We moved to Brighton in 1966 and lived in Regency Court.  There was a house on the corner on Tongdean Lane that was due to be demolished and I was forever over there playing.  Don't know if it was Withdean Farmhouse.  Upstairs were loads of old magazines and papers and letters.  They were very old. even back then. but to a child they were of no interest.  How I regret having left them now. Eventually the builders came, and I watched with tears, as my lovely quite play area was destroyed and flats built in its place.

My paternal great grandfather,Major Ronald owned one of the villas at Withdean,Elms Lea, on the site of where Elms Lea Avenue now is.It was demolished on his wife's death in the thirties as the site was sold to be able to divide the estate between his (I believe) thirteen children.My mother has some wonderful stories of those times,chauffered in a Daimler everywhere,tennis courts,servants etc. I wonder how then I was born in a council house in Hangleton.