I’ve always loved visiting Brighton and have posted endless photo stories from my trips on this very blog.
I’d thought I’d take a dip into the past, so here’s 16 photos taken during a trip back in September 2001 – nearly a quarter of a century ago.
Fashion doesn’t seemed to have changed much in the past 25 years.
This telescope looked near-ancient.
A master archer tries his luck on the pier.
I was in town to watch the wonderful Actionettes perform.
Look at the chops on ‘im!
Pier booth.
A couple look out to see. The resolution of these photos isn’t great as back then I was using a mighty 2.1 megapixel Sony Cybershot DSC-F55E camera.
Mind you, that was considered pretty impressive at the time as you can see from my glowing 1999 review in Internet Magazine.
Palace pier view.
A mixture of raging storms and two highly suspicious fires put paid to any hopes that the wonderful West Pier might be restored.
There’s barely anything left of the structure now.
West Pier view.
