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 [...]
Archive for May 1st, 2011
To Brighton Pier 4/5: through Brighton, turned dayglo
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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’ [...]