Photograph showing the removal of the blast wall at Brighton Police Station 1945
Name/Title
Photograph showing the removal of the blast wall at Brighton Police Station 1945
Entry/Object ID
878
Description
Black & white photographic print, 130mm wide x 95mm high of workmen removing blast wall from Brighton Town Hall police station in 1945.
Context
At the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939 Brighton Police took certain precautions against the threat of bombing. To begin with a sandbag blast wall was built around the entrance to the Police Station at the rear of the Town Hall. This was subsequently replaced with a solid blockwork blast wall, which is shown being demolished in this photograph in 1945, presumably after hostilities had ceased. Other precautions taken during the war included the establishment of a wartime "Battle Headquarters" in the basement of a new Air Raid Precautions building constructed in Market Street (Baines 1967 page 35).
This photo is believed to be a proof used for the 1967 "History of the Brighton Police" by G. Baines and is featured on page 40.
