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Jack Straw's Falmer Arch Chase!



Jack Straw

I look nothing like him!
Jul 7, 2003
6,829
Brighton. NOT KEMPTOWN!
I got a call from Barry Izbak telling me that he thought he spotted what is probably the first part of our arch, sitting in a lay-by on the A23.
This was my cue to drop everything, and go off like an American "Storm Chaser", to spot it myself.
As I hurtled up past Hickstead, indeed, it was the arch I saw hurtling back past me on the other side of the road.
I took the next exit and caught it up as it travelled through the pylons.
Trying to get along side for a really close view, I got beeped by the safety outrider who wouldn't let me in the outer lane, so nearly coming a cropper at the Rabbit Roundabout like many others before me.
Took a quick photo!
I overtook it on the A27 and stopped at the first layby where I took another shot.
Then it slowly and gracefully made its may over the A27 up Falmer Road and into the stadium site where it safely came to rest.
 

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Scotty Mac

New member
Jul 13, 2003
24,405
that is f***ing BRILLIANT
 


KNC

Well-known member
Sep 3, 2003
2,021
Seven Dials
Well done JS. We must have been nose to tail on the 23!!!!
 

Scotty Mac

New member
Jul 13, 2003
24,405
its like its come from NASA
 


Marc

New member
Jul 6, 2003
25,267
oh my god that is BRILLIANT work Jack...truly STUNNING work infact! Well Done and now hand in your license to the cops as they wont like this ;)
 

Barry Izbak

U.T.A.
Dec 7, 2005
7,305
Lancing By Sea
Well done that man. These'll make a welcome addition to the Falmerly Album :clap:
 


Publius Ovidius

Well-known member
Jul 5, 2003
45,891
at home
There is a great deal of insanity running through the fans at the moment

:laugh::laugh::laugh:
 


Jack Straw

I look nothing like him!
Jul 7, 2003
6,829
Brighton. NOT KEMPTOWN!
oh my god that is BRILLIANT work Jack...truly STUNNING work infact! Well Done and now hand in your license to the cops as they wont like this ;)

Don't worry, my friend took the pictures! Anyway, what license?!!
 
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Couldn't Be Hyypia

We've come a long long way together
NSC Licker Extraordinaire
Nov 12, 2006
15,882
Near Dorchester, Dorset
JS - you are an actual legend. Great work and thank you. That's not just a bit of the arch - it's THE first piece by the look of it. Stunning.

Brihton M - I think Natterjack said that the arch would be assembled at ground level - supported by the black cages you can see on the pitch - and then the whole thing is craned into positionj by the big crane - but I may have got this wrong.
 


Harley S

Member
Aug 31, 2008
298
Of course your friend took the pictures as it would be illegal to drive & use a camera !


:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:


Great work though by you & your friend
 

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