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maximilian ping said:
I love SN, but it is full of very rich people pretending to be hobo's and also full of the mung bean munching brigade
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Has always been thus. I remember an Alexei Sayle radio sketch I had on a tape about 20 years ago where he goes "People from Stoke Newington are just so terribly trendy. They actually knit their own yoghurt. 'Yeah, I actually grow me own denim'."

Plus ca change...
 
Jazzz said:
Church St. is pretty trendy and well-to-do. lots of clothes shops, thai/indian/mexican restaurants and no supermarkets (not counting fresh and wild, which people will dress up to go into). The high st that goes south towards Dalston is a more usual high st, well supplied with meditarranean restaurants and cafes. Check where you are, towards Stamford Hill, it has a Jewish feel. Towards Finsbury Park, it's pretty nice big peaceful nice houses. Towards Clapton, well... it gets a bit less fancy.
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There is another super market but it's heading towards Stamford Hill, - Morrisons. One thing I dislike about Stokie is parking outside homes. Can never get a parking space.
 
I go to Stokie Cemetary almost everyday for a smoke and to relax.I don't think I would have stayed sane in Hackney without that nearby retreat.
 
It's fucking quick to get there by tube if you take the right fucking route. My fucking sister fucking lives there, so I should fucking know, alright? Never, ever do the obvious thing which is to get the cunting shitbox Northern line to Angel and then the dry heave 73. NEVER DO IT. The traffic on Essex Road will make you want to take your own life. Jet to Finsbury Fucking Park on the superspeedy sexpot Victoria Line and change to the Piccadilly Line northbound. There's no motherfucking stairs or tunnels, just trot 10 yards to the adjacent platform. You'll have to wait about a minute or less. Then you go one fucking stop to Manor House - takes 18 seconds. Then there are shedloads of buses south on Green Lanes. They all go to Clissold Park. Easy peasy. Not an unpleasant journey at all. (Except for last week when some arsewipe put temporary lights at some roadworks near Clissold Cunting Park.:mad::mad:)
 
haven't been there for a couple of years, there was a nice fish shop on the high street just south of the junction with church street - is that still there?

nice turkish bakery across from it too - the very thin flat breads with a spinach filling were smashing.:)

the high street good for food shopping generally, get some good priced cuts of mutton especially.
 
I lied my way brilliantly into a job in The Bird Cage on Stamford Hill on my first broke and desperate foray to the London a good while back. What's it like now? Still shit?
 
copliker said:
I lied my way brilliantly into a job in The Bird Cage on Stamford Hill on my first broke and desperate foray to the London a good while back. What's it like now? Still shit?
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Well, it's still there but I've never been in myself - I thought it was supposed to be ok? I understand they have a DJ night and the 'clientele' I've seen sitting outside in the summer look a decent crowd. It's a lovely building.
 
blossie33 said:
Well, it's still there but I've never been in myself - I thought it was supposed to be ok? I understand they have a DJ night and the 'clientele' I've seen sitting outside in the summer look a decent crowd. It's a lovely building.
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Well when I was there it was usually empty for most of the day and DJ night consisted of a couple of blokes playing Chas & Dave nonsense on Fridays. The guvnor was a massive pisshead wanker, probably long gone. It is a lovely building yep.
 
copliker said:
I lied my way brilliantly into a job in The Bird Cage on Stamford Hill on my first broke and desperate foray to the London a good while back. What's it like now? Still shit?
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It's been through a few changes of management. Used to be a right old dive :cool:.

then taken over by the people that run the place on the corner of Church Street and the High Street (which used to be bar lorca but I can never remember what it's called these days).

They did it up quite nicely and had a great selection of people working there. I had my ten year anniversary bash upstairs.

Then last year it was sold on again to some other people who I think are turkish? It's gone downhill a teeny bit since, but nowhere near its state in the mid 90s. I rate it for a quiet pint.
 
Fozzie Bear said:
Then last year it was sold on again to some other people who I think are turkish? It's gone downhill a teeny bit since, but nowhere near its state in the mid 90s. I rate it for a quiet pint.
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Yep, friendly Turkish management, loads of cool Turkish lamps inside and they now do a Sunday roast. I always rate it for a midweek pint or two.
 
I lived on the High Street just across from the Police Station in the 90s and loved it. The Turkish bakery chaps used to throw us baked goods across the flat roof between us and them. One of the best things (being quite greedy) was how you could eat cheaply and well and with such variety. There was a pub where they had music and free roast potatoes and yorkshires on sundays and we used to put all the Ken and Barbie dolls in Wollies in compromising positions (yep, juvenile) on the way home. Never boring. I loved the cemetery but a couple of years back I had to entertain a research group in London for the day and decided to take them to Stokey and visited the churchyard forgetting that it was a bit of a cruising area. I think some of the non UK people in the team thought we had some pretty unusual graveyard rituals. I lived in W8 after that - no where near as much fun as Stoke Newington.
 
Belushi said:
Apparently it's been invaded by 'vagrants, druggies and thieves'

http://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news/crime-court/grim_stokie_drugged_up_graveyard_orgies_aggressive_begging_and_drunks_defecating_in_the_street_1_3835549
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I used to live opposite Abney Park Cemetery and occasionally I used to sit on the balcony and watch the drunks go through their evening routine. One would turn up all loud and full of bonhomie, hugging everyone and the drinks would flow. This would inevitably collapse some hours later into screaming arguments, vile abuse and occasional violence. Once a van full of students broke down there and at first the drunks were all helpful, but as the evening drew on the mood slowly changed and the students eventually had to lock themselves in the van until the police turned up to save them.

I miss that balcony. It was like having my own private soap opera every evening. Usually repeating the same bloody episode though.
 
He said: “This is a neighbourhood where a lot of nice young couples – until recently – wanted to settle and raise their children. But all of that is changing now, and fast, it’s quite grim
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This fool clearly knows fuck all about the history of the area at all.
 
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