I was one of the last babies born at Brighton General before they moved maternity to the County. So I guess the Whitehawk ground was closer than the Goldstone.
In the first Ulloa song thread somneone (can't remember who - sorry) suggested:
"Ulloa, is it three you're looking for?"
Seems even more appropriate now.
Interesting thread, I have MAME, ZSNES and a Commodore 64 emulator on my laptop (the C64 one is JUST for Fort Apocalypse, and TBH I use ZSNES mainly for Mario hacks).
Before I thought about travelling I was looking building a cabinet myself, but just for MAME, putting other emulators as well...
No, I did as well. Remember meeting a Swedish foreign student I'd met at a party there once, and when I got there, there were three of them waiting for people and I had no idea which was "mine".
I'm 44, I was born in Brighton and lived between Brighton and Portlsade most of my life (Temple Street -> Whitehawk -> Portslade as a kid, then Central Brighton as soon as I left home -with a brief gap elsewhere for Uni), and in none of my memories do I see Brighton as "dull and decrepit". My...
Now I remember trying to climb that with varying degrees of success many a drunken night!
Even though it was old and dilapidated and falling apart, I have fond memories of the old Churchill Square.