When the gardens were first laid out in the 1920s the central low-hedged feature enclosed a small pond in the centre. In the pond was a stone nymph who gazed into the depths at the northern end of the pool. Does anyone know whatever became of her?

My friend Sylvia Cooper and I lived opposite the Peace Gardens and played regularly there as small children. One day when the pond was a sheet of ice I waded out into the middle. The freezing water came over the top of my wellingtons and I was in trouble when I arrived home. Fortunately it wasn't too deep! I used to know a Peter Booth who lived at Withdean. I think he worked for Shoreham Airport taking aerial photos. Is that you?

I loved the Peace Garden and as a child spent a lot of time there. I remember roller skating in the gazebo if it rained and we used to float our shoes across the pond. (And I thought I was a well-behaved child.) I also did some of my courting there, with the seating recessed into the hedges it felt secluded.