thumb looks interesting…opened up…JAYSUS…it er…it…well it hits you in the face, makes you stop for a second or two, blink, blink again…, sort of half-gulp, and then look again, and it’s her to avert my eyes……brilliant……
almost like It’s Alive.
Sussex heights #4, originally uploaded by baxcarias.
St Margaret’s Place, miniaturised by Sussex Heights, the tallest building in Sussex. At the end of this regency street once stood St Margaret’s chapel, one of the best classical churches in Brighton, until 1959 when the chapel and huge surrounding area was demolished to make way for the Metropole Exhibition Halls, Sussex Heights, and a 250-space car-park…
Old photos of it can be seen http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume29/source/jg_29_066.htm#mce_temp_url#:
West side of the Metropole, a very strange area of odd buildings all in the shadow of Sussx Heights, top left. Not content with Sussex Heights in 1959, they also managed to dump an ugly extension of 2 floors on top of the Metropole building (mid way up the photo). The small white building is an ancient looking cobble fronted regency house, the next building along is the French Protestant Church of Brighton, both of which it seems amazing they ever bothered keeping. Strange area…
Thanks to Anna Markwell for capturing this rare moment of climactic oddity that caused this building to briefly disappear!
Sussex Heights rises prominently from the myriad sizes and arxhitectural styles of Brighton’s seafront buildings.
At 335 feet it is the tallest building in Sussex.
the storm that nearly was….sussex heights in the centre.
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