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Goldstone Lane, HOVE, BN3 7RJ

For 95 years up to 1997, Brighton and Hove Albion fans walked up this lane to see their team play at the Goldstone Ground

All change here as Image has been demolished and is in the process of being replaced with a residential block of flats which are expected to be completed sometime in 2017. In the meantime Image can be seen to the left whilst to the right is the rear of Goldstone Retail Park occupying the site of the former south stand of the old Goldstone Ground.

On the corner of Goldstone Lane the building has been empty for a while.

Just over a century ago this was a farm track that served Goldstone Farm and Goldstone House. The farm was given up in the 1920s and the land sold for development. By then the Goldstone Ground had been constructed which was home to Brighton & Hove Albion until 1997 when a carpetbagging chairman sold the ground for personal gain. The site is now occupied by the retail warehouses in the distance. The houses on the right were built in the 1970s on the site of an old agricultural labourers cottage which had stood within the grounds of Goldstone House. The lane now connects Newtown Road with Old Shoreham Road, the A270.

A Peugoet dealership located on the bend of Newtown Road as it turns north towards Old Shoreham Road. The dealership stands on the site of the former Goldstone Barn that was built around 1798 and demolished towards the end of the 1960s after which the plot appeared to remain empty for a decade or so. See: Goldstone Farm in 1880 - http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume16/source/jg_16_073.html Goldstone Barn in 1968 - http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume16/source/jg_16_102.html

Located on the corner of Goldstone Lane it was built in the early 1900s but not opened until 1913. Known as St Agnes it became a parish church in 1927 until closure in 1977 after which it was used by Brighton & Hove Albion and later was converted into a gymnastics club which it remains today. The rear of Image is just visible to the left of the former church.

Houses in the former St Agnes church which opened in 1913 and closed in 1977.

In a former mission hall on Newtown Road. The club has now apparently closed at this site: https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/15239687.Director_had___39_no_other_option__39__but_to_close_35_year-old_gymnastics_club/

Linking Newtown Road with Old Shoreham Road (A270). The nondescript grey warehouses are part of the Goldstone Retail Park built on the site of the former Goldstone Ground, home of Brighton & Hove Albion. Consequently, up to 1997 the view would have included the South Stand and the East Terrace with enough of a gap to view the pitch.

This large Edwatdian house was built for the Clark family who once owned a large bakery nearby and were involved in the foundation of Brighton & Hove Albion, whose former ground the house looked out upon to the west. The bakery went bust in 1976 and the football ground was sold in 1997. The house has survived though has now been converted into flats.