Straddling
the Brighton and Hove border, just a stone's throw
from the doomed West Pier, the famous meeting Place
beach café is an institution as popular with
locals as the Palace Pier is with visitors. After 80 years of trading, it was demolished
in 2003 and this affectionate and amusing film
tells its story.
The meeting Place combines rare archive footage, lively interviews and an atmospheric soundtrack of orginal music and 30s dance hits to produce an enduring and endearing record of a much-loved, and now much-missed, part of Britain's disappearing seaside heritage.
The Lord Mayor of Brighton & Hove opened the new
meeting Place cafe in January 2003, assisted by BBC
Radio's Joanne Good and Rodney Posner, the cafe's owner since 1978.
Premiere: 2003 Brighton Festival
Broadcast: Sky TV November, 2002
Selected for inclusion in BFI National Film Archive (South East)
Festivals: 2007 CineCity Film Festival (re-edit), UK
