Melody Art

Melody Art

Adelaide Crescent - Brighton

Original acrylic painting on paper

Adelaide Crescent built between 1830 and 1850.  It is situated on Brighton seafront between the piers.

The Royal Pavilion is a former Royal palace built as the home for the Prince Regent during the early 1800s and is notable for its Indian architecture and Oriental interior design. The building and surrounding grounds were purchased by the town in 1849 for £53,000.  Brighton Pier (originally and in full "The Brighton Marine Palace and Pier", and for long known as the Palace Pier) was opened in 1899. It features a large funfair, restaurants and arcade halls. The funfair has been criticised for its high prices, with rides costing up to £8.

The West Pier was built in 1866 and has been closed since 1975 and theoretically awaiting renovation, which faces continual set backs, in part because the owners of the Palace Pier, the Noble Organisation, have opposed all plans put forward. The West Pier is one of only two Grade I listed piers in the United Kingdom, but suffered two catastrophic fires in 2003. Plans for erecting a new landmark in its place – the i360, a 183 m (600 ft) observation tower designed by London Eye architects Marks Barfield – were announced in June 2006. Plans were approved by the City council on 11 October 2006.

Created in 1883, Volk's Electric Railway runs along the inland edge of the beach from the Brighton Pier to Black Rock. It is the world's oldest operating electric railway.

The 11th century St. Nicholas Church remains a place of worship and is the oldest building in Brighton, commonly known as "the mother church" of Brighton. Other notable churches include St. Bartholomew 's, and the Church of St. Peter, prominently sited in the heart of Brighton on an island between the main roads to London and Lewes.