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Tony Gilks

Mid Fern Plane Crash. Tony Gilks, left, police constable for the west sussex constabulary at the time, and Malcolm Barrett, detective constable.

Like all serving police officers Tony has seen his fair share of major incidents including the tragic loss of a Spanish airliner that crashed into Blackdown Hill near Midhurst killing all on board in 1967. The turbulent Miners' Strikes in Yorkshire and Kent, the IRA bombing of the Grand Hotel in Brighton during the 1984 Conservative Conference and the aftermath of the IRA bombing of the Royal Marines School of Music in Deal, Kent.

Gilks' Dunnickin is a biography of Tony Gilks' thirty-year career serving as a policeman in the Sussex Force. It is fully illustrated with pictures and wonderfully expressive cartoons by John Whurr.

The short extracts below are taken from Gilk's Dunnickin, with the kind permission of the author

  • 37 Die In Caravelle Crash 1967

    37 Die In Caravelle Crash 1967

    Blackdown Air Disaster Fernhurst is a large village on the A286, Haslemere to Midhurst road, in West Sussex. At about 10.02pm on ...
  • A Policeman's Lot  is not a Happy One

    A Policeman's Lot is not a Happy One

    Snow- bound
  • Country Beat

    Country Beat

    Franglais
  • Dr Rosenberg

    Dr Rosenberg

    Worthing's mortuary 1960s
  • Dunnickin

    Dunnickin

    Training
  • Horrific air crash on Blackdown hill remembered

    Horrific air crash on Blackdown hill remembered

    Blackdown is the highest hill in Sussex, at 280 metres On Saturday November 4th a caravelle airliner crashed killing all on ...
  • Jeremy

    Jeremy

    Good Doggy
  • Smokey Joes

    Smokey Joes

    Make way for Noddy
  • Talking of dead bodies

    Talking of dead bodies

    With the help of Sergeant Harry Hirst
  • Worthing wild life

    Worthing wild life

    Honey Bear
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