Bognor Regis Collection

Comic postcard: How we are enjoying ourselves at Bognor
Colour picture showing couple embracing sitting on a fence by the sea, c1908 Prints and Drawings Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref No: PD 1552

Map of the Manor of Middleton, 1606
Map of the Manor of Middleton, surveyed by John Norden, showing land in the south-west of the Parish of Middleton, including buildings such as St Nicholas Church that are now under the sea Additional

Are we Downhearted? No! Not at Bognor
World War One postcard featuring a wounded soldier, in hospital blues, convalescing in Bognor. Additional Manuscripts Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref No: AM 781/2/96

VE Day in High Street, Bognor Regis, 8 May 1945
Many people are dancing to relayed music. L Alouette Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref No: L Alouette/A/1/23/7

Comic Postcard: Mixed bathing at Bognor
Colour drawing depicting a beach scene at Bognor Regis with a variety of bathers in the sea. The sender has written in family names against some of the characters

VE Day street party in Lyon Street, Bognor, 8 May 1945
In the background: St Johns Church and the cleared site of the Sudley Road bombing. L Alouette Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref No: L Alouette/A/1/23/5

Bren Gun Carriers parading past The Arcade, Bognor, 1941
High Street. For the War Weapons Week March 1941. There are people looking out of the windows of the Westminster Bank. The salute was taken, according to the Bognor Regis Observer

Gun crew in action on the Esplanade, Bognor Regis 1940
Taken at the eastern end of the Esplanade in the Summer of 1940. The domed frontage of the Theatre Royal complex is on the right

Soldiers training with rifles and bayonets on the beach [1940]
At Bognor Regis. Two boys with pop-guns are taking part in the bayonet training. L Alouette Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref No: L Alouette/A/1/2/42

Mock-attack on Town Hall, Bognor, by Home Guard
[Jul 1942]. The entrance of the Town Hall has been bricked up to create a surface air raid shelter. There is a Shelter Here - 22 sign. The 1914-1918 War Memorial is shown

Gas attack exercise in London Road, Bognor
[12 Jun 1941]. Showing the shop fronts of J H Dewhurst Ltd (butchers), Maypole Dairy Co Ltd, Lewis (tobacconist), Toogoods (ladies hairdresser), Mac Fisheries Ltd, and Pink and Sons (grocers)

Bognors Civil Defence force helping with paper salvage
[1939-1945]. The men are collecting paper and cardboard from West Street and loading it into a pick-up (the van door is signed Civil Defence Road Repair )

Sandbags being laid outside Post Office, Bognor, 1939
In the High Street; the sandbags are being filled by boys as a policeman in a tin helmet stands nearby L Alouette Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref No: L Alouette/A/1/2/2

Comic postcard: Renewing their youth at Bognor
Colour drawing of plump, middle aged, husband and wife dressed as children with buckets and spade, c1908 Prints and Drawings Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref No: PD 1551

Engraving of Bognor seafront and St Johns Chapel in the Steyne
View of Bognor published by J & E Harwood of Fenchurch Street, mid 19th Century Prints and Drawings Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref No: PD 853

Engraving of Bognor viewed from the Sea
View of Bognor published 9 July 1841 by J & E Harwood of London Prints and Drawings Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref No: PD 852

Removal of barbed wire from the Esplanade, Bognor, 1945
L Alouette Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref No: L Alouette/A/1/23/11

Gun emplacement in [Sherwood Road], Bognor
[1939-1945]. Under camouflage netting, Royal Artillery men are taking part in a training session with the gun. L Alouette Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref No: L Alouette/A/1/2/111

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