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96 unusual facts about Brighton


Abby Davies

Lee finally asked Abby to marry him shortly before she left Hollyoaks to go to university in Brighton, but alas, it was not to be.

Agnes of God

A few years before the play was written, a similar incident occurred in a convent in Brighton, New York, just outside the city line of Rochester.

Allston–Brighton

They are connected to the Fenway/Kenmore area of Boston by a tiny strip of land containing Boston University along the Charles River, with Brookline lying to the south and southeast, Cambridge to the north and Newton to the west, so they retain a very distinct neighbourhood identity together.

Amon Wilds

Amon Wilds died at the age of 71 on 12 September 1833 and is buried in the churchyard at St Nicholas' Church, Brighton.

Arnold Ruge

From this Ruge soon withdrew, and in 1850, Ruge moved to Brighton to live as a teacher and writer.

On a smaller scale, while in Brighton, he was chairman of the successful Park Crescent Residents' Association.

Arthur F. H. Newton

After this race he returned to England and ran the London to Brighton course in 5:53:43, beating the previous record by over an hour.

Bernhard Baron

Despite these activities, his fortune, on his death at Brighton, amounted to £5 millions.

Brighton and Hove Motor Club

In 1948 the club moved into premises in the arches under Dukes Mound on the seafront at Brighton and have remained there ever since.

Brighton Bears

Brighton Bears was a British basketball team based in Brighton, Sussex.

Brighton, Franklin County, New York

Muncil was a talented local builder who also designed and built Marjorie Merriweather Post's Camp Topridge, and White Pine Camp, which was used as a summer White House of US President Calvin Coolidge.

Brighton, Illinois

The set of a train station at Brighton was depicted in Meredith Willson's The Music Man movie musical from 1962 in the opening scene where some of the residents are chasing a salesman onto the train.

Brighton, Michigan

The film Aspen Extreme begins in Brighton, with the two main characters being maintenance staff at the local ski hill, Mt. Brighton.

Brighton, Missouri

Brighton, Missouri is revealed to be the boyhood home of Sergeant Matthew Baker, the fictional protagionist in the 2007 Ubisoft Xbox 360, PC and PlayStation 3 game, Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway.

Brighton, New York

Brighton Beach is a community on Coney Island in the borough of Brooklyn, New York City.

Brighton, Seattle

Brighton is a neighborhood in south Seattle, Washington, part of the greater Rainier Valley district.

Brighton, South Australia

Brighton was the home of Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer and academic Sir Douglas Mawson.

Carry On at Your Convenience

The strikers finally return to work, but it is only to attend the annual works outing, a coach trip to Brighton.

Charles Leggett

Charles Leggett (20 September 1874 - 29 November 1934) was a Brighton-born cornetist who became known as "The World's Finest Cornet Soloist," and who was the favorite cornet soloist of King Edward VII.

Damian Keyes

In 2001, Keyes and Dickinson left ACM to start their own music school in Brighton with 2 other directors called The Brighton Institute of Modern Music.

David Courtney

Courtney was also responsible for introducing the first Walk of Fame cultural attraction in the UK, located in Brighton.

Detroit, Lansing and Lake Michigan Rail Road

At the time of the merger, all three railroads existed mostly on paper, but on June 30, 1871, DL&LM opened the segment between Detroit and Plymouth, with the segment from Plymouth to Brighton following on July 1.

Doris McRae

McRae died at East Brighton in 1988; her body was donated to the University of Melbourne's anatomy department.

Ersel Hickey

Ersel Hickey (June 27, 1934 – July 12, 2004), born in Brighton, New York, was a rockabilly singer best known for his hit song "Bluebirds over the Mountain".

Esperanto orthography

Compare the Esperanto forms with Serbo-Croatian Vašington, Meksiko, and Gvatemala. Likewise, cunamo, from Japanese tsunami, is similar to Czech and Latvian cunami. Other spelling differences appear when Esperanto spelling is based on the pronunciation of English names which have undergone the Great Vowel Shift, as in Brajtono for Brighton, which housed the 1989 World Congress of Esperanto.

Eurogamer

It is operated by Gamer Network Ltd. with headquarters in Brighton, which was formed in 1999 by brothers Rupert and Nick Loman.

Fort Sanders

Fort Sanders (Colorado), a frontier trading post located near present-day Brighton, Colorado

Franciszek Gruszka

In the spring of 1975 a World War II aviation archeology group found the remnants of an airplane and its pilot in marshes between Preston Village and Stodmarsh, East Sussex.

Frederick Clarke Tate

He was born in Grafton, Ontario, the son of Robert Tate and Margaret Clarke, and was educated there and in Brighton.

Frederick Illingworth

After his resignation from the Legislative Assembly in August 1907, he must have returned to Victoria, for he died at Brighton, Victoria on 8 September 1908, and was buried in Melbourne Cemetery.

Furnace Green

National Cycle Route 20 passes through Furnace Green, entering via Tilgate Drive from Three Bridges, to the north, at the point where it passes over the Horsham railway line and continuing south into Tilgate Forest en route for Brighton.

Gay Divorce

To take his mind off his lost love, his friend Teddy Egbert, a British attorney, takes him to Brighton Beach, where Egbert has arranged for a "paid co-respondent" to assist his client in obtaining a divorce from her boring, aging, geologist husband Robert.

George Augustus Henry Sala

Lord Rosebery gave him a civil list pension of £100 a year, but he was a broken-down man, and he died at Brighton on 8 December 1895.

Glitters Like Gold

'Glitters Like Gold' featured throughout the February and March 2012 tour at venues in London, Edinburgh, Brighton and Leeds, and opens fifth LP In the Belly of the Brazen Bull.

Gossops Green

Gossops Green is on the A23 trunk road which was the main London to Brighton route before the M23 motorway was opened in the 1970s, which by-passed Crawley.

Hastings Direct

In January 2011 the company announced that 150 new posts would be created in 2011, with the first 60 to be recruited in January in the Bexhill, Hastings, Eastbourne, Brighton and Hove areas.

Hemsley Fraser

Hemsley Fraser is a learning and development company, with offices in the UK (London and Plymouth), the USA (Washington DC) and Australia (Brighton).

Henry Dobson

Dobson's political career began on 12 August 1891, when he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly representing the electorate of Brighton.

HMS Brighton

Four ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Brighton, after the seaside town of Brighton.

Hobart United

Hobart United plays their home games at Pontville Oval in Brighton, Tasmania.

Inspector Steine

Set in a police station in Brighton in the 1950s, it tells the story of Inspector Steine (Michael Fenton Stevens) and his colleagues Sergeant Brunswick (John Ramm) and Constable Twitten (Matt Green), plus the station charlady Mrs Groynes (Jan Ravens in Series 1 and Samantha Spiro from Series 2 onwards).

James Orton

In 1861 he accepted a charge in Thomaston, Maine, where he remained until 1864, when he became pastor in Brighton, New York.

Kemptown, Brighton

Travelling inland (north) from Kemptown one finds Queen's Park above the western portion of Kemptown.

Kilkee

In the Illustrated London News in 1849, the resort was described as 'Western Brighton'.

KonKoma

KonKoma's self-titled debut LP was produced by Max Grunhard and Benedic Lamdin (Nostalgia 77) and recorded and mixed by Mike Pelanconi (aka Prince Fatty) in Brighton.

La mascotte

It was translated into English and staged at Abbey's Park Theatre in New York City on 5 May 1881, and in Brighton, England on 19 September the same year.

Leontine Cooper

Leontine was the eldest of their 11 children and she grew up first in Battersea then in Brighton.

Les Coates

Born in Brighton to market gardener Robert Brooke Coates and Jane Annie Boxshall, he attended Moorabbin State School and became a cigar maker.

Levenhookia dubia

L. Rodway, author of a 1903 assessment of the Tasmanian flora, suggested this species could be found near Brighton, on Mount Field, and on the Bass Strait Islands, but these records are dubious and are not trusted.

Lindsay Booth

In 1935 at the age of 17 Lindsay met his sweetheart Gwen, who was 15, at Brighton jetty.

Luigi Arditi

He died at Hove, near Brighton (England), and is buried in Hove Cemetery.

Mad Atom Games

Mad Atom is a game development studio founded in October 2011 and based in Brighton, UK.

Major Downes

Downes died in Brighton, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on 15 October 1923; he was buried with military honours in the Church of England portion of the Brighton cemetery.

Mansur Muhtar

He earned an Masters degree in Economics and Politics of Development from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom in 1983, and a Phd in Economics from the University of Sussex, Brighton in February 1988.

Maria Gibbs

After Colman's death in 1836, she lived in retirement in Brighton, and her death seems to have passed unchronicled.

Matthew John Tierney

He died at his residence on the Pavilion Parade, Brighton and was buried in his family vault at St Nicholas' Rest Garden.

Maxim Jakubowski

Jakubowski edited the science fiction anthologies Twenty Houses of the Zodiac (1979), for the 37th World Science Fiction Convention (Seacon '79) in Brighton, and Travelling Towards Epsilon, an anthology of French science fiction.

Mikhail Chigorin

A highly skilled exponent of gambit lines, he won the King's Gambit-themed Vienna Tournament of 1903 and defeated Lasker (+2-1=3) in a sponsored Rice Gambit tournament in Brighton.

My Lady Molly

The piece opened at the Theatre Royal in Brighton, England, on 11 August 1902 and then at Terry's Theatre in London on 14 March 1903, under the management of Frederick Mouillot, running for 342 performances.

NaturalMotion

NaturalMotion is a British software company with offices in Oxford, London, Brighton and San Francisco.

One+One Filmmakers Journal

One+One Filmmakers Journal is a printed and web-based film magazine published in Brighton, England.

Onix Audio

Onix Audio started assembly of the ONIX brand of Onix hi-fi in Brighton England in 1984, two years after a small number of unlabeled and unbranded head amplifiers ( No brand Name printed on them or used ) had been sold to niche dealers in the UK by Craig Hill via Brighton HiFi where he worked with his father.

Our Lady of the Sacred Heart College, Sydney

It draws most of its students from the immediate local area and from Brighton-Le-Sands/Sans Souci.

Paul Ifill

After rejection from Watford's youth team as a 16-year-old, Ifill returned to his home town, Brighton.

Born in Brighton, England, Ifill was in part of Watford's youth programme but was not offered a professional contract and moved to non-league Saltdean United.

Peter Webster

Peter Webster is an English artist and sculptor, best known for his sculpture of the British athlete Steve Ovett, which was exhibited in Preston Park, Brighton, before its theft.

Radio Milinda

Although it has been stated that the power output was of 50 Watts, Radio Milinda had QSLs from Wales, Brighton and other locations in the United Kingdom.

Ralph E. Quattrociocchi

In the early 1990s, the 55th senate district was redrawn to include Brighton, Monroe County, New York and parts of the city of Rochester, ultimately leading to his defeat in both the 1992 Democratic primary and the general election.

Randolph Roy Bruce

He returned to his work at the railways, moved to seaside Brighton for a lung complaint contracted in the war, and died there in 1957 after having risen to the role of Chief Paymaster at the SAR.

Ray Maluta

From 1999 until early 2012, he was the executive general manager of the Sports Centre at MCC in Brighton, New York.

Remi Fani-Kayode

After Lt. Col. Yakubu Gowon became Nigeria's Head of State, Remilekun Fani-Kayode left Nigeria with his whole family and moved to the seaside resort town of Brighton in south eastern England.

Renee Gadd

Gadd lived with her aunt, and began to study dancing, working as a chorus girl in Brighton by the age of fourteen.

Richard Glynn Vivian

In 1905, visiting Brighton, he was moved by the preaching of James Philips, pastor of the Union Street Mission.

Sake Dean Mahomed

He was buried in a grave at St Nicholas' Church, Brighton, in which his son Frederick was later interred.

Second, Minute or Hour

The music video shows the singer running along the raised section of promenade on Brighton Beach.

Southgate, West Sussex

The A2219 Brighton Road, part of the original turnpike, coaching route and later main road from London to Brighton, runs through the heart of Southgate from north to south.

Space and the Woods

The song was remixed by Brighton-based DJ, South Central, and released on a limited edition white label 12".

Stomp Out Loud

Stomp Out Loud is a 1997 musical produced by HBO that featured the Brighton, UK and Manhattan-based dance troupe known as Stomp.

Streatham Park

It is bounded by Tooting Bec Common to the north, Thrale Road and West Road to the west, and the London to Brighton railway to the east.

Sussex Symphony Orchestra

Based in Brighton, England, and consisting of both professional and amateur players, the orchestra performs large scale works and promenade concert events at venues in Sussex.

Tasmanian Transport Museum

The Museum also acquired a railway turntable from Brighton and a signal cabin from the Botanical Gardens railway halt.

The Advertisement

The Advertisement was given its world premiere at the Theatre Royal in Brighton, Great Britain, in a production by the National Theatre, and subsequently transferred to London's Old Vic Theatre, in 1968.

The Chalk Garden

The setting of the play was inspired by Bagnold's own garden at North End House in Rottingdean, near Brighton, Sussex, the former home of Sir Edward Burne-Jones.

The Dancing Mistress

At a girl's school in Brighton on the south coast of England, the French mistress, Virginie Touchet, when not teaching French, surreptitiously indulges in an irresistible and ruinous addiction to gambling.

The Death of Bunny Munro

A travelling door to door beauty product salesman, he and his son go on an increasingly out of control road trip around Brighton, over which looms the shadow of a serial killer making his way towards Brighton, as well as Bunny's own mortality.

The Flesh and Blood Show

The seaside theatre in the film was the Pavilion Theatre, now known as the Brighton Dome Studio Theatre, on West Pier in Brighton, England.

The Keep

The Keep, Brighton, new archive and record office for East Sussex, due for completion in 2013

This Is Where the Fight Begins

This Is Where the Fight Begins is the first full length album by the Brighton, UK, band The Ghost of a Thousand.

Travels with My Aunt

He travels first with her to Brighton, where he meets one of his aunt's old acquaintances, and gains an insight into one of her many past lives.

Tristan D

Tristan D (born Tristan Dorian, 7 March 1988, Brighton), is a British Trance DJ and EDM music producer from Brighton, England.

Undercover Princes

Undercover Princes is a BBC Three reality TV show which took three royal claimants from foreign cultures and placed them in Brighton where they had to 'live and date' like normal people.

Wesley Theological College

It was the successor institution to the Methodist Training Home at Brighton, South Australia.

William Edmund Davies

William Edmund Davies (1819–1879) was a bookmaker, who left a sum of money that enabled Brighton Corporation to purchase Preston Park for the public.

William Edward Shuckard

William Edward Shuckard (1803, Brighton - 10 November 1868, Kennington) was an English bookseller and entomologist.

William Henry Whiteley

After being wed, William finished up their affairs, and they took a short honeymoon in Brighton.

World Beard and Moustache Championships

On September 1, 2007, competitors of the world's most hirsute faces from the UK, America, Germany and other countries convened for the championships in Brighton.


1983 FA Cup Final

The first game is famous for the Radio commentary quote by Peter Jones "...and Smith must score" talking about a shot by Gordon Smith which was actually a save by the Manchester United goalkeeper Gary Bailey; the quote was subsequently used as a title for a Brighton Fanzine.

20–22 Marlborough Place, Brighton

Brighton developed into a fashionable resort in the 18th and 19th centuries, with Old Steine as one of its focal points.

Axminster Carpets

The company produced Axminster carpets for: the music room of the Royal Pavilion, Brighton; Chatsworth House; Powderham Castle; Saltram House; and Warwick Castle.

Brighton sewers

Brighton, part of the city of Brighton and Hove in England, United Kingdom, has an extensive system of Victorian sewers running under the town, and a large modern storm drain under the beach.

Brighton United F.C.

Maurice Parry played for Brighton United in the 1899–00 season, before having a long career with Liverpool and making 16 appearances for Wales.

CDS Global

The company employs over 2,500 individuals worldwide, with sites located on three continents; Australia (Sydney), Europe (Market Harborough; Brighton), and North America (Boone, Iowa; Council Bluffs, Iowa; Harlan, Iowa; Tipton, Iowa; West Des Moines, Iowa; Wilton, Iowa; Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Prescott, Arizona; New York City; Markham, Ontario; and Montreal).

Charles Gilbert Heathcote

From 1884 to 1902, Heathcote was a Stipendiary Magistrate for Brighton.

Copper Family

Originally from Rottingdean, near Brighton, Sussex, England, the nucleus of the family now live in the neighbouring village of Peacehaven.

Danny Rampling

While still playing House and Garage sets, Rampling also began to headline at harder, trancier parties, e.g. 'South', at The Zap Club, in Brighton.

Eleanor Glencross

She unsuccessfully ran for public office three times as an independent candidate: for Henty federally in 1922, Brighton at state level in 1928, and Martin federally in 1943.

G. H. Elliott

G. H. Elliott retired to Rottingdean, Brighton where he lived in a cottage he named "Silvery Moon" after his song "I Used to Sigh for the Silvery Moon".

John A. Kelly

In 1952, the family settled in Brighton, Massachusetts and his father continued to work for Corn Products in South Boston.

John Bramley-Moore

He died at Brighton on 19 November 1886, aged 86, and was buried at St. Michael's-in-the-Hamlet, Toxteth Park, Liverpool.

John H. Boylan

He was raised and educated in Brighton, Vermont, and was employed as a general storekeeper (matériel manager) for the Central Vermont, Canadian National and Grand Trunk railroads.

John Roman Baker

From 1990-1996 the Brighton and Edinburgh Festivals often saw the first performances of his new plays.

Kennington Road

With the growing popularity of Brighton as a resort in the later eighteenth century it became part of the route there, used by George IV on his excursions there and later for other London to Brighton events such as the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run.

Kings Manor Community College

Local newspaper The Argus commented upon the irony of the school's first pupil to go onto the University of Oxford in the same year that Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families Ed Balls threatened the school with closure.

Komedia

In 1998 the company moved into a former Tesco supermarket on Gardner Street in the North Laine area of Brighton.

Noah Worcester

Three years later, in 1813 he accepted an invitation to edit the The Christian Disciple, a Boston-based periodical founded by the eminent Unitarian minister William Ellery Channing and others, and moved to Brighton, Massachusetts.

Prince's Skating Club

It began playing challenge matches in early 1897, initially against the three existing teams in England: Niagara, Brighton and the Royal Engineers.

Ralf Rangnick

This was to prove his level, as he played at a string of small lowly clubs, including a stint at English non-league side Southwick while studying English on a guest year at the University of Sussex in Brighton where Rangnick studied astrophysics and was shortlisted to join the FGR's Space Programme.

Rose Elinor Dougall

Dougall joined The Pipettes in 2003 after being introduced to the initial line-up by Monster Bobby at The Basketmakers pub in Brighton.

Rudolf Dulon

In November 1849 he protected the leftist Arnold Ruge, granting him church asylum from an impending arrestation, and organised a further hiding place at Hermann Allmers's, before finding refuge in Brighton.

Sean Bury

Sean Bury (born in Brighton, Sussex, England on 15 August 1954) is a British television and film actor, best known for his lead role as Paul Harrison in Lewis Gilbert's 1971 film Friends and the 1974 sequel Paul and Michelle.

St John the Baptist's Church, Brighton

Many refugees from the French Revolution settled in Brighton after escaping from France; and Maria Fitzherbert, a twice-widowed Catholic, began a relationship with the Prince Regent (and secretly married him in 1785 in a ceremony which was illegal according to the Act of Settlement 1701 and the Royal Marriages Act 1772).

The Hard Interchange

It offers bus and coach transport, and the neighbouring Portsmouth Harbour Station provides trains to London, Cardiff and Brighton.

The Kooks

Calling The Kooks "an important reminder that there are just as many mediocre bands in the UK as there are in the United States" reviewer Jenny Eliscu of Rolling Stone claimed the album was "utterly forgettable, shoddily produced retro rock that at its worst sounds like a Brighton-accented version of the Spin Doctors".

Thomas Read Kemp

He conceived and developed the Regency-style Kemp Town estate in Brighton on the south coast of England.

Tony Forrester

In 2010, he won the Brighton Four Stars A Final, with team mates Alexander Allfrey, Andrew Robson and Peter Crouch.

Ulmus glabra 'Lutescens'

There are two notable TROBI Champion trees in England, at Pickering Park, Anlaby, measuring 16 m high by 79 cm d.b.h. in 2004, and in Dyke Road Place, Brighton, 16 m high by 76 cm d.b.h. in 2006.

Younsmere Hundred

For most of the Younsmere hundred's existence it included the parishes of Rottingdean (including the detached Balsdean chapelry), Ovingdean and Falmer (including Balmer), i.e. the parishes covering a block of downland east of Brighton.