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The square brick building on the corner (Upper Rock Gardens/Edward St) behind the back of the bus is built on a wartime bomb site; my Dad was living in a basement flat just across the road at the time (Egremont Place). I have a feeling this was the September 1940 incident when the Odeon cinema...

Including (in the top pic) the angling shop owned by Jack Ball, ex-Brighton 'keeper. My Dad bought me my first sea rod there, second-hand, a million years ago; I remember Jack being a friendly bloke. Mind you, he had just flogged us a lousy bit of ancient crap, to be fair. He was probably beside...