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Its got trees, loads of cool non-commercial shit going on, a good street market with no crack dealers, no pissed up air heads from Clapham at the weekend, artists, musicians weirdos, old guys playing dominos in the pub, a shit rail service, a theatre where people put on PLAYS!!!!!
It feels a lot like Brixton used to in some ways, I feel the pull toward Lewisham again.............
Well yes to Deptford but Lewisham...!!! :eek: :(
ChrisFilter
22-05-2006, 09:24
Deptford is in Lewisham ;)
Donna Ferentes
22-05-2006, 09:26
Deptford makes Brixton look like Royal Tunbridge Wells.
Arent lots of yuppies who cant afford greenwich moving there now?
Andy the Don
22-05-2006, 09:47
An estate agent tried to sell us deptford as the "new Brixton..":eek:
We saw straight through him & moved to Hither Green.
A friend of ours is the head librarian at deptford library & he has been off work for the past 6 months with TB..:eek: He reckons he caught it from Deptford Creek.
Deptford is in Lewisham ;)
London Borough of Filter :mad:
Dubversion
22-05-2006, 09:53
i quite like Deptford - there is quite a lot going on. It can be a bit bleak and rundown but there's a lot of arty stuff and a good market and the like
pinkmonkey
22-05-2006, 10:01
I lived there a few years ago. I like the place, good market, walking distance to Blackheath and Greenwich. The St Johns conservation area is a really nice place to live and transport links are good.
i LOVE sitting on a barge in deptford creek(lucikly didnt get TB)
but sadly those parties dont happen very often:(
Streathamite
22-05-2006, 12:02
Deptford is in Lewisham ;)
"the london borough of", yes. but so is sydenham and forest hill
corporate whore
22-05-2006, 12:12
London Borough of Filter
There's a thought. What would such a place look like? :)
dynamicbaddog
22-05-2006, 12:32
Well yes to Deptford but Lewisham...!!! :eek: :(
nothing wrong with Lewisham town centre - it's got one of the best markets in London, and a few decent pubs as well:p
Have a burning need to get an SEXX postcode again
(No pun intended like!)
ChrisFilter
22-05-2006, 13:07
There's a thought. What would such a place look like? :)
Angels would probbably cry at it's beauty ;)
ChrisFilter
22-05-2006, 13:08
London Borough of Filter :mad:
Well, yeah :p
nothing wrong with Lewisham town centre - it's got one of the best markets in London, and a few decent pubs as well
:cool:
ChrisFilter
22-05-2006, 13:27
"the london borough of", yes. but so is sydenham and forest hill
and Brixton is in Lambeth.. Camden is in Camden.. the green lanes are in Haringey..
I saw my first live Sousaphone in Deptford - it rocked in a oompa oompa oompa-pa kind of way.
guinnessdrinker
22-05-2006, 14:06
nothing wrong with Lewisham town centre - it's got one of the best markets in London, and a few decent pubs as well:p
yes, but it's got that dreadful citybank skyscraper.
yes, but it's got that dreadful citybank skyscraper.
What better landmark for the stumbling drunk trying to navigate their way home?
PacificOcean
23-05-2006, 10:45
I had my first shag in Deptford.
As you were.
I grew up there and loved it. Hughes Fields Estate if fact. We got broken into twice and were forced to evacuate around 20 years ago. Is it still rough?
Dubversion
23-05-2006, 11:16
I saw my first live Sousaphone in Deptford - it rocked in a oompa oompa oompa-pa kind of way.
no you didn't.
That was Greenwich. The clue was the big park we'd just left that contained the Greenwich Observatory :)
It was definitely a sousaphone though, which is the important aspect of the post I feel.
dynamicbaddog
23-05-2006, 11:32
I grew up there and loved it. Hughes Fields Estate if fact. We got broken into twice and were forced to evacuate around 20 years ago. Is it still rough?
Not that rough these days, they did some major work on that estate a few years ago, put in security doors and that sort of thing..
Are there still running street battles with yoots from Peeps Estate?
If you find the 2 fuckers who kicked me off my Diamond Back BMX and rode off into the smog please say hello from me.
dynamicbaddog
23-05-2006, 14:02
Are there still running street battles with yoots from Peeps Estate?
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I dunno, I don't live on that particular estate, I just walk through it during the daytime sometimes, I've never been there at night:D but most of the estates in Deptford/New Cross are not the battlegrounds that they used to be:)
Place was very, very grim (for adults mainly) when I was a kid. Break ins in broad daylights, gang fights, coppers getting their bones broken, mate's brother stabbed outside the youth club and killed, smack used openly. I was too young to notice the terrible social deprivation and loved it. Used to spend my weekends in isleworth which seemed like another, far too peaceful, planet.
Anyone remember the Adventure Playground when it was in full swing (pun intended)? A mental place. Our flat over looked it.
I love Deptford. More than Brixton in a way, it's loads more chilled out....
And the Albany Centre is :cool:
suzee blue cheese
24-05-2006, 19:06
A friend of ours is the head librarian at deptford library & he has been off work for the past 6 months with TB.. He reckons he caught it from Deptford Creek.
Caught it from Deptford Creek - rotflmao... People catch TB from people
Fuck what the EAs say, having spent almost every Saturday morning in Deptford for the past year, and been to a few open studio type thingies, my admittedly superficial knowledge of Deptford puts me in mind of Brixton when I first moved here almost 15 years ago. Currently torn between a move to Crystal Palace area for the cleaner air and green spaces and Deptford for the arts spaces, proximity to the river and links into town.
"I'm liking Fujiyama less and less these days... I've been there twice recently n the service was crap and the food arrived late.
much better stick to ichiban suchi me thinks."
There is not one single Japanese "Pose" bar in deptfrod
There are in Greenwich
Spot thte difference?
kyser_soze
25-05-2006, 11:04
Since when has it been a 'pose' to eat Sushi?
Oh yeah, only in your head innit?:p
This thread makes me smile tho - I was in Deptford back in 92/93 when it was a really nasty piece of work...last time I was down there it looked more like Exmouth Market...
Yet another great example of reverse snobbery...
William of Walworth
25-05-2006, 11:20
I was in Deptford back in 92/93 when it was a really nasty piece of work...
My brother lived there in 1980/81!!!! :p :D
It was ultra rough in SE8 then, but the Albany had just opened and it was all pretty lively and interesting to someone like me very new to living in London, but you had to be careful going about then. I think kyser exaggerates wildly in how much it's gone upmarket since, Exmouth Market my arse! (Although I agree Deptford is nowhere near as rough as it used to be).
Does anyone know what happened to that squatted bakery in Deptford High Street that was running for a good few months 2 or 3 years ago? Or was it more?
Best pub in the area : the Dog and Bell -- top real ales ... :cool:
pinkmonkey
25-05-2006, 11:23
Caught it from Deptford Creek - rotflmao... People catch TB from people
Fuck what the EAs say, having spent almost every Saturday morning in Deptford for the past year, and been to a few open studio type thingies, my admittedly superficial knowledge of Deptford puts me in mind of Brixton when I first moved here almost 15 years ago. Currently torn between a move to Crystal Palace area for the cleaner air and green spaces and Deptford for the arts spaces, proximity to the river and links into town.
You should really look at St Johns. Re. restaurants, dunno if it's still there, but theres a wicked Vietnamese caff on Deptford Broadway.
kyser_soze
25-05-2006, 11:26
Two things I remember most about Deptford, both American Cab related...
1. Getting a cab to Covent Garden. Getting in and finding that none of the seatbelts worked properly and then getting out on Farringdon Road when the driver got us massively lost
2. Sharing a car with a Scots dude in the morning to go to Goldsmiths and him completley freaking out at the driver over having to pay half the fare (his argument was 'There are two of them so I should pay a third' at which point we jumped out and ran...)
AHHH, happy days.
i like the deptford market for its bargains.
however it is still quite a filthy place like so many other places in london, sorry. not a lot of appeal if you compare it to somewhere truley beautiful really. sorry.
my bf has got the smallest place just near there and it was damn expensive. in fact if that would have been my money i would be everyday dissapointed about the shite value for money.
argh i need to get out of this dirty old overprized city. :(
dynamicbaddog
26-05-2006, 18:03
Does anyone know what happened to that squatted bakery in Deptford High Street that was running for a good few months 2 or 3 years ago? Or was it more?
They were evicted sometime last year:( .
it opened up in 2002 so they managed to keep it going for well over a year:)
suzee blue cheese
27-05-2006, 19:42
You should really look at St Johns
*waves to PM*
Went up to take a look round this afty - didn't hang around long cause it was pissing down, but it's an interesting area to explore. Will definitely spend a bit longer when it's not quite so wet.
Haven't noticed a Vietnamese restaurant on the Broadway. Doesn't mean it isn't there, I just haven't been hungry enough to be looking. Saw one down the far end of Dept. High St today though. My dining experience round that way has so far been limited to the Tandoori Express, near Albany Sq, which does the best nan bread and chai ;)
May Kasahara
01-06-2006, 16:41
Anyone remember the Adventure Playground when it was in full swing (pun intended)? A mental place. Our flat over looked it.
Yeah man, I used to go there all the time as a kid, sprained my wrist falling off the plank walk, it was fucking ace.
I've always liked Deptford and New Cross - probably I'm just so unobservant I never noticed, but I genuinely never felt threatened there, even as a pissed up teenie walking around at 2 in the morning. Fond memories of going to the Albany Centre with my mum to watch lesbian panto and play in the soft room as a nipper, then a few years later spending every weekend drinking Newquay Brown at the Venue and trying to pull skinny indie boys...heaven.
Yeah, it's dirty and all, but that's London all over. If I moved back to London I'd be straight back to New Cross or Deptford like a fucking shot. Or Brockley, which is equally nice.
Would definitely recommend checking out St Johns as well, it is surprisingly sweet round there, if near to the uberfilth of Loampit Hill.
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