What does Steine actually mean?

[Bluejuice]

I have no idea.

Somebody must

 

[Robdinho]

http://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/page_id__6089_path__0p115p210p716p.aspx

 

[hans kraay fan club]

It's German for stone isn't it?

Its Norwegian for Stone [as in, to stone to death], and the Swedish is Stena. Lots of others are similar.

I think in the case of Brighton, its a Sussex dialect word for 'open space' though. Could be wrong.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

And why, with a perfectly splendid Old Steine available, did the good burghers of Brighton think it was necessary to have a New Steine as well?

 

[Man of Harveys]

It's (still) German, or, more specifically in this case, Saxon, for "stones" - they took the stones that had lay around there for years and incorporated them into the base of that fountain when they built it - they're still there, of course.

As for the New Steine, when these posh London types turned up in town and started using the Steyne as a nice promenade, there was no scope for the local oiky fishermen to use the area for drying their smelly nets anymore. So they built tall fences around the now Old Steine, which survived until WW1, turfed out the fisherman and built the New Steine up the hill.

That's the story as I understand it anyway, probably all bollocks.

 

[Bluejuice]

Good work NSC'ers. That has FULLY resolved my enquiry

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

There is some speculation that there was a henge on or near the Steine in prehistory leading to the saxon "steine" or stone monicker

 

[tinx]

And why, with a perfectly splendid Old Steine available, did the good burghers of Brighton think it was necessary to have a New Steine as well?

Surely without a new steine there would just be a steine and not an old steine

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Surely without a new steine there would just be a steine and not an old steine

I know a village in mid Wales with two pubs ... The New Inn and The Old New Inn.

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

I know a village in mid Wales with two pubs ... The New Inn and The Old New Inn.

Incidentally, a village pub called "The New Inn" is probably in fact the oldest pub in the village...your starter for ten...why?

 

[Les Biehn]

But isn't the actual spelling Steyne?

 

[jonny.rainbow]

Made my blood boil on the bus the other day when I heard a STEW-DENT speaking on his phone to a mate saying "I'll meet you at the "STINE".

Also who gave Southern trains the right to change MossCOOM to MOLESCUM.

 

[CHAPPERS]

Steyn?

Interesting thread this. So, where is this 'New Steine' place then?

 

[jonny.rainbow]

Steyn?

Interesting thread this. So, where is this 'New Steine' place then?

Up Kemp Town, off St James Street.

 

[CHAPPERS]

Oooooh it's that place by CASH CONVERTORS and where GINGIN is innit. What a load of shit.

 

[Man of Harveys]

I strongly suspect that the "New Steine as shoddy replacement for ye displacedde olde Sussex customes" thing is a daft grockely old myth. I think the New Steine was built at the same time as the Chain Pier, which was situated immediately below it, as all Brighton's piers have squares inland from them.

 

[Trufflehound]

I have no idea.

Somebody must

It means you're going to be ripped off for your fish supper by a fat bald tosser from Cornwall.

 

[Bluejuice]

New Steine is SHIT, it's all about the old skool OLD steine


And the reason these youngsters are calling it the STINE is all down to old Frank-in-Steine's confusing everyone

 

[Buzzer]

But isn't the actual spelling Steyne?

That's the Worthing Steine (Steyne?) isn't it?

Oh, now I'm confused.

 

[Storer68]

Isn't there a South Steine in Sydney?