Enter the station through the side entrance on Stroudley Road. Walk through the main atrium and under the ‘Welcome to Brighton’ sign to get to the Queens Road where, after this stop, the walk will continue.

Brighton started the war as a reception area [for evacuees], receiving children from London. In 1940, as a front-line town, it became an evacuation area and sent some of its children away to the north. Rita Packham was one of those evacuated.

“When our teacher at St Mark’s School in Arundel Road told us that we were going to be evacuated, none of us knew what she meant. I think we thought that it was a bit like a long annual Sunday School outing. We thought it was exciting, so why was my mother crying?“

“After a while my father took me home. I still cringe when I hear stories of other evacuees as some of them were badly treated. It is one of the worst memories of my life time, I am sure my mother never realised how unhappy I was.”

From the station’s front entrance, continue South down Queens Road towards the seafront. Pass the Clock Tower and into West Street, stopping just after the old church on the corner of Russell Road.