Plate 12: CIRCA 1932

OLD STEINE, BRIGHTON

A crowd surrounds the winner of the London Stock Exchange London to Brighton Walk as the winner enters the finishing line on the Old Steine, Brighton.

The winner wearing a black shirt, has a swastika emblem on his chest. Correspondence found in a Brighton Town Clerk’s file between Brighton Borough Council and Surrey Walking Club (SWC) shows that SWC were using the swastika emblem, formerly a symbol of good fortune, until at least June 1939.

If you click on the Facebook link, one reader of the Brighton Past Facebook has identified the winner together with a Pathe News reel video.