Summery

A Memory of Portslade-By-Sea.

I wonder how many people remember the Jerry planes that came over Portslade on their way to Croydon & London. I was out with my brothers  taking a lame dog home to its owner in Foredown Drive when a large German  plane flew overhead (we saw the swastika), doors flew open everywhere & we were dragged inside to safety, just in case. I was luckier than my brothers cos I was on the side of the road where I could see my house in the next street &  Mum at the window with my little sister, I was about 9 I think. My brothers  weren't so lucky, the family who took them in had their kids down with Chicken Pox, guess who ended up with it!!
I also remember the canal at Fishersgate, as a Sea Ranger we learned to row  on it. I was 16 then. The chimneys came down soon after this pic was taken, I  think. I got  married in May 1955, had 7 kids, moved from Brighton to Surrey then to  Leicester, then emigrated to Australia in 1968. We have been here 40 yrs in August.
We have 18 grandchildren & 1 great grandson.
I have a pic of Old Portslade village which we brought  back in 1998 on our last visit  home.
Both our parents have passed on but we still have our siblings in the UK.