Viva Brighton Issue #43 September 2016

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VALUATION DAY Jewellery and Antiques Tuesday 27 September 10am to 4pm ENQUIRIES 01273 220000 tim.squiresanders@bonhams.com VENUE The Courtlands Hotel 19-27 The Drive Hove BN3 3JE Bonhams specialists will be at The Courtlands Hotel to offer free and confidential advice on items you may be considering selling at auction. AN EMERALD, SAPPHIRE AND RUBY GIARDINETTO BANGLE £6000 - 8000 bonhams.com/hove PECHAKUCHA VOL. 25: ALL TOGETHER A heads up to all PechaKucha fans: the 25th edition of the Brighton PK Night, themed ‘All Together’, will take place from 6.30pm on Wednesday October 12th, in the Nightingale Room above the Grand Central pub on Surrey Street (next to Brighton Station). At the risk of boring the cognoscenti, PechaKucha is a quick-fire talk-and-show night where presenters show the audience 20 images on a screen, and get 20 seconds to talk over each of those images. It’s an international phenomenon, which started in Japan, with talks taking place (at least) quarterly in over 900 cities. Viva have been helping host the event - along with main organiser Woody - since May 2015. We are proud that Brighton was recently chosen as the ‘city spotlight’ on the PechaKucha website, where you can also check out previous presentations online. We will confirm the full line-up in this space in VB44; the presenters we select, from different walks of life, will be talking about the power of partnership and community. £5 tickets are already on sale; best be quick as all our previous shows have sold out in advance. Tickets: pechakucha.org/cities/brighton ....18....
BITS AND BOBS ............................... PUB: THE VICTORY “I tell American customers that my pub is older than their country,” says Keegan, the 30-something Scottish manager at the Victory, as I tuck into my crab cakes and salad at one of the little tables in front of the rather magnificent, if in-needof-a-paint, bar. He’s referring to a sign on the front of the pub, claiming it dates back to 1766, and was rebuilt in 1824. On the latter date it was renamed The Victory, after Nelson’s flagship (that day-trip destination of every schoolkid in the country). We used to have our offices above Marwood Café, so the Victory was something of a regular post-workpint haunt, but its central location in Duke Street means I haven’t been a total stranger in the last year. And, having done a bit of research, and found out that the building is Grade II-listed, I’m looking at it with new eyes, and realising quite what a characterful bit of architecture it is. The description of the place in the Historic England website (where you can find out architectural details of listed buildings) is written in a manner I find difficult to understand without looking up much of the jargon, but once I know what a gumbrel roof is, I know what to look for. It even lists in detail the bar which I mentioned earlier: ‘barback of 3 bays and 3 shelves with turned balusters, entablature and scrolled pediment to centre; bar front possibly of the same date’. There’s also a description of a feature I swear I’ve never noticed before: ‘good late C19 fireplace in former saloon with bracketed Ionic columns supporting mantelshelf and overmantel mirror flanked by pilaster-panels with brackets over’. Nice. The most distinctive bit of the pub is undoubtedly its façade, fashioned by Tamplin’s Brewery in 1910, which is described in the same text in too much detail to go into here. Next time you walk past, take a good look at the two-tone green tiles, and the ornate window panes. They don’t make them like that anymore. Watneys bought out Tamplin’s in the 50s and, being the company that produced Red Barrel bitter and Party Seven cans, they painted over this beautiful tiling, stripping the pub of its character. Nowadays, restored to former glory, it’s got plenty of that, inside and out: it’s surprisingly full of nooks and crannies for its relatively small size. Oh and the crab cakes are real tasty, too. Alex Leith Painting by Jay Collins ....19....
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THE WAY WE WORK Mr Deighan, Varndea
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