When I was a child, I used to look in wonderment at this fountain. I wonder why now it can not be got up to it's previous glory.

With Brighton being the gay capital of the U.K., would it not be quite apropriate to reintroduce the rainbow colours to this relic of a vibrant fountain?

I remember the Mazda Fountain too. In the summer, it was a treat for us as a family to walk from our house in Lower Bevendean, up Plymouth Avenue, over the top of the hill into Queen's Park road, down to the pier. As it got dark, we made our way to the wonderful site of the fountain in all it's colour. How did that work? us little uns said, then off to St Peter's Church and home on the bus. It would be great to see it working again.

My father Thomas Fry wired up the Mazda in 1930. I am not sure whether at the time he worked for Thomon-Houston or Brighton Electricity board. He told me the sequence of lights was obtained by a revolving cylinder of contacts. During the war he was responsible for the maintenance of searchlights in the southern command.
When he retired he was Chief Electrical Engineer for the British Sugar Corporation in Kings Lynn

This fountain was a highlight as we passed in my dad's van at night, always changing colour. In the 1960s Brighton was much brighter and more colourful, just a bit jaded now, sad really...

It was renovated in the late eighties, and I believe that it still works, although it is impossible to say when you could view it, as it is only operated occasionally - it still looks wonderful.