Viva Brighton Issue #74 April 2019
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TRIPS AND BOBS<br />
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SPREAD THE WORD<br />
‘Eritrea is an impressive<br />
country with the friendliest<br />
of people,’ reports West Hill<br />
resident Janet Davies who<br />
recently took a holiday in the<br />
East African country. ‘Whilst<br />
we were eyeing up the camels<br />
at the market in Keren, our<br />
friend Robel took a moment to<br />
get a glimpse of <strong>Brighton</strong> life.’<br />
Meanwhile, in Berlin, our<br />
regular contributor Alexandra<br />
Loske has been dutifully<br />
spreading the word back in<br />
her home town. ‘I have been<br />
distributing <strong>Viva</strong>s to friends<br />
and family here in Berlin’ she<br />
reports. ‘I asked daughter to<br />
take this picture in front of the<br />
famous giraffe and antelope<br />
house in Berlin Zoo.’ Regular<br />
readers will know about Alexandra’s<br />
love of colour and her<br />
fascination with the moon, but<br />
she’s also got a bit of a thing<br />
about giraffes, so we weren’t at<br />
all surprised about her choice<br />
of backdrop.<br />
Keep taking us with you and<br />
keep spreading the word. Send<br />
your photos and a few words<br />
about your trip to<br />
hello@vivamagazines.com<br />
ON THE BUSES #48: KEN FINES ROUTE 50<br />
<strong>Brighton</strong> would look altogether different if it weren’t for Ken Fines. In the<br />
1970s Ken pushed for the conservation of the traditional streets of <strong>Brighton</strong><br />
and rejected plans for demolition and car-based development throughout the<br />
town. He was born in Hove in 1923, and, in 1974, became a Borough Planning<br />
Officer, rising to the position of Director of Planning for the Borough<br />
of <strong>Brighton</strong>. He had a vision for the town and opposed plans to build more<br />
high-rise flats along the seafront, instead pushing for the creation of five<br />
new conservation areas. Working with the residents and traders in the town<br />
centre, Ken recognised that sufficient features remained of the Victorian<br />
townscape to warrant conservation status for the area that he dubbed The North Laine, in recognition<br />
of the old field system of Brighthelmstone. It was designated a Conservation Area in 1976.<br />
Ken’s involvement with the community and push for public transport over the creation of a new<br />
network of roads, which would have flattened much of the area, earned him his position in the public<br />
eye as a local hero and a blue plaque (on the wall of Infinity Foods) in his memory.<br />
Fines retired and lived out the rest of his life in Hove, opposing the demolition of architectural heritage<br />
until his death in 2008 aged eighty-five. The next time you are admiring the Victorian terraces,<br />
you know who to thank for preventing their destruction. Alex Hood<br />
Illustration by Joda (@joda_art)<br />
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