I and my brother were also choirboys at St Mary's around about 1937/38.

Eileen Franchi has just told me about this website and the short article she wrote in 2003 on Mabel Franchi (mother to myself and John Franchi). Eileen (Pat) and I were married in St Mary's in 1953 and she must have been one of only a few brides who could claim that she walked all the way to the church: willingly, as you will have noted that she lived just opposite! My mother had been going to St Mary's for many years and, as she once wrote in a short article in the church magazine in 2001, she had seen five vicars 'come and go'. Father Nigel Mason would have been the sixth had she herself survived until now. I was also pleased to see that Terry Shorter remembers the choir which I too joined in 1938. Were we there at the same time, Terry? Living in the West Midlands since 1958, I have on the whole lost touch with people from my schools and the choir in Brighton, although I frequently visited St Mary's and stayed with my mother, especially in the latter years of her wonderful life.

I used to go to St. Mary's school in the 1960s and was a friend of Katherine Bacon who was the daughter of Rev Bacon, and I used to go to their house for tea. The thing I remember most about going to tea was sitting round a large table and drinking tea that was very different from the tea we had at our home (which was standard Brooke Bond). Perhaps it was Earl Grey or something like that but I know I didn't like it that much but never said so!