Pictures from the past
Wednesday, 20. August 2008, 23:35:57
Stumbled, by chance, on this remarkable website of photographs of Brighton and Hove from years gone by. James Gray's collection shows Brighton from the dawn of photography right up until the nineteen eighties, and it is endlessly fascinating.
The Chain Pier. The terraces that lined the New England Street area. A remarkable shot across Preston Park, with Beaconsfield Villas part built in the background. And so on.
We owe Gray a huge debt for his work, and he deserves more civic recognition than just a name on an Omnidekka.
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Gray's collection has been most useful in researching Old Brighton for the forthcoming Castle Falkenstein game. Eugenius Tettersell, patron of our group of dashing Victorian Heroes, lives in Brighton, quite possibly in Fairlie Place on Surrenden Road. The pilot episode starts in Brighton, and moves on to High Society Balls And Parties in Paris. Please dress to impress.
The start date is slipping well into 2009, though. I hope to have a website up by the end of the year, with an audio trailer which should give you an idea of the sort of Prussian Bounder you might be up against.
We now have a semi-decent microphone for the game table. Tests of Skype-ing WFRP to Popey will start next time he can't turn up in person. If this works, one or two CF players could join us from many miles away...
The Chain Pier. The terraces that lined the New England Street area. A remarkable shot across Preston Park, with Beaconsfield Villas part built in the background. And so on.
We owe Gray a huge debt for his work, and he deserves more civic recognition than just a name on an Omnidekka.
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Gray's collection has been most useful in researching Old Brighton for the forthcoming Castle Falkenstein game. Eugenius Tettersell, patron of our group of dashing Victorian Heroes, lives in Brighton, quite possibly in Fairlie Place on Surrenden Road. The pilot episode starts in Brighton, and moves on to High Society Balls And Parties in Paris. Please dress to impress.
The start date is slipping well into 2009, though. I hope to have a website up by the end of the year, with an audio trailer which should give you an idea of the sort of Prussian Bounder you might be up against.
We now have a semi-decent microphone for the game table. Tests of Skype-ing WFRP to Popey will start next time he can't turn up in person. If this works, one or two CF players could join us from many miles away...
WIDGETIZE
Flat Sky # 21. August 2008, 15:10
Uncle Thang # 23. August 2008, 14:30
miro237 # 7. September 2008, 13:13
Cough...Nick Schwa...cough...nimble faun....
Peter Taylor # 15. September 2008, 08:13
I'd like to run some more Cthulhu, although I was flicking through some Chaosium scenarios the other day, and I was finding it all a bit, well, flat. Everything looked like it would need a lot of work to turn into the sort of living, breathing world that I've got going with WFRP.