Viva Brighton Issue #78 August 2019

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INSIDE LEFT: BRIGHTON AQUARIUM, 1922 .......................................................................................... ‘To sally forth on this day’, reported the Pall Mall Gazette, on August 7th, 1922, aka August Bank Holiday Monday, ‘is something of a religion to a vast body of Londoners’. The holiday, originally designed to enable bank employees time off to attend cricket matches, had been introduced in 1871, and had become a hugely popular and long-awaited occasion, in an era when workers otherwise had precious little free time. Unfortunately, the article this quote is taken from is headlined ‘HOLIDAYS IN A DEL- UGE’: that August was the coldest on record, the weather that summer being described – by Historical Weather – as ‘diabolical’. And it was particularly bad over the holiday weekend, the wettest ever recorded. You can practically hear the moaning and grumbling. Not that it had stopped the tourists from travelling down to the south coast. 140,000 passengers used South Coast Railways that weekend, with 58 extra trains being laid on for those optimistic enough to brave the rain. Many more had come down in coaches and charabancs. As James Gray says in the caption to this image: ‘Note the long line of motor coaches stretching [down Madeira Drive] into the distance’. Brighton – already the most population-dense urban area in the country, bar London’s East End, must have been mighty crowded. Look closely, and you can see that a crowd has developed outside the Aquarium. There wasn’t much to do there, unfortunately: the establishment had been taken over by the Council, and had become something of an empty shell. They were planning to turn it into a ‘motor charabanc garage’, a project which, thankfully, was abandoned after a public outcry and a debate in the House of Commons, that very month. The ornate Italianate clock tower, added to the building in 1872, wasn’t to last much longer, lost to a redesign in 1927, after which the Aquarium’s fortunes revived somewhat. You can see that the picture was taken at ten past one: lunchtime. It must have been nigh-on impossible to get a table at a restaurant or café that day: I imagine that the pubs, too must have done a roaring trade, as punters tried to make the most of the occasion before having to head home again. A road trip to forget, perhaps: still, there was always next year. Alex Leith Many thanks to the Regency Society for letting us use this image from the James Gray Collection. regencysociety.org ....90....
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