Names on the buses

736 Disco Pete

Connections with Brighton and Hove : So many! Known to thousands as ‘Disco Pete’, Peter Turner was a consummate entertainer and about as ‘Brighton’ as it gets. Born in the city, generations of school children knew him for 25 years as the caretaker at Stanford Primary, Highcroft Villas, Brighton, but far more knew him as an unapologetic ‘raver’ until very late in his life. He was a radar mechanic in the RAF, turning down an art college place to stay in the force. He counted the artist JMW Turner and poet Shelley in his ancestry. Starting as a DJ on local hospital radio, he was very much part of the local music scene and his appearance at any event in his Flame suit and wearing his trademark white gloves was a signal for the party to begin. Across the years, his presence was known at a swathe of Brighton discos from The Suite to the Pink Coconut to Prizm and at any number of Pride events and Children’s Parades. He died in 2021 in a Hove nursing home aged 84.

736 ADL Enviro400 - carried name since delivery in April 2024.