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Dyke Road Park

A very pretty park

By Wendy Cooper, blind person

"We used to go to play rounders and have our sports days [in Dyke Road Park]. The chalet was lovely. It was run by a woman called Evelyn and they used to sell icecreams and cakes. There was a park keeper who was a real ogre as far as we were concerned and we used to get told off for riding our bikes round the park but the park was always kept nice and tidy. It was very pretty - a pretty park."

Image and text from the 'My Brighton' exhibit

This page was added on 22/03/2006.

Comments:

I can remember playing rounders here too (late 1950s / early 1960s) with children from Stamford Road Primary School. I can also remember the "Parkie" who would clip you round the ear if he caught you in the bushes - where of course we always wanted to play. I can remember the Walls ice-cream square cornets we used to buy from the chalet.

By Sharon Fuller (21/12/2006)

As a pupil at Brighton Grammar, I spent many lunchtimes in the park cafe - known to generations of young reprobates as "the caff". Generations of masters tried unsuccessfully to put a stop to this custom and it was often subject to raids. I remember the deputy head, I.S. Maclean, describing one such raid: "I had difficulty seeing the card-players through the thick fog of cigarette smoke." Happy days.

By Andrew Seear (13/03/2008)