BRIGHTON FORESHORE BETWEEN WEST STREET AND THE CHAIN PIER C1885 In Gallery / WORKING PORTS

BRIGHTON FORESHORE BETWEEN WEST STREET AND THE CHAIN PIER C1885

Though not a port, Brighton at this time was busy with craft along the shore and going to and fro from the pier. The fishing vessel, catching the morning light in her sails, is ghosting past the stern of a brigantine swinging slowly on her mooring to a buoy. So calm are the conditions that she has set almost all her sails to dry. At the beach a flat bottomed colli...