Royal Pavilion, Brighton, Sussex, England

Well most people know the story of Prince Regents extravagances, and this must be one of his biggest ones at the time when he was broke.  However the Pavilion is magnificent to look at, well from the back anyway.  I was gutted to find that when we walked to the main road to take the view below some idiot had placed a huge restaurant/café in the gardens and ruined what was once a wonderful view.  Below is what I had hoped I would see.  Instead today there is a Ice Skating Rink (not a problem) and .......I doubt I can really describe the hideous café whatever were the people of the Royal Pavilion thinking??

 

 

http://austenonly.com/2011/06/22/the-royal-pavilion-brighton-and-dress-for-excess-part-2/

 

Due to not been able to get a font view of the Pavilion I found this photo on  another Google blog.  The link is above and it tells about the history and celebrations of 200 years.  It is a website about Jane Austen and very worthwhile looking at.

 

Now for my photographs from the back towards the front.  I hope that my son will enjoy the different types of architecture.

 

 

 

These first few photos are of the Theatre and the back of what is now a museum.  It is all in the same type of architecture as the Pavilion.

 

I am not sure, however this looks like the main gate to the back of the Pavilion where you can view the gardens and outside of the buildings for free

 

 

This is as much of the front of Pavilion that you can view from a side road, sadly the rest is behind an very ugly café they have built.

 

 

The museum

 

From the gardens

 

Close ups to show the fantastic architecture

 

 

A rather odd tree in the garden

 

 

 

Another huge gateway

 

loved the tulip effect at the bottom of the columns

 

A view from the main road....I think

 

 

Another view from the side road, sadly not spectacular

 

A view from the main road over the overgrown hedges to one side of the very ugly cafe

 

Another view from the same road

 

 

Well that is about all.  for this post until I find my other photos, a bit thanks to Zillah for taking some of these, her camera is much better than mine to say the least.