A day trip to Regency on Sea to visit the Museums
Association event at the Brighton Centre. Picked up some useful information in
the exhibition.
Brighton appears to have more than its fair share of ‘strange’
people and some interesting shops and of course The Pavilion and Brighton
Museum, which has an excellent display of ceramics and glass.
Pleased to see that Wetherspoons have ‘saved’ another fine
building now THE POST & TELEGRAPH in North Street. It’s great to see interesting
buildings being put to good use once they have been discarded by the companies
and banks that had originally erected them at considerable expense.
Banks certainly put money into architecture to show their
importance and standing in the Victorian and Edwardian periods, now bank
branches just look like shops in the High Street. In many towns the best
buildings in the High Street were the banks, they took pride in their branches
which helped to convey the right image to their customers.
Many of the best bank buildings which survived have now
become pubs, bars and restaurants. Wetherspoons have some good examples and I
particularly like THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR in London’s Chancery Lane, the former
Union Bank, with a very grand interior – well worth a pint or two!
