I hate Clapham
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electrogirl
dignity is overrated
'I mean, what is so italian about this pizza restaurant anyway?'
FridgeMagnet
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It's got borscht certainly. I think I had blinis the last time I was there. The mains, they have all goulash and that sort of thing. There was some starter that was basically bacon fat too.
I think they do sweetbreads but don't quote me.
I think they do sweetbreads but don't quote me.
bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
Onion marmalade? A basic? Blimey. I must not have been raised right.
But does that mean it's cheaper, cos I like a nice bit of onion marmalade. Although I eat it out the pot with a spoon as I haven't yet worked out what it's for.
bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
Angel is definitely worse. I actually feel tossed on just passing through, it's so wanky.
bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
Hear hear.
gaijingirl
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ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
When I used to live there despite having that 'media' reputation there wasn't anything poncey in Clapham. It wasn't all that long ago. It had grocers and second hand furniture stores. The sainsburys opened while I lived there and seemed pretty exciting because it had a massive video wall thing on the outside.
fjydj
is specified
abbeville road and old town and around clapham south were all poncey in the 80's... I lived off Nothcote road in the 1990's and that went from fairly shabby to very poncey over the decade.
by the way where is 'Daniel and I opened a cafe' ? googling it just references this post, I really want to see it
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
I lived in Clapham (corner of Elms Road and Abbeyville Road)
Now it's Abbeyville Village
Now it's Abbeyville Village
nothing poncey about clapham? were you pissed the whole time you were there? it is one of the ponciest places on earth.
abbeville road and old town and around clapham south were all poncey in the 80's... I lived off Nothcote road in the 1990's and that went from fairly shabby to very poncey over the decade.
by the way where is 'Daniel and I opened a cafe' ? googling it just references this post, I really want to see it
It's on the same side of the high street as sainsbury's but a bit further towards clapham north I think. It reeks of whimsy.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
This was 12-15 years ago. Read the post. I'm talking about Clapham high street in the past. No strange bars or cafes (on the high street), in fact barely anything at all.
g force
Affects Shatner's Basoon
That's simply not true is it....far poncier places in West, North and East London let alone, Madrid, Barcelona, Tokyo, LA, NY etc.
Is that Breads Etcetera?
Clapham High Street was quite shabby about 15 years ago. I remember the excitement when Budgens opened (now the Revolution Bar).
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
Yeah, it was a pretty ordinary part of South London. I only ever remember going there for the fireworks when I was growing up.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
Yep. When my folks moved out of Brixton they didn't dream of moving to Clapham, turning down a chance to buy a place by the common because it was a bit run down and a bad area apparently. And with the same money they bought a semi detached in blinking Mitcham. As property investment decisions go it was a corker.
Clapham's not all bad. It's arguably got more old fashioned shops and original traders surviving than Brixton. It just rode the gentrification wave a fair bit faster and noisier than elsewhere.
kabbes
First intersubjective, then internalised
I agree with this thread. Clapham is poncy and awful. But with added dreadful unauthenticiy. Residents are nothing like the rural set that they so desperately try to be, nor are they the edgy urbanites that they want to pretend to. It's dreadful.
Saying that, some of my best friends live in Clapham.
Then again, I'm with isitme generally on the whole London thing.
Saying that, some of my best friends live in Clapham.
Then again, I'm with isitme generally on the whole London thing.
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
I used to spend more time in Clapham than Brixton about 10 years ago when I was living on Acre Lane. The Common was more convenient for me and there were more nice places to eat than in Brixton. I found it fine then. The whole ''nappy valley'' thing was starting though.
re tags: there are some lovely people from cheshire.
re tags: there are some lovely people from cheshire.
I've lived dangerously close to what might be called 'Clapham borders' for a long time and what annoys me is that everyone there is either Australian or seems to wants to be.
I agree about the Pepper Tree, though - and it's a lot better since the smoking ban came in.
And 'Daniel and I opened a café' - everything about that is annoying, even the choice of verb conjugation. I might swing by on my way home tonight and have a look.
I agree about the Pepper Tree, though - and it's a lot better since the smoking ban came in.
And 'Daniel and I opened a café' - everything about that is annoying, even the choice of verb conjugation. I might swing by on my way home tonight and have a look.
onenameshelley
is Major Morgan's bitch
Would you say the junction is worse than the common or vice versa cos i like the junction the shops arent too bad and they still have a claires accessories which pleases me. And now a waitrose so i can get my nose studs and a wicked yummy cake all in 5 minute walk.
Would you say the junction is worse than the common or vice versa cos i like the junction the shops arent too bad and they still have a claires accessories which pleases me. And now a waitrose so i can get my nose studs and a wicked yummy cake all in 5 minute walk.
I think the junction is less worse. There's a weird little blip of normality near Asda and the department store, after the ponciness of Lavendar Hill and before the ponciness of the hill near the station.
It's got a TKMaxx too, don't forget that bit.
