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The Bath Arms, Brighton

Dating from 1864, The Bath Arms is the oldest licensed premises in the Brighton Lanes. Underneath it is a bricked up secret tunnel which is claimed to be haunted.
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William Sutherland said:

Superb capture and POV!

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19 months ago

Isisbridge said:

Am I getting a feeling of deja vue with this one?
19 months ago

Howard Somerville replied to Isisbridge:

Yes and no. When I took it (in 2017) the central part of the pub sign was missing (the oval frame, presumably, originally had the Bath Arms heraldic crest hanging within it), but it's since been replaced with this 3D visual pun. The butch figure suggests that the pub is popular with gays, of which Brighton hosts a large community.
19 months ago

Isisbridge replied to Howard Somerville:

Personally, I'm more turned on by bunting, though I'm not sure about the colour scheme here.
19 months ago

John Lawrence said:

Thanks for posting your wonderful picture to

www.ipernity.com/group/buildings
19 months ago

Howard Somerville replied to Isisbridge:

I managed to get up to Gt Doddington and environs yesterday. The sun went in out all day long but came out (eventually) for most pictures, except for of the one of the famous watermill, but by then (16:45) it would have been in the wrong part of the sky anyway. I should have done the (circular) walk in the other direction. Gt Doddington is a pleasant enough place with a fine church and old manor house but there's nothing to take in the village itself. On the way home I stopped en route in Earls Barton, and having been heavily overcast for the previous hour or more, just as I reached the churchyard, miraculously the sun reappeared.

Overall the day was more successful and photo-productive than I thought it would be, so thanks for engendering the idea to go.
19 months ago

Isisbridge replied to Howard Somerville:

You should have gone on Monday, like I did. Perfect photography weather.
19 months ago

Howard Somerville replied to Isisbridge:

Well, that's a coincidence. Did you take a camera? I drove past a sign to your prison.
19 months ago

Isisbridge replied to Howard Somerville:

How's it a coincidence? It was I who suggested the watermill for your photograph.
Yes, I told you I had my camera, and all the spare batteries failed after Northampton.
19 months ago

Howard Somerville replied to Isisbridge:

Oh yes, sorry. Very frustrating. The imaging software in modern smartphones is so good that compact and bridge cameras are almost redundant, and if your camera has become unreliable, funds permitting you may be better off with one. Some of the latest smartphones have as many as FIVE lenses, providing an optical zoom range equal to a bridge camera. They even have sensors with far more megapixels than legacy compacts and bridge cameras. All they lack is eye-level viewfinders.
19 months ago

Isisbridge replied to Howard Somerville:

My camera's okay. It's the blinking batteries!
19 months ago

Isisbridge replied to Howard Somerville:

Here is the problem:

1. PRE-charged batteries work fine in my camera, but they stop working when RE-charged,
even though the battery tester indicates green and they work alright in my clock.
This also happens with UN-precharged batteries that I've had for some time.

2. I have two different chargers and the problem occurs whichever one I use.

3. If it's a fault with the camera, how come new precharged batteries work okay?
19 months ago

Isisbridge replied to Isisbridge:

You said I should clean the battery contacts or something.
What do I use to clean them with?
19 months ago

Howard Somerville said:

Ideally metal polish, or failing that moist spectacle wipes, which will remove any grease or fingermarks. But the contacts might not need cleaning or be the problem, though it's the first thing to try.
19 months ago

Isisbridge replied to Howard Somerville:

I don't see how it can be the contacts when the precharged batteries work okay.
19 months ago