brighton is swell
May 24 2005 00:01
I have no idea whether this has been posted here already or if it's trodden narcho knowledge, but i just found out the other day that not only does brighton have a bus called Harry Cowley (all the busses down here are named apparently) who was a local anarchist, but there's also a bus named Peter kropotkin too!
That warms me up to think that old K is still lurking around, coughing and splurting at all the yuppies about. Aghh
Also, another thing i found is the Freedom Press archive at sussex uni library! Its not massive really, but its got some very very old anarchist fliers inside, a Kropotkin one from 1920 (or it could be a photocopy which someone oldified with a teabag), and a load of freedom journals from the 60's.
There arent enough emoticons to express my joy and satisfaction
May 24 2005 10:26
#2
Bokonon wrote:
Peter kropotkin too!
He used to edit Freedom in one of the rooms, in i think it's the eagle, in the north laines.
May 24 2005 10:27
#3
Bokonon wrote:
hey, how comes i've been pseudonamed captain haddock??
May 24 2005 11:08
#4
Alright Bokonon!
Dont see u much on here recently... Thats pretty fucking cool about the busses... its taken you a little while to notice tho hasnt it? 
But its also pretty wierd they name the busses - they have them written on the sides or what?!
May 24 2005 11:16
#5
They name the trains on the line from fenchurch street to shoeburyness, I think they are named after ex-employees or something like that. Pretty strange.
May 24 2005 11:19
#6
I can kidna understand that... but naming a bus Kropotkin is just a bit random!
May 24 2005 11:24
#7
rkn wrote:
But its also pretty wierd they name the busses - they have them written on the sides or what?!
On the front.
May 24 2005 11:25
#8
rkn wrote:
I can kidna understand that... but naming a bus Kropotkin is just a bit random!
It's because he has a connection to brighton.
May 24 2005 11:30
#9
Brighton Bomber wrote:
rkn wrote:
I can kidna understand that... but naming a bus Kropotkin is just a bit random!It's because he has a connection to brighton.
Yeah there was a big feature on him in the Brighton local paper a little while back. Also, he didn't edit Freedom, Charlotte Wilson did, he helped.
That is very cool though Bakonon! (nice to "see" you, btw ) If you could get a picture of it we'll use it on the site somewhere
May 24 2005 11:34
#10
John. wrote:
Brighton Bomber wrote:
rkn wrote:
I can kidna understand that... but naming a bus Kropotkin is just a bit random!It's because he has a connection to brighton.
Yeah there was a big feature on him in the Brighton local paper a little while back. Also, he didn't edit Freedom, Charlotte Wilson did, he helped.
That is very cool though Bakonon! (nice to "see" you, btw
Cheers for clearing that up, you'll have to argue the toss with our local 
historian on that one.
p.s. you new it was coming T-SHIRTS
May 24 2005 13:25
#11
May 24 2005 13:29
#12
That is fucking cool 8)
May 24 2005 14:16
#13
PRINCE peter kropotkin,was he a real blueblood or just taking the piss.
May 24 2005 14:26
#14
You joking? He was the real thing 
May 24 2005 16:12
#15
rkn wrote:
That is fucking cool 8)
I've still not seen it yet, an it's on a 49 (in that pic), seen Harry Cowley plenty of times! Shit i'm becoming a bus spotter!!!! aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!
May 25 2005 11:54
#16
Don't get too excited, there's another one named after that lanky twat Jamie Theakston...
May 25 2005 11:57
#17
lucy_parsons wrote:
Don't get too excited, there's another one named after that lanky twat Jamie Theakston...
And plenty of other twats, too...
May 25 2005 11:59
#18
Haven't you just been picked out as the height of cool by Lonely planet?
Hang your heads in shame...
May 25 2005 12:10
#19
Saii wrote:
Haven't you just been picked out as the height of cool by Lonely planet?Hang your heads in shame...
That's probably bacause the writers have bought a holiday home down here with the rest of the yuppie scum (although that's been a historical trend, since the fuckin victorian era at least), driving the rest of us further an further out, the council using it as an excuse to up the council tax, cos we're so fucking affluent, yadda, yadda, yadda...
Aaahhh the joys of gentrification, CUNTS!
Not, hanging head in shame!
May 27 2005 00:01
#20
Wow, xTx your are a legend for finding this site! I havent felt like this much of a geek since i memorised the names of all the Sega departmental heads back in the sega saturn days! important info!
Fuckin look who it is as well:
As if having an 18wheeler and a Humvee wasnt enough for the guy, he's also got a bloody bus! 'kin 'ell
Hey hey rkn and john, long time, long time! In times of seriouse revision i come on here more, you know, to get my mind away from the joys of investigating what frenchmen read during th enlightenment and all that. degrees, woohoo!
You guys alright?
hey, how comes i've been pseudonamed captain haddock??