THE Withdean is how you refer to our stadium....

[Deleted User X18H]

if you were to tell your Aunt Maud (if you had one) you were going to Withdean she might think you were off to Eldred Ave shops or John Catts house or possibly !!!! Uncle Bucks for tea (I'd get there early) However if you told her you were off to The Withdean, like many locals she would understand you were reffering to a recent change in in locale made in the last seven or so years that describes individually a regenertated part of a Brighton suburb 'THE Withdean' (stadium)

 

[Trufflehound]

Eldred Ave shops

I think I may still have about £2 10s 6d in a savings account with the old Eldred Avenue post office. Is it still there (I haven't been to look since 1973)?

 

[Jesus Gul]

Sorry but real Brightonians should not refer to Withdean Stadium as THE Withdean. It is a Sky Sports..ism

I didn't win the Dorothy Stringer 1985 School Sports Day 100m at THE Withdean...

(No i didn't - I came 4th but I was pleased with that)

 

[Trigger]

Shitdean, crapdean, bollocksdean, whatever...

 

[The Large One]

Withdean is both the area AND the *cough* sports complex.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

I thought the locals called the area Westdene.

 

[The Large One]

I thought the locals called the area Westdene.

Yes, yes, yes. But the area on the eastern side of London Road is... oh, never mind.

 

[The Clown of Pevensey Bay]

"The Withdean" is as nonsensical as "The Anfield" or "The Wembley".

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Withdean is both the area AND the *cough* sports complex.

Yes but there is the definition Withdean is a locale THE Withdean a sports stadium in the loosest sense of the phrase... Westdean is the area from Dyke Road down To London Road, Withdean stretches to Patcham Village incoperating Brangwyn et al.

 

[Nemesis]

I thought it was The Withdean Stadium...?

 

[Lord Bracknell]

It was Withdean Stadium when I had to organise the planning application to demolish the old tennis arena.

 

[The Large One]

The sign at the bottom of Tongdean Lane says 'Withdean Sports Complex'. No 'The'.

 

[BUTTERBALL]

Withdean not THE Withdean!!

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Yes, yes, yes. But the area on the eastern side of London Road is... oh, never mind.

The EASTERN side of London Road ... precisely. Around Withdean Park, which is most definitely not The Withdean Park.

Hove Bed & Breakfast was talking about Eldred Avenue. That's in Westdene.

Westdean doesn't exist. There's a West Dean near Singleton and another one in the Cuckmere Valley.

 

[Curious Orange]

"The Withdean" is as nonsensical as "The Anfield" or "The Wembley".

Or "The The Goldstone Ground"

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Istand corrected Westdene not DEAN as in WITH and ROTTING

 

[The Clown of Pevensey Bay]

Or "The The Goldstone Ground"

No, that's fine, cos it was a ground, named after something. Like "The Reebok Stadium"

Withdean and Anfield and Highbury and Wembley are just places. So they don't get a definite article.

 

[Easy 10]

It was Withdean Stadium when I had to organise the planning application to demolish the old tennis arena.

And we wonder why we never get a SNIFF at Wimbledon.
Lord B - ENEMY of tennis

 

[mona]

I use both.
Just as Old Shoreham Road could also be The Old Shoreham Road.

I get more wound up by the re-naming of every other pub in B&H that has happened since the recent colonisation of the place.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

I use both.
Just as Old Shoreham Road could also be The Old Shoreham Road.

I get more wound up by the re-naming of every other pub in B&H that has happened since the recent colonisation of the place.

Couldn't agree more thank gawd for the Dyke Road Tavern ,The Brewry Tap and The Hangleton Manor