Author: Nikon_Ritch

Spectacular Starlings

Since the fires on the West Pier and the structure becoming more open, the birds are now seen on the Palace Pier (Brighton pier for non-locals). Starling numbers increase when very cold weather hits North eastern Europe as most of the birds are from Germany, […]

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Brighton Murmuration

Starlings arrive from as far away as Scandinavia to join their native cousins as they roost for the winter. The flocks, which can swell to as many as 40,000 birds at the peak in December, used to be seen each evening over West Pier as […]

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Tidy Street General Store Brighton

A general store is somewhere where you can buy anything from a jar of chutney to a pair of socks. The shop features everything from Moroccan baskets, jam from Hackney, mohair throws from England’s last remaining vertical mill, Breton coffee bowls and chocolate made by […]

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Hackney Washing Baths

Public washing baths that used to serve the community of Shacklewell from the early 1930s up until the 1980s. Constructed of red brick with Portland stone dressings the lines and features of this single-storey building are classical in tone and reminiscent of other civic buildings […]

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