Barking isnt it.....brockley was OK but nothing special when I m,oved in - 2 huge bed flat back in 1995...the whole house was up for sale as 3 separate 2 bed flats ........guess how much £ the seller wanted for the entire house in flat form? ( He also offered the freehold for sale for £100 extra) ..................have a guess ?
is brockley bandit country?
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£150K for the lot incl freehold and about 200 ft of untamed 'Nam garden
NOw a complete house goes for £750K+
flats at £200K +
for fucks sake, this is Brockley, not Chelsea - I cant even imagine leveraging yerself to a £200K mortgage for a flat in SE LOndon - its utterly wank.
it will all come tumbling down. oh yes. as sure as eggs is eggs
NOw a complete house goes for £750K+
flats at £200K +
for fucks sake, this is Brockley, not Chelsea - I cant even imagine leveraging yerself to a £200K mortgage for a flat in SE LOndon - its utterly wank.
it will all come tumbling down. oh yes. as sure as eggs is eggs
StuPC
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We were living up t'road in Forest Hill/Honor Oak a year ago, but needed somewhere bigger and with a garden so we pottered about in Brockley quite a bit...but there was something about it I never really liked - it just seemed a bit drab and unadventurous, I think, no real soul to it, or anything especially lively going on, so we moved half a mile in the opposite direction. Same kind of price, but places looked nicer and seemed better taken care of, I thought.
Brockley isn't all a bed of roses. Lately there has been a spate of muggings in the area. Toe rags on bikes mainly, preying on lone pedestrians. The local petrol station was held up at gunpoint last month and there was a shooting on Wickham Rd. Apart from that it has been fairly quiet.
The conservation area is not a middle class as it sounds, not all the social problems are the other side of the tracks. There are few that walk up and down Brockely Rd.
Having said that, you have to have a sense of porportion. It is inner London and generally quiet with odd incidents that remind you that this is not the twee suburbs. Some of the streets are very leafy and the houses quite grand. While most of the population commute to the City and use it as a dormitory, there is also a boho community of musicians, artists and squatters made legal. There are a couple of places to hang out and read the papers. But not in the pubs, which are colonised by Neanderthal sports fans and addled alchies, Wetherspooning their lives away.
It is an interesting mixture.
The conservation area is not a middle class as it sounds, not all the social problems are the other side of the tracks. There are few that walk up and down Brockely Rd.
Having said that, you have to have a sense of porportion. It is inner London and generally quiet with odd incidents that remind you that this is not the twee suburbs. Some of the streets are very leafy and the houses quite grand. While most of the population commute to the City and use it as a dormitory, there is also a boho community of musicians, artists and squatters made legal. There are a couple of places to hang out and read the papers. But not in the pubs, which are colonised by Neanderthal sports fans and addled alchies, Wetherspooning their lives away.
It is an interesting mixture.
i'mnotsofast
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Brockley confirmed bandit country:
There were two shootings there last year, and the man accused of being the 'Night Stalker' serial rapist is from Brockley. But I walk around there at all hours and only once in ten years have I encountered any trouble, an unsuccessful attempt at a mugging on the footbridge by the railway station.
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I agree it is a nice area I think. My mate had a party where he set up a fireworks display on the top of his car. Drove it down Surrey Road in Nunhead. Had to bail out after one run when the police came. But there are some nutters around. A couple of weeks after the party my mate's sister was kipnapped by the local evangelical church because they believed that the devil had possessed her. Tried to perform an exorcism.
ska invita
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cheapest housing in zone 3-1 - mellow but dont expect any nightlife [even the snooker halls have shot down since the smoking ban] - there is none - i love it - and its lack of hipness is what keeps people away
id say the opposite - the kind of place you do get to know your neighbours - lots of people round here have lived here for years and stay and stay - nowhere near as transient as most places
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When the film crews fuck off long enough for there to be any proper entertainment like.....
When the film crews fuck off long enough for there to be any proper entertainment like.....
Ok its an old thread, but where are people from to be asking if Brockley is bandit country?! 
You cant swing a cat in the place without knocking into teachers and IT specialists. The place is lousy with latte drinking liberal twats.
If you want trouble try leafy Chislehurst after the pubs chuck out.
You cant swing a cat in the place without knocking into teachers and IT specialists. The place is lousy with latte drinking liberal twats.
If you want trouble try leafy Chislehurst after the pubs chuck out.
ska invita
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As of today Brockley is now synonymous with this piece of _____
Delroy Grant committed at least 146 crimes – including 23 sexual offences – after police missed at least three chances to catch him, it has been revealed.
The 53-year-old, dubbed the "night stalker", is one of Britain's most prolific sex offenders and is likely to spend the rest of his life in jail for carrying out what is feared to be more than 500 attacks on elderly people.
Delroy Grant committed at least 146 crimes – including 23 sexual offences – after police missed at least three chances to catch him, it has been revealed.
The 53-year-old, dubbed the "night stalker", is one of Britain's most prolific sex offenders and is likely to spend the rest of his life in jail for carrying out what is feared to be more than 500 attacks on elderly people.
I lived in Brockley for 6 months, Revlon Road. I can confirm its a shit-tip, although it does have some nice houses.
I remember going into a pub next to the station (other side of the tracks from the brockley barge) to watch a Champions League game, it was Celtic playing and I decided to leave quite sharply when a chant of "would you like a chicken supper bobby sands" went up. A total fuckhole which I'm glad to see has now been knocked down.
I remember going into a pub next to the station (other side of the tracks from the brockley barge) to watch a Champions League game, it was Celtic playing and I decided to leave quite sharply when a chant of "would you like a chicken supper bobby sands" went up. A total fuckhole which I'm glad to see has now been knocked down.
i'mnotsofast
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Brockley confirmed still bandit country:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...achete-wielding-man-wheelie-bin-Brockley.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...achete-wielding-man-wheelie-bin-Brockley.html
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