What souvenirs did you liberate from the last ever Goldstone game?

[Lindfield by the Pond]

Still got my turf. Keep the old miracle grow 3 times a year, change the compost, looks good with a piece of chicken run concrete to set it off. The Mrs always frowns when I've said I've cut the grass today. Quick short back and sides with the scissors if it starts to spill over the side.

 

[Set of Tracksuits]

Gents toilet sign from the South Stand, currently in my parent's house. They also still have a piece of turf and a piece of a wooden bench from the West Stand which they still sit on in the garden.

Felt a bit disrespectful at the time, ripping the place up, but I'm quite glad we did it now, it's nice to think of all the bits of the Goldstone that are scattered across the country as reminders of our former home.

 

[kevo]

I got a tiny bit of net off a friend. No idea where it is now.

But I also LEFT my old scarf (which I'd had since the late 70s/early 80s). I was one of the very last to leave, and tied it round one of the crush barriers in the North Stand. Everyone was taking something, but for some reason I wanted to leave something behind.

 

[WSU]

I 'obtained' some turf from near the north end penalty spot and it's still growing strong!

 

[Hiney]

A f***ing great SLAB of turf

 

[Lord Bamber]

Stuart Storer lives in a cupboard under my stairs. I let him out periodically.

Best Souvenir ever!

 

[Eggmundo]

I have a few bits of grass that I vacuum packed at work on the monday and have kept in my wallet ever since.

I would have preferred to get Storer;wasn't thinking at the time.

 

[Slippery Seagull]

I got a two square piece of turf, that I planted in my front garden. I lovingly cared for it, cut it, watered it for two years. Then started to work really hard and had to get a gardener in. Who did some 'weeding'. Bastard....

 

[Seagull on the wing]

I worked at a pub in Hailsham at the time, a local was linked with Hailsham Town and they purchased a turnstile for use at their ground, when he collected it, he picked up two and came into my pub and offered me one, i agreed to have it and he kindly delivered it to my parents place in Eastbourne, it sat there for a while in their garden, until their window cleaner offered to take it of their hands as he was linked with the then called Langney Sports, they were upgrading Priory Lane after their promotion to the Ryman League from the SCL, we agreed, and as far as i know, it is still installed at the Lane, which is of course the home of the now called Eastbourne Borough!

What pub....?

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

Turf from the north stand penalty area, some netting from the north stand goal, a seat from the west stand, a seat from the south stand and small pieces of advertising hoardings from the east and the north. I wanted to recreate a mini goldstone in my garden...

 

[AnotherArch]

A South Stand seat, piece of the netting from the north goal and the piece of the perspex tunnel that Darren Moore punched out after being sent off.

 

[bristolseagull]

Three seats, some turf, piece of northstand goal net, broken pieces of advertising hoarding, brick from the west stand (now mounted, yeah I know....)

But my favourite has to be my 7 ft north stand turnstile door, proudly sitting in my lounge.

 

[bhafc99]

I have recreated the North Stand catering experience by installing an overflowing urinal in my kitchen.

Seriously - bit of net, now in a box in a storage centre in Edinburgh.

And replanted some turf in my parents front garden in Bexhill. About 7 years later they moved, and the new owners converted over it. Bastards.

 

[Return of the Rev]

turnstile!

 

[zefarelly]

I had a sizeable sod from te norht stand penalty area which grew in a large pot on the balcony of my old flat, it went to seed after a while and dies, but there was grass growing all along the gutters right down the road! ( have long since moved)

I still have a chunk of East Terrace on the shelf with my subbuteo team and 'promoted to division 1 1979' mug.

 

[NMH]

I still have the odour of the N.Stand urinals in my memory banks. I access them whenever I want to say something stinkin'.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

I still have the odour of the N.Stand urinals in my memory banks. I access them whenever I want to say something stinkin'.

That brings back memories, truly awful stench!