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The east side of Brunswick Square, October 1945
From the original 'My Brighton' exhibit
My family and I lived on this side of the Square from around 1946/47 until 1958. Our house was near to where the car in the photograph is parked, close to the second lamp post from the end. I remember the lamplighter would cycle past every evening, turning on those gas lamps with a long pole! There was a deep, wartime, sloping-sided concrete water reservois was at the Southern end of Brunswick Square gardens together with some gun emplacements, when we moved there after the war. I remember as a child chatting to the drivers of a crane and bulldozer that later came to break up the concrete and fill in the void, and also riding on a dumper truck that was there to carry away some of the rubble to a waiting lorry.
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