Postcode wars

[Orang Utan]

I was only half joking. Waitrose has been opened as part of a huge new development of yuppyscum shoeboxes. It's in Deptford but most people who live in Deptford can't afford to shop there, and Greenwich people who live in huge Georgian houses and have inherited all of their furniture shop there.
I'm sure there were grumblings before but this has forced the issue, leading to silly newspaper articles.
Here are blogs, which explain the issue and why the objectors are silly arses who don't understand that there is no borough of Deptford

http://transpont.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/tensions-rise-as-deptford-secessionists.html?m=1
http://853blog.com/2014/02/22/postcode-plotters-eye-escape-from-deptford-to-greenwich/

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Here's the Richmond one, and it's Whitton, not Twickenham as I mentioned before

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/lond...dents-fight-for-richmond-address-9095158.html

 

[komodo]

I'm in Se19 but it's Se21 at the bottom end of my road. So annoying dahlings. Meanwhile the local campaign to rename 'Sydenham Hill' station 'South Dulwich' rumbles on. Roll on the day I can truly say I live in Dulwich!

 

[yardbird]

It's not a new thing (not that I see anyone here claiming it was) - think of 'Clapham' Junction, actually in Battersea. At the time Clapham was desirable & Battersea rough as a dog's arse.

When I moved to that area in 1984, I'd say Battersea was the more desirable - it was seen as 'up and coming' whereas Clapham was somewhere stuck down the end of the Northern line. How times have changed.

In the 60s I went to a (non fee paying and single sex then) public school on Battersea Rise http://www.emanuel.org.uk/.
We were told it was Emanuel School Wandsworth, so as not to say the B word ffs.
Even worse it was only a spit from Clapham Junction, an area to be whispered from behind a hiding hand.
Nothing changes ffs.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

There are people in Whitton doing the same as those in Deptford and trying to get a Richmond post code...
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/lond...dents-fight-for-richmond-address-9095158.html

I lived in Whitton for a while, and whilst there is a touch of snobbery about not wanting to be in a Hounslow postcode, there is also the fact that Whitton is in LBRUT, yet the TW3 postcode means their kids get selected for Hounslow schools and insurance premiums are higher. If you have to put up with Vince Cable as your MP, you should at least get some benefits from coughing up the extra council tax for LBRUT.

 

[cybertect]

Not exactly postcode but I once lived in a Cardiff street in a place called Splot. If you lived above this main road you were in Roath, which was desirable, below the road was Splot which wasn't. A few people who actually lived in Splot used to claim they lived in Roath, the snobs!!

I looked at a house in Splott at the end of my first year at Uni In Cardiff in the mid 80s. Tempted to take it just for the brilliant address: 15 Railway Street, Splott. That and the fact the rent was only £11 a week.

It was, unfortunately, a shit hole with no working heating and mould up the walls. We found a place on Colum Road, just a couple of minutes walk from our building in Cathays Park for £15 a week and went there instead.

 

[weltweit]

I looked at a house in Splott at the end of my first year at Uni In Cardiff in the mid 80s. Tempted to take it just for the brilliant address: 15 Railway Street, Splott. That and the fact the rent was only £11 a week.

It was, unfortunately, a shit hole with no working heating and mould up the walls. We found a place on Colum Road, just a couple of minutes walk from our building in Cathays Park for £15 a week and went there instead.

Sounds like the grotty place I had, damp, a sort of outside shower, a bedsit really, Adamstown I suppose but I preferred Splott also

 

[ddraig]

cybertect - i was in that area earlier today!
weltweit - didn't know you'd lived around here, i am strictly Roath side of the main road but live off Clifton st for a while

 

[weltweit]

weltweit - didn't know you'd lived around here, i am strictly Roath side of the main road but live off Clifton st for a while

My first proper job was near Cardiff, I lived in Splott / Roath areas for a few years. I enjoyed living in Cardiff and would certainly live there again.

 

[cybertect]

I suppose but I preferred Splott also

It had its upside - ISTR there were plenty of student nurses round Splott

 

[weltweit]

Just looking at Cardiff in Google Maps to see if I can remember my way around, I think I remember City Road and Albany Road for shopping perhaps .. heck, it was probably 28 years ago Does Chapter still exist?

 

[cybertect]

Just looking at Cardiff in Google Maps to see if I can remember my way around, I think I remember City Road and Albany Road for shopping perhaps .. heck, it was probably 28 years ago

About the same time as I was there (85-90).

Albany Road was always good for shopping. There was a guy that seemed to spend summer afternoons standing in the middle of Death Junction (City Road/Albany Road) shouting loudly at the traffic.

Does Chapter still exist?

Certainly does.

http://www.chapter.org

Apols for the Cardiff digressions

 

[ddraig]

city rd and albany road still good for shopping and busy too
Chapter is going strong, had a massive refit and is huge downstairs with inside and outside space as well as upgraded facilities upstairs.
decent selection of drink but can be bloody expensive!
www.chapter.org

e2a cybertect!

 

[weltweit]

I am embarrassed to admit that I was only once in the Arms Park, and that was not for Rugby, rather it was to watch Frank Bruno v Lennox Lewis! .. It didn't last very long..

ETA: But I did on occasion get plastered in St Mary's street ending up in a curry house at gawd only knows what o'clock ...