MANY readers will have memories – happy or otherwise – of learning to swim in pools in Brighton and Hove in the 1950s.
Freezing cold water and the strong smell of chlorine will be high on the list.
This picture was taken in the ‘minor’ pool at the King Alfred
We are not sure what this bathing belle is doing – maybe she was posing for some kind of tourism poster. But we do know that she is in the “minor pool” at the King Alfred in Hove, identified by the mosaic tiles on the floor. The pictures were taken in about 1951.
READ MORE>> Pictures from inside the decaying King Alfred in Hove
Our other Argus archive picture today is on a completely different note, but taken around the same time.
The Beehive at Gatwick, 1951
It shows the Beehive terminal building at Gatwick, some years before the place became a major airport terminal.
The main airport was built on Gatwick Racecourse, the other side of A23. The Beehive, just a small airport in 1951, still exists. It was built in 1935 and is now surrounded by modern buildings.
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