1940s Collection (#13)

Two Scandinavian new chiefs, on a visit to London, were shown round the Reuter building in Fleet Street, today, Tuesday. Here Reuters London News manager discusses the days news with Mr lauritz

Freddie Mills KOs Nilsson in first round. British cruiserweight champion Freddie Mills, of Bournemouth, scored a sensational first round knockout victory over the Swedish boxer John Nilsson at

Margaret beach photographed from the air, Easter Saturday, as thousands of holidaymakers basked in the warm sunshine. 20 April 1946

The second day of racing at Goodwood started today with another large crowd attending to watch horseracing at its best. In the first race, the Sussex Stakes

Open-air cricket practice has begun at the Hove ground of the Sussex Cricket club, and the players have plenty of enthusiastic young cricketers come along for advertisers

The Wayside Cafe near Bolney. A tea room on the new London to Brighton road. Proprietor Bannister Maitland sets out chairs and waitress Pamela Payne prepares the tables. 22 May 1948

G. Wicks - a leading National Hunt and steeplechase jockey. 15 December 1946

World champion cruiserweight boxer Gus Lesnevich is in training at Brighton for his forthcoming fight with Bruce Woodcock, of Don caster

The parish church of St Leonards, Sussex, destroyed by a flying bomb, in July 1944
The parish church of St Leonard s, Sussex, destroyed by a flying bomb, in July 1944, will rise again from stone hewn from the ground by 12 German prisoners of war who today began work in a quarry

The 78th Trades Union Congress opened at the Dome, Brighton today. Several big issues of policy have to be decided in the Prime Minister Mr Attlee and two other Ministers

At Brighton, on behalf of the Ministry of Supply, Mr William Leonard, MP - Joint Parliamentary Sec of the Ministry, handed over the 10

Gus Lesnevich, Americas number one cruiserweight boxer, seen here on Brighton s
Gus Lesnevich, Americas number one cruiserweight boxer, seen here on Brightons West Pier taking his trainer for a ride in one of the miniature cars

Winston Churchill is given a great ovation as he visits the town of Brighton to receive the freedom of the borough. 3 October 1947

Floods in Sussex. Many parts of the country are seriously flooded. Now the recent heavy snow has thawed. Here at Robertsbridge in Sussex, is a view of fields underwater. 5 February 1947

Glyndebourne Again. The Glyndebourne Festival, was revived tonight (Friday). When Benjamin Brittens new opera The Rape of Lucretia was performed for the first time of the newly formed English Opera

Freedom of Hastings conferred on field Marshal. Viscount Montgomery of Alamein today. When the Mayor councillor F.W Chambers presented him with a piece of plate inscribed with the names of his

Race horses train on sands. Some of Britains leading racehorses, unable to train on the usual grounds, have been using the sands at Bognor Regis, Sussex

Members of the England team who meet Scotland in the soccer international at Wembley on Saturday, " loosen up" on the Brighton and Hove football ground

A leading National Hunt and steeplechase jockey, Mr D. L. Moore for two years was invalid
A leading National Hunt and steeplechase jockey, Mr D.L. Moore for two years was invalid and confined to his bed and wheelchair

M Vyshinsky, the Soviet Deputy peoples Commissar for Foreign Affairs and leader of the Soviet delegation to the United Nations Organisation General Assembly, arrived at Tangmere RAF aerodrome

Mary Churchill, judges at Hastings horse show. Miss Mary Churchill, youngest daughter of Mr Winston Churchill, was one of the judges at the Hastings Horse Show and Gymkhana

Bexhill-on-Sea beach photographed from the air April 1946

The south-westerly gale in the English Channel rose to great violence as at high tide, waves 40 to 50 feet high broke over the sea wall at Rock a Nore, Hastings. 24 November 1946

H. Nicholson, a well-known jockey in National Hunt and steeplechase circles. 15 December 1946

Miners working at Holborne, Lewes. 12 November 1946

Miss Anthea Malden, 17-year-old Roedean girl, will probably cause some distraction to the Sussex County Cricket players this summer when she will bat and bowl at the nets and their ground at Hayes

The Kangaroo Club - formed by the war brides of Australia servicemen who are awaiting
The " Kangaroo Club" - formed by the war brides of Australia servicemen who are awaiting their passages to Australia, held their first meeting in the Royal Pavilion, Brighton last night

Lord Burghley Home. Lord burghley who recently resigned from his Governorship of Bermuda, lost no time in getting back into the saddle

Portrait of Gus Lesnevich taken at Billy St Clares Brighton Gymnasium where America s
Portrait of Gus Lesnevich taken at Billy St Clares Brighton Gymnasium where Americas number one cruiserweight champion is in training for his world title fight against British Empire cruiserweight

Jets prepare for record bid. The RAF High-Speed Flight, led by Group Captain EM Donaldson, is awaiting favourable weather force attack on the world speed record of 606.25 mph

The Duchess of Norfolk opened the spring bazaar organised by the Sussex branch of the Royal Society of St George Haywards Heath, Sussex. 21 March 1946

Londoners had their first view of the squadron of US Army Air Force Super Fortresses when it flew across the city on the first of two demonstration flights today

A general view of Brunswick Square, Brighton, described as a perfect example of Regency architecture is not to become a car park as Hove Council intended

New airspeed record bid. The RAFs new bid to break the world airspeed record (606 mph, set up in November last by Group Captain Wilson) takes place next month

When Miss Hilda Edith Pegler, of old Shoreham Road, Hove, Sussex, found a man leaving her house on the night of February 22, she chased him into the garden

G Is prepare penicillins in England. Brighton Technical College officers and NCOs of the U.S. Army with a dozen American University men are working on the conversion of penicillin into pastilles

The Middlesex and England batsman Denis Compton received a great ovation at Hastings, Sussex, when playing for the South of England XI against the South Africans, he passed the hundred mark

Miss Iris Ringshaw, of Brighton, was crowned Queen of Brighton and Hove at Brighton last night
Miss Iris Ringshaw, of Brighton, was crowned " Queen" of Brighton and Hove at Brighton last night. Iris is voted the winner after a long series of eliminating heats that have been held for

The Kangeroo Club - formed by the war brides of Australia servicemen who are awaiting
The " Kangeroo Club" - formed by the war brides of Australia servicemen who are awaiting their passages to Australia, held their first meeting in the Royal Pavilion, Brighton last night

The falling tide at Hastings, Sussex, revealed that the weekend gale and heavy sea had torn another large gap in the damaged harbour arm

When field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein received the freedom of Hastings today he also became a member of the famous winkle club, into which he was initiated by local fishermen

With the official opening of the bathing season at Brighton, the corporation lifeguards who control the beaches and guard against casualties through the season have been assigned to their boats

American heavyweight Joe Baksi take things easy in a promenade shelter during the reign at Brighton today. His book seems to indicate that he is making sure of the right way to the Harringay where he

Timber!. huge limbs of trees snapped by the weight of ice on them are pulled to the ground by a team of Land Army girls on a road at Hastings, Sussex

Hastings, Sussex, is probably the only place in Britain where its possible to see a police station coming along the street

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The England football team which will play against Scotland in the international match at Wembley on Saturday, had a workout on the Brighton and Hove ground this morning

After a long voyage from Australia, 150 members of the WRNS. arrived on the aircraft carrier " victoria" at Plymouth, yesterday

The foreshore and Parade at Hastings, Sussex photographed after the first snowfall of the year on the south coast. 16 December 1946

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