Check out The James Gray Collection look for volume 16 North west Hove, start on pictures 65-80 and you will find some fantastic pictures of the Goldstone, I had never seen these before, examples below show the ground as a farm and the again during the early 1900's when the East bank was mud and no goldstone lane existed, then again see it in the 1950's, 2 months before the original west stand was knocked down and replaced with what many of us knew and loved.
The below picture of the farm can be hard to make out, as I understand the curving wall in the foreground shows wher Goldstone lane will be, The south stand would back onto somewhere near those farm buildings.
The picture below that shows shows 2 houses, one of which was Goldstone house, tha't the angle the top shot was taken from.
I love this site - it shows so much of the town I grew up in. The best ploy is to put Goldstone Ground into the search box and it then shows all the shots they have via Google. The one of the old 'rabbit hutch' West Stand taken in 1958 just before it was demolished makes me wonder whether I would have seen it as my Dad must have taken me to my first game about then.http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume16/source/jg_16_096.html
That's quality, hard to believe it really. I spend loads of time banging on about the new stadium with my lad on how fantastic it will be and yet I spent all yesterday thinking that people have been watching the Albion since before cars were so widely available, in an old stadium. Made me realise we're just part of the Albion as history marches on. (waffliin..too many swallies last nite!)
