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Mocatta's station at Brighton (1841) Synagogue and tomb of Moses Montefiore in Ramsgate David Alfred Mocatta was born to a Sephardic Jewish family in 1806, the son of the licensed bullion broker Moses Mocatta (1768–1857) and Abigail Lindo (1775–1824).
A post office was in operation at Brighton from 1900 until 1905. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] According to tradition, the community was named after a place of the same name in Connecticut . [ 3 ]
Louis Hudson Persley (c.1888–1932), [1] [2] was an American architect. [3] Persley became the first African American to register with the new Georgia State Board of Registered Architects on April 5, 1920.
London, Brighton and South Coast Railway stations, Thames Embankment and pumping stations Charles Henry Driver FRIBA (23 March 1832 – 27 October 1900) was a significant British architect of the Victorian era , with a reputation for pioneering use of ornamental iron work for which he was seen as a leading authority.
At 12.30pm on 25 May 1943, Focke-Wulf fighter-bomber aircraft dropped several bombs on Brighton, five of which landed on the railway. [8] One demolished two arches and one pier at the west end of the viaduct, two arches west of the Preston Road span, [ 2 ] [ 8 ] leaving the tracks spanning the gap in mid-air. [ 9 ]
The London Brighton and South Coast Railway operated a number of cross channel ferry services, between its ports of Shoreham, Newhaven and Littlehampton to Dieppe, Honfleur, and Jersey. The profitable Newhaven-Dieppe service was operated in conjunction with the French Western Railway ( Chemins de Fer de l'Ouest ).
The new H2 class locomotives built by Brighton railway works and introduced between June 1911 and January 1912. They were an immediate success and shared with the H1 class the London to Brighton express trains including the heavily loaded Pullman services the Brighton Limited, and the Southern Belle, which the LB&SCR described as "the most luxurious train in the World".
Brighton Corporation Tramways [2] operated an extensive network of routes in the first four decades of the 20th century. The first route to operate, from 25 November 1901, ran from the main terminus at the Aquarium (outside Brighton Palace Pier) to Lewes Road, a major route to the north-east; other routes were quickly established, so that by 1904 its full extent had been established.