Highgate

[ChrisFilter]

Jodal says:

"The girlfriend and I are thinking of moving to highgate with some friends of ours and I was wondering if anyone on here had any knowledge of that area. Any horror stories about the area? No go zones, nice streets you can reccomend, basically any inside information that you'd get from living there.

Thanks All"

 

[jodal]

Thanks Chris.

 

[zenie]

I dont get it could Jodal not post his own thread here or are you mega bored Filter??

 

[ChrisFilter]

I dont get it could Jodal not post his own thread here or are you mega bored Filter??

Just doing him a favour.. not exactly weird

anyway, Highgate!

 

[iROBOT]

I went to school in Highgate, hated the school, loved Highgate! Great place to spend on a Sunday afternoon in the pub.

 

[jodal]

Its obviously an area of London which merits lots of discussion.

 

[jodal]

I went to school in Highgate, hated the school, loved Highgate! Great place to spend on a Sunday afternoon in the pub.

Which school was it, one of the friends I am moving in with is a primary school teacher and wants a job near the flat.

 

[marty21]

used to visit people up there, and lived nearby, very pricy, but a nice area, good pubs, poncy shops (if that's what you want) pretty safe ime

 

[ChrisFilter]

"Will be very expensive to live there. Unless you go for the bit of "Highgate" that is actually Archway."

Eurgh, stay well clear of Archway, it's where people go to die.

From what I know, Highgate Village is lovely, as are the bits that are basically Hamsptead. The rest is a bit scratty but the rents are high because people like the 'label' of living somewhere posh.

 

[trashpony]

I used to live there. Very nice, quiet and leafy. The only dodgy bits as someone said on your other thread are the bits that are really Archway.

Oh and a mass murderer used to live on Stanhope Road - Crippen I think

 

[ChrisFilter]

Of course the major problem with the area is that it isn't Sarf London.. but alas I've given up on my quest to get Jodal down to Herne Hill, or even Cla'am

 

[lemontop]

I think it's a lovely area. Big hill quite expensive. Like others have said Archway is much cheaper. Havea few friends living in the Archway / Tuffnel Park bit who seem to like it

 

[Sir Belchalot]

Queen's and Highgate Woods are great.

 

[jodal]

Whats the seperating line between Highgate and Archway?

 

[trashpony]

Whats the seperating line between Highgate and Archway?

Archway is south of suicide bridge I reckon

 

[ChrisFilter]

Whats the seperating line between Highgate and Archway?

It's pretty hard to miss, it's where the unending gray concrete blocks of misery stop.

 

[trashpony]

It's pretty hard to miss, it's where the unending gray concrete blocks of misery stop.

Is that like the dividing line between Brixton and Streatham?

 

[Orangesanlemons]

Lived there for a few years and loved it. Nice pubs, chilled village atmosphere, lots of green spaces and a good community feel. The people are mostly sound until the evening, when the pubs do tend to fill up with monied fools.
On the minus side it costs a fortune. Lots of car/property crime too.

 

[girasol]

Waterlow Park is one of my favorites in London, and it's in Highgate.

Might have my birthday picnic in there rather than in Hampstead!

 

[Fluffaroo]

Pub quiz at The Boogaloo on a Tuesday night is apparently the stuff of legends...

Shane McGowan is a regular and other rock slebs have been known to show

 

[iROBOT]

Which school was it, one of the friends I am moving in with is a primary school teacher and wants a job near the flat.

It was Highgate Wood School, apparently it's one of the better ones now (I went in the early 80's).

There's no other place in London like Highgate....my dream is to own a gaff down there one day.....dream on

 

[rutabowa]

On the minus side it costs a fortune. Lots of car/property crime too.

it's really not very much to rent a lot of flats there, even some right near Highgate station. some friends of mine got a 2 bedroom flat for about 380/month each. it is very cheap for bedsits also. right about the car crime though.

 

[iROBOT]

Its obviously an area of London which merits lots of discussion.

Ok ... HERE WE GO....

Highgate is noteworthy for its Cemetery and Georgian architecture. It also the location of Berthold Lubetkin's two Highpoint apartments.

Historically it was part of the Bishop of London's hunting estate. The Bishop kept a toll-house on one of the main northward roads out of London. A number of pubs sprung up along the route, one of which, the Gatehouse, commemorates the toll-house. In later centuries Highgate was associated with the highwayman Dick Turpin.

Highgate Hill, between Archway and Highgate village, was the route of the first cable car to be built in Europe. It operated between 1884 and 1909.

In recent years famous inhabitants have included J. B. Priestley, Yehudi Menuhin (and later Sting who bought Menuhin's old house), Sir Jacob Bronowski, Stanley Baxter, Terry Gilliam, Jonathan Pryce, and Victoria Wood. Highgate Cemetery is the burial place of Karl Marx, Faraday, Douglas Adams, George Eliot, Jacob Bronowski, Sir Ralph Richardson, and Radclyffe Hall. Adjacent to the cemetery is the Holly Lodge Estate, one of only two housing estates built in the UK for single women and formerly the home and grounds of Baroness Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts.

This is from Wiki.....there's more if you want???

 

[ChrisFilter]

Is that like the dividing line between Brixton and Streatham?

Dunno, rarely head up to the South Circular.. never been to Streatham! It's all nice up there though innit, or does Brixton Hill get worse further up?

 

[rennie]

Brixton stops at the south circular. everyone knows that! except estate agents.

 

[ChrisFilter]

Brixton stops at the south circular. everyone knows that! except estate agents.

Yeah, I know, I don't remember it being concretey though?

 

[jodal]

Yeah, I know, I don't remember it being concretey though?

Ahem, derail alert.

 

[El Jugador]

Just nobody mention the vampire

 

[jodal]

Just nobody mention the vampire

 

[ChrisFilter]

Just nobody mention the vampire

Nah, that's only Sal, she looks a bit iffy in the mornings