Brighton Leasing

Did You Know?

Brighton is an British seaside town. About an hour south of London by train, it's a popular day-trip and holiday destination. Its broad shingle beach is backed by a collection of amusement arcades and Regency-era buildings. Brighton Pier, in the central waterfront section, opened in 1899 and now has rides and food facilities. The town is also popular for its night-life, arts scene, shopping and festivals.

Today Brighton is considered a very desirable place to live, and walking around you may recognise some famous faces! Brighton's creative vibe has always attracted artists, actors and musicians in particular, with Sir Paul McCartney, Nick Cave, Adele, Noel Gallagher, Fat Boy Slim, and even Hollywood actress Cate Blanchett all having owned homes in Brighton at some point or other.

Thanks to its cosmopolitan nature, Brighton is sometimes also referred to as 'London by Sea'. Brighton first became fashionable amongst day-trippers and holidaymakers from London in the late 1700s, when the then Prince of Wales, who became King George IV, became a regular visitor. 

Brighton, is the largest and best-known seaside resort on the English Channel, stretches some five miles along the pebbled and sometimes steep chalk shoreline of the South Downs. Brighton's famous pebble beaches are now lined with souvenir shops and amusement arcades, it remains a culturally vibrant destination.

A well-known landmark in Brighton is the historic Duke of York’s cinema – it's reputed to be the oldest cinema in continuous use in Engalnd.

Detective Inspector Roy Grace is the main character in a series of crime novels by best-selling author Peter James. All of the books are set in and around Brighton, and so far the novels have been published in over 30 different languages!

Dating back to 1872, the Sealife Centre on Brighton's seafront is the world's oldest aquarium. With over 100 species, including sharks and stingrays, and vast tanks of local and tropical marine life, there is plenty to discover. You can also walk through England's longest underwater observation tunnel!

Brighton is rumoured to have numerous lost tunnels but there is one from the Royal Pavilion to the museum and Dome today which you can still see. This was reputedly so the Prince Regent could move about the town without people seeing how overweight he had become!

Most people don't know that when the Swedish band ABBA won the Eurovision song contest with ‘Waterloo’ in 1974, it was in Brighton