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The hidden face of the Victorian seaside: behind the scenes at Brighton |
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Antiques shop in The Lanes, 1940
© Brighton History Centre - Museum and Art Gallery & Royal Pavilion Gardens |
19th Century Brighton was a liminal place, on the margin between land and sea, where conventions were challenged and the grosser appetites could be indulged, away from the censorious gaze of family and friends; but it was also a miniature metropolis whose wealthier visitors were preoccupied with the fashion and display of the showy promenades at the front of the town.
Even here, however, they encountered emissaries from its seedier side; and 'fashionable Brighton', with its hotels and polite architecture, was only part of the story. It depended for its existence, indeed, on the people of the 'slums', whose territories were so seldom invaded by the pleasure-seekers whose activities dominated the public image of this most ostentatious of towns, but whose (usually) invisible work was essential to its existence.
Words: John K. Walton
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