10 obscure ways to identify a Brightonian

[Barrel of Fun]

True Brightonians had a birthday or five at Pirates Deep.

 

[Buzzer]

Brightonians correct people when they add van to Hoogstraten's name.

Its Van Hoogstraten, not to Hoogstraten. Thanks for noting.

Que? It's not van Hoogstraten. He just uses that as an affectation.

According to Adam Trimingham, that is and I always bow to his greater knowledge of all things local.

 

[The Large One]

Wikipedia says he was born Nicholas Marcel Hoogstraten, then proceeds to refer to him as 'van Hoogstraten'.

 

[Buzzer]

Wikipedia says he was born Nicholas Marcel Hoogstraten, then proceeds to refer to him as 'van Hoogstraten'.

yeah but anyone can edit Wikipedia. I do it all the time with Leon Knight.

 

[Yorkie]

Remember the Gas showrooms at the corner of the Old Steine and North Street and Lyons Corner House on the corner of St James St.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Remember the Gas showrooms at the corner of the Old Steine and North Street and Lyons Corner House on the corner of St James St.

I think you have to be advanced in years rather than a Brightonian to remember that.

 

[severnside gull]

will have moved away years ago

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

Will remember the brighton -kemp town railway bridge over the Lewes road and Lewes Road before it was made duel carr.

Will have worked at some time at Allen West ITT, Gross/Chubbs, Cox's pill factory or Dentsply. (I've done 2)

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

will have moved away years ago

And now cannot afford to move back because hordes of Londoners have pushed up house prices to ridiculous levels.

 

[Yorkie]

I think you have to be advanced in years rather than a Brightonian to remember that.

Watch it Sunshine.

 

[goldstone]

A Brightonian has legged it past the wax works on the seafront opposite the PALACE Pier because the huge axe swinging back and forth in the window was really rather scary!

I'd forgotten about that ... right next to Pool Valley ... really scary for a small kid ... when was that? Must have been the 50s?

 

[London Calling]

and remember when the Argus building printed newspapers and was not expensive luxery flats

 

[Buzzer]

Come on people. This is turning into a) a whinge about out of towners and b) just a nostalgia trip. Stick to the thread.

Most Brightonians under 40 wouldn't qualify according to your rules.

 

[dougdeep]

Remember the Gas showrooms at the corner of the Old Steine and North Street.

I think you mean Castle Square.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

True Brightonians had a birthday or five at Pirates Deep.

Ah! Pirates Deep! The habitual haunt of parents of tiny children who got invites from schoolfriends to go there every other weekend for birthday parties and the like. Or to the dolphinarium where kids soon sussed that if they stuck their hand up when the Master Of Ceremonies asked whose birthday it was, they got a tow round the tiny pool in a rowing boat by a proper dolphin like. And it seemed perfectly natural at the time to go downstairs and sit at a table and eat crisps and drink fizzy drinks while looking through a big glass panel at the dolphins zipping back and forward, back and forward, back and forward, in their murky captivity.

 

[sams dad]

true Brightonians remember BHA nickname was the Dolphins but never used it cos it was naff.

And remember the days when Palace were not our main rivals.

True Brightonians of advanced years remember when BHA's nickname was the Shrimps

 

[timbha]

true Brightonians still "go out the Albion" rather than "not going to watch that pile of crap"

 

[Buzzer]

bah...I'm taking my ball away to another thread. This is just an old codgers convention now.

Anyone got any good war stories?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

bah...I'm taking my ball away to another thread. This is just an old codgers convention now.

Anyone got any good war stories?

Crimean or Boer?

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Come on people. This is turning into a) a whinge about out of towners and b) just a nostalgia trip. Stick to the thread.

Most Brightonians under 40 wouldn't qualify according to your rules.

I know its fantastic