General Dulwich Hamlet chat

[Joe K]

Any decent pubs in Haywards Heath en-route to BHT ?

Not around the station so far as I can see. A day return to Brighton on Thameslink is only twelve quid and I suspect you'd be able to get down, have a few drinks, head back to Burgess Hill, watch the game then head back to London using only the return ticket. It's about fifteen minutes, if that, from Brighton to Burgess Hill.

 

[Dulwich Mishi]

As I recall...there's no barriers at Wivelsfield, which is the station nearest to Burgess Hill Town's ground.

 

[Fingers]

As I recall...there's no barriers at Wivelsfield, which is the station nearest to Burgess Hill Town's ground.

That is true. I remember having to spend a night on the platform after a train screw up after a Fat Boy Slim beach gig in Brighton

 

[Joe K]

As I recall...there's no barriers at Wivelsfield, which is the station nearest to Burgess Hill Town's ground.

Good call, as I believe the saying goes.

 

[StephenMac]

Any decent pubs in Haywards Heath en-route to BHT ?

Terrible place for decent pubs. One good one but it's a fair old hike from the station.

 

[Lee Farmie]

The Watermill is a spit and a throw from Wivelsfield station and only a stroll away from Leylands Park (I refuse to call it the Green Elephants Stadium). It used to be a lot better than it is now and specialised in beers from the Isle of Wight. That's all gone now and the beer choice is a bit boring IMO. They've knocked a wall through at the back to accommodate a pool table for the local hobbledehoy but have mercifully retained the too-oft ignored bar billiards table at the front.

Worth knowing that Burgess Hill do normally have a Dark Star ale in their small clubhouse bar.

 

[Dulwich Mishi]

One thing I do recall from Burgess Hill Town, the last time we went there in 2012/13 was that they sold locally sourced amazingly delicious pies in the clubhouse..but they sold out very quickly once word got round. Hope they still do them.

 

[all to nah]

Are you definitely in for BHT, Joe K?

I had never been to Brighton and can imagine a Gatwick-Brighton-BHT-Brighton-Gatwick day out. Does anybody know, what time the last train from Brighton departures to Gatwick Airport?

 

[vicarofsibley]

Are you definitely in for BHT, Joe K?

I had never been to Brighton and can imagine a Gatwick-Brighton-BHT-Brighton-Gatwick day out. Does anybody know, what time the last train from Brighton departures to Gatwick Airport?

23:36 Jan, they're very frequent up until that point.

 

[Cyclodunc]

They've knocked a wall through at the back to accommodate a pool table for the local hobbledehoy but have mercifully retained the too-oft ignored bar billiards table at the front.

Bar billiards is a wonderful thing.

 

[Dulwich Mishi]

23:36 Jan, they're very frequent up until that point.

There's also an 00:10, which arrives at Gatwick Airport from Brighton at 00:38

 

[Joe K]

Are you definitely in for BHT, Joe K?

I had never been to Brighton and can imagine a Gatwick-Brighton-BHT-Brighton-Gatwick day out. Does anybody know, what time the last train from Brighton departures to Gatwick Airport?

I'm 99% for BHT. It would be ridiculous not to go, although I'm slightly wary of the fact that I've got a big article deadline the following week.

Brighton drinking would be very good - The Evening Star is just near the station and is a fantastic Dark Star pub. It's also, conveniently, my local. Someone's stuck an Edgar Kail sticker on a lamppost down my street so I assume that some of you visited it at Peacehaven away last season.

 

[twistyb]

Brighton drinking would be very good - The Evening Star is just near the station and is a fantastic Dark Star pub. It's also, conveniently, my local.

I love this pub. I have no idea how you get any work done.

 

[Joe K]

I love this pub. I have no idea how you get any work done.

Fortunately I inherited the protestant work ethic off one parent and Catholic guilt off the other. I am in there right now, though.

 

[Pink Panther]

As I recall...there's no barriers at Wivelsfield, which is the station nearest to Burgess Hill Town's ground.

You're allowed to break the return leg on a day return ticket anyway. If there are barriers I just ask the attendant to let me through.

The Watermill is a spit and a throw from Wivelsfield station and only a stroll away from Leylands Park (I refuse to call it the Green Elephants Stadium). It used to be a lot better than it is now and specialised in beers from the Isle of Wight. That's all gone now and the beer choice is a bit boring IMO. They've knocked a wall through at the back to accommodate a pool table for the local hobbledehoy but have mercifully retained the too-oft ignored bar billiards table at the front.

Worth knowing that Burgess Hill do normally have a Dark Star ale in their small clubhouse bar.

Even if the Watermill isn't as good as it used to be, I doubt you'll get anything significantly better in Haywards Heath. It's literally no more than fifty yards from the station, but in the opposite direction to the ground.

The Evening Star at Brighton is superb, and is only around a hundred yards from the station in Surrey Street, but it's tiny and will be completely packed if Brighton are at home.

 

[all to nah]

23:36 Jan, they're very frequent up until that point.

There's also an 00:10, which arrives at Gatwick Airport from Brighton at 00:38

Thanks a lot for your help - would have been a amazing tour for me! But I've checked my schedule before booking the flights: it'll be one of two Saturday evenings this year I have to work.

 

[Joe K]

You're allowed to break the return leg on a day return ticket anyway. If there are barriers I just ask the attendant to let me through.


Even if the Watermill isn't as good as it used to be, I doubt you'll get anything significantly better in Haywards Heath. It's literally no more than fifty yards from the station, but in the opposite direction to the ground.

The Evening Star at Brighton is superb, and is only around a hundred yards from the station in Surrey Street, but it's tiny and will be completely packed if Brighton are at home.

...which they are, to Hull, but it'll be early season with plenty of space out on the street. There's a number of other very good pubs within spitting distance in any case. Whitehawk are playing Maidenhead that day as well, so it could be a veritable, er, jamboree of football club supporters in the pubs around Brighton station.

 

[Joe K]

Thanks a lot for your help - would have been a amazing tour for me! But I've checked my schedule before booking the flights: it'll be one of two Saturday evenings this year I have to work.

Bad times. You should come over for Lewes on December 12th in that case - similarly easy for Gatwick and an excellent place for beer, so excellent, in fact, that it led to the memorable occasion when Mishi had to find my scarf, which I was actually wearing, for me.

 

[Thimble Queen]

Thanks a lot for your help - would have been a amazing tour for me! But I've checked my schedule before booking the flights: it'll be one of two Saturday evenings this year I have to work.

Sickie?

 

[Dulwich Mishi]

Hardly worth wasting a sickie for Burgess Hill Town away...there's plenty of games for him to choose from...

 

[Pink Panther]

Bad times. You should come over for Lewes on December 12th in that case - similarly easy for Gatwick and an excellent place for beer, so excellent, in fact, that it led to the memorable occasion when Mishi had to find my scarf, which I was actually wearing, for me.

Lewes is the best awayday in the division IMO, but at that time of year could be vulnerable to postponement. I wouldn't arrange to travel from Germany weeks/months in advance unless I was happy to switch to doing another match at short notice.

 

[sankara]

all to nah - when are the Altona fixtures out?

 

[all to nah]

Sickie?

It's getting harder to do it in times of the internet...



Pink Panther: I had a lot of luck with the weather in my life. I was over for the New Years Derby 2013, for example. It wasn't sure, if they could play, but it was on. The only two cancelled matches I ever travalled to outside Germany were at Cowdenbeath ten years ago and Istanbul this spring. And the later one wasn't really off, but played behind closed doors...

all to nah - when are the Altona fixtures out?

They're out, already. You can find them on the Altona 93 official site. But the best way is to check the official fixtures (if there'll be postponed matches, for example). Are you planing to come over?

As you can see the Lewes-match in on the same day as the last Altona 93 match before February 14th!

 

[sankara]

Thanks all to nah

 

[Lucy Fur]

Its about time we had a new team photo on the pitcheroo web site Cyclodunc , Larraine

 

[Cyclodunc]

Yes we're on the case. Going to try and set it up for next home fixture or nearest available date.

 

[Lucy Fur]

Yes we're on the case. Going to try and set it up for next home fixture or nearest available date.

Yay! Excellent

 

[EDC]

Yes we're on the case. Going to try and set it up for next home fixture or nearest available date.

.........must get in the background...........

 

[Dulwich Mishi]

Indeed there should be a new team photo...hopefully to be arranged when the new sponsors are on the new kit.

 

[Al Crane]

Any head shots being done?