Viva Brighton Issue #76 June 2019

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INSIDE LEFT: SS BRIGHTON, c 1959 .......................................................................................... There’s plenty of seemingly contradictory information to take in from the walls of this building, on the corner of West Street and Kings Road, once one of the most popular venues in Brighton. SS Brighton was opened in June 1934, billed as the largest covered swimming pool in the world, with 2,000 seats for spectators. The interior was fashioned in the shape of an ocean liner, hence ‘SS’. You can see ‘SS Brighton’ written vertically on the south-facing wall. But a run of hot summers meant it never took off, as people took to sea swimming. It was soon (by September 1936) converted into an ice rink, and renamed Brighton Sports Stadium, though people still used its former name. This was a much more popular concern. Not only could punters skate on the rink, they could also take in shows, and watch Brighton’s championship-winning ice hockey team, the Brighton Tigers, who in their mid-century pomp drew in regular capacity crowds of 4,000, famously beating a touring Soviet team 6-3 in 1957. The space was also used for other sports events, including tennis and wrestling. In 1957 it hosted the Labour Party Conference, during which Aneurin Bevan famously disavowed unilateral nuclear disarmament. Above the doorway you can see that the building has another name: Brighton Palladium. It was taken over and given this moniker in 1959, the year this picture was probably taken, according to Kevin Wilsher, of the Regency Society, who hold the James Gray archive. This incarnation only lasted till 1961. We must be in the Christmas period, because the show being advertised, Humpty Dumpty on Ice, was a pantomime, starring David Whitfield, a hugely successful tenor, the first British singer to have a top ten hit – Cara Mia – in the American charts. This elegant and much-loved building was demolished in 1966, when the Rank organisation bought the site with the intention of making it part of the Top Rank complex. But the space remained vacant – used as a car park – until 1990, when the Oak Hotel, now a Travelodge, went up. Alex Leith Thanks to Kevin Wilsher, and the Regency Society for the use of this image from the James Gray Collection. regencysociety.org ....98....
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VIVA B R I G H T O N #76. JUNE 2019
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