The photo from the contents page of Brighton and Hove's bid for city status shows that they were happy to use the seafront bandstand by the sunken gardens to bolster their bid but hid the fact that they had let the same bandstand disintegrate.
Their attitude towards the West Pier was identical - happy to claim it when the film Oh, What A Lovely War! put it on cinema screens worldwide - but in fact washing their hands of it.
By the way, the sunken gardens by the bandstand, once a glorious blaze of colour on a drab seafront, are now a boules court (which requires no maintenance).
Boules to you, city fathers - who'd be a child of yours?
-Dave Sandell, Brighton
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