{"id":60691,"date":"2026-02-07T07:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T07:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=60691"},"modified":"2026-02-06T20:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T20:16:11","slug":"brighton-back-in-2001-sixteen-photos-taken-around-the-south-coast-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/brighton-back-in-2001-sixteen-photos-taken-around-the-south-coast-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Brighton back in 2001: sixteen photos taken around the seafront"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/pics\/brighton-sept-2001-01.jpg\" alt=\"Brighton back in 2001: sixteen photos taken around the south coast city\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always loved visiting Brighton and have posted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?s=brighton\">endless photo stories from my trips on this very blog.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d thought I&#8217;d take a dip into the past, so here&#8217;s 16 photos taken during a trip back in September 2001 &#8211; nearly a quarter of a century ago.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/pics\/brighton-sept-2001-02.jpg\" alt=\"Brighton back in 2001: sixteen photos taken around the south coast city\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fashion doesn&#8217;t seemed to have changed much in the past 25 years.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/pics\/brighton-sept-2001-03.jpg\" alt=\"Brighton back in 2001: sixteen photos taken around the south coast city\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This telescope looked near-ancient.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/pics\/brighton-sept-2001-04.jpg\" alt=\"Brighton back in 2001: sixteen photos taken around the south coast city\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A master archer tries his luck on the pier.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/pics\/brighton-sept-2001-05.jpg\" alt=\"Brighton back in 2001: sixteen photos taken around the south coast city\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was in town to watch the wonderful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionettes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Actionettes<\/a> perform.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/pics\/brighton-sept-2001-06.jpg\" alt=\"Brighton back in 2001: sixteen photos taken around the south coast city\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/pics\/brighton-sept-2001-07.jpg\" alt=\"Brighton back in 2001: sixteen photos taken around the south coast city\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Look at the chops on &#8216;im!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/pics\/brighton-sept-2001-08.jpg\" alt=\"Brighton back in 2001: sixteen photos taken around the south coast city\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pier booth.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/pics\/brighton-sept-2001-09.jpg\" alt=\"Brighton back in 2001: sixteen photos taken around the south coast city\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A couple look out to see.\u00a0 The resolution of these photos isn&#8217;t great as back then I was using a mighty 2.1 megapixel Sony Cybershot DSC-F55E camera.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, that was considered pretty impressive at the time as you can see from my\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/sony00.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">glowing 1999 review in Internet Magazine.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/pics\/brighton-sept-2001-10.jpg\" alt=\"Brighton back in 2001: sixteen photos taken around the south coast city\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/pics\/brighton-sept-2001-11.jpg\" alt=\"Brighton back in 2001: sixteen photos taken around the south coast city\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Palace pier view.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/pics\/brighton-sept-2001-12.jpg\" alt=\"Brighton back in 2001: sixteen photos taken around the south coast city\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A mixture of raging storms and two highly suspicious fires put paid to any hopes that the wonderful West Pier might\u00a0 be restored.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s barely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/in-photos-brightons-west-pier-falls-into-the-sea-while-its-i360-tower-successor-flounders-nov-2018\/\">anything left<\/a> of the structure now.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/pics\/brighton-sept-2001-13.jpg\" alt=\"Brighton back in 2001: sixteen photos taken around the south coast city\" \/><\/p>\n<p>West Pier view.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/pics\/brighton-sept-2001-14.jpg\" alt=\"Brighton back in 2001: sixteen photos taken around the south coast city\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/pics\/brighton-sept-2001-15.jpg\" alt=\"Brighton back in 2001: sixteen photos taken around the south coast city\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/pics\/brighton-sept-2001-16.jpg\" alt=\"Brighton back in 2001: sixteen photos taken around the south coast city\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?s=brighton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View more Brighton photo stories here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always loved visiting Brighton and have posted endless photo stories from my trips on this very blog. 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