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Brighton Rock Walking Tour
Brighton

Walk the seafront and backstreets Graham Greene mapped in his 1938 novel — the racecourse gangs, the razor-carrying teenagers, and the Catholic guilt that runs beneath all of it.

8 stops · Seafront + racecourse

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Every Stop Has a Story

Where Hale Died

The Bank Holiday pier where Brighton Rock opens, with Fred Hale certain that Pinkie's gang mean to kill him.

The Heart of it

The old fishermen's green at the heart of Regency Brighton, between the seafront crowds and the streets Pinkie came from.

Snow's

Snow's, the café where Rose waits on tables and unknowingly holds the clue that could hang Pinkie.

The Old Town

The tangle of alleys left over from the fishing town of Brighthelmstone, the oldest part of Brighton.

The Grand Hotels

Brighton's grand Victorian seafront hotels, the world of Greene's fictional Cosmopolitan, where Pinkie meets his rival Colleoni.

The Other Pier

The ruined Victorian pier that was still in full swing in Greene's Brighton, now an iron skeleton out at sea.

Where Pinkie Came From

The slum streets where Greene placed Rose's Nelson Place and Pinkie's Paradise Piece, cleared just as the novel came out.

The Racecourse Gangs

The downland racecourse where Colleoni's men ambush Pinkie, echoing the real racecourse gang wars of the 1930s.

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