ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Nunhead is fantastic.
Especially if the bitch is still wearing her wimple!
Especially if the bitch is still wearing her wimple!
Nunhead news and chat
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Pickman's model
sunset spires and twilight woods
the 78 takes you from nunhead to civilization
RubyToogood
RubyTwobikes
I go quite a lot to the Easycome acoustic club at the Old Nun's Head.
My impression of Nunhead is that it's perfectly ok, but nothing to write home about.
My impression of Nunhead is that it's perfectly ok, but nothing to write home about.
DeadManWalking
Active Member
I did hear page 2/Village Inn will be reopening soon
teuchter
je suis teuchter
It's a complete nightmare trying to get back from town to Nunhead on the night bus.
I lived there for a couple of months, inbetween living in real places, in a friend's spare room. She is a bit bored of living there but stays for financial reasons.
Someone mentioned tumbleweed earlier in the thread - appropriately.
The cemetery is its most exciting feature.
I think it's the sort of place you move to once you get old and boring, but not quite old and boring enough to move out of London altogether.
Apparently the fishmongers does very good smoked mackerel.
Oh and did I mention it's a complete nightmare trying to get back from town to Nunhead on the night bus?
I lived there for a couple of months, inbetween living in real places, in a friend's spare room. She is a bit bored of living there but stays for financial reasons.
Someone mentioned tumbleweed earlier in the thread - appropriately.
The cemetery is its most exciting feature.
I think it's the sort of place you move to once you get old and boring, but not quite old and boring enough to move out of London altogether.
Apparently the fishmongers does very good smoked mackerel.
Oh and did I mention it's a complete nightmare trying to get back from town to Nunhead on the night bus?
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
yeah - that struck a chord with me, too.
thing is, grinder and i want a place to start a family, and to me that means a private garden/yard if it is in any way feasible.
we just can't afford to live anywhere desirable.
fogbat
The Talibum
dynamicbaddog
run for your life
I've heard good things about The Ivy House pub on Stuart Road never actually set foot in there myself but I've seen posters advertising their comedy nights looks like it might be worth checking out
teuchter
je suis teuchter
yeah - that struck a chord with me, too.
thing is, grinder and i want a place to start a family, and to me that means a private garden/yard if it is in any way feasible.
we just can't afford to live anywhere desirable.
Well maybe Nunhead wouldn't be so bad if that's your plan.
In some ways the transport is quite good... trains to Victoria and Blackfriars, with option to change to the tube at Elephant. You are kind of reliant on the trains though. The ones from Victoria stop running relatively early. Getting back at night if you miss the last train is a real pain. (Especially on a weeknight when you just want to get to bed so you can get a reasonable night's sleep. While I was staying there this happened quite a bit and unless you want to fork out for taxis all the time, whenever you miss the last train you are in for an hour or two's journey back home.) The (343?) nightbus, which I found was pretty much the only useful one most of the time doesn't run very frequently and takes a rather circuitous route.
As for getting to and from Brixton - then there's the 37 which is OK and does run at night but only really takes you as far as East Dulwich/the top end of Peckham.
As I'm sure you know going east/west across South London isn't very easy by public transport - this got on my nerves a bit when I was staying in Nunhead because I wanted to come back and forth to Brixton a fair bit which I'd imagine you'd want to do too.
Pickman's model
sunset spires and twilight woods
i've always thought that that was a top plot by london transport planners
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
Gimme a nice house and a commute to some nightlife over a crap house a stumble away from a club any day.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
Transport-wise, things improve in the general area in time for the Olympics - phase 1 to Finsbury Park, phase 2 to Clapham J. One change will offer up most of London.
I suppose you'd be looking at Queens Road, Peckham or Honour Oak.
I suppose you'd be looking at Queens Road, Peckham or Honour Oak.
I moved there because the house had a decent view out of the kitchen and bedroom window to Crystal Palace. Everywhere else that I could afford gave a view out to a back yard full of stuffed bin liners or Calor Gas cylinders.
prunus
Tick tock.
yeah - that struck a chord with me, too.
thing is, grinder and i want a place to start a family, and to me that means a private garden/yard if it is in any way feasible.
we just can't afford to live anywhere desirable.
Careful of the primary schools round there then - you don't want to be in the catchment for Hollydale if you avoid it, from what I hear.
Biddlybee
making knots with sticks
prunus has a point... if your reason for moving is to start a family, then check out the schools round there - but you of all people should know this
Why not go up to nunhead one weekend, go the pub have a big walk round see what sort of a feel you get for the place.
It's easy enough to look up transport links on tfl, but getting a feel for a place, seeing what shops are around etc ifs different for eacdh person.
Desirable for who? Does that mean you can't afford to live somewhere more expensive? Doesn't necessarily mean it won't be more desirable for you iyswim. I'd have a look in New Cross Gate, up telegraph hill way and brockley too. Nice areas - know lots of people with young kids round there.
zenie
>^^<
yeah - that struck a chord with me, too.
thing is, grinder and i want a place to start a family, and to me that means a private garden/yard if it is in any way feasible.
we just can't afford to live anywhere desirable.
I can't believe you just wrote that
jaw
floor
boohoo
No.
yeah - that struck a chord with me, too.
thing is, grinder and i want a place to start a family, and to me that means a private garden/yard if it is in any way feasible.
we just can't afford to live anywhere desirable.
the thing is when you do start a family and you are at home with a baby, how far away are you from everything - family, friends, amenities?
Anyway, aside from Nunhead, what are the other options? I like West Norwood?Crystal Palace... any bits of that cheap??
DeadManWalking
Active Member
I say nothing.
It's easy enough to get back to Peckham late at night and Nunhead's only a 10 min walk but I see your point.
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
It's a shit point. I live somewhere even more suburban and dull than Nunhead. Within 12 mins I can be in the centre of town and can afford to have a lovely house and garden.
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
I can't believe you just wrote that
jaw
floor
sorry! should have written "desireable" <- like that, in scare quotes.
It was a response to people saying that Nunhead has less going for it than East Dulwich or Herne hill or Brixton. It's pretty obvious that they have nicer restaurants and more shops and better transport links, but we can't afford any of those places.
Lots of streets in south London fall into one of just two patterns:
Cheap off licence/the shop that's never open but sometimes there's a light on inside at night/internet cafe/cheap off licence/some shop that smells of disinfectant/minicab office
or
Poncy delicatessen/estate agent/estate agent/Gourmet Burger Kitchen/estate agent/some shop bankrolled by a millionaire to give his wife something to do so she doesn't run off with her personal trainer
Nunhead Lane around 1999/2000 had a more old-school 1950s feel, with shops that were actually useful for most people. Most of them are still there. There was an attempt to turn an empty shop into an 'art space' but luckily that didn't survive for long.
Cheap off licence/the shop that's never open but sometimes there's a light on inside at night/internet cafe/cheap off licence/some shop that smells of disinfectant/minicab office
or
Poncy delicatessen/estate agent/estate agent/Gourmet Burger Kitchen/estate agent/some shop bankrolled by a millionaire to give his wife something to do so she doesn't run off with her personal trainer
Nunhead Lane around 1999/2000 had a more old-school 1950s feel, with shops that were actually useful for most people. Most of them are still there. There was an attempt to turn an empty shop into an 'art space' but luckily that didn't survive for long.
DeadManWalking
Active Member
Where's that then? Is it walking distance to a town centre like Peckham?
DRINK?
bummed by karmachameleon
Now that Page 2 is no longer there is not much too it....lived in that pub for a couple of years ...as a place is a bit of nothingy though near to East Dulwich and peckham and quick to get most places....
I loved living there though the attraction was page 2, think Dick still owns it though the place has died a death
I loved living there though the attraction was page 2, think Dick still owns it though the place has died a death
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
Now that Page 2 is no longer there is not much too it....lived in that pub for a couple of years ...as a place is a bit of nothingy though near to East Dulwich and peckham and quick to get most places....
I loved living there though the attraction was page 2, think Dick still owns it though the place has died a death
nope
DRINK?
bummed by karmachameleon
for sure? he did buy the leasehold and was living above it last I heard....you in touch with the loveable old hobo? hows he keeping
DeadManWalking
Active Member
NUNHEAD HAS NO CHARITY SHOP!
Travisty
Travisty
DRINK?
bummed by karmachameleon
does have an old fashioned hardware shop though
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
for sure? he did buy the leasehold and was living above it last I heard....you in touch with the loveable old hobo? hows he keeping
i'm friends with an urbanite who knows/knew him well, and last I heard he'd definitely sold it.
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