Film Footage of The Goldstone 1938

[Milton Keynes Seagull]

I found a gem of a piece of film on the wonderful British Pathe film collective now available on line. You can find this particular item by using the search engine and typing in "Brighton Football". Its actually about Arsenal training at the ground in 1938.

British Pathe

 

[Jimmy Grimble]

Brighton and Hove golf course at the end of the clip?

 

[skipper734]

Looks like the clubhouse.

 

[Hove&Albion F.C]

Wow.. how the game has changed. Great video! Great website actually, just watched loads of videos about the Berlin wall!

 

[Milton Keynes Seagull]

Wow.. how the game has changed. Great video! Great website actually, just watched loads of videos about the Berlin wall!

It's great isn't it. A wonderful film archive of every facet of British life in the last century.

 

[Superphil]

Interesting how the crossbars on the goals appear to have been lowered, anyone know why that would have been?

 

[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

Interesting how the crossbars on the goals appear to have been lowered, anyone know why that would have been?

No idea but perhaps Brian Powney would have appreciated something similar in the 60s & 70s?

 

[bardo]

This was mentioned in The Wookiee's thread Newcastle v Brighton 1930 - North Stand Chat in which he also discovered a 1930 cup game Albion played at Newcastle (see the thread for the reference). However the Arsenal training at the Goldstone is the earliest footage I have seen at our old beloved ground (RIP)

 

[Ex-Staffs Gull]

This was mentioned in The Wookiee's thread Newcastle v Brighton 1930 - North Stand Chat in which he also discovered a 1930 cup game Albion played at Newcastle (see the thread for the reference). However the Arsenal training at the Goldstone is the earliest footage I have seen at our old beloved ground (RIP)

Where the f**k was our defence for that goal, opened up like a tin of sardines.....

 

[portlock seagull]

I found a gem of a piece of film on the wonderful British Pathe film collective now available on line. You can find this particular item by using the search engine and typing in "Brighton Football". Its actually about Arsenal training at the ground in 1938.

British Pathe

Thank you MKS - loads of rubbish posted on NSC. This wasn't one of them. As you say, a gem.

 

[eastlondonseagull]

British Pathe - ARSENAL IN TRAINING AT BRIGHTON

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[clapham_gull]

There are a few bits and pieces knocking round of the Goldstone in the early days, some in the BBC archive.

A mate of mine has been working on that site for a few months. Nice to see it up and running.

 

[eastlondonseagull]

There are a few bits and pieces knocking round of the Goldstone in the early days, some in the BBC archive.

A mate of mine has been working on that site for a few months. Nice to see it up and running.

It's a fabulous site - I've just spent the last hour browsing for places I've lived in, and there's some remarkable footage. Street and traffic scenes from the 1890s, fascinating to see. Well done Pathe for getting it up online

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[house your seagull]

i love it on about 18 seconds when a guy in a suit just comes in and causes a bit of defence havoc.

great footage though, well spotted.

 

[Alan Duffys sideburns]

Just love the commentator on these. Sounds Harry Enfield doing his Grayson Impression!

YouTube - Association Football - Harry Enfield - Mr Cholmondley-Warner

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Interesting how the crossbars on the goals appear to have been lowered, anyone know why that would have been?

To make them the same height as they were at Highbury ?

 

[Marc]

i love it on about 18 seconds when a guy in a suit just comes in and causes a bit of defence havoc.

great footage though, well spotted.

that was a quite superb piece of defending!

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

That site is chokka with grade A hand shandy material - some bloke from Patcham in 1949 with his home made telescope, 1973 footage of Brighton, German prisoners in Newhaven in 1941, some old army General opening a soldier's club in Seaford in 1914...