My 96 year old dad tells a story of being at Varndean and out on a school trip on the cliff tops near Roedean when a Dornier German bomber dumped a load of bombs close by, all landing harmlessly in the sea. He reckons it was because the schoolboys were all wearing red caps so easy to spot from above.
Strong hat game!
I've got a map from 1944 that shows the locations of all the bombs in Brighton. It's 44MB at full res - is there interest for me to reduce the resolution/size and post here? It's not a postcard, of course, so strictly speaking....
And a beard you can hide a badger in
Whether there is truth in that or not I don't know. After all, the war is full of tall stories that grow by the year. I learnt not to believe much of what I was told. Apparently Hitler didn't allow the Pavilion to be bombed because it was going to be his English home after the war (no evidence) and loads of kids were due to be going to the Kemptown cinema that day but for some reason missed out. The other story I heard was of a bomb that fell on a house of a couple who were deaf and, I think, blind. They were found sitting in their arm chairs not knowing what had happened. I suspect this may not be true. But I believed the stories as a kid.
From a little bit farther south
Am I right (not often according to Mrs amex) in remembering that The Pumphouse was once owned by the sadly gone Forfars Bakery?
Not sure it was an accountants. Looks more like a stationers selling account books!
doesn’t add up …
