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AudaTours Brighton Audio Tour: Below the Promenade

King's Road, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 2LN

  • Available anytime
  • | Online & In person
  • | Book on day
  • | Walk / Tour

Brighton's seafront in working clothes: from Brighton Station and the Royal Pavilion kitchen to the Town Hall basement, West Pier, the Grand and the Fishing Museum, tracing the capstans, footplates and service stairs that kept the resort going.

This self-guided audio walk has 17 stops and takes about 2 hours of audio, or around 3 hours in total once you follow the route between sites. Start at Brighton Station and listen on your headphones as you walk through a city where the visible pleasure frontage sits on top of hidden labour: railway sheds and footplates, kitchen corridors and service stairs, basements, back entrances, piers and shingle. The route passes Brighton Hippodrome, the Bandstand, West Pier, The Grand Brighton, Old Ship Hotel, Brighton Town Hall, Brighton Dome and the Royal Pavilion, then continues along the seafront past Old Steine, Sea Life Brighton, Volk's Electric Railway, Brighton Palace Pier and the Fishing Museum before ending at the beach. Brighton's version is shaped by the people who kept the resort running: the men who built and serviced the trains, the servants and cooks behind the Pavilion walls, the performers and staff behind the theatres and hotels, and the fishermen who landed mackerel by capstan and sold it on the shingle. Walk slowly and let the city be heard as well as seen.

Timings

Available anytime

Location & directions

King's Road, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 2LN

Directions:
Starts at Brighton Bandstand, King's Road, visits 17 stops, and finishes at Brighton Fishing Museum.

Booking information

Pre-booking requirement:
Book on day
Booking conditions:
Visit the booking link and click the "Get Tour" button to receive a redemption code. Follow the link to download the AudaTours app, enter your redemption code, and you're ready to go.
Booking email:
[email protected]
Booking website:
https://audatours.com/tour/united-kingdom/brighton/p-3912-below-the-promenade

Accessibility details

This is an outdoor, self-guided audio walking tour. The route follows public streets and pavements and does not include access to the interior of any of the sites — they are to be admired from the outside. Please wear comfortable shoes and dress for the weather.

Additional information

You can start the tour whenever suits you during the festival and pause, resume or revisit it at any point — the route plays at your own pace from your phone. Once redeemed, the tour stays in your AudaTours library so you can come back to it any time. Headphones (or one earbud if walking with a companion) are recommended, and the tour works best in daylight hours.

Estimated duration:
2 hour(s)

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