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I know it's a bit of an overreaction, but I do feel a bit like this too. And a brief google search shows it is indeed gradually starting to take hold . .
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the South Lanes
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I know it's a bit of an overreaction, but I do feel a bit like this too. And a brief google search shows it is indeed gradually starting to take hold . .
Superphil
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Haywards Heath is 5 miles away from Burgess Hill, the North Laine is just over the road from the Lanes, which are south of North Street.
beorhthelm
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- Jul 21, 2003
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ahem... did you mean the change to the Lanes or the to the Laine? the old town was never the "Laines" and was always housing (well, few hundred years). the North Laine was built up in the regency period, along with much else.
MattBackHome
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- Jul 7, 2003
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100% agree. Such a stupid thing to get prissy about, and I suspect people only do it so they can pat themselves on the back for being FROM Brighton and not one of those clueless imbeciles who have the temerity to move here.
I've deliberately started saying "North Lanes" because you're guaranteed that people are going to act like they're doing on this thread, look at me like I'm head of the Jimmy Saville fan club and scream "It's the North LAAIIINE!"
The Large One
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? It's a pure coincidence that the two areas have similar sounding names... would you be okay if i starting calling Falmer 'Hove' or perhaps starting calling Kemp Town 'Falmer'. Of course not, it would be ridiculous. Obviously there are way more important things to worry about... but you know, it's okay to know about and embrace a town's unique history. Wherever you're born.
Lord Bracknell
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Strictly speaking, the North Laine is north of Church Street, as the History Man's excellent Encyclopædia of Brighton will explain.
MattBackHome
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- Jul 7, 2003
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Or who just don't care?
Well if they don't care about getting terms right for local areas in which they are trying to sell property one might think that they shouldn't be in that line of business.
wardy wonder land
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- Dec 10, 2007
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surely it is a question of navigation rather than naming convention ? or a question of grammer on the pronouciation ?
so North Laine is an area that sort of is north of North streat up to the station area and between Queens street and london road and includes the Pav, Kensington gardens and all the "indepentent" shops etc
whereas the Lanes is the old fishing village area bounded by North, East, West South streets and split by SHIP street
Burgerking by the clocktower would be north-west Lanes and the ABC cinema would be south-east Lanes
edit - Middle street is in the middle of west & ship streets where as Ship street is in the middle of east & west street
so North Laine is an area that sort of is north of North streat up to the station area and between Queens street and london road and includes the Pav, Kensington gardens and all the "indepentent" shops etc
whereas the Lanes is the old fishing village area bounded by North, East, West South streets and split by SHIP street
Burgerking by the clocktower would be north-west Lanes and the ABC cinema would be south-east Lanes
edit - Middle street is in the middle of west & ship streets where as Ship street is in the middle of east & west street
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wardy wonder land
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- Dec 10, 2007
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........therefore the south lanes would be a strip from ABC Cinema via town hall via Ship hotel to the Hop poles/pink coconut.......
SOUND THINKING THAT MAN. In fact, why don't we call anywhere with a BN postcode.....................................
CROYDON
I mean , "Such a stupid thing to get prissy about"
turienzo's lovechild
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- Oct 25, 2003
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i don't understand why people don't question the fact that "Laine" and "Lane" don't have the same spelling
Cos they are seperate words and mean different things!
Bit like "Hove" and "Home"
Due to its geographical relation to The Lanes, North Laine is sometimes incorrectly referred to as the "North Lanes". However, a "laine" is a Sussex dialect term for an open tract of land at the base of the Downs,[2] which is derived from an Anglo-Saxon legal term for a kind of land holding. The space that is now North Laine was once occupied by five open farming plots of a type that seem to have been generally unchanged in style since the Middle Ages. By the 19th century, the farming plots (which had been for centuries subdivided into hides and furlongs) were encircled by major municipal roads for Brighton. With building developments across Brighton beginning to encroach upon the fields, the tracks that had divided the individual hide plots were normalized into streets, and the area was soon appropriated as a new settlement and market area. John Furner planted a market garden in the plots, and by 1840 a rail hub had been set up on the northern border of North Laine, Brighton railway station.
turienzo's lovechild
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- Oct 25, 2003
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i know that....my question is why people who call North Laine the "north laines" don't question why it's spelled differently to lane as in "the lanes"
Superphil
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When it's being spoken about, as in when someone might be asking for directions, you can't tell it is spelled differently. So, as a non local, you could quite understandably think that it is North & South Lane or Lanes.
Some people used to say Chris Woods when refering to Chris Wood, and his name was printed in the program.
Wally Gould
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- Jul 10, 2011
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There's going to be a West Laine as well if J Kit Kat get's his way. Preston street area.
Lord Bracknell
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At least that has the benefit of being exactly where the West Laine was in the eighteenth century.
What about Hilly Laine, Little Laine and East Laine? They could do with a revival.
Freddie Goodwin.
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Will we have a Westlain school too?