vanityvehicle
larrikin
Live on Wightman Road ... the longest, most winding ramshackle ratrun in London ... bang opposite the Greek Cypriot church where there will no doubt be a wedding tomorrow...
Finsbury Park. Manor House, Seven Sisters, Wood Green
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sally_sally
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We were priced out of Stroud Green area, which has really improved over the last few years. Some nice restaurants and bars and pubs and a nice villagey feel to the place without being too posh.
So we found more for our money on Green Lanes on the 'Ladder' towards Turnpike Lane. It's got its moments. I'm 10 mins walk from Crouch End which is over-rated in my opinion, but does have some nice coffee shops and eateries. Bit middle class feeling for me, but lots of people seem to like that sort of thing. We're also 10 mins from Wood Green, which is a terrible place, but sometimes you need to do that High Street shopping stuff (Game, Jessops, Top-Shop, Smiths, Woolies etc). And there are 2 (main stream) cinemas. Transport links are fantastic (as mentioned) including pic line, 2 overhead lines (including one that goes to moorgate in about 10 minutes). The Salisbury is a GREAT pub on green lanes, really nice period features and a good mixed crowd (young and old), with live bands and DJs at the weekend and a really good quiz on a Monday.
Green Lanes is well lit and there's lots of late night shops. Useful to be able to get a bottle of wine at 2 in the morning sometimesTurkish community are insular but non threatening and I feel completely safe walking around at any time of the day or night as does my other half.
Fins park within walking distance, Ally Pally a stroll away, Clissold Park a short ride and a nice park in Crouch End with a paddling pool for the kids in the summer - outdoorsy stuff is pretty good. Did I mention the Lido within walking distance?
If you're buying, you might want to consider St Anns ward - it's the other side of green lanes, deeper into to Tottenham which is less appealing. But you can probably get a house for the price of a flat. It's very early days, and a bit of a gamble, but it's ripe for regeneration/gentrification, and there's quite a few teachers/nurses types moving into the area as they've been priced out of Green Lanes. The Oakdale Arms is a good boozer in that area and has good beer and CAMRA type festivals on in the summer.
Vanity Vehicle, where are you in Turnpike Lane?
I lived for a period in Stamford Hill. It must be the most boring place. There is nothing going on. Stoke Newington was the only good thing about the place.
Sally
sally_sally
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Thats where I live now, the opposite side from Greek church, just up from the Mosque. I quite like it as its easy to get to places.
Sally
I'm on Falkland Road - which is just round the corner from said Greek church and Mosque. Maybe we should organise a Green Lanes meet-up.
There's quite a good local community if you've managed to tap into it. There's some kind of party most years (has been in the park and in the streets). One year we closed the street off to traffic and some-one had a projector and a screen and we all sat and watched Wallace and Grommit sipping wine and letting the kids run wild. It was good fun!
There's quite a good local community if you've managed to tap into it. There's some kind of party most years (has been in the park and in the streets). One year we closed the street off to traffic and some-one had a projector and a screen and we all sat and watched Wallace and Grommit sipping wine and letting the kids run wild. It was good fun!
cyberfairy
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Hollis
bloody furious
Walking distance to the Lea Valley innit.
trashpony
Hag
Turnpike Lane is an anagram of "internal puke"
finsbury park is krapy rub snif backwards
cyberfairy
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Was stoned flatmate using bin full of pizza leaflets as ashtray on way to pub accident
Missed the screen party as not lived there for years now-sounds good though. I remember Frobisher road could be dead unfriendly. I found a dead run-over cat on street once and knocked on so many doors to try and find out who it belonged to and no-one opened their door(cat was not in arms at time!) Made me want to leave London but then again our immediate neighbours were lovely-an old Greek couple who made the best dolmades for me.
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
I live in Turnpike Lane ... and love it. There's lots of green space around - Alexandra Park is a short walk away and is beautiful, especially during the summer, and a longer walk or bus takes you to Highgate Woods and Queens Wood, two of the oldest bits of woodland left within the M25. The parkland walk is a gorgeous place to ride a bike or just go for a walk.
There's great Turkish food and food shops on Green Lanes, cheap shopping around Wood Green, fancy shopping and restaurants in Crouch End, good restaurants and a couple of decent pubs in Hornsey... loads of proper butchers around and fishmongers etc
Also, living on the Piccadilly Line makes you truly pity other Londoners who have lines that are slow/broken half the time, plus there's the overground line into Moorgate/Old Street/Islington and King's Cross, which unlike most overground lines in London is fast, regular and well looked-after.
On top of which it's as cheap as most of south London. Don't be put off by the fact that the area around every Piccadilly Line stop feels dead and windswept, push back into some of the surrounding streets and there's some lovely places.
Ruddy heck! When did you reappear?!
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
i think it is
TrippyLondoner
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Whats the name of the book shop?
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
There are areas in South London you could make the same criticisms about if you want to be picky!
It's just what people are used to innit
Very true South London has some of the worst areas in London if not the country.
Nah - that's another H&M now.
It's on the road that used to lead to Ken's Cat's Cafe - Brockwell Park Road? (just north of the McDonalds).
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Stig
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