[Brighton] Is Portslade any fun?

[Guinness Boy]

Is Millionaires row classed as Portslade?

I mean its perfectly nice area of Brighton and Hove to live, but I wouldn't recommend it for someone coming to visit the town. Unless you used it as a base as its cheap accommodation.

Yup. BN41 post codes. Woody Cook went to Portslade Infants.

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

The Clarence was a good pub, my uncle frequented back in the late 70s....
Especially on a Saturday night, proper old school pub, with locals, foreign sailors during the week.
Saturday night was teddyboy and biker night, with bands and DJ's and the barmaids would dance topless occasionally, my uncle whispered to me while auntie was out of earshot.

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

Grew up in Portslade and met my wife when she was studying at Loxdale. If you get a good host family it can be great.

 

[Live by the sea]

Yup. BN41 post codes. Woody Cook went to Portslade Infants.

Then Brighton College !

 

[Bodian]

I have bad memories of Fishersgate. The only time I've knowingly gone there was for an U-16 game. We got stuffed about 8-0.

It's just a train station between somewhere and somewhere else isn't it?

Not even a station - just a halt...

 

[Chicken Run]

Then Brighton College !

Then BHASVIC [emoji106]


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[WATFORD zero]

The Clarence was a good pub, my uncle frequented back in the late 70s....
Especially on a Saturday night, proper old school pub, with locals, foreign sailors during the week.
Saturday night was teddyboy and biker night, with bands and DJ's and the barmaids would dance topless occasionally, my uncle whispered to me while auntie was out of earshot.

It was indeed with far greater highlights than the barmaid's tits

 

[Durlston]

Luckily it's now full of lesbian families shoving gluten free ice cream into their toddlers' mushes whilst chucking prosecco and "dirty" vegan food into their own.

What's not to love?

I used to meet my dealer in there when I took coke and E's at weekends. Worth travelling that far because both drugs were so powerful at the time (2003-08) The charlie wasn't even cut that much and was very high in purity.

God knows where he is now - either in prison or dead I reckon. He never let debts linger.........Probably a few posters on here will know who it was. He drove flash cars and always had pretty blonde girls in the passenger seat - noshing him off in all likelihood.

So glad those days of spunking all my wages on drugs have gone.

 

[Deanbha]

I used to meet my dealer in there when I took coke and E's at weekends. Worth travelling that far because both drugs were so powerful at the time (2003-08) The charlie wasn't even cut that much and was very high in purity.

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God knows where he is now - either in prison or dead I reckon. He never let debts linger.........Probably a few posters on here will know who it was. He drove flash cars and always had pretty blonde girls in the passenger seat - noshing him off in all likelihood.

So glad those days of spunking all my wages on drugs have gone.

I'm still here, just turned my life around

 

[WATFORD zero]

Yup. BN41 post codes. Woody Cook went to Portslade Infants.

So did everyone who was anyone. Followed up by Benfield and Hove County Grammar School for Boys (although I hear he went astray )

 

[Jam The Man]

I was born in Brighton and save for the literally two weeks I lived there, and a year in Southwick, I spent the first 26 years of my life in north Portslade and loved it.

It’s clearly not as nice as it used to be, but some of the negative reactions on here are IMO a bit odd… but hey-ho.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

The Blue Anchor on the main high street is where it's at!

In around 1974 I went in there occasionally with my mate Nils to play darts. We sometimes played against these 'old blokes' (in their early 40s.). More than 20 years later we went back there and the same two old blokes were in there (so we had another game of darts). There was some rumour about a pub near there being a knocking shop.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

So did everyone who was anyone. Followed up by Benfield and Hove County Grammar School for Boys (although I hear he went astray )

Benfield? Pah! St Nick's, then HGSB, dear boy.

 

[The Clamp]

I was born in Brighton and save for the literally two weeks I lived there, and a year in Southwick, I spent the first 26 years of my life in north Portslade and loved it.

It’s clearly not as nice as it used to be, but some of the negative reactions on here are IMO a bit odd… but hey-ho.

I think people get caught up thinking the South Sussex coast is Brighton and Brighton alone. I love living outside of Brighton. I have everything I need day to day in the town I live in and can get to Worthing or Brighton in about half an hour if I wish.
I lived in Brighton for 20 years and wouldn’t move back there again. It’s nice to have nearby, but not very pleasant to live in. Not on my wage anyway!

 

[Bry Nylon]

I used to walk back from Brighton to Portslade when pissed and couldn’t get a taxi if that helps

You’re not the only one.

Mind you, imagine how pissed off I was when I remembered I lived in Lewes.

 

[The Clamp]

You’re not the only one.

Mind you, imagine how pissed off I was when I remembered I lived in Lewes.

Brilliant. Really made me belly laugh.

 

[zefarelly]

You’re not the only one.

Mind you, imagine how pissed off I was when I remembered I lived in Lewes.

About 1989, I was walking back to Shoreham with my mate after a good Sat night out, we hopped out at a mates in Portslade, from Brighton, we were skint, walked the rest . . . I lost hime somehow. I took a muddy short cut through some allotments, got home @ 4am.

Didn't see my mate for a week or so, when I did he had a plaster cast on his arm . . . He'd 'borrowed' a bike from a front garden, got 200 yards down the road and then found out it had a back pedal brake, crashed ad broke his arm

 

[atfc village]

Mega-rider Gold sounds far too exciting to be a bus ticket...

You're selling the area covered a little short though - that badboy will get you as far as Salisbury or Newbury!

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With regards to the OP, my advice (if it's possible - are you tied to staying with host families?) would be to find a place in Hove or Brighton itself and get the bus to Portslade for PACA. You might as well enjoy your time over here if you come and I get the impression you'll find the city more to your liking than the suburbs.

Well a visit to Aldershot is a must then . A cultural shit hole

 

[BN41Albion]

Portslade's nowhere near as bad as some are making out! (although despite my username I've not lived there in a good while now) Boundary Rd has its characters for sure but definitely changing for the better, the by-sea area just north of the port has lovely old terraced housing, the Benfield area plenty of streets with big old housing, Portslade old village is lovely, Mile Oak has seen better days but hardly that bad... Not sure where the hate's coming from. not the most exciting part of town to end up in after arriving in the area for the first time, but easy to travel into the Downs, Hove/Brighton and west to Shoreham etc.

 

[dangull]

If you look at a map between Worthing and Brighton, its pretty much all connected. Some good areas and bad areas in all parts, I think.
Some snobbery here about how good Hove and Brighton are compared to the rest. My experience of the homeless demanding me money around Brighton confirms my view.
I like peaceful Worthing, but I'm sure others will disagree.