I remember the School Dental Clinic when it was bombed. I was 7 years old and had been to the clinic early that morning. When the air raid warning sounded my Grandma and I went into the Public Library shelter and when the all clear came we were on our way home and saw that the clinic had gone. Quite a few children died and that is something I will never forget.

I was born in 1940 and was too young to remember this. One day in North Street, where my mother worked for a chartered accountant, she was allowed to take me to work on occassions, when walking up the road during her lunch break, a German fighter plane flew up the road, machine-gunning the people. She threw me into a doorway and layed on top to protect me! There was a cinema behind the accountants on the north side of the road between Bond St and Ship St turning. It was gutted by bombs early in the war and many people were killed. Does anyone know its name?

Message for Ralph Packham: the cinema halfway up North Street on the right hand (north), side just above Bond Street was called Theatre De Luxe (it was a cinema). The building was originally the South Eastern Banking Company. It opened around 1908 and continued until the 1950's when it closed after a fire!

A personal request... My late grandfather, Wilfred Winter, who lived at 74 The Avenue, was an ARP warden at the bottom of The Avenue in Moulscombe during WW2. Can anybody remember him or even a photo? My email contact is foxdale@ntlworld.com

Hi Robin. I've emailed you a photo of an ARP group from that general area. Long shot I know - but you might be lucky.

I remember my dad taking me and my sister to a house opposite St Peters, about three houses past the Richmond. He was on leave I think, but it was called the 'Canadian Red Shield Club' I believe, I know he smoked Canadian cig's called sweet caporal, is this the same place you thought was a american px Beryl? There were many Canadians billeted in Brighton but I don't know of any Americans billeted here. Just a thought.

Hi Beryl Tucknott - I suddenly spotted your name! We lived next door to you in Sutton Close at No. 10. Would like to keep in touch, old friends are getting thin on the ground nowadays. We are living in Australia. My email address is as follows. bootielcm1@bigpond.com

My Gran lived in Albion Hill and a bomb fell on the pub across the road from her house and she was at the back of the house and because she was stone deaf she did not know what had happened until two kind old 'Bobbies' came to see if she was alright. The front of her house was a wreck from the blast!

I've just discovered this website! It's great! I will always remember the day the School Clinic was bombed very well, although I was not sure of the exact date. At the time I was nearly 7 years old and lived at No. 38 Milner Flats, which was right opposite Ivory Place, with my Mum and Dad and my brothers and sisters, Patsy, George, Mary, Jeannie and Tony. I was the baby of the family then, although I later had two more brothers, Michael and Paul. On the day of the bombing, I was not in school as I'd just had my tonsils out. I was in my Mum's bedroom, playing on her big brass bed, when I suddenly heard a very loud whooshing noise and saw the whole frame of the window facing the Clinic coming towards me! At the same time, I was lifted up and thrown against the back wall of the room. I slipped down amongst the rubble and the bedroom door caved in and almost covered me. Although I could not move, my face was not covered and I lay there for what seemed like ages. I could hear my mother calling me. Eventually, I felt the door and rubble being moved off me and I was gently lifted out by an ARP warden. My mother told me later that he had seen my fingers poking out from the debris! I remember my mother tipping water down my face and and rubbing her hand over it to clean me up. The next morning we passed the ruins of the Clinic on the way to the butcher's. I remember seeing a big concrete stone, probably the dedication stone, which had been positioned in the wall above the big double doors at the front of the building; it was just lying amongst all the rubble. I picked up a coin from the ground; I think it was a sixpenny piece - I seem to remember it had a sort of gate pattern on the back. My mother looked at it and said I should cherish it as it had probably belonged to one of the nurses at the Clinic. The events of that day are still very vivid in my memory.

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Pete Scholey asks about the Clinic that was bombed. In my research for the history of St John Ambulance in Brighton, I have two photos that I am using in my forthcoming book, showing the damage done in the bombing of the Sussex Street clinic which, incidentally, was our headquarters in 1943. It has been rebuilt as the Morley Street Clinic. The bombing took place 14th March 1943 which caused a move to temporary headquarters in the Pelham Street schools. I had recently spoken to someone at the clinic, whose father had been killed in the raid. If you would like any more details I could send a copy of these photos.