Upon reading the recent articles about wartime memories of Brighton (The Argus, July 2), I wonder how many people knew the large clutch of bombs dropped on the Carlton Hill area were aimed at the "pom-pom" or "ack-ack" guns on the top of Telephone House and a small factory roof.

At the bottom end of Queen's Park Road, the few houses behind Sussex Street backed on to a small factory, The Zylo Works, which made nameplates for war weapons.

When the sirens sounded, my younger sister and I would race up to look out of the west-facing attic window to watch the dog-fights over the Channel.

One day, a gunner saw us and screamed, "Get those kids away from that window!" As the gun was pointing at us, we thought we were going to be shot and fell down the stairs.

On another occasion, my dad was on Home Guard duty at St Nicholas Church when the sirens and "pips" sounded.

Then there was a terrific bang and the sound of smashing of glass in our backyard. It was pitch black and my mother rushed us outside, screaming, quite sure it was an unexploded bomb.

One of the gunners had fallen over the edge of the roof and down the sloping windows of the factory through our scullery roof. He was carried out on a stretcher. I often wonder what happened to him.

-June Marshall, Seaford