...and no Brighton Marina!!

Thank you for bringing back happy memories of the past with these photos! As a child in the fifties and sixties I often used to mess about in the rock pools, and sometimes walked along the cliffs - or below them - from Kemptown to Rottingdean. Seemed a long way then!

What a wonderful sunny picture of Black Rock showing the tide out and exposing all those lovely rock pool,. my favourite location for a Summer afternoon in the 50s. Mum would always check the Evening Argus 'Tides' to make sure the tide was out before we went as there was no point in going if the tide was in. Rooting about in the pools always produced winkles, anemones and tiny crabs that were (sadly) often taken home in a tin bucket to inevitably die within a few days. I was so sad to see the destruction of this part of the Brighton scene when the Marina was built...ah well,thats 'progress'.