[Brighton] Where is Hollingbury?

[Chicken Run]

I particularly like ‘The Royal Valley’ 10 points who can tell me where this little figment of someone’s imagination is ??

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I particularly like ‘The Royal Valley’ 10 points who can tell me where this little figment of someone’s imagination is ??

Beats me. But then I rarely venture outside of The Golden Triangle

 

[Acker79]

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Woodingdean - a giant whistle
Moulsecoomb - a foot on tippy toes on the ceiling
Saltdean - a mouse struggling to do a sit up.

 

[Algernon]

I particularly like ‘The Royal Valley’ 10 points who can tell me where this little figment of someone’s imagination is ??

Does it belong to Norma, the barmaid at the King and Queen?

 

[Poyningsgull]

Played golf at Hollingbury today. Cold and windy to start, but beautiful in the afternoon.

 

[Chicken Run]

Beats me. But then I rarely venture outside of The Golden Triangle

 

[AZ Gull]

Did Oliver Postgate, the creator of the Clangers, ever live in Woodingdean by any chance?

 

[Eeyore]

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Odd that Albion Hill gets it's own area- especially as much of Albion Hill isn't included in it !

 

[Eeyore]

I didn't realise Woodingdean was shaped like a pecker and oversised scrotum.

That seemingly pissed out Whitehawk

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

"The Dean/Dene suffix on the end of a place name probably traces its roots back to the Old English word 'denu', which means 'a little valley'."

I suppose 'Rotting' means red, from the german 'rot'

(Bloody communists)

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

anyway, back on topic

 

[Super Steve Earle]

It's probably been asked before but I have a memory like a fish (and haven't read every thread ever) but what, if anything, does 'dean' mean? Brighton has loads of them - Hollingdean, Bevendean, Coldean, Withdean, Roedean, Woodingdean, Ovingdean, Rottingdean and Saltdean.

Patchdean?

 

[Is it PotG?]

Patchdean?

I had a goldfish called Patch.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I had a goldfish called Patch.

I had a goldfish called Bob. It could say its own name

 

[DarrenFreemansPerm]

Who used to play on The Green (aka The Moon) off Brentwood Road in....der, der, der........Hollingdean!

I played for Hollingbury Hawks as a nipper and it never dawned on me until now that we played our home games in Hollingdean.

 

[Wardy's twin]

Cheers. Interesting map. What happened to Roedean I wonder.

and that everything south of Warren road (school, cottages, community centre, Nuffield, Cemetery) are not in Woodingdean

 

[Silverhatch]

I played for Hollingbury Hawks as a nipper and it never dawned on me until now that we played our home games in Hollingdean.

First ever Hawks game was on the sloping pitches on Ditchling Road - just below the reservoir.

 

[timbha]

First ever Hawks game was on the sloping pitches on Ditchling Road - just below the reservoir.

Is that so? Early 70s?

 

[AK74]

First ever Hawks game was on the sloping pitches on Ditchling Road - just below the reservoir.

That was the original site of Hollingbury golf course. The clubhouse was situated where the nursery is now (opposite the entrance to Balfour Road).

 

[Super Steve Earle]

I had a goldfish called Bob. It could say its own name

Bob Uppendown?