Brighton Rock Walking Tour Brighton | StoryStride: Walking Tours

The Bank Holiday pier where Brighton Rock opens, as Fred Hale spends his last hours hiding from Pinkie's gang.

The open square where 1930s Brighton's two worlds collided: the London day-trippers and the slum streets Pinkie grew up in.

The real restaurant Greene wrote directly into the novel, where Ida Arnold sits and does her thinking.

The maze of alleys where Pinkie's gang outruns pursuers who don't know the back streets the way they do.

The Victorian hotel that marks the social world Pinkie can walk past every day but never actually enter.

The Victorian pier that was still fully open when Greene wrote the novel, now the burnt iron skeleton visible from the seafront.

The cramped streets by the old gasworks that Greene gave as Pinkie's childhood, fifty yards from the seafront's money.

The racecourse where a real 1936 razor gang fight, two years before the novel's publication, became the model for Pinkie's world.

Brighton Rock Walking Tour
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