Deptford

[suzee blue cheese]

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.

 

[hipipol]

Brothers and Sisters, what is this world is coming to?

"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]

Since when has it been a 'pose' to eat Sushi?

Oh yeah, only in your head innit?

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]

I was in Deptford back in 92/93 when it was a really nasty piece of work...

My brother lived there in 1980/81!!!!

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 ...

 

[pinkmonkey]

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]

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.

 

[Choc]

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]

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]

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]

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.

 

[Orang Utan]

I've been staying in Deptford recently. If i was an evil estate agent, i'd call it the new Brixton, though I don't think it's as gentrificatable as Brixton.
I think I may have to settle round here permanently though. Brickers is too dear.

 

[Orang Utan]

Oh and the market is quite extraordinary.
The crap that people sell! It's almost like a third world market. I don't know how people make a living off it. My friend spotted a Staffie there with 'FOR SALE £15' spraypainted on it.

 

[boohoo]

Oh and the market is quite extraordinary.
The crap that people sell! It's almost like a third world market. I don't know how people make a living off it. My friend spotted a Staffie there with 'FOR SALE £15' spraypainted on it.

I love the market - it is serious crap - the only other like it is the waste market in Dalston and even that isn't as bad.

 

[Orang Utan]

The street drinkers in Deptford are legion. I've not seen owt like it anywhere else in London. There's always some drama going on with them, but they usually sort it out between themselves. There's hardly ever any filth about.

 

[Orang Utan]

I love the market - it is serious crap - the only other like it is the waste market in Dalston and even that isn't as bad.

There's one stall that sells half empty tubes of toothpaste and other used toiletries as well as what looks like the collective contents of those kitchen drawers everyone has where they ditch all the unwanted valueless crap like dead batteries and keys whose purpose is long forgotten

 

[boohoo]

You've also got all the blokes outside that betting shop. Have you seen the church with the huge stone skulls out the front?

 

[Greebo]

There's one stall that sells half empty tubes of toothpaste and other used toiletries as well as what looks like the collective contents of those kitchen drawers everyone has where they ditch all the unwanted valueless crap like dead batteries and keys whose purpose is long forgotten

WTF?

 

[oryx]

I vaguely remember this thread because of the 'TB caught from Deptford Creek' element.

(not for the guy who caught it obv).

I like Deptford - love the Dog and Bell and the High St. I'm biassed because my partner is from there.

 

[Orang Utan]

You've also got all the blokes outside that betting shop. Have you seen the church with the huge stone skulls out the front?

Which one? There are SEVEN betting shops within about 200 yards of each other!

Yeah, that's St Nicholas church. Wonderful inside too. I saw Pasolini's The Gospel of St Matthew there for free. Big up the Deptford Film Club!

 

[Orang Utan]

WTF?

Seriously! I would have taken a photo but didn't want to look like a poverty tourist

 

[Orang Utan]

There's also this fantastic sculpture of St Peter the Great, erstwhile resident of Deptford:

Not sure who the dwarf is.
I think I saw him in Resident Evil 4 though

 

[Greebo]

Seriously! I would have taken a photo but didn't want to look like a poverty tourist

I believe you. Just as well my camera's stealth black and has a silent setting.

 

[Belushi]

Always been a fan of Deptford, shame the Birds Nest Theatre doesn't appear to be going any more though.

Went on an interesting radical history walk of the area a couple of weeks ago.

 

[Orang Utan]

Was that the same one Ben went on?

 

[Belushi]

Yes, you were at your folks.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Always been a fan of Deptford, shame the Birds Nest Theatre doesn't appear to be going any more though.

Went on an interesting radical history walk of the area a couple of weeks ago.

If that was the transpontine one, so did i...

I did start a thread about it but nobody bit. I thought I was the only urbanite...

 

[keithy]

Lewisham is FAB!

 

[Orang Utan]

Wasn't much of a fan of it when I lived in Hither Green. I found both places rather characterless

 

[CH1]

An estate agent tried to sell us deptford as the "new Brixton.."

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.. He reckons he caught it from Deptford Creek.

Just think - in Elizabethan times, as well as duelling with Christopher Marlowe they could have topped it all with Malaria!

 

[gaijingirl]

just this minute watching the recent documentary on it... really interesting.