, of suspicious morality and lacking in backbone.

 

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