An intricate scale model of the old Goldstone football ground is part of a fans' exhibition celebrating 99 years of Brighton and Hove Albion.

Seagulls fans have lent memorabilia from their own collections to form a personal illustration of a century of footballing highs and lows.

The Place To Be exhibition, which is being put together by the Brighton and Hove Collectors and Historians Society, starts at Hove Museum tomorrow.

Quirky stories and photographs will be on display, including an anecdote from Rosemary Deacon about how her father would take a homing pigeon to matches in a basket and send it home with the half-time score.

There is an original turnstile from the Goldstone ground, a programme from 1914 of the Albion FA Cup match against Clapton Orient, Albion car badges and even Albion beer.

Society property secretary John Whitehead said: "The club has been a large part of the local scene since 1901 and its history should not be allowed to die.

"We have a history to be proud of.

"We decided to put a scale model of the Goldstone in the exhibition because it was there for 97 years, although it was just a ploughed field to start with.

"It was a very traumatic experience for fans when it was sold for peanuts."

The exhibition will take visitors down Memory Lane to a time when it cost just a few pence to get into a game and wooden rattles and rosettes were all the rage at Goldstone.

The shirt won by Gary Stevens in the 1983 FA Cup final against Manchester United will be on display as well as personal treasures donated by fans.

The society has been busy making audio recordings of fans' memories which provide a fascinating insight into the agony and ecstacy of being a Seagulls supporters.

Mr Whitehead, 62, said: "It is not just about the club. It is also a social history of the century.

"It shows what you could eat at matches, how the crowds behaved."

The exhibition runs until November 12.