A Brighton & Hove bus has been named in honour of Thomas Highflyer (real name unknown), a young African boy who was rescued from a slave ship in the nineteenth century and later died in Brighton.
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The bus naming coincides with Brighton & Hove Black History Group's restoration of Tom's grave and a memorial service at Brighton's Woodvale Crematorium, where he is buried.
Eight-year-old Thomas was rescued from a slave ship, along with two other African boys, by the British anti-slave ship, the HMS Highflyer, in 1866 off the east coast of Zanzibar.
