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Veteran Car Run 2011

London to Brighton Veteran Car Run 2011

London to Brighton Veteran Car Run 2011.This year it was the 115th anniversary of veteran car run. The first modern rally took place in 1927. On Sunday 6 of November 2011 pasionate drivers where making challenging historis journey from London to Brighton. They were starting in London’s Hyde Park just after 7:00 in the morning driving around 60 miles to finishing line in Brighton’s Madeira Drive. More than 500 vintage cars took part in the 78th London to Brighton Veteran Car Run.

This rally is not a race and is described by organisers the Royal Automobile Club as “an endurance of man and machine”. A lot of drivers came from abroad, including competitors from America, Australia and China. This year was as well celebration of the 125th anniversary of Mercedes-Benz. Matt Roberts with his the 1897 Marot Gardon Tricycle was the first to arrive in Brighton an impressive 3 hours and 25 minutes after leaving Hyde Park in the first sector group. It was such an amazing to see all ‘competitors’ dressed up in old style clothes exactly matching their cars.

The Brighton Centre

Centre for venues

Boasting 3500m squared of exhibition space, The Brighton Centre is one of the area’s largest, purpose-built conference and exhibition facilities. There is capacity of 5100 people on standing concerts and 4500 for conferences. It also has smaller rooms for weddings and banquets. The Centre is also known for regularly hosting conferences of the major British political parties.

The venue also holds all sorts of different conferences, meetings and exhibitions. It is located right on the seafront.  With the huge capacity, The Brighton Centre continues to be one of the country’s preferred venues  which hosts a wide variety of business conferences, entertainment and sport events, regular records & comics sale, concerts. Many of the biggest names in entertainment, comedy, music and dance have already performed or are slated to appear in the near future, at The Brighton Centre.

Contact details:
Kings Road
Brighton
BN1 2GR
01273 290 131

Box Office: 0844 847 1515

The Brighton Centre Box Office is open from 10:00-17:30 from Monday to Saturday. When there is an event taking place in the venue, the Box Office will be open from 10:00 to approximately 21:00.

Building is currently under reconstruction but is open as usual.

White Night 2011

White Night in Brighton – FREE festival

White night festival in Brighton 2011.

 

On Saturday night on 29th of October 2011 with hundreds of performing artists at 70 indoor and outdoor events across the city, there was something for everyone. This was the fourth annual White Night FREE all night festival with around 45 000 visitors celebrating the end of British Summer Time and the extra hour of night.

Many of Brighton and Hoves open places were transformed into different amazing venues. Old Steine became an alternative village. Jubilee Square, became a hi technology video installation. New Road became a Dolly Parton concert venue with people singing and dancing around.

 

 

Main categories of the night performances:

  • Retro-Future
  • Resistance & Collective Action
  • Public Space
  • Protest & Direct Action
  • Digital technologies
  • Earth & Environment
  • Family friendly
  • Personal & Spiritual Development

Every event has been created specially for the festival just for one night of White night festival.