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Year Date Event Reference 1926: 11 May: Angry confrontations known as Battle of Lewes Road take place in Brighton during the 1926 United Kingdom general strike. 1940: German air raids on Sussex begin, those in Brighton being known as the Brighton Blitz. 1945: 8 May: VE Day marks the end of the war in Europe. [6] 1961: August
In downtown Brighton, Main Street was converted into Stars Hollow, the fictional town setting for "Gilmore Girls," the iconic 2000s TV show. On Saturday, September 21, 2024, fans of the show came ...
Brighton's Quakers run the Friends Meeting House in the Lanes. [118] There is an active Unitarian community based in a Grade II listed building in New Road. [119] Brighton has six listed Roman Catholic churches; St John the Baptist's Church (1835) in Kemptown is the earliest surviving Roman Catholic church in the city. [120]
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The Prince's subsequent patronage of the town for the next forty years was central to the rapid growth of the town and the transition of the fishing village of Brighthelmston to the modern town of Brighton. Rex Whistler's famous cheeky satire The Prince Regent Awakens the Spirit of Brighton is on view at the Brighton Pavilion.
From 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 21, downtown Brighton will be transforming into the television town during the one-day event Destination Stars Hollow, with 41 businesses along Main ...
The BBC Film Unit's London to Brighton in Four Minutes is a short film about a London to Brighton train journey, produced in 1953. [note 1] It was mostly filmed from the driver's point of view looking straight ahead [note 2] with the filming done so that the journey was spectacularly fast, lasting only four minutes instead of the real travel time of about one hour.
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