Flea-pits and Picture Palaces

Brighton & Hove Meeting Centre

The fascinating history and expansion of cinema and cinema-going from the early pioneers who lived and filmed in Brighton, Hove and Shoreham (where cinema experiments started) to the 'Rock 'N' Roll' era of the Fifties where the youth of Brighton congregated round the Clock Tower and The Regent - both cinema and ballroom. Relive those nostalgic memories of cinema-going in Brighton.

The Secret Sussex Resistance

Worthing Meeting Centre

Stewart Angell will be giving a talk on his research he started in 1992 on the role of the Sussex Resistance and its secretive operations. Sussex played a strategic role in establishing a highly secret ‘British Resistance’ during WWII. Put in place to counter a German invasion of this country these men would have sabotaged communications and supply lines to prevent their march on London. Highlights the men, their training and where their underground operational bases were secreted throughout Sussex.  Relatively few people have heard of the Home Guard ‘Auxiliary Units’ of World War Two. Formed in 1940 they were to be the British Resistance, countering a German invasion by delivering guerrilla warfare tactics throughout their localized areas.