If you lived in Brighton as a kid.....

[Bigtomfu]

What was your favourite park to play in?

 

[Trigger]

Queens Park from the list, also Saunders Park & for big footy matches it was always Stanmer Park.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Hangelton Park .....................good caretakers hut to paint.

 

[Del Boy]

Preston Park for me!!! although I take my boy to Hove park..

 

[The Clown of Pevensey Bay]

Blakers as a wee nipper, though football/cricket in Preston Park between the ages of 11 and 18.

 

[Trufflehound]

The green across the road from me by the windmill in Westdene - don't think it had a name.

 

[bhafc4eva]

The "Patch" was my local off hartington road, also went to saunders park a bit.

 

[D'Angelo Saxon]

Hove Park

 

[Braders]

Mackie park , 10 hours a day football in the summer


* has flashback* aaaaaaaaaaah

 

[Publius Ovidius]

My brother and I used to play football in that park at the bottom of Ridgeside Avenue in patcham along Patcham Village way

 

[kalinski]

pretty much all of them. lived around fiveways so top three were always within walking distance. my cousin lived near queens park so used to go there as well

 

[The Large One]

The Level for me. aka Dogshit Park.

Although I put Preston Park cos it had the goal nets up.

 

[CHAPPERS]

Hove Park used to be DON but I quite liked Preston Park coz of that big spiders web thing.

 

[Bigtomfu]

yeah they took all the fun stuff out of pr park the spider thing, the zebedee spring things that seemed to have an attraction mid teen years as it seemed a good idea at the time to bounce on them until you were sick, during those oh so painful pissed in the park years.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Peter Pans. Otherwise it was "The Pitch" at Rottingdean. the other side of the road, and down the lane from the cricket field.

 

[West Hoathly Seagull]

Can't really count myself as I only spent the first year of my life in Brighton, but my parents liked Stanmer. Friday night, Mum would collect Dad from choir practice at All Saints, Patcham, they'd drive to Coldean, get fish and chips and go and walk the dogs up at Stanmer Park in summer. What they did in winter, I haven't a clue.

 

[pompeydel]

Saunders Park as a young'un......The Level for 5-a-side........and those footy pitches opposite the school in Carden avenue for Sunday League...

 

[Meade's Ball]

I went between the Level and Saunders Park. Each had extremely scummy pools. The sort with verucca socks selotaped to the bottom with old plasters and they were suspiciously yellow.
Saunders Park was best for extended hide and seek/44 save all sessions. But the Level had a parkkeeper, which makes for lots of fun.

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

Queen's Park cos it was just outside my school... but also East Brighton Park cos it was near my house. Most often though we bunked the wall and played on the hockey pitch across the road from the public girls school in Kemptown. Great for scoring goals and flat as a pancacke!!!

Whitehawk for sunday league and leg-breaking tackles!!!!

 

[Shegull]

What about St Annes Well Park?. Also played in St. Nicholas park at the end of my road.

Sunday family outings usually consisted of Preston Park though