The Building of Churchill Square Shopping Centre 

I remember fainting in that WHSmiths store. I’d just found out I was pregnant the day before, so was looking at baby name books 😆 I was standing there ages, looking, then suddenly started blacking out. They had to get me a chair. My daughter is now 31 next month. Seems like yesterday.

I worked as a labourer on that site in early 98..I was amazed that it was opened in September as they were constantly saying they were behind schedule!

Great video! I met my wife in Spring 98, Brighton became one of our favourite places to go as courting teens :D I vaguely remember the building going on then, I remember heading down to Virgin Megastore a lot where it used to be, then it moved into the new mall. We still love a good trip to Brighton with the kids :)

My teenage childhood right there. The sights and sounds from that video just took me right back. I remember the Old Churchil Sq ( 50p shop was amazing as a kid) And i remember the new build. It’s scary to think we’re getting further from the 90s Brighton was a beautiful and special place back then. Also it was beautiful to hear the Evening Argus man @ 2:03 in the Victorian Imperial Arcade another found memory. 🥲 Nostalgia 🥲

Really nice video document, and I particularly like the mix of music and production sound

I worked at GAME there, in 1998. There was so much construction going on. We didn't think they'd open on time. I miss that Borders Starbucks, it was the first one in Brighton wasn't it.

August 2023: in 5 years time this 'new' Churchill Square will be as old as the old one.

Amazing how most of the shops/traders in this video have disappeared from our high street

Nice video hope to visit Churchill Square next time I visit Brighton

Churchill Sq was always hideous and loathed by most Brightonians. I can remember it opening in '68 as a child. They tore down the old fishing quarter - streets of pebble fronted cottages, Georgian churches. They were considered slums then. Each of those tiny 18 century cottages would be worth half a million now. My mother's antecedents were local fisherman and ran the marine stores. They lived in Upper Russell St. Brighton has a terrible record of destroying it's architectural history.

Shame, I love a bit of 60's architecture. That rotunda thing in particular is very 2001 A Space Odyssey

Amazing, I lived in Brighton at the time and hardly remember any of this, there was the old concrete shopping centre which was dire and then a bright nee Churchill square which seemed to open overnight.

I was working at Mothercare when the new Mall was being built.It was like a war zone for 2 years!

WHSmith have the same shop and same sign in 2020. Probably the same carpets too!

they knocked down our primary scholl st pauls to builted a pile ifrubbish

Wow 1996 seems a long time ago now. I remember the old Square, it was a dead end with shops that couldn't survive on the lower level because no one walked there.

I grew up in 70s and Churchill Sq was fabulous better than the could be anywhere US style mall today, absolutely rubbish! This vandalism of an iconic landmark to Brighton should never be forgotten or repeated. Who today could demolish say Trellick Tower? A similar concept.

I forgot about that disney store

Hello all. I was in brighton in 1977.. studi english..please some one help.. remmber in chirchl sq. There was small pond.. was stil there now 2020

What's the music called?

Built with no where to sit. Inside or out.

Brighton is a dump now; I’ll never go back. Everything the developers touch has destroyed the town. So very sad.

I hate Brighton now. Every single thing they do to it just makes it worse. It’s a dump; they’ve destroyed it.

Was hideous but I don't like what they have now !