Brighton, A Very Peculiar History电子书

Cover

Front Matter

Title Page

Publisher Information

Brighton

Quotes

Ten places that Brighton isn’t

Hove, actually

Introduction: What makes Brighton special?

What’s in a name?

What’ s under your feet?

CHAPTER ONE: From Prehistory to 1066

The legend of Devil’s Dyke

History – or bunk?

Brighton’s hidden river

National hero?

Some Saxon place-names in the Brighton area

CHAPTER TWO: Medieval Brighton’s rise and fall

A few other local places in the Domesday Book

Growing bigger

Lanes and laines

Troubled times

A brave brewer

Thank your lucky stones

The great escape

A large step backwards

A druids’ stone?

CHAPTER THREE: Prinny and all that

NOT a fishing village

Meet ‘the Fashion’

Limbs of Satan

A busy old day

Hove’s own spa

A dipper becomes a dripper

Enter the Prince of Wales

Maria Fitzherbert

Ten things worth knowing about the Prince Regent

Brighton grows and grows

A bit of bad luck

Tickling the royal tastebuds

Pounding the royal flesh

George, Maria and Caroline

Mutiny and execution

A bad day at the Abbey

True love

She went for a soldier

The Royal Pavilion

Ten things to look out for in the Royal Pavilion

An unwise bet

Regency elegance

A bit of cheating

Another clever wheeze

The Pepper Pot

All fall down

The Chain Pier

After Prinny

Enter Queen Victoria

Preston Manor

CHAPTER FOUR: The Railway Edge

Pity the poor horses

Building the railway

White-knuckle rides

Brighton’s mini railways

The Clayton Tunnel disaster

Murder in the Balcombe Tunnel

Cholera

Hoorah for Hawkshaw

Clean water

Grave concerns

An artificial spa

Buried in Brighton

The seafront gets a new look

The murder of a police chief

The names on the buses (1)

London to Brighton

A drop too much

A lot of learning

Wagner and Wagner

A terrible confession

Ten places of worship

Brighton goes to the pictures

Fit for an Empress

Calling time on the time ball

Ten films set in Brighton

CHAPTER FIVE: Two wars and a bit of peace

Seedy Brighton

The trunk murders

Ten novels set in Brighton (at least in part)

The Peacehaven story

The names on the buses (2)

Carden saves the day

Killed by a tram

Phone boxes

A lively hotelier

Another war

The Odeon Cinema attack

Celebrations – and after

The names on the buses (3)

How to make a stick of Brighton rock

CHAPTER SIX: Modern Brighton

Churchill Square

The universities

Mods and rockers

Built to last?

The conference trade

The Grand Hotel bomb

Brighton Marina

Brighton gets the credit

This sporting life

Alternative Brighton

Celebrations

The beach

Timeline of Brighton History

Glossary

End matter

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