Brighton Bike Tag

Please see the two photos at the bottom of the previous page for the complete tag.

https://genius.com/Jefferson-airplane-white-rabbit-lyrics

What was this man's connection to Brighton?

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I don't know who he is but did he like reading?

Edit: I read the lyrics. Now I know who he is as well.

You are one small step away from finding the secret, dark tunnel...

Sounds rude.

lol, that did occur to me briefly; but we run a clean game here on bbt...

I considered moving there recently and I can confirm the estate agents are well aware of the rumour.

oh yeah, I bet they push that angle like crazy...

Oh yeah. LFGSS is well known for that.

so you gonna tag it?

You know it.

Brighton Reading Room at Black Rock (hopefully soon to become a café) and the tunnel to Sussex Square. Rumoured to be the inspiration for the tunnel Alice falls into in Alice in Wonderland.

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And a new tag:

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"Brighton Reading Room"

Huh! I didn't know that.

https://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/black-rock-rejuvenation

They have some nice plans and along with the new lido that just got planning permission that whole stretch should look really nice.

Here's the listing for the Reading Room:

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1380995

When I first saw Squash's tag picture, I thought that they'd erected hoardings since sea-level tagged it, before realising that there are two levels. sea-level was obviously on the upper level.

Very interesting regeneration plans there.

The listing says that the tunnel emerges 'between Esplanade Cottages on the other side'. I can't see them in aerial imagery. Are they just a façade built into the northern embankment, some kind of folly like The Temple, or hidden under trees?

Scratch that, I didn't realise that Esplanade Cottages is actually the name for the southern façade on the upper level.

sea-level was obviously on the upper level

That is correct.

I didn't realize there were "Esplanade Cottages", nor a lower structure that was the Old Reading Room and part of the whole ensemble.

This is why Brighton Bike Tag is so good (one of the reasons)... you learn more about your town!

When I was doing the tag originally, I was just thinking of the Alice / Lewis Carroll angle:-

https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/10915806.brightons-very-own-wonderland/

I can imagine that it must be a nice effect either way, emerging from the gardens onto the seafront or vice versa. Let's hope they get it re-opened and re-used. The Reading Room looks pretty vandalised in the StreetView picture (without hoardings), which is a shame.

sea-level was obviously on the upper level.

I work with marine issues and even in context that sentence makes me wince.

I'd never seen the Historic England website before, really interesting.

I work with marine issues and even in context that sentence makes me wince.

Hahaha. Took me a while to get that! I like the name 'sea-level'; seems appropriate for someone living in Brighton.

BTW... my phone offered me this story the other day re. sea level:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-56935097

Pool Valley

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If I go riding the hills of Hanover only to find out that this isn't there, I'm going to be very peeved.

I work with marine issues and even in context that sentence makes me wince.

Glad someone got it. I like little jokes with usernames. :)