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Brighton #50places2025

I first visited Brighton in the 1980s when as a family we would sail over to France. Sometimes we would sail from Ramsgate to Calais (or Boulgone), but if we were on our way to Normandy, we would sail from Brighton, arriving in Dieppe, Fecamp, or Le Harve.

I also made a trip there for a JISC programmes meeting in July 2004. Then I had stayed at The Grand Hotel. I remember thinking it was a little too posh for me. I headed out for dinner finding a nice French place in The Lanes. 

I also visited Brighton in June 2005 when I was on holiday in Bognor Regis. Then we stayed mainly on the seafront, visiting the Pier and the Doctor Who Exhibition there.

I had planned to stop there last year on my way to Newhaven on a driving holiday to the continent, but ran out of time and stopped at Horsham instead for something to eat.

This time I was attending a conference all week and it was nice to see Brighton once more.

We had a fun conference dinner on the Brighton Palace Pier and I had some nice meals in some of the restaurants in the Lanes. The conference kept me busy so I didn’t have much time to do too much exploring, but did manage to see the Pavilions, a building I hadn’t got around to seeing on previous visits to Brighton. The conference itself was in the of the Pavilions buildings, The Dome.

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Then and Now Take Two Again – Grand Hotel, Brighton

This is a regular series of blogs about photographs of the same place taken years apart. The first of the posts in this series was of a council building in Manchester. I always thought I should give then and now photographs a go. However what I have started to notice is that I have been doing Then and Now photographs unintentionally over the years and have been taking photographs of the same thing or place from the same view or perspective years apart. Now this has come to my attention I have started to intentionally take photographs of the same place.

I first visited Brighton in the 1980s when as a family we would sail over to France. Sometimes we would sail from Ramsgate to Calais (or Boulgone), but if we were on our way to Normandy, we would sail from Brighton, arriving in Dieppe, Fecamp, or Le Harve.

I also made a trip there for a JISC programmes meeting in July 2004. Then I had stayed at The Grand Hotel.

This photograph from July 2004 was taken with a Sony Cybershot digital camera.

Grand Hotel in Brighton

So, over twenty years later, I took a new photograph with an iPhone 13 in June 2025.

Grand Hotel in Brighton

I didn’t quite catch the same perspective.