Brighton Bike Tag

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(not sure what the building is/was or what it's called?)

I always think of it as The Brighton Business Centre:-

"... built in 1854 as the Diocesan Training College for Schoolmistresses".

https://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/category/places/placeshop/brighton-business-centre

Nowadays it seems to be called Citibase Brighton

I went in there a 2 or 3 years ago, BC, to see a friend who worked for a business that was based in there. Rows and rows of glass-walled (and roofed?) cubicles, each housing a separate business. Odd place.

Cemetery wall at the very top of Hartington Road, where it turns sharp right into St. Helen's Road.

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I thought it would be out of the way enough to take you longer than that.

Hahahaha! You thought right, my friend. Normally a tag like that would be out of the way enough to take me quite a few days, if not a week. You just got unlucky...

On the Wednesday before Christmas, the day after finding your tag on Francis Street quite unexpectedly, I cycled all over Brighton and Hove delivering Xmas cards to our friends - an Xmas tradition that I enjoy.

And on Thursday, I cycled over to Woodingdean and Saltdean to deliver two more cards. To get to Woodingdean I headed up Hartington from the Lewes Road, and at the top found that lovely mosaic thing, and mentally tagged it as a fantastic future BBT location.

Bah! I had such a good clue about the view being ‘Dead good’ from up there.

That is a really nice tradition, I might even appropriate it.

I updated my tag to give a bit more info.

...did you?

Yes, on the left hand side. Clue: see top left of photo.

Such a tease!

Another update... opening the kimono a little bit more. Top left, and top right of the updated pic above.

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I've cycled past with these recesses (there are a few) a thousand times, but not noticed them. Mrs. sea-level pointed them out and urged me to tag one. Apparently they have an interesting history which I will try to dig out.

Cemetery wall at the very top of Hartington Road, where it turns sharp right into St. Helen's Road.

The design is brand new, too. StreetView from April 2021 still shows what it used to look like:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.8323879,-0.1149719,3a,20.1y,66.83h,86.35t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s_wjTItHbP1qfg_peo7-LAQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3D_wjTItHbP1qfg_peo7-LAQ%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D64.998215%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192

You can see why they did something about it.

Yes, the new design is lovely; much better. I think there's a small plaque saying who made it... could be the children from a local school. I'll have a look next time I'm up there, or perhaps @Squash knows...

It is, it's really good.

Not of the top of my head, but I'm near enough that I can pop past and have a look.

I'll report back.

Apparently they have an interesting history which I will try to dig out.

Ok, maybe not that interesting. Not as interesting as the story I heard, which seemed rather unlikely in the first place.

I reached out to Judy Middleton who told me that they were probably used for the storage of gardening equipment, or deck chairs.

For some reason it was

storage of gardening equipment, or deck chairs.

that did it for me.

Western Lawns, just past the tennis courts.

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Maybe time for a wider angle shot or a clue?

I struggle to find a good balance between tricky enough to be interesting but still do-able.

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The street sign at the back is something you might catch on ITV.

Brilliant 😁 i didn't know we had one here and i don't even watch the show. I'll pick this up tomorrow unless someone beats me to it.