Editing Hove (section)

===Second World War===
At the outbreak of war, the recently completed Hove Marina [[leisure centre]] was immediately requisitioned as a training base for new officers of the [[Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve]] (RNVR) and was given the title {{HMS|King Alfred|1939 shore establishment|6}}. The establishment opened on 11 September 1939 and later expanded into [[Lancing College]]. By the end of the war, the base had trained 22,508 British, Commonwealth and allied officers for active sea service.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.royalnavyresearcharchive.org.uk/King_Alfred_1.htm#.Xx25GpuSmUl |title=A History of HMS King Alfred |first=Drury|last=Tony |website=www.royalnavyresearcharchive.org.uk |access-date=26 July 2020}}</ref>

On 22 September 1939, the second [[Anglo-French Supreme War Council]] was held at Hove Town Hall to discuss the progress of the war and define future strategy. The British delegation included the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]], [[Neville Chamberlain]] and the Foreign Secretary, [[Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax|Lord Halifax]], while the French party was led by the [[Minister of Defence (France)|Minister of Defence]] and [[Prime Minister of France]], [[Édouard Daladier]] and [[Chief of the Defence Staff (France)|Commander-in-Chief of the Armies]], [[Maurice Gamelin]]. Also present was Sir [[Alexander Cadogan]] who related that the town hall staff had only been told to expect some government officials, with the result that the prime minister was greeted with the exclamation; "Chamberlain! [[Wikt:cor blimey|Cor Blimey]]!".<ref>{{cite book |last=Moorhouse |first=Roger |author-link=Roger Moorhouse |date=2019 |title=First to Fight: The Polish War 1939 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8cx9DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT130 |location=London |publisher=Bodley Head |page=182 |isbn=978-1847924605 |access-date=24 September 2020 |archive-date=23 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210123082907/https://books.google.com/books?id=8cx9DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT130 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The Brighton and Hove area was subjected to heavy bombing by the ''[[Luftwaffe]]'' between 1940 and 1944, known collectively as the "[[Brighton Blitz]]", which resulted in the deaths of 198 civilians.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.culture24.org.uk/places-to-go/south-east/brighton-and-hove/tra27768 |title=In The Line Of Fire - Brighton in World War Two |last=Spicer |first=Graham |date=29 April 2005 |website=www.culture24.org.uk |access-date=26 July 2020 |archive-date=17 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190817221509/https://www.culture24.org.uk/places-to-go/south-east/brighton-and-hove/tra27768 |url-status=live }}</ref>