Hounslow

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"It was also where Hendrix played his first gig in the UK, the very night he arrived. In the Duke of Cambridge pub, near the bus garage."


Is that true!????

Can't see anything on the net.

 

[tim]

"It was also where Hendrix played his first gig in the UK, the very night he arrived. In the Duke of Cambridge pub, near the bus garage."


Is that true!????

Can't see anything on the net.

I think it's true, it's so improbable it's unlikely to have been made up.

 

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[pianistenvy]

Heston's particularly grim...

I grew up in Ealing. Everyone from Hounslow, Slough, Hayes etc used to come to Ealing for a night out. Carnage on the weekend!

 

[adsr]

I'm originally from next door in Feltham and that is far worse than Hounslow. It's full of whitetrash, BNP supporting racist scally kids throwing stones at each other. Thank fuck I don't have to walk through the high street late at night anymore.

 

[bluestreak]

it's f*cking miles from anything. it funnels you down incomprehensible one way systems through which HGVs belt through at unfeasible speed. it's full of crumbling decaying cramped drab victorian terraces which were ugly from the day they finished building them. I HATE the place.

it's funny but i find leytonstone a lovely place to live. gorgeous old victorian houses gone to seed, the forest and the flats, a handful of interesting pubs, a short hop into the east for playtime. a little closer to essex than i might like, and sadly chopped in half by that fucking road, but nevertheless a charming, character-filled place.

 

[bluestreak]

And Gant's Hill.

ye gods yes. gants hill was where i grew up. i watched it turn from aspirant community into hopeless recession-hit drabness throughout my childhood, and it never recovered. i get sick to my stomach just driving through it. it's just horrible. poor gants hill, you could have been a contender if it wasn't for the iron claw of the tories crushing the dreams of a generation of small-business running owner-occupiers.

 

[mod]

Poor adsr I feel for you. Feltham is indeed the bastard offspring of Hounslow. Mind you.....you've got cineworld now!!

 

[Streathamite]

I am working in the most unaesthetic unappealing location - right by the M4 flyovver, brentford railway station just over the road (and the bridge) only things to see are other soulless corporate towers and a truly awful block of flats.
if it weren't for the fuller's pub I'd go postal.
and, yup - London borough of Hounslow

 

[41132n]

Northolt. And Gant's Hill. And Feltham , and New Addington, and bits of Carshalton, and Silvertown. ......

Northolt ?

That's where people from Hayes want to move to..... [ I should know coz I did - in a roundabout way ]

 

[butterfly child]

Poor adsr I feel for you. Feltham is indeed the bastard offspring of Hounslow. Mind you.....you've got cineworld now!!

They're regenerating Feltham at the moment.. well, building loads of flats that no-one in their right minds would want to buy (who'd want to live in Feltham?) and doing up the shops in the "shopping centre".

 

[twilighteyez]

Northolt. And Gant's Hill. And Feltham , and New Addington, and bits of Carshalton, and Silvertown. In fact London is surrounded by a suburban belt (I should know, I live in it) of grey, dismal, squat, gloomy, rain-stained pebbledashed and fake-yorkstone-clad houses and tatty high streets full of charity and pound shops with litter blowing up the pavements and KFC boxes in the paved-over front gardens.
This was impressed upon me most vividly when, a few years ago, during a period of un-and under-employment I took a driving job to get me out of the house and keep me from using the heating at home. I spent most of every day driving around in it - about 80 percent of the outer London area is grim beyond description. God only knows what it must be like oop north..

I'd add Hayes to that list - just pure grimey!....And not even the edgyness of being able to say its 'the ghetto'!lol..........Just pure grimey.

Thing is, grimey areas aint bad if they have a bit of edge or character......like Southall for example.........But with places like we've been talking about, the problem is there just vast expanses of concrete nothingness!

 

[Streathamite]

Northolt. And Gant's Hill. And Feltham , and New Addington, and bits of Carshalton, and Silvertown. In fact London is surrounded by a suburban belt (I should know, I live in it) of grey, dismal, squat, gloomy, rain-stained pebbledashed and fake-yorkstone-clad houses and tatty high streets full of charity and pound shops with litter blowing up the pavements and KFC boxes in the paved-over front gardens.
This was impressed upon me most vividly when, a few years ago, during a period of un-and under-employment I took a driving job to get me out of the house and keep me from using the heating at home. I spent most of every day driving around in it - about 80 percent of the outer London area is grim beyond description. God only knows what it must be like oop north..

top post!

 

[MsDayglo]

To add to the Hounslow facts:

Elvis Costello went to school in Bath Road, Hounslow, to what is now St Mark's, but was then Archbishop Myers.

And Charles Hawtrey used to live down Cromwell Road.

I have a soft spot for Hounslow, having been born in Lampton (a relatively posh part, near to Osterley) but yes, it is a dreary shithole.

 

[tim]

To add to the Hounslow facts:

Elvis Costello went to school in Bath Road, Hounslow, to what is now St Mark's, but was then Archbishop Myers.

And Charles Hawtrey used to live down Cromwell Road.

He had the same elocution teacher as my father. She was my grandmother's best friend.

 

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Some other famous people that come from Hounslow...

Patsy Kensit (Hmmmm lovely), Jimmy Page and Phil collins

thought I'd share that with you all

 

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Just found this too but please don't ask why.

http://www.swingers2.com/swingers/Hounslow/genuine-swingers-Osterley.htm

 

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Fuck me! Check this one out!!

FUN IN HOUNSLOW

http://homepage.mac.com/davidclifford/

 

[pianistenvy]

Fuck me! Check this one out!!

FUN IN HOUNSLOW

http://homepage.mac.com/davidclifford/

christ! that web site is well scary! who the fuck are all those loons on it??!

 

[Sir Belchalot]

Some other famous people that come from Hounslow...

Jimmy Page

Heston iirc.

 

[miss giggles]

Fuck me! Check this one out!!

FUN IN HOUNSLOW

http://homepage.mac.com/davidclifford/

Good Lord

So that's why there's always Hendrix tribute bands at the Duke of Cambridge.

I'm heading down to Hounslows finest pound shops this week to do a bit of Christmas shopping, ssshhhhh!!!!

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Is there a more depressing area in London (or England) than horrid, horrid little Hounslow?

Hounslow West more specifically. Flat, grey, run down and depressing. The only positives I can think of are its close to Heathrow and has 3 tubes stations which act as convenient escape routes to civilisation.

You obviously haven't had the, um, pleasure of visiting Dagenham...

 

[butterfly child]

You obviously haven't had the, um, pleasure of visiting Dagenham...

Yeah, Dagenham/Hounslow - close call.

 

[mod]

Peckham (Rye Lane) is probably even scummier but at least you've got decent areas around you.

 

[Random One]

heh hounslow may be crap...but YAY we have snow!

 

[adsr]

Thank Christ, I just got back from spending Xmas with my father who lives in Feltham/Hounslow. Back to the warm smoggy, yet reassuring vapours of zone 1. mmmmmmmmmm

 

[rennie]

Peckham (Rye Lane) is probably even scummier but at least you've got decent areas around you.

peckham is very close to civilization. housnlow is miles away from everything. except heathrow. for a reason.

 

[tim]

peckham is very close to civilization. housnlow is miles away from everything. except heathrow. for a reason.

Yes, to keep philistine yobs like you away from all our beautiful parks and stately homes.

 

[rennie]

i aint no yob!

 

[tim]

i aint no yob!

Odd that someone so keen to promote unfair stereotypes about London's finest suburb, should be so sensitive about the judgements that others make about you.