Nourishment

Located at the north east corner of Preston Park. Club cycling is booked Sat morning & Wed + Fri evening. All other times available for casual use unless there is a cricket match. Pack a lunch and enjoy the beautiful banked seating.

One of my favourite places in Brighton is the oldest working velodrome in the world, the Preston Park Velodrome (built 1877).

I have memories of being taken there as a child to watch the cycle racing and then for some 30 years it was where I played our ‘home’ cricket matches on many Saturdays and Sundays followed by nourishment and a fantastic social life in one of three pubs, one at the top of Preston Drove (where I met my late wife), then called the Stanmer Park Tavern, the Park View and the Crown and Anchor where I had my wedding reception in 1973.

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