Anyone who knows the Metropole Hotel in Brighton will recognise the building below: the central turret rising out of a pyramid roof, the cast iron balconies, the mansard roofs on the side pavilions and the dormer windows. And if the image were in colour, we would also recognise the warm red of the brickwork.
Image courtesy of the « Fonds ancien et local de Dieppe » (Dieppe Archive)
French Brighton 