A Place Called Providence

Walking along London Rd the other day, I noticed an intriguing sign on the open market.

So I went to take a look, and found a small piece of Amsterdam transplanted to Brighton. Amsterdammers sells those classic Dutch bicycles. Many (many) years ago, I worked in a bar in Amsterdam called Fat City, lived above the [...]

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Our new coffee shop opened today - mostly. We went up for a cup (Graeme was the first ‘repeat’ customer) and met the crew. It’s early days for them. They had a lot of cakes, not enough seats and no wi-fi. But they pledge wi-fi soon and we’re going to go help them out [...]

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You’ve heard of OpenCoffee - semi-casual meetups where geeks, entrepreneurs and anyone else who wants to get together to chat can turn up and, well, drink coffee and chat.
Now meet OpenBeer - OpenCoffee’s bigger brother.
It’s our attempt at an office warming after more than a year and our attempt to network and be friendly and [...]

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We call the part of Brighton that we work in BLONE - Between London rd and New England quarter. You know, like New York’s Tribeca (Triangle Below Canal Street) or Soho (South of Houston), but without New York. Or a good word. In fact it sounds like Baloney, which just about sums this part [...]

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 So much for all this Open Coffee stuff
We’re having our first Open Beer to celebrate our co-working space and have a beer and a chat and a social network and snacks on Friday 28th September from 5pm onwards, at our Top Floor Studio, 50 Providence Place, Brighton BN1 4GE.
(BTW, we have one spare [...]

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This is the group blog for the co-working space that is Top Floor Studio, 50 Providence Place, Brighton, BN1 4GE.
There’s a big, round table we sit around up in the top floor studio, and the purpose of this is to extend the round-table conversation out there.

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