Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-11-30
Life at Brighton.

It would be quite impossible for any
BODY to feel dull in Brighton, says
World correspondent. There is not
only the long road or esplanade in front
of the sea, so full of life and character,
but there are also two piers running ont
into the sea-one OF them nearly !, ,20O
feet in length and 40 feet in width.
On this latter pier people are lounglng
from sunrise to sunset-ladies take their
werk. or sit and read there; men go and
smoke and look over the papers, and
very excellent band plays there two or
three times q day. There are little
shops and observation-disclosures on this
pier, and the upper end OF it is vel!
screened from the winds by sheets OF
plate glass at the sides. A more COM
Portable spot for idling aways leisure
hour cannot we'll be imagined. 1t Is
Just like being on the deck OF magni-
fcent ship on fine day, with sea and
sky of a radiant blue, and not move
ment of the waters to disturb the
feeblest of travellers. From this pier
magnificent view is obtained OF the
esplanade and the city at the back, while
to the east the high cliffs and the ridge
of the South Downs give picturesque
and varied appearance to the scene. IL
must not be supposed that nature has
done everything for this place and man
nothing, The line of the espianade
would long since have been encrosched
upon by the sea, as the road at Long
Branch is every winter, if substantial
wall of concrete had not been built to
keep back the enemy. Over elOO,OOO
have been spent on this wall alone. 1t
is twenty-three feet thick at the base,
and three teet at the top. On the East
Cliff" which stands higher than the
main part of Brighton, and consequent.
ly has a slope from the edge OF the road
TO the sea, green lawns have been made,
with well Kept walks running through
them. In short, nothing is left undone
which is calculated to increase the at
tractiyeness of Brighton and this policy
on the part of theinhabitants has proved
to be q paying one, for the value OF
house property has gone up immensely
of late years, and now you have to pay
more for a good house at Brighton than
fer a similar house in London.
The great drawback to the place, In
nv opinion, is the beach, which con-
sists Of hard, round stones, or shing!e,
and is, therefore, impracticable for
walking or riding. Hence, l do not con-
slider brighton good place for chill
dren. They like to dig and roll about
in the sand all day, and here you could
not collect spoonful OF sand it you were
to walk from Kemp Town to Howe. In
this respect Brighton presents great
contrast to those "vulgar" but most
healthy and beautifully situated water
ing places, Ramsgats and Margate. A
child who is told that he is going to the
sea side, and duly provides himself with
the indispensable outfit of spade and
pail, and then finds thatthere is no sand,
thinks the whole place q "humbug
and cries to be taken home. Thus
Brighton would probably be very un.
popular place with the juveniles II 1t
we're not for one "institution which
has completely redeemed its character
in their eyes, and which most OF our
readers bave doubtless heard or read OF
as "the Aquarium.