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Brighton's first pier, the Chain Pier, is built. [1] 1828: 11 June: Sussex County Hospital (now Royal Sussex County Hospital) opens in Brighton [2] 1837: 27 March: Death of Maria Fitzherbert, longtime companion of the future King George IV of the United Kingdom at her home in Steine House, Brighton. [3] 1839: 1 March
The Romans built villas throughout Sussex, including a villa at Brighton. At the time of its construction in the late 1st or 2nd century AD there was a stream running along what is now London Road. The villa was sited more or less at the water's edge, immediately south of Preston Park.
Brighton Clock Tower, built in 1888 for Queen Victoria's jubilee, [112] stands at the intersection of Brighton's busiest thoroughfares. Volk's Electric Railway runs along the inland edge of the beach from Palace Pier to Black Rock and Brighton Marina. It was created in 1883 and is the world's oldest operating electric railway. [113]
The Royal Pavilion (also known as the Brighton Pavilion) and surrounding gardens is a Grade I listed [1] former royal residence located in Brighton, England.Beginning in 1787, it was built in three stages as a seaside retreat for George, Prince of Wales, who became the Prince Regent in 1811, and King George IV in 1820.
Brighton's police did not have a central headquarters building until 1965: they were based in the old Town Hall, then in the basement of Thomas Cooper's new building when that was built in 1830. [238] Brighton Borough Engineer Percy Billington's "graceless" police headquarters [239] opened on 27 September 1965 on John Street in Carlton Hill. [238]
The Brighton Palace Pier, commonly known as Brighton Pier or the Palace Pier, [a] is a Grade II* listed pleasure pier in Brighton, England, located in the city centre opposite the Old Steine. Established in 1899, it was the third pier to be constructed in Brighton after the Royal Suspension Chain Pier and the West Pier , but is now the only one ...
From 1943 they built 93 of the LMS Stanier 8F type 2-8-0 freight locomotives for the War Department, at the incredible rate of one every 4.5 days. [17] The heyday of locomotive building at the works was during the decade after the war, when Brighton built more than 100 Bulleid light pacifics of the West Country and Battle of Britain classes.
In 1861 a line was built from near Horsham to Shoreham, providing a direct link to Brighton. Branches were built from the West Sussex coast line to Littlehampton in 1863, to connect with a new cross-channel ferry service, to Bognor Regis in 1864, and to Hayling Island in 1867. [18]