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sunset spires and twilight woods
i suspect you are having a laugh.Groucho said:
a dark day for east enders...
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charlie mowbray
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From BBC East Enders site:Groucho said:
"Walford East is supposedly on London’s District Line.
It actually replaces the real station Bromley-by-Bow on the made-up map that's shown inside. "
So you're talking bollox, Groucho.
FridgeMagnet
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I don't think Newham's East End.
I don't think Walford's in the East End, either. It looks like some little place out on the arse end of the Central Line full of wannabes. One shitty pub, all the locals interbreeding and gossiping, not even worth gentrifying.
edit: they probably claim it's on the District line to sound classy
I don't think Walford's in the East End, either. It looks like some little place out on the arse end of the Central Line full of wannabes. One shitty pub, all the locals interbreeding and gossiping, not even worth gentrifying.
edit: they probably claim it's on the District line to sound classy
Pickman's model said:
It is all to do with the sound of the Bow Bells carrying on the wind. The East End has shrunk since the onset of the motorized vehicle and the erection of certain towering constructs. Not only does the sound of the Bow Bells carry a smaller distance, but the wind is funnelled by the Bishopsgate Towers away from North London - Hackney and along to Hoxton and on to Walford (which the BBC have erroneously placed in place of the real tube station at Bromley by Bow. Indeed they have placed the Queen Vic atop the very site of the former SWP National Office and SW printing Press. SWs page 12 once advertised a SWP public meeting in the Queen Victoria, Walford on 1 April.
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sunset spires and twilight woods
what was it supposed to be about?Groucho said:
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some south london shithole. bromley or orpington or st mary cray or somewhere like that. - terra incognita for me, i'm pleased to say.BarryB said:
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eh? hoxton's about as 'east end' as Old St!charlie mowbray said:
charlie mowbray
The Enforcer
Nah, she lived in Paris.
(I'll get my coat).
(I'll get my coat).
Pickman's model
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de what?BarryB said:
pianistenvy
Cycling for Sanity
charlie mowbray said:
yeah hoxton's N1, makes no sense why it's east end... as for the hoxton twats, having lived here for a few years, i think all the nathan barleys with dodgy mullets live in notting hill, and cruise over here for work/socialising before trotting back off to their trustafarian pads. perhaps
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whenever i've been to barnsbury - and until recently i went there on a regular basis - it didn't seem that posh.BarryB said:
maybe i was jost going to the wrong places in barnsbury.
Hoxton, Haggerston, Shoreditch and De Bouvior still have large numbers of council tenants many of whom are on benefits. De Bouvior and Haggerston also have some almost suburban posh roads. Side by side with the council blocks, some of which are in serious need of repairs, the usual pissed in lifts and syringe littered stairwells, are blocks of new flats run by housing associations in much better nick. These are often small flats occupied by employed people such as teachers, Civil Servants and other white collar workers. Some of the council flats have been bought by their long term tenants and some of these have been sold on. In addition there are luxury flats built along the canal. By and large the area is largely working class, but is more socially mixed than was the case a few decades ago.
In the 80s some of the empty warehouses were converted into art studios and the likes of Damien Hurst provided the area with a trendy up and coming image. Jarvis Cocker famously moved in to a block of appartments near Pitfield Street and sometimes drunk in the Bricklayers or the Red Lion when it was still good. The clubs and bars around Hoxton Square etc are geared to young trendies and are frequented largely by visitors to the borough. It now has a trendy image.
Many of the long term locals regard themselves as Eastenders. Many do not.
When I moved in to Hoxton in the early 90s the Rough Guide described the wonderful Geffrey museum as being 'situated in one of the less savoury areas of Hackney'! Obviously the area rapidly became the in place to be once I had moved in, but I left a few years ago to live in up and coming trendy Essex.
In the 80s some of the empty warehouses were converted into art studios and the likes of Damien Hurst provided the area with a trendy up and coming image. Jarvis Cocker famously moved in to a block of appartments near Pitfield Street and sometimes drunk in the Bricklayers or the Red Lion when it was still good. The clubs and bars around Hoxton Square etc are geared to young trendies and are frequented largely by visitors to the borough. It now has a trendy image.
Many of the long term locals regard themselves as Eastenders. Many do not.
When I moved in to Hoxton in the early 90s the Rough Guide described the wonderful Geffrey museum as being 'situated in one of the less savoury areas of Hackney'! Obviously the area rapidly became the in place to be once I had moved in, but I left a few years ago to live in up and coming trendy Essex.
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