So that this journey has 50 endings rather than just one, I plan to go to every other pier – as well as some non-existent ones – and document the whole thing over on 360-degree Pierland. Maybe I’ll see you over there. (If you stumble across this blog and wonder what it was all about [...]
Archive for May, 2011
From the North to the South you walked all the way…
Posted in Uncategorized on May 14, 2011 | 2 Comments »
To Brighton Pier 5/5: home to 50.
Posted in Accounts of the walk, tagged brighton pier, last, palace pier on May 2, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I walked on to the Pier. This being a hot Bank Holiday, it was thronged with people. After long periods of solitary walking, I was now flowing with a huge crowd. Reaching the end of a long walk, half-stunned by sunshine and memory. The local paper hadn’t been interested, but my shirt got some publicity [...]
To Brighton Pier 4/5: through Brighton, turned dayglo
Posted in Accounts of the walk, tagged dave's comics, last, new regent, poly styrene, x-ray spex on May 1, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Like a mad dog and/or Englishman I was walking in the midday sun. Past St-Andrews-by-the-Gasholder, now -by-the-Tesco, along Church Road and into Western Road. The route took me past former dwellings in the Drive and in Montpelier Road. I could write books full of stuff about these places – channelling dear dead Bohemian days in [...]
To Brighton Pier 3/5: Portland Road to Sackville Road, drifts
Posted in Accounts of the walk, tagged hove, lady chichester, last, portland road on May 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Leaving Boundary Road behind, I launched into new territory, walking along Portland Road – a long street, parallel to the coast. I was now in Hove. In the popular imagination, Hove is the posh bit, all majestic streets of villas sweeping down to the seafront, last of the rich widows and ‘The old rock ‘n’ [...]
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