Seaford Museum & Heritage Society - Brighton before the Pavilion

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Our next talk is "Brighton Before the Pavilion," given by Geoffrey Mead.

Brighton is generally associated with being a seaside resort with the Royal Pavilion as its centre piece.  This talk looks at Brighton before leisure pursuits and the royal family stamped that image on the place; a town of fishermen and small farmers on an unforgiving storm-wracked coast with steep hills as its backdrop.  We look at the physical landscape of chalk downlands and shingle shorelines and why, even pre George IV it was an important town.