THIS brilliant picture could be in any cinema in Sussex on a Saturday morning.
However the chairs suggests it is a church hall or a school hall.
Certainly most of the children look as if they are singing, so perhaps it was an assembly.
Who remembers those chairs – tubular metal with a canvas seat and back?
These Argus archive pictures have been colourised at www.spcolourcollection.com and it has really made them come alive.
A visit from the Queen Mother, 1951
This picture shows a visit from the Queen Mother, also about 1951.
There is some doubt about where this photograph was taken, but it is likely it was Arundel.
One theory was that it was taken three years later, in 1954, and was the Queen Mother presenting the new colours to the 1st Battalion, The Royal Sussex Regiment.
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Police cadets inspection, 1951
Our last picture today was taken in about 1950.
It shows Brighton Police cadets being inspected on the lawns of the Royal Pavilion.
Note the lone woman – and the attention she is being paid by those carrying out the inspection.
Brighton was the first force in England to appoint a female police officer in 1918, but in the main the force remained a male domain until later.
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