Yes - well, maybe there were other reasons as well, like wife and job. But let's not pretend that they're as important!!
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[Albion] DFS and The Goldstone Retail Park
- Thread starter Lenny Rider
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Yes - well, maybe there were other reasons as well, like wife and job. But let's not pretend that they're as important!!
Seasidesage
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Been there many times, as others have said, no problem with the purchasers only the sellers. Never set foot in a Focus or a Wickes though...
Nobby
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- Sep 29, 2007
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Living away from Brighton since 1970, my visits back were a few times each season until our ground was taken from us.
But I have so many special memories of grandparents and Dad in the South Stand and my first view of that bright green turf, Kit Napier, Brian Powney and all.
So I have been back just once. I just wanted to remember - that walk as a little kid- from my Dad parking near the station in Hove, over the footbridge and down Newtown Road into Goldstone Lane.
So a few years back I did that walk for a final time and then wandered down to touch the Goldstone and to finally stand where I thought that the centre spot would have been.
Bringing tears to my eyes just thinking about it now.
But no, apart from that one time, never been back.
RIP Goldstone
But I have so many special memories of grandparents and Dad in the South Stand and my first view of that bright green turf, Kit Napier, Brian Powney and all.
So I have been back just once. I just wanted to remember - that walk as a little kid- from my Dad parking near the station in Hove, over the footbridge and down Newtown Road into Goldstone Lane.
So a few years back I did that walk for a final time and then wandered down to touch the Goldstone and to finally stand where I thought that the centre spot would have been.
Bringing tears to my eyes just thinking about it now.
But no, apart from that one time, never been back.
RIP Goldstone
Bwian
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- Jul 14, 2003
- 15,898
I think you misunderstand.It's time to move on my friend, it really is.
I have moved on but my grudge towards Stanley and Archer remain.
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Skaville
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I have never been. Don’t ever intend to.
BensGrandad
New member
I am not sure that follows as I was told that firms only advertise on local radio as a last resort when desperate so would assume that due to the cost it also follows for TV advertising.
drew
Drew
I've been as I take the view that had we stayed there then even if we had developed it, it would be a fraction of the size of the Amex due to the restrictive covenants in place. It's been a journey very different to most clubs and started with at rock bottom with Archer and his cronnies but nobody can dispute that since 1999 and coming back to BN1 it has been a great time to support the club with a steady progression to where we are now.
The Goldstone had some great nights but was a crap stadium in the grand scheme of things.
The Goldstone had some great nights but was a crap stadium in the grand scheme of things.
Publius Ovidius
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Am I the only person never to have been to Nando's?
No. I have never been to a Nando’s either.
Publius Ovidius
Well-known member
It's spicy chicken seemly
Not sure I have ever seen a Nandos - let alone been in one. I may have seen one, but it didn't register. I'm aware it's a fast-food outlet, but that's about it!
Kalimantan Gull
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Maybe people who live in Hove can move on but I think it's raw-er for those who have moved away. I drove past it for the first time in 20 years last season and it just moved emotions in me, it was a horrible horrible experience to see what it had become and the nostalgia of my youth came flooding back. Made me sad, I could never go in
AmexRuislip
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Mothercare
Excellent phrase of words.
Have driven past an route to visiting family, have no urge to visit and never will
Silverhatch
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Brighton born and bred. Will not set foot on desecrated ground. If, IF, there was a proper memorial to nearly 100 years of hugely cultural and sporting significance to my town/city then I might feel different. But a ****ing £200 sign tacked onto a corner of Hove Park is an insult.
Same here. Once Amex was built felt perhaps the selling of Goldstone was a blessing in disguise, although I still have fantastic memories of the old girl.
Only ever bought stuff in ToysRUs.
Cowfold Seagull
Fan of the 17 bus
Well you won't need to visit again, Toys 'U Us ceased to exist many months ago.
dejavuatbtn
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Yes, would be nice to spend some of the premier league millions on something more appropriate and substantial. There again, some scrote would probably spray graffiti all over it.