Despite traffic lights and zebra crossings, it seems would-be pupils for Dorothy Stringer School cannot walk down from Seven Dials to Preston Circus, Brighton, for a bus.

My sister would run down from this area to catch a bus to Varndean carrying satchel and gas mask and I walked twice a day, there and back, to intermediate school in York Place, London Road (no school dinners then).

What ever happened to Shanks's pony?

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