[Drinking] Wetherspoon’s selling The Clftonville, Hove

[theboybilly]

In the mid seventies I could get five pints of mild for a quid

I can actually beat that. When I lived in SE, London in 1971 my mate and I got last orders in the Dover Castle in Plumstead (after an evening game) and shared a 11p pint of Mild. Courage, not a patch on Whitbreads'

 

[Originunknown]

This thread is sad and brilliant all at once

 

[dejavuatbtn]

Oddly enough, according to your old school’s website, The Cliftonville is built on the site of the original St. Andrew’s school building.

https://www.st-andrews.brighton-hove.sch.uk/our-school/school-history

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I thought the school was a bit north of where the pub is. Pretty sure Belmans was around the site of the pub.

 

[Weststander]

Wasn’t it called Tesco Home and Wear back then.

Selling their Delaware Scratch’n’Sniff t-shirts.

Then it went downmarket to the Bungalow Arms.

 

[Weststander]

The working classes ( and middle for that matter) being able to afford to live is soooo last century

Cliftonville used to be a great gig pub 80's/early 90's

Still good early 00’s.

 

[Boys 9d]

Wickham, Kimber & Oakley's TV, Radio and Radiogram shop was approximately in that area in the early 1960s with their record shop on the other side of the road where I bought all my original 10 inch and 12inch LPs.

 

[Easy 10]

I'll miss it a bit. Walking past at 9am and seeing all the tattood, twitching, snaggle-toothed professional drinking wretches already tucking into their second pint of Fosters waiting for Ladbrokes to open felt very....British. Its a part of our culture.

 

[Weststander]

Times past, before south George Street evolved into a revellers quarter.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

utter hole, the haunt of choice for street drinking classes when they need a dump

Haven't set foot in there since about the late 1980's when l decamped off the train from London when travelling down to the Goldstone for evening games.

Whilst it wasn't the most salubrious of establishments back then, l certainly wouldn't describe it as a dump.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Times past, before south George Street evolved into a revellers quarter.

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Crikey, absolutely no one on the street, what a countrast to today. I wonder what time of day that pic was taken?

 

[Blinkers]

Judging by shadows, sun to the East, no traffic/pedestrians, everything shut, probably 8am Sunday morning

 

[keaton]

Hopefully this will mean the rumours that's they were planning on opening a pub in Lewes are the BS I assumed they were

 

[wuntbedruv]

Haven't set foot in there since about the late 1980's when l decamped off the train from London when travelling down to the Goldstone for evening games.

Whilst it wasn't the most salubrious of establishments back then, l certainly wouldn't describe it as a dump.

Sure you got the right pub? it is a long walk from the station to the bottom of George Street, even the Eclipse would be nearer, probably the Portland, the Sackville could be almost on the way , not to mention the boozer right outside the station .

 

[Norman Potting]

Hopefully they will close them all down , mainly attract older alcoholics & young ones with no shame.

In fairness the two that I very occasionally frequent are fine and good value but then I am going there daylight hours. Daughters are regulars in the local 'Spoons and they consider a safe place and good vfm.

 

[BN9 BHA]

Sure you got the right pub, it is a long walk from the station to the bottom of George Street, even the Eclipse would be nearer, not to mention the boozer right outside the station .

The pub right outside Hove Station was called The Cliftonville.

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

I'll miss it a bit. Walking past at 9am and seeing all the tattood, twitching, snaggle-toothed professional drinking wretches already tucking into their second pint of Fosters waiting for Ladbrokes to open felt very....British. Its a part of our culture.

*are

 

[Questions]

There are very few pubs like the ones I grew up in left now
Some of the new micro pubs are refusing to serve the local psychopaths……..and they don’t have fruit machines either.

 

[Murray 17]

It's all very well people calling it a dump, but some of us can't afford £4.50 + a pint. I had 4 drinks and 2 packets of crisps in there at the weekend, and had change from a tenner.
Incidentally, there were a lot of under 25s in there.

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[wuntbedruv]

The pub right outside Hove Station was called The Cliftonville.

Indeed but he was replying to a comment on a photo of the 'spoons one and the description of the clientèle .

 

[Weststander]

Crikey, absolutely no one on the street, what a countrast to today. I wonder what time of day that pic was taken?

Are those Xmas trees in the window?

If so, Xmas Day at 8.52am.