[Sussex] A local thread for local people only

[rogersix]

Can anyone guess which famous ex Arsenal and England player now lives in Lewes.

merson

 

[keaton]

Can anyone guess which famous ex Arsenal and England player now lives in Lewes.

Seen him around a fair bit, seems a nice bloke

 

[Iroquois Boy]

Seen him around a fair bit, seems a nice bloke

Think it's his daughter who has moved here, but he visits quite alot. Nice guy.

 

[shingle]

Ghastly. Avoid it like the plague, loads of pissed up out of towners getting pissed up and strutting around the streets like peacocks throwing their weight around. Of course my local South Street Bonfire are not included in my vitriol, many of them are allround stand up guys and gals.

I stay in doors for the whole event other than for the aforementioned SSBS parade up ... well, South Street.

 

[Wrong-Direction]

I didn't bother due to the weather, watched some of it on YouTube, the parade is so boring, I used to March in commercial back in the day, letting rookies off and dancing behind the samba band, wouldn't bother watching it

 

[AmexRuislip]

I was going to report this thread, as it's along the lines of ageism, but in a county sense.
Pfffft......

 

[BN9 BHA]

merson

Lee Dixon

 

[WATFORD zero]

I was going to report this thread, as it's along the lines of ageism, but in a county sense.
Pfffft......

I don't know whether I should mention it, but I think there may be northerners on this thread

 

[Pogue Mahone]

Can anyone guess which famous ex Arsenal and England player now lives in Lewes.

Me, me!

Lee Dixon.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

Lee Dixon

Oh you sod. One minute before I answered. He's been seen at several matches at The Dripping Pan.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Oh you sod. One minute before I answered. He's been seen at several matches at The Dripping Pan.

Yeah but I bet he's got a shed er corporate, bloody DFLs

 

[The Clamp]

I reckon a lot of fireworks events were cancelled or people swerved them cos of weather.
I was on shift last night and Brighton centre got mad busy about 8pm.

 

[AmexRuislip]

Me, me!

Lee Dixon.

Right back where he belongs

 

[zefarelly]

Not easy on a Samsung Mobile.

Peace of pyss on an Omsung phine

 

[wuntbedruv]

I don't know whether I should mention it, but I think there may be northerners on this thread

OY!!! I may have moved from Aldrington (actually) to a couple of miles from Slurry but a NORTHERNER!!!

How DARE YOU

 

[WATFORD zero]

OY!!! I may have moved from Aldrington (actually) to a couple of miles from Slurry but a NORTHERNER!!!

Hoe DARE YOU

Well obviously Aldrington is south of OSR and I was referring to AmexRuislip but I think you may have outed yourself in your location

Between you and me, I'm a couple of miles north of OSR myself

 

[wuntbedruv]

Well obviously Aldrington is south of OSR and I was referring to AmexRuislip but I think you may have outed yourself in your location

Between you and me, I'm a couple of miles north of OSR myself

Well, you say that but
... technically Aldrington is a MASSIVE ancient estate that took in Lewes and to Chichester side boundaries of Worthing, stretching beyond Hangleton and its few windmills and barns.
Brighthelmstone was just a couple of fisherman cottages and Shoreham only the relics of a Roman Fort protecting a small port.

Aldrington has history way beyond the scale of any other Sussex settlement. Way before 1066 and all that

 

[maresfield seagull]

I envy you! Been twice - once about 30 years ago, and once about 65 years ago - and would love to go again, but sadly I don't think my back would be up to standing for two-three-four hours solid. That's if I could even get past the cordon put around the place on bonfore night these days.

Wow And you genuinely recall the visit 65 years ago ?

 

[BN9 BHA]

Oh you sod. One minute before I answered. He's been seen at several matches at The Dripping Pan.

I went to the cup match V Three Bridges, I didn’t see him myself but my son’s friend that lives in Lewes told me he saw him on the way into the ground.

 

[smudge]

Grew up in Lewes, I was a Landport boy. Many years ago in the middle of summer one hot evening, I was having a few pints with some old school friends in the Black Horse, and they started discussing bonfire and their plans for each society they belonged to.
"Fellas, it's July, you're talking about friggin' bonfire night!"
"You don't understand Smudge, you weren't born here".
Never forgotten that. Growing up, going to Pells Junior School, then Priory Comp'. Not enough to make me a Lewesian.
Born in Brighton General you see.

I moved back to Brighton a couple of years after that, and then to Shoreham Beach & now in Lancing where I can sometimes hear the shouts of Adam Lallana from the training ground in the distance.

I will do Bonfire in Lewes again one day maybe, but it's a proper ball ache if you're not local these days.