Weststander
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And hypocrites, the brothers said they were Albion mad.
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[Brighton] Whatever Has Happened to Imperial Arcade?
- Thread starter Cowfold Seagull
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And hypocrites, the brothers said they were Albion mad.
- Apr 5, 2014
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The toy department in the Co-op had an AWESOME Subbuteo area. My parents could leave me there why they went to other departments.
That’s unfair. If we’re reminiscing about our time as kids, it was allowed to be his favourite. At that time!
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
I am a grumpy, embittered old man who can still remember them having Albion gingerbread men in their shop windows at the very time they were doing their damndest to help destroy the club.
BrightonCottager
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I sometimes wonder what happened to some of the 'characters' who worked in the Co-op department store when it closed. I seem to recall they were offered jobs in other Co-op shops but got the impression that they probably would not have fitted in.
- Apr 5, 2014
- 25,909
I worked for the Co-op for 8 years from not long after school. It was an interesting organisation. I was based at London Road for a while in the offices. Even then it was surviving on loyalty.
Cowfold Seagull
Fan of the 17 bus
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Well it sort of is in a way, if you are going shopping and alight from one of the many buses that terminate at the Dyke Road stop, and want to walk to Churchill Square or the Western Road, you pass through Imperial Arcade.
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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I always remember Gamleys having a whole section of the shop stacked high with Subbuteo. Wonderful place. Together with Beatties across the road and the Uncle Sams with the spiral staircase by the Clock Tower, these formed The Golden Triangle for Saturday morning shopping with kids in Brighton town in the Eighties
herecomesaregular
We're in the pipe, 5 by 5
'Derelict and neglected' gem of the city taken over by new owner
A “derelict and neglected” Art Deco arcade building has been taken over by new owners.
www.theargus.co.uk
BN41Albion
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- Oct 1, 2017
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Great news. Wouldn't want to live in a flat there though, slap bang in the middle of the busiest part of town, luxury or not!'Derelict and neglected' gem of the city taken over by new owner
A “derelict and neglected” Art Deco arcade building has been taken over by new owners.
"Brighton-based Moretons Investments announced yesterday that it acquired the site last year and will look to transform it back to its former glory."
Et tu, Brute? Without the et.... you OK Brutus, hun?
One gives you ten (you can guess the rest).
BN41Albion
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- Oct 1, 2017
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BrianB
Sleepy Mid Sussex
- Nov 14, 2020
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A good hall might work there , I've visited Mackie Mayor in Manchester a few times and it seems relatively busy ,
Take the 'et' out of the new owner and you get....Morons
BN41Albion
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- Oct 1, 2017
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Ah, right, ok..
Wrong-Direction
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- Mar 10, 2013
- 13,634
Remember spending all my birthday money on a bunch of star wars gear in there!
Weststander
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Just Gamley’s in my era, the 70’s. Loved the place, can still remember the farm and zoo set ups. We bought a wooden toboggan there just as a series of snowless winters came to Sussex.
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
For some insane reason I thought this was about Arcade Fire …until I started reading about Westies farm and zoo setup (still plays with it 
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