Qualla: Brighton https://qualla.com/brighton en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/c/brighton-wk/hero-small.webp Qualla: Brighton https://qualla.com/brighton Brighton: Introduction https://qualla.com/brighton/ Photo credit Alexrk2, CC BY-SA 3.0. Doctor Richard Russell of Lewes - a serious-minded 18th-century physician - prescribed seawater as medicine. He told his patients to drink it, to bathe in it, to soak in it, and in 1753 he built a large house near the beach so they could do all three under his supervision. Up until then, Brighton was a fishing village called Brighthelmstone, sometimes Brighthelmston, where the fishermen winched their boats up onto the shingle and the storms occasionally swept the front street away. Within fifty years, the Prince of Wales had moved in, built a fantasy palace, and turned the place into the most fashionable resort in Britain. London-by-the-Sea now has 280,000 residents and a cathedral of a shopping pier, the largest LGBT community in the United Kingdom, and a piece of architecture so improbable that visitors still stop dead in the street to look at it.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/c/brighton-wk/gcpc-brighton-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Brighton: The Royal Pavilion https://qualla.com/brighton/ Photo credit Qmin, CC BY-SA 3.0. George, Prince of Wales - later Prince Regent, later George IV - began coming to Brighton in 1783 for his health and for the company of his mistress Maria Fitzherbert. He rented a small farmhouse, then enlarged it, then in 1815 commissioned John Nash to remake it into something e...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/c/brighton-wk/gcpc-brighton-the-royal-pavilion.mp3 0:06 2 full Brighton: The Railway Boom https://qualla.com/brighton/ Photo credit Ian Stannard from Southsea, England, CC BY-SA 2.0. Russell's seawater cure made Brighton fashionable. The Prince Regent made it famous. But it was the London and Brighton Railway, opened in 1841, that made Brighton mass-market. The fast trains from London Bridge cut what had been a four-hour stagecoach trip down to under two hour...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/c/brighton-wk/gcpc-brighton-the-railway-boom.mp3 0:06 3 full Brighton: The Lanes and the Laine https://qualla.com/brighton/ Photo credit Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 3.0. Two areas at the heart of Brighton get confused by visitors and defended fiercely by locals. The Lanes - bounded by North Street, West Street, and East Street - are the original tangle of fishing-village alleys, narrow streets full of jewellers, antique dealers, and Italian resta...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/c/brighton-wk/gcpc-brighton-the-lanes-and-the-laine.mp3 0:06 4 full Brighton: London by the Sea https://qualla.com/brighton/ Photo credit Hassocks5489, CC0. Brighton has been called the gay capital of Britain for decades, and the title is largely uncontested. The Kemp Town district, east of the Palace Pier, is the centre of the city's LGBT life, with St James's Street and Marine Parade running through it. Brighton and Hove Pride, hel...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/c/brighton-wk/gcpc-brighton-london-by-the-sea.mp3 0:06 5 full Brighton: Brighton Rock https://qualla.com/brighton/ Photo credit Luiza Serpa Lopes, Public domain. Graham Greene published Brighton Rock in 1938 - a novel about a 17-year-old gangster called Pinkie Brown and the small-time razor gangs that ran the city's racetrack rackets. The book pinned a particular kind of menace to the Brighton seafront: dance halls and rock-pull peppermin...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/c/brighton-wk/gcpc-brighton-brighton-rock.mp3 0:06 6 full Brighton: Shingle and Sun https://qualla.com/brighton/ Photo credit Public domain. Brighton beach is not sand. It is shingle - small smooth pebbles in shades of grey and white - and the locals will gently correct any visitor who calls it a sandy beach. The shingle stretches for five and a half miles along the south coast facing the English Channel, ending at th...

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