The bomb which has been found in Bazehill Road (Argus, August 22) was probably the result of a raid on Rottindean by a Junkers 88 which dropped several bombs, hitting the flats on the seafront opposite the White Horse public house, the vicarage in Steyning Road and a property in Dean Court Road.

I was a pupil at Rottingdean school on the day.

I was the pupil whose job it was to dash out of the class room on hearing the ‘pips’, which preceded the siren, come over speaker in the room, run across to the air raid shelter, which was built under the school playground and switch on the lights. As all the pupils were hurried into the shelter, I went back up the steps with the headmaster Mr Dutton and together we saw the bombs leave the plane and I was virtually thrown down the steps by him.

My mother had just left the butchers shop of WR Dean where she worked in the High Street to go to Filkins dairy at the main crossroads of the A259 and just got to the shop in time to avoid the blast which killed Mr Stone, a war reserve policeman on duty at the crossroads.

Don Williams,
Milland Road, Hailsham