nicko31
Well-known member
Back in the day didn't there used to be a pub on A23 where groups from Crawley and Brighton used in have a bit of a scrap?
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[Albion] Crawley
- Thread starter Bozza
- Start date
- May 8, 2018
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The Bolney Stage?
I spent a year as barman/cellerman at the Brewery Shades in 1980. it was an unpleasant pub. But the White Hart across the rod was very civilised. Times, of course, change.
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Indeed, I've never lived in Crawley so you could argue it's not my fight, but it does make me uncomfortable. I know it's not how it works but if I was a passing football fan from Crawley and read this board, I'd probably not choose to support Brighton. And you are deluded if you think the amount of Portslade teasing on here comes anything like close to the constant battering that Crawley gets. Crawley does not get "teased" on here. In fact it is utter nonsense for you to compare the two.I was mostly teasing that dullard @Red Side Of Sussex . No point banning him because he won't be back unless his team of thugs play us again.
If people choose to live in Crawley that's their lookout. I notice you don't. I worked there for a few years and found it soulless, identikit, full of teenage mums and frequently violent. Maybe I was only seeing the good parts. ().
The mod, by the way, manages to take almost constant teasing about Portslade in reasonable, self deprecating humour. I'm fully aware of its shortcomings and I still love it. I guess the same is true for our Crawley dwelling BHA fans?
And in response to @The Clamp, your reply is very fair - but I do wonder how you'd feel about your choice of home town if Lancing got what Crawley gets on here, and you chose to buy a house and raise a family there. I think you might be a little more upset than the "water off a duck's back" persona you're portraying.
Anyway, that's all - I just think there is food for thought there.
Of course. Crawley has loads of things going for it, as do most places in this country. Old Crawley is quite attractive, Crawley shopping is probably only surpassed by one or two towns in the county, it has an Olympic length swimming pool (part of a very good leisure centre which is something, shamefully, Brighton lacks), it is moments from the busiest airport in the world, and it is well situated geographically. It is also doing a good job of rebuilding itself after town planners vomited over it in the 60s. That's because unlike Brighton, things actually get built and fixed in Crawley without nimbys holding up much-needed infrastructural work.
Oh and it now has a league football club, although I'm not sure that's an asset.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
The only other place that gets nearly as much stick as Crawley, on here, is Newhaven.
I've seen Newhaven get pelters on here (far more than Portslade), but again, IMO it's not remotely close to the bile that Crawley receives.
- Aug 24, 2020
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'Library is always dead quiet'.
The best insults are the ones made with the lightest touch.
I choose to live here. It’s got many faults but I like it. In the whole.
No reason I should be less invested just because I choose not to have children.
I'm not disparaging your choice not to have kids. It's just that when you're responsible for bringing up kids I think you're likely to be more sensitive as to other people's opinions of the place you choose to bring them up in.
Most of the slagging off Newhaven gets on here that I see is from people who grew up there, which if nothing else suggests we have a sense of humour about it.
Unlike that touchy sensitive Crawley lot.
I work in the new council building and the Mauritian gangs have a constant camp there, I feel some sympathy with them, they have been completely screwed over, they should not be in the position they find themselves in.
Indeed. Do you see the difference?Most of the slagging off Newhaven gets on here that I see is from people who grew up there, which if nothing else suggests we have a sense of humour about it.
Unlike that touchy sensitive Crawley lot.
Insel affe
HellBilly
to be fair you are not wrong.
to be fair you are not wrong.
wait until Monks Farm and the new Malthouse Meadows building sites are completed, that will change.
There is a very good reason for that.....
You say that, but I took this photo one evening while waiting to get back to Gods Town.
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HH Brighton
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- Jul 25, 2003
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Sterns nightclub?
I’m on the phone to my letting agent as we speak, I’m out.
Funnily enough I was listening to a documentary about the Mauritians and you’re dead right, they’ve been stitched up completely.
@Red Side Of Sussex and Jay Williams, can we not ‘Jamie’ them?
nicko31
Well-known member
Yes I recall that
Crawley in the 80's were lacking nightclubs, one place called Boulevards that had a crazy age rule to keep the meat heads out. After 11 there was little going on.
So used to go to Brighton a lot, it was another world...
Obviously. But then I read plenty of nonsense and wild generalisations about places I've lived or worked on here that don't bother me because it's either demonstrably untrue or doesn't apply to the parts I actually care about.
Similarly if somebody from Crawley looks around them and thinks "that lot on NSC are talking crap" then I don't think they should let it bother them either.
I do tend to agree that the amount of shit Crawley gets on here is probably excessive. Albeit unless we count changing trains at Three Bridges I think I've successfully avoided the place all my life, so I can't really offer an opinion on the truth of it.