The Goldstone - the stone

[Working class pride]

Any chance of the Albion taking the stone with them to Falmer?

 

[Return of the Rev]

Any chance of the Albion taking the stone with them to Falmer?

could take some of the little uns

 

[Art Vs Science]

http://www.yeoldesussexpages.com/oddities/goldston.htm

No, doubt it

 

[SW17]

Hardly pretty is it?

 

[Hercules Rockerfeller]

Not ours to take, it belongs where it is.

 

[Gilliver's Travels]

Any chance of the Albion taking the stone with them to Falmer?

[Adopts Brian Sewell voice] To uproot and cart away that ancient stone, simply because a football ground was once built beside it, a mere century ago, away would be a presumptuous arrogance of Elgin Marbles proportions. But that's the working class for you...

 

[Working class pride]

[Adopts Brian Sewell voice] To uproot and cart away that ancient stone, merely because a football ground was once built beside it a mere century ago, away would be a presumptuous arrogance of Elgin Marbles proportions. But that's the working class for you.

Crickey, when was the last time you got laid?

 

[Return of the Rev]

anyone noticed how much smaller they have got? i think they need to be protected inside somewhere? in the faNS BAR AT FALMER,LETS START A CAMPAign stones for all

 

[Working class pride]

anyone noticed how much smaller they have got? i think they need to be protected inside somewhere? in the faNS BAR AT FALMER,LETS START A CAMPAign stones for all

Im in. After all the stones would have been moved by the druids and so why the fuss to move them again. After all more people will worship them at he new ground than in Hove park

 

[Black Dalek]

often thought about that. Harmless crime, anyone got a JCB, could uplift it one night and transport over to Falmer.

 

[16bha]

The only time you'll see the stones at The Amex will be as part of Mick Jaggers 90th birthday world tour.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

The only time you'll see the stones at The Amex will be as part of Mick Jaggers 90th birthday world tour.

Only another 20 years to wait then.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

The stone has been in that local area for millennia , so leave it where it is.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Not ours to take, it belongs where it is.

Normally I'd agree. But its not like its been there since time immorial according to the link...

'In 1833 the stone was situated on the then Goldstone Farm owned by one Farmer Rigden who was so annoyed by the visits of the curious and the antiquinarians who visited the site by walking over his fields and ruining some of his crops, he decided to bury the stone. To this end a hole some 16 feet deep was made next to the stone and it was then dragged into the hole and covered over at great expense and labour.

The Goldstone lay undisturbed for 67 years with only the stories to keep it alive. Then on 29th September, 1900, Mr William Hollamby, an old Hove Commissioner, managed to locate the whereabouts of the site and had it uncovered to gaze upon the light of day once more. Once removed from it's grave it stayed there until 1906 when it was conveyed to a new spot some 300 yards from its original place to the southern centre of today's Hove Park, just north of the Shoreham Road. It was surrounded by a group of smaller stones which came from the northern end of Goldstone Bottom near a small pond level with the Goldstone Waterworks.'

So it dates in its current position to more or less exactly when the Albion started playing football at the Goldstone (1902). The currently stands largely unloved in the corner of Hove Park next to the main road. Would be pretty damn magnificent to relocate it to the new stadium IMHO.

 

[Giraffe]

Agreed let's move it. What would it rather look at, Toys R Us or our magnificent new stadium. It must be pining to hear the Goldstone roar again.

 

[CAPTAIN GREALISH]

get tonys number this is a gret idea would be greatnear the walk way to stadium

 

[Silverhatch]

I've always thought it would be an exceptional idea to mount the Goldstone atop of a Big Arch on the entrance to Falmer Way. As as already been stated the Goldstone has moved around in its history so why not make it a really recognisable feature of our city rtaher than buried at the bottom end of Hove Park.

Alternatively if the freeholders or reatilers of Goldstone Retail Park would finally erect some lasting and appropriate memorial to the fact that there was a FOOTBALL GROUND where f***ing Burger King and f***ing DFS currently operate then I might feel happier about the Goldstone being wher it currently is.

 

[hitony]

get tonys number this is a gret idea would be greatnear the walk way to stadium

You want my phone number

 

[CAPTAIN GREALISH]

no not you?