Things that immediately transport you back to The Goldstone

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Walking up the Droveway and down into into Hove Park. To this day I still expect the floodlights to be there.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Walking up the Droveway and down into into Hove Park. To this day I still expect the floodlights to be there.

How do you walk UP the Droveway and down into Hove Park?

 

[dougdeep]

How do you walk UP the Droveway and down into Hove Park?

Easily, it dips in the middle.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

How do you walk UP the Droveway and down into Hove Park?

Picky!

From Preston Park its up the evil steep Drove then over onto the Droveway and down into Hove Park. You know what I meant

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Easily, it dips in the middle.

He's coming from Preston Park way. The top end (from Dyke Road) is significantly higher than the bottom end (Goldstone Crescent).

Your assertion is on a par with walking down to the peak of Kilimanjaro as there is a dip slightly (relatively) before the actual peak.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Walking up the Droveway and down into into Hove Park. To this day I still expect the floodlights to be there.

THAT PART IS THE DROVE THE BLOODY D-R-O-V-E.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Picky!

From Preston Park its up the evil steep Drove then over onto the Droveway and down into Hove Park. You know what I meant

I did! Please tell me you didn't used to do the Drove beforehand or at least, I hope you were suitably tanked up on 'medicinal' beer?

 

[Deleted User X18H]

I did! Please tell me you didn't used to do the Drove beforehand or at least, I hope you were suitably tanked up on 'medicinal' beer?

I do The Drove once or twice a day.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

I do The Drove once or twice a day.

How do you get back if it is only once or are you a dirty little stop out?

 

[Deleted User X18H]

How do you get back if it is only once or are you a dirty little stop out?

Well young man, we might walk up the very steep part (Kingsley upwards) go into town then come back via the park and walk up the not so steep but still steep part home.Maybe not every day.

 

[liam82]

crowded House - weather with you, always reminds me.

the feeling I used to get at the Goldstone will never be matched, Not saying it won't be beaten at falmer just not matched.

 

[John Byrnes Mullet]

Singing "Going down Old Shoreham Road"
The smell of cigarettes
The sight of the East Stand from OSR, and being able to predict the gate based on how full it was at 2.30pm
The smell of those shit steak and kidney pies
Song: "I hear you knocking" by Dave Edmunds.

I agree and also that we sung going down the Old Shoreham Road too not bloody Shoreham road


Falmer will be cool but never the same as the Goldstone.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I did! Please tell me you didn't used to do the Drove beforehand or at least, I hope you were suitably tanked up on 'medicinal' beer?

Has to be said that full use was always made of the handrails. And there were frequent stops to take on board oxygen. When me kids were little, our dentist was in Dyke Road practically opposite the top of The Drove. The kids were quite OK with the dentist. It was the mere sight of The Drove that made them burst into tears.

 

[Artie Fufkin]

Hearing Fleetwood Mac's Go Your Own Way always takes me back to those special days! I thought it was just me

 

[skipper734]

I couldn't see the floodlights from my bedroom window. I used to live further down Tim's old road.
When they erected them and plugged them in I could.
Then the walk,round to Downland drive, along Goldstone Crescent, through the park and into the magic arena through a blue turnstile that took a bit of pushing, then the satisfying thunk of the mechanism and you were in.

 

[seagurn]

Hard not to get all emotional when you read these posts.

For me it used to be;



PC Beard - remember him?

And pc Binnsy his side kick LOL



Another memory was the guy i still see looked like alvin Stardust but even less cool....he still goes and has been seen @ Lewes games...

the hoolie van !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Playing On The Grit]

Hearing Fleetwood Mac's Go Your Own Way always takes me back to those special days! I thought it was just me

Even when it's on a cd I still hear it as if it was through the crackly, echoing tannoy in the north stand. Are you the same?

 

[Artie Fufkin]

Definitely! Whenever I hear "Everywhere" it takes me straight back to walking into the ground and watching the lads warming up. For some reason it's always Johnny Crumplin practicing his shots. Good times.

Oddly enough a pack of polos also always reminds me when I was little, me, dad and my brother used to always stop off at that little newsagents on the corner to buy the programme and a pack of polos and I'd be flicking through the programme on the way to the ground to try to contain my excitement in seeing my heroes Bremner and Nelson, and being totally star struck when I met Doug Rougvie! He was a giant!

 

[Playing On The Grit]

Definitely! Whenever I hear "Everywhere" it takes me straight back to walking into the ground and watching the lads warming up. For some reason it's always Johnny Crumplin practicing his shots. Good times.

Oddly enough a pack of polos also always reminds me when I was little, me, dad and my brother used to always stop off at that little newsagents on the corner to buy the programme and a pack of polos and I'd be flicking through the programme on the way to the ground to try to contain my excitement in seeing my heroes Bremner and Nelson, and being totally star struck when I met Doug Rougvie! He was a giant!

Doug the Thug was a hero of mine and Kev Bremner was a loon too! Nelson was my main hero tho. You always knew he was going to score the season we got promoted

If you got there early enough I remember the hoses strung across the pitch before the players came out. And the away players walking around the pitch in their suits reading their programmes. I know that happens at Withdean now but what's the point in getting there early? I loved being first on to the north stand and waiting for the atmosphere to build.

I also remember Devon White (I think it was) running out on to the pitch for his warm up and not spotting the car (a prize in the lottery or spot the ball) parked at the edge of the pitch near the players tunnel and he crashed into it and fell arse over tit! He was about 6ft 7 as well!