{"id":107,"date":"2019-11-12T01:12:36","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T01:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/queensparkbooks.org.uk\/archives-alive\/?p=107"},"modified":"2020-03-26T15:26:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T15:26:35","slug":"1-palace-pier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/queensparkbooks.org.uk\/discover-brighton\/1-palace-pier\/","title":{"rendered":"1. Palace Pier"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"audio-style\">\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-107-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/queensparkbooks.org.uk\/discover-brighton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Daring-Hearts-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/queensparkbooks.org.uk\/discover-brighton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Daring-Hearts-1.mp3\">https:\/\/queensparkbooks.org.uk\/discover-brighton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Daring-Hearts-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;We all jumped off the end of the pier I remember once, as a dare, on New Year&#8217;s Eve.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>It was horrendous, reported, I believe, in the Evening Argus at the time. My mother was furious yet again, all these dykes picked up on Brighton beach by the coastguard.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I lost a shoe, I was most upset about that. I remember I had a false hairpiece, they were quite fashionable at the time, big sort of tall hairdos, and it came off in the sea, with my shoe, which is probably on a Parisian beach by now or wherever the other side of Brighton Channel is. I don&#8217;t know, mad as hatters. It was freezing too, it was snowing I believe, bloody freezing.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>We just all did it for a dare, about six or seven of us. The ambulance came and we were all taken off to some hospital there to see if any of us had suffered a heart attack. Sobered us up, we could have killed ourselves, I mean it was just outrageous.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/queensparkbooks.org.uk\/discover-brighton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/1.4-Palace-Pier-e1572972764570-300x275.jpg?resize=300%2C275&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"275\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A day trip to Brighton (Daring Hearts).<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Anyway they released us, they thought we&#8217;d probably be alright but we&#8217;d got nowhere to go, had we, we hadn&#8217;t got any money, of course we&#8217;d spent it all, and we&#8217;d still got a lot of alcohol in us, anyway we were dragged off to the police station and spent the night in cells, where I might say, the WPC&#8217;s at the time plied us with even more booze, telling us it would warm us up. It was New Year of course. I&#8217;m sure they knew we were gay, and I&#8217;m sure they were too, definitely, yes.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Oh, it was fun, just jumped off the end of the pier, fortunately the tide was up.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>With your back against the Pier look across the road to the Sea Life Centre. Be careful to watch out for cyclists before the crossing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &#8216;We all jumped off the end of the pier I remember once, as a dare, on New Year&#8217;s Eve. It was horrendous, reported, I believe, in the Evening Argus at the time. My mother was furious yet again, all these dykes picked up on Brighton beach by the coastguard. 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