View Full Version : Reasons to live in the unlikely parts of london
No 1 - Homerton.. shed loads of greenspace.. lea valley, pubs on the canal, Victoria park, decent local boozers..
bluestreak
29-08-2007, 21:54
what's unlikely about homerton?
Or sould I say unfashionable.. or places with still relatively low property prices..or places which aren't generally top of peoples places to live i.e. generally places which don't attract a massive market demand.
Or specifically I'd like to hear what's good about different areas okay..
bluestreak
29-08-2007, 22:00
allowed.
as you were.
trashpony
29-08-2007, 22:04
Wembley. Err ... fancy new building to make for more exciting skyline, close to ikea?
:confused:
Wembley. Err ... fancy new building to make for more exciting skyline, close to ikea?
:confused:
This is hardly a major quality of life thing is it?
No 1 - Homerton.. shed loads of greenspace.. lea valley, pubs on the canal, Victoria park, decent local boozers..
Bits of Homerton are rather overpopulated with looming council estates.
(Is Victoria Park really Homerton? Is this estate agents lies, like calling Clapton Stoke Newington?:confused: )
It is within walking distance of Victorian Park..
It is within walking distance of Victorian Park..
So is Clapton, so is Islington....:confused:
I infer a 10 minute or so stoll.. if we are getting into specifics here..
So that makes Clapton and Stokie the same area.... they are 10 mins apart....
Some very nice property going by the canal atm.. problem is the Olympic development the other side.. 5 years of building development.. I dunno, I really don't.
:(
So is Clapton, so is Islington....:confused:
no way is clapton islington:mad:
we is not gentrified in clapton and we want to stay that way thank you:)
So that makes Clapton and Stokie the same area.... they are 10 mins apart....
Well... you could say a good reason to live in Wood Green, is that you can stroll up to Ally Pally.. take in the grounds and view, look at the deer etc..
no way is clapton islington:mad:
we is not gentrified in clapton and we want to stay that way thank you:)
We ARE not gentrified in Clapton....
uneducated east london types...
Well... you could say a good reason to live in Wood Green, is that you can stroll up to Ally Pally.. take in the grounds and view, look at the deer etc..
Good view up there.... shame about when you have to come down from the hill....:(
muckypup
29-08-2007, 22:33
no idea why anyone would live in homerton. The place should be bulldozed to the ground :D
Homerton was rather affluent at one time in history. Unfortunately the majority of fine house got bombed during the war or bulldozed in the 60s.
We ARE not gentrified in Clapton....
uneducated east london types...
we haven't been educated m'lady:(
what's unlikely about homerton?
That Frodo will ever return...
Bits of Homerton are rather overpopulated with looming council estates.
(Is Victoria Park really Homerton? Is this estate agents lies, like calling Clapton Stoke Newington?:confused: )
I used to live on the top floor of one of those huge blocks. The view was amazing - The City out to one side and Canary Wharf out of the other. The flats are huge and the lifts only smell of piss a bit.
Victoria Park is nearer Homerton - it's just down the road from the Big Blocks. Literally, at the end of the road.
My main problem with Homerton was that I didn't know how to pronouce it :D. I wasn't there for long, and moved .7 of a mile away to Clapton. Homerton is Hackney and Hackney is great :)
My main problem with Homerton was that I didn't know how to pronouce it :D. I wasn't there for long, and moved .7 of a mile away to Clapton. Homerton is Hackney and Hackney is great :)
I call it Hommie-town. I call Hackney - Hacker-ney and Clapton - Clapper-ton.
( I am easily amused.):rolleyes:
trashpony
30-08-2007, 11:00
This is hardly a major quality of life thing is it?
No it isn't but I couldn't think of anything more positive to say. I was being helpful - giving you ideas :)
I call it Hommie-town. I call Hackney - Hacker-ney and Clapton - Clapper-ton.
( I am easily amused.):rolleyes:
I've taken to calling Hackney Hackers, that's cuz I'm a tosspot :cool:
bluestreak
30-08-2007, 12:05
I've taken to calling Hackney Hackers, that's cuz I'm a tosspot :cool:
Ommertun and Ack-knee are the correct pronounciation. Hackers FFS :mad:
Downham....(almost as good as Penge!)
Nice little cottage style housing (ex council) was cheap up until last year ;), now prices rising fast. Close to Bromley shopping centre :) lots of trees, massive gardens, loads of facilities, properly working class, 20mins on train to London Bridge, new leisure centre, clean air, not far from Penge, close to the countryside, close to the inner city, well built housing...see below.
i love it!!
http://www.ideal-homes.org.uk/images/lewisham/downham/durham-hill-01579-350.jpg
Doesn't Downham have a lovely collection of Pre-fabs?
no...
is it that they are not lovely or they don't exist?
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/406260
I've never seen them, so presume they are no longer there??
I've never seen them, so presume they are no longer there??
They plan to knock them down so maybe they have already...:(
I can assure you all that the pre-fabs are still there! The gardens are always lovely. The bus route 284 services them.
There were a couple of bus routes which refused to serve Downham actually, some local kids terrorised the drivers and passengers.
Yeah its a bit sketchy there at times....:)...:(
I blame the Eltham kids ;)
I think its the name though! It has to be the one of the worse place names in London
tsk...I thought Penge was worse actually...
littlebabyjesus
30-08-2007, 12:48
Nunhead has beautiful cemeteries. :)
It's suburban and zone 2.
LBJ, you are totally right, Nunheads the fuckin Nuts, its wonerful and we have parrots, well ring necked parakeets to be strict about it, what with all the crows we just need a few monkeys, a bit of sun and you could pretend you were in Dehli, well except for the lack of lots of other elements, but with the eyes shut, etc......
Anything East or South of Catford bridge is a pile of utter crap - lovely prefabs full of asbestos not withstanding, packs of feral, underfed inbred children roam the streets in packs, all clad in knock Nike shellsuit type bollocks. The people are obviously left over from some lost offshoot of Neanderthal, only lacking the brow ridge because they have learned how to file them down with angle grinders to reduce chances of indentification and consequent confinement in a Zoo - though how the fuck be able to tell the difference I dont know - that part of the world, reaching as it does into Kent, with the joys of Dartford on the river and Bromley inland and causes a riple of aprehension at its very mention, lost mad world of the barely human it makes me want to introduce post-natal abortion( up to 30 years should about do it) as a pest control method.
Bleak
spanglechick
30-08-2007, 15:21
LBJ, you are totally right, Nunheads the fuckin Nuts, its wonerful and we have parrots, well ring necked parakeets to be strict about it, what with all the crows we just need a few monkeys, a bit of sun and you could pretend you were in Dehli, well except for the lack of lots of other elements, but with the eyes shut, etc......
Anything East or South of Catford bridge is a pile of utter crap - lovely prefabs full of asbestos not withstanding, packs of feral, underfed inbred children roam the streets in packs, all clad in knock Nike shellsuit type bollocks. The people are obviously left over from some lost offshoot of Neanderthal, only lacking the brow ridge because they have learned how to file them down with angle grinders to reduce chances of indentification and consequent confinement in a Zoo - though how the fuck be able to tell the difference I dont know - that part of the world, reaching as it does into Kent, with the joys of Dartford on the river and Bromley inland and causes a riple of aprehension at its very mention, lost mad world of the barely human it makes me want to introduce post-natal abortion( up to 30 years should about do it) as a pest control method.
Bleak
heh - nevermind me (Bexleyheath originally), you should be warned that you;ve just disrepected the 'hood of onenameshelley, a Belvedere lass. I'd be very afraid - she's scary...:eek:
Tanners Hill. Brockley conservation area to run in, Deptford market down the road, tube/DLR/train, increasing amount of decent bars and a fantastic Victorian local with no music or TV. All this and an underground garage and roof terrace with views over London for £620 per month :-)
Tanners Hill. Brockley conservation area to run in, Deptford market down the road, tube/DLR/train, increasing amount of decent bars and a fantastic Victorian local with no music or TV. All this and an underground garage and roof terrace with views over London for £620 per month :-)
and very nice that flat is too ;)
Are you stull there then? :eek: :D
I was engulfed in a wave of fear the minute I posted it - I had visions of being stomped into ribbon-ness by the Kidbrooke Massive, but the warning you give leads to even greater horror!!!!!!!!
I think I'd better get my will together pronto!!!:D
Ommertun and Ack-knee are the correct pronounciation. Hackers FFS :mad:
I sound worse when I try to say 'Ackney, believe me.
Downham....(almost as good as Penge!)
Nice little cottage style housing (ex council) was cheap up until last year ;), now prices rising fast. Close to Bromley shopping centre :) lots of trees, massive gardens, loads of facilities, properly working class, 20mins on train to London Bridge, new leisure centre, clean air, not far from Penge, close to the countryside, close to the inner city, well built housing...see below.
i love it!!
http://www.ideal-homes.org.uk/images/lewisham/downham/durham-hill-01579-350.jpg
Just remembered! The roads around that estate are named after Camelot and Arthurian legends!
Fab!
Thamesmead.
1) Nature reserve
2) Lake with herons
3) Easy to get to Plumstead and Woolwich
4) Bostal woods and Lesnes Abbey just up the road.
Sweet :cool:
ChrisFilter
30-08-2007, 16:38
That Frodo will ever return...
:D:D:D Ha!
I was engulfed in a wave of fear the minute I posted it - I had visions of being stomped into ribbon-ness by the Kidbrooke Massive, but the warning you give leads to even greater horror!!!!!!!!
I think I'd better get my will together pronto!!!:D
oi! I grew up on the kidbrooke estate!
you're well dead u are...
oi! I grew up on the kidbrooke estate!
you're well dead u are...
Kidbrooke should be twin towned with Thamesmead :cool:
bluestreak
30-08-2007, 18:57
I sound worse when I try to say 'Ackney, believe me.
does one not have the voice for dropped Hs then?
i'm trying to teach a well spoken lass i know to say innit like normal people but she just can't seem to grasp the sharp consonants :(
Kidbrooke should be twin towned with Thamesmead :cool:
No way! Thamesmead is a dump...:D
Just remembered! The roads around that estate are named after Camelot and Arthurian legends!
Fab!
walked through there the other night, grim mate :p
first place i moved to in ldn was bromley, never liked it since really :)
i can see what cesare is saying there n all :D
Miss-Shelf
30-08-2007, 21:52
We ARE not gentrified in Clapton....
uneducated east london types...
put still pricey in regards to the op proposition
does one not have the voice for dropped Hs then?
i'm trying to teach a well spoken lass i know to say innit like normal people but she just can't seem to grasp the sharp consonants :(
:D One doesn't, no. I say innit a lot, but I probably sound really affected :rolleyes:
walked through there the other night, grim mate :p
first place i moved to in ldn was bromley, never liked it since really :)
i can see what cesare is saying there n all :D
Lots of people dont like Bromley, it can be fairly souless: ugly new buildings, the traffic system, middle managers and their god awful wives and daughters, each thinner than the next. It can be laddy too.
But in truth I dont mind it. I get what I need from Bromley- its great shopping and there are plenty of restaurants and bars.
I dont often socialise there though.
There are some good schools and wonderful homes, roads to rival anything you'd find in the posher bits of London.
and very nice that flat is too ;)
Are you stull there then? :eek: :D
heh heh yes! Got over a few hiccups last year.
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