Brighton Bike Tag

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Oliver Schick

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.

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sea-level in reply to @Oliver Schick

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/

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Oliver Schick in reply to @sea-level

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.

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