THIS happy crowd is gathered outside SS Brighton at the bottom of West Street in about 1937.
It was the home of the hugely popular Brighton Tigers Ice Hockey team – did people dress up that smartly to watch ice hockey?
One theory is that the robed visitor in this photograph is Sheikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, grandfather of the current Amir of Bahrain, who according to some reports made an official state visit to Brighton circa 1936
More smart outfits are on show in the rather unusual picture of a sheikh.
It is thought he was on an official state visit to Brighton and this picture could be somewhere around East Brighton Park. The children could be from Brighton college.
The proclamation of the accession of Edward VIII in January 1936. The notices pasted on the window is headed ‘God Save The King’
We also have a great picture of the proclamation of the accession to the throne of Edward VIII in 1936. It was taken outside Brighton Town Hall.
Was this part of the circus coming to town in 1936?
The men on stilts and giant bikes was around the same time and could have been the circus coming to town.
These pictures have been colourised at www.spcolourcollection.com
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