Brighton

All Change Here

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The History: All Change Here I Do not lean out of the window. When they enclosed the common land, peasants lost their grazing rights. A watercolour farmhouse. Shire horses, Lion and Captain, pulled the plough, delivered green meat to the brewery. In the Great War, sometimes you could hear the guns from France. One Sunday … Read more

Coastal Command

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My uncle Lawrence Holford was killed by a Bristol Beaufighter. Maybe two.  My father worshipped his older brother Laurie, and growing up my brother and I heard the story that he was killed in the Brighton Blitz while serving as a special reserve constable with the Brighton police. I imagined a lone policeman on dark … Read more