Pavilion Gardens Café

Winter at the Paviliion Gardens

Peter Williams — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:47:35 +0000

Re-Opening for new season soon

Teatime Tales: a new book about the café

Studio Streaming — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 09:16:55 +0000

Teatime Tales: Pavilion Gardens Café Interviews.

Published by QueenSpark books in 12th April 2011

Now available from the café.

Authors:
Harry Hillery, Glenn Stevens, Robin Tulley, Libdsey Tydeman, Peter Oakes, Maxine Badger, Cara Redlich, Iain Cameron Williams, Cecelia Rose, Dorian Vaughan, Karen McMillan, Rob Cohen, Roslyn Cook, Kahn Priestly and Jessica Wallace

Abstract:
The Pavilion Gardens Café, like the Royal Pavilion across the Gardens, is a unique Brighton institution. Throughout the last seventy years, it has offered refreshment, relaxation and a certain kind of charm to tens of thousands of visitors from around the world. The Café also attracts a fascinating clientele of local people, and it is some of their ‘Teatime Tales’ that are featured here for the very first time.

The QueenSpark book of customer interviews published in April 2011

Article From QueenSpark books web-site

Written by Sarah Hutchings

Even though the Argus didn’t mention us, QueenSpark Book’s latest publication: ‘Teatime Tales’ got a feature on 11 May 2011. It’s a lovely little book.

The book was launched at a packed party on Saturday 30 April. I know I was there …

The Pavilion Gardens Café, like the Royal Pavilion across the Gardens, is a unique Brighton institution. Throughout the last seventy years, it has offered refreshment, relaxation and a certain kind of charm to tens of thousands of visitors from around the world.

The Café also attracts a fascinating clientele of local people, and throughout the summer 2010, QueenSpark volunteers interviewed some of them. Over the last few months yet more volunteers have written up these interviews and some of them are featured in ‘Teatime Tales’ for the very first time, alongside memories and a selection of photographs from the Sewell Family who have owned and run The Café since its first incarnation on Brighton beach in the 1930s.

Copies of the book can be obtained direct from QueenSpark, this website, from most city booksellers and the Pavilion Gardens Café itself.

14/06/2011

QueenSpark books

The Argus

The Hangleton Brass Band

Studio Streaming — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 08:32:27 +0000

The Hangleton Brass Band is an active, modern, brass band based in Hangleton, on the outskirts of Brighton and Hove, in Sussex, England. They have active Senior and Youth Bands and take our membership from a wide cross section of the local community.

www.hangletonband.co.uk

Brass Fusion

Studio Streaming — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 08:28:11 +0000

Brass Fusion is a ten piece brass ensemble based in Sussex. Brass Fusion play a wide variety of music from many genres at fetes, garden-parties, bandstands, and private functions.

www.brassfusion.co.uk

Cafe History: 1930s

Studio Streaming — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:15:05 +0000

During this time Mr. Tennent (known affectionately as Mr. T) had two kiosks by the Palace Pier groyne. One selling teas and pies the other selling drinks and ice-cream. He also had at one time a small kiosk near the lift by Peter Pan’s playground and one by the paddling pool adjacent to the West Pier.

This kiosk near the paddling pool was close to Jim Hatton’s weighing machine (jockey scales). Mr. T would wheel a barrow from Elm Grove carrying bread, pies and cakes all the way to the seafront. He had to order his supplies on Thursday and pick them up on a Friday in readiness for the weekend.

f the weekend weather was bad, the fish by the groyne had a feeding frenzy on Sunday night. This led Mr. T to start baking his own cakes to avoid such losses.

It must also be remembered that all water had to be queued up for and collected from a stand pipe along the beach. At that time the seafront families operated a form of cartel agreeing not to compete to bid against each other for their pitches to keep the status quo.

Mr. T also had a restaurant called the ‘Prompt Corner’ in Duke Street at the junction with Middle Street. Mr. T did a lot of the cooking serving pies and puddings to variety artists appearing at the Brighton Hippodrome.

Mr. T was a semi-professional ballroom dancer and with his wife Louise reached the finals of the Star Championships at the Hammersmith Palace in London around this time. Wealthy ladies would arrange afternoon dancing lessons at the Regent and Sherry’s with Mr. T and Sydney Bellman anothergood dancer.

Cafe History: 1920s – 1930s

Studio Streaming — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:12:16 +0000

Herbert Tennent’s parents were seafront traders running a seafood stall selling cockles, mussels and whelks underneath the arches.

They also ran a pub near the Metropole Hotel which was frequented by the local fisherman. Some nights after a good night catch, fresh fish would be thrown through the fanlight of the pub door to greet them in the morning.

Sunday Band Concerts On Pavilion Lawn 2011

Studio Streaming — Wed, 25 May 2011 17:02:17 +0000

2-4 pm unless otherwise stated

Deckchairs for hire on lawn

June

5th Adur
12th Salvation army
19th University Of Sussex Concert
26th Brass Fusion

July

3rd Hangleton Brass
10th Horsham Borough
17th South London Jazz
24th Slinfold Concert
31st Salvation Army

August

7th Silver Sounds (note: 11:30am – 1:30pm)
14th Brighton & Hove City Brass
21st Incredible Sax
28th Battle Town

September

4th Horsham Borough