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Memories
"A way of life that was never to return."
"The Big 4" and "My first date"
'Hitler is not going to have my whiskey'
'Moulsecoomb Memories'
'On the Buses' after the War
1940: Diary beginnings
1940: November
1941: January
1962: Drifts up to four feet deep
1967: A five hour train journey
1979: Even the breadman got stuck!
A child's eye view from the 1930s
A child's memories, 2003
A family in service
A great night out!
A haven for bookshops
A lesson in life
A magical place
A magnificient foyer like a Sultan's palace
A Personal view
A prestigious place
A red rose for Mary
A revival of the area
A Shattering Lunchtime
A soldier blown up on the beach
A strange and sad place
A street party in Islingword Street and Southampton Street in 1938.
A throwback to the end of the previous century
A traditional Victorian establishment
A tremble of fear
A triumph of engineering
A very dark and stormy night
A vibrant musical scene
A wartime billet
A wealth of shops
Air Raid Precautions (ARP) duties
Air raid shelters and evacuation
Air Raid, Rationing and More
Alf and Marge's story
All they left was the anchor
Astoria Cinema - Striding down the wide staircase
At school in the 1950s
Battling to survive
Benny Hill's standing ovation
Billy Smart's circus in the 1950s
Boogying in the 1970s
Bread and coal
Brighton Gay Switchboard 1979
Brighton Lesbian Group 1980s
Call up, work and raids
Carol singing
Cecily Tween - evacuated to Brighton
Checking out an old cab
Childhood memories
Childhood memories
Childhood memories of Brighton air raids
Childhood memories of Madeira Mansions
Childhood Memories of Ovingdean Village
Childhood memories of the beach
Christmas in Portslade
Civil Defence in war-time Brighton
Class of 1960
Compelling and frightening
Cream and green canopies in the 1950s
Dan Arroll had us in stitches
Delete - all links dead
Do you remember 'Charlie's'?
Do you remember where it was?
Evacuated from Norwood
Evacuated to Yorkshire
Father Christmas: early 1950s
Finsbury Road school:a window on the world
Formerly The Savoy
Formerly the Sports Stadium
From rough sleeper to tutor
Good old days in the 1940/50s
Good, hard-working folk
Growing up in Kemp Town
Growing up in the 1940s
Growing up in the 50s
Growing up in the early 1950s
Growing up in wartime, 1940-45
Happy days in the Lorelei coffee bar
High days and holidays, 1930s
HMS Vernon (R): Wren memories
Hosting the evacuees, 1939-40
Hot bread rolls - 2d, old money
How I Delayed D-Day
Ice skater in the 1950s
Jane appearing in less than her flimsies
Jay - Memories of punk
John Hollingdale: Brighton sailmaker
Joining the congregation at St Peter's Church
Kathleen Phillips - evacuated to Brighton
Lemonade in the 1920s
Living here in the 1950s
Lost gloves
Max and my grandmother
Max on cricket
Max on horseback
Memories from 1967
Memories from a 1960s BH&D conductor: Part 1
Memories from a 1960s BH&D conductor: Part 2
Memories from a 1960s BH&D conductor: Part 3
Memories from the 1950s
Memories from the 40s and 50s
Memories of "The Farm"
Memories of a bygone time
Memories of a Canadian ex-pat
Memories of a now demolished pub
Memories of a now demolished pub
Memories of a prefect in the 1930s
Memories of a wartime visit
Memories of beer and fresh bread
Memories of Cannon Place Beach, Brighton, 1930s
Memories of life on an old farm
Memories of North Street 1951-65
Memories of the 11th Brighton Scout Group
Memories of the 1950s
Memories of the 1950s
Memories of the 1950s
Memories of the 1950s
Memories of the 1950s and 1960s
Memories of the Christmas pantomimes
Memories of the drinking fountain
Memories of the entertainment scene, 1950s
Memories of the farrier at Dawkins Forge
Memories of the old Town Hall
Memories of the Siren Theatre Company
Memories of trams in the 1930s
Memories of Usher
Memories of working at the Aquarium in 1972
Memories of working at the dolphinarium
Memories: 'It used to give me nightmares'
Memories: Childhood games in the early thirties
Memories: The closing of St Wilfrid's
Memories: visiting an aunt in the 1940s
Miss Laura Hollands
Moustaches in the 1920s
Mr Fairweather's tasty carrots
My 'sea legs' memories
My great-grandfather, some character
My Saturday job
My walk from Portslade (aged 5!)
Never forget my youth in Brighton
Originally adjacent to Dyke Road workhouse
Our dream house
Ovingdean memories
Paddling with Mr Punch
Part 01: Arrival in Brighton, Christmas 1942
Part 02: War time Exams
Part 03: Digging For Victory
Part 04: Rationing
Part 05: Brighton bombing, 25th May 1943
Part 06: The Odeon Cinema, Kemptown
Part 07: Beating the Bomb!
Part 08: Wartime Football
Part 09: VE Day
Part 10: VJ Day
Part 11: We're down on the beach!
Part 12: "Engaged to an Australian Airman - wonder if it will last!"
Part 13: War brides leaving Brighton
Peace and austerity, 1945
People thought I was barmy!
Personal view
Photographed in 2006
Photos with a Black Cat camera
Picnics by the Lagoon
Policing the wreck
Pre-war memories of Stanmer Village
Prisoners of war in Dyke Road
Relaxing on the helter-skelter
Remembering Withdean Farmhouse
Reminiscences of a photographer
Revisiting my memories
Sailing in - 1985
Saturday mornings in the 1950s
School life in the 1930s
Schoolboy memories
Schoolboy memories of the ovens at work
Self build houses
Service men, enjoyment and no surrender!
Shopping in Elm Grove in the 1930s
Smoking herrings in the 1920s
Some lucky escapes
Something scary and magical
Sunny deck chair days
Teenage memories from the 1960s
Teresa Stevens - evacuated to Brighton
The 50-plus club: early days
The 5th Form in 1949
The best years of my life
The bombing of Compton Road
The Bombing of Park Crescent
The Bombing of The Kemp Town Odeon
The bombing of the Royal Pavilion
The building and closure of a community church
The Court in the Parochial Offices
The diary in 2005
The electrification of the railways in 1932
The end of the line for the trolley buses
The Falmer village blacksmith
The felling of the elms, c1938
The flea pit, pease pudding and faggots
The happiest days of my life
The Killing of Sister George, 1969
The last trolleybus
The Manor Farm Football Lads, 1944
The morning after the 1987 storm
The Queen's Coronation
The rescue operation
The Rustler - Sunday 24th August 1952
The Syd Dean Band: family memories
The uniform generations
The Virgin record store
The War In and Over Sussex
This "rickety, rackety railway"
Tragedy on the railway line
Treading the boards: entertainment in the 1930s
Trees flung round like matchsticks
Usherettes and tea-trays
VE day and beyond
VE day celebrations
Walking along the seafront after lunch
Walking into the past
Walking my girlfriend home from school
Walking out to sea
War time Romance
Watching the little boats
We just wanted a place to dance
Well-rutted and cratered in the 1950s
Where I was born
Where visitors turn back
White tiling and hard scratchy towels
Whitehawk School shelters
Woken by a great storm
Woolworths: nothing over 6 old pennies
Working as a hotel telephonist in the 1940s
Working at the ice rink, 1960s
Lucky dip
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