Walthamstow

[dolly's gal]

Walthamstow has always struck me as being a pretty decent place, it doesn't have an overt reputation for being either really posh or really rough which probably means it's sort of average, it's got a tube station and an overground station, so even though it's a bit out from the centre it's easy enough to get to.
If I had to go live in Walthamstow I wouldn't be massively excited, but I wouldn't be massively disappointed either. Oh and the Town Hall/Assembly Rooms is a massively severe and overbearing '40s style affair, very interesting and 'of its era'.

EDIT: Hold on, who on earth thought it would be a good idea to bump a thread that's 5 years old?

walthamstow is awesome! take it you've not been there for a while??

 

[dolly's gal]

Chequers used to have a really good Thai chef during the week dunno if she's still there as I moved out 3 years ago , the village in the old village did a good Sunday roast ,and the college over by the town hall

nope the Chequers was briefly run by Antic (last year, after they took it over and got rid of the Thai chef) but they were gazzumped and some other gastro-esque lot are running the show now. it's quite a nice pub but i had a dalliance with one of their bar staff when things weren't going well with my other half (which they're still not really ) so we tend to avoid the place now. hey ho, ces't la vie

 

[isvicthere?]

I lived there five years and really liked it, although that was from 1988-92. Someone I still know there says it has changed a lot, but when I visited recently, it didn't appear to have undergone the vast alterations that - say - Brixton has in just the last two years. Go for it, I say.

 

[isvicthere?]

EDIT: Hold on, who on earth thought it would be a good idea to bump a thread that's 5 years old?

Didn't notice that.

 

[dolly's gal]

it's changed massively in the 8 years i've been living. comparable to brixton i'd say. where did you visit when you went there recently?

 

[Hellsbells]

yeah i've been here 5 years and it's a different place to when i arrived. Very different

 

[harpo]

indeed! very not affordable! anyway, i was thinking there needed to be a walthamstow thread - YES INEEDED - so this is all very pleasing

re: footie, the Queens Arms on Orford Road used to be the one but that is now a gastro pub (yawn). the people who used to run it have now taken over the Lord Raglan on Shernal street, and i am told it is a cracking place to watch the football

Yeah I was sad to see the old Queens Arms close down, that was my footy staple pub and they had a few cracking St Patricks Days. Haven't been in since it went up it's own arse.

The Lord Raglan it is. Thanks

 

[braindancer]

Go for it, I say.

I did thanks! Been here 5 years now....and love it. Even Bobby Womack is moving to the area.

 

[dolly's gal]

I did thanks! Been here 5 years now....and love it. Even Bobby Womack is moving to the area.

yes i had heard about this. good news good news