[Film] Portslade on Film 4 tonight

[Stat Brother]

Now there's a sentence you don't expect to write.

I take it everybody else already knew Ben Wheatley's Free Fire, set in late 70's Boston, was actually filmed in Portslade, well at least the outside shots were.

It certainly came as a surprise to me. (and might have done the last time I found out, as well )

 

[kroqq]

And inside shots filmed at now demolished evening argus warehouse by Hollingbury Asda!

 

[WATFORD zero]

I am recording it. It had better be worth it.

 

[Stat Brother]

I am recording it. It had better be worth it.

Hmmmm, when was the last time Portslade was 'worth it'?

 

[vegster]

Hmmmm, when was the last time Portslade was 'worth it'?

My late mother and her mother were from Portslade, not the crappy bit though, Mile Oak before that got crappy too.

 

[Stat Brother]

My late mother and her mother were from Portslade, not the crappy bit though, Mile Oak before that got crappy too.

Great Auntie Edie once said:-

'This Falklands War will be over when we take back Portslade'.


She was probably right.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Hmmmm, when was the last time Portslade was 'worth it'?

The Clarence, mid 70s, Sunday lunchtime

 

[studio150]

My late mother and her mother were from Portslade, not the crappy bit though, Mile Oak before that got crappy too.

Portslade in its glory days

 

[Guinness Boy]

 

[Guinness Boy]

My late mother and her mother were from Portslade, not the crappy bit though, Mile Oak before that got crappy too.

Strictly speaking, and despite the video just posted, Mile Oak is still the crappy bit and parts around the station have gentrified. Portslade Station that is. Which is in Hove.

 

[swindonseagull]

My late mother and her mother were from Portslade, not the crappy bit though, Mile Oak before that got crappy too.

Im from Portslade originally so is [MENTION=15734]harry[/MENTION] wilsons tackle

 

[vegster]

Strictly speaking, and despite the video just posted, Mile Oak is still the crappy bit and parts around the station have gentrified. Portslade Station that is. Which is in Hove.

I'm going back quite some time in my more positive appraisal though, when Portslade Railway station platforms had decent roofs.

 

[studio150]

I'm going back quite some time in my more positive appraisal though, when Portslade Railway station platforms had decent roofs.

1910?

 

[portslade seagull]

Portslade in its glory days

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Where's that

 

[Weststander]

Im from Portslade originally so is [MENTION=15734]harry[/MENTION] wilsons tackle

The posh bit of Easthill Park.

 

[Grassman]

Im from Portslade originally so is [MENTION=15734]harry[/MENTION] wilsons tackle

Same here. I only have fond memories of the place. Easthill Park, Peter Gladwin, the corn fields before they were built on, Mill Lane sweetshop, etc etc

 

[Jim Van Winkle]

Im from Portslade originally so is [MENTION=15734]harry[/MENTION] wilsons tackle

Me too. Looking forward to going back for a visit in April.

 

[vegster]

1910?

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Probably about right, My grandfather was from Portslade too and served in WWI in the trenches and my late mother was born in 1923 so the roof's were on then !

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Hmmmm, when was the last time Portslade was 'worth it'?

When I grew up there.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Same here. I only have fond memories of the place. Easthill Park, Peter Gladwin, the corn fields before they were built on, Mill Lane sweetshop, etc etc

Owned by the Wooldridge's from early 70s to who-knows-when. I did a paper round out of there circa 1971. I had the Mill Lane pitch. Doing the flats at the top of Foredown Road was a bugger.