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A fun day out on Brighton beach, June 1930

By Lesley Mouncer

Photo:Girls jumping into the water at Brighton, 1930

Photo:Group of people at Hatton's beach, Brighton 1930

Photo:Crowd of people on Brighton beach 1930

These images of people enjoying themselves on Brighton beach were sent to the website by Lesley Mouncer. Her grandfather, Reg Lewis, worked for Hattons, one of the private companies that controlled sections of the beach in Brighton in the 20's and 30's.

So far as she is aware, the photos were taken on the 5th June, 1930, when her grandfather was 22. One of the girls jumping into the water is Lesley Mouncer's grandmother.

Scanned from the private collection of Lesley Mouncer. Sent to website by e-mail on 11th July 2002

This page was added on 22/03/2006.

Comments about this page

I live in Canada but have visited Brighton many times to see my relatives. My grandfather was Chris Hatton who was a private operator on the beach.

By Jacqueline (14/12/2003)

Lovely photos! Must have been quite a good camera for its day to get that action shot of them jumping.

By Jan (03/08/2004)

Hi Jacqueline! I'm in Edmonton Canada. The Hattons (Chris and his twin?) were good friends of my mother's family the Taylors (one of two well known "Taylor" Brighton swimming families) and the Wallers who took over Cannon Place Beach from the Hattons. The Hattons were prominent in the support and running pre-2WW of the Brighton Boys' Club. After the 2WW Chris Hatton was seen every day on the lower promenade (given good weather) with a "guess your weight!" scale. A few yards away in the Brighton Cruising Club, Pop Waller was the club barman! Born in 1930 I spent many days on that beach when allowed to by the SW winds! Our (Cannon Place Beach) life guard Fred Holland was killed on a bombing run over the city of Milan.

By Jack R. Waller snr. (20/07/2010)