This was Howards End, Littlehampton, the morning after the 'hurricane' of 15 October 1987. I'd been at the pub the night before and remembered phoning Leysin at around eleven and there was no sign of anything unusual happening. But just an hour or so later the wind woke me up and I spent the rest of the night terrified downstairs with the cat listening to slates crashing and watching trees bend over by about 70 degrees in the garden.
The next morning I walked round town to survey the damage. Being on the Sussex coast we were right in the firing line and places along the seafront suffered the worst damage. This entire row of houses was destroyed - they were of the old mews style with large front windows. The windows blew in and the wind then just took the roofs off.
The 'hurricane' led to me joining the Green Party and probably doing loads of stuff I wouldn't have done otherwise, good and bad.
Great pictures of Littlehampton from the 80's. Have you got any more. Would very much like to see them.
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Thousands! Am gradually publishing them all to Flashback - Littlehampton on Facebook.
DeleteJust to add... The set of photos starting in Linden Road follow the route we used to take to the beach. We stayed in Linden Road at No. 20.Thanks for sharing these photos.
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