Well known London places that are crap

[Boris Sprinkler]

I don't much care for Portabello Rd, Notting Hill, Ladbrook Grove area.

nah mate. facking love it there.

Agree with Camden

Leicester Square

Harrow.

Morden (or as my ex called it, Mordor)

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Surprised nobody's mentioned Covent Garden, especially that fucking Punch and Judy pub!

 

[gaijingirl]

I'd have to say Brixton. Lived close to it for 6 years and never warmed to the place. Probably 'cos it's got no decent boozers. Much preferred Camberwell.

.....ooh.. controversial...

 

[Tom A]

The Docklands/Canning Town. Recall it being a really souless place, grim council estates (nice people though) meets Thatchers legacy of hypercaptialism.

 

[Errol's son]

I am not a fan of the Woolwich, Thamesmead, Erith, Belmarsh, Dartford, Bexleyheath area. Technically some of it may be Kent, but I regard it as London.

The architecture of Thamesmead is interesting but it is still a place I would not like to spend much time in. Passing through though, it is interesting to look at the usage of pre-fab concrete.

 

[Errol's son]

The City (as in the traditional financial district) is a bit crap too. But it makes a lot of money and helps make London what it is.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Croydon.

Acton.

 

[Errol's son]

Both North Greenwich and Canary Water are bleak for sure - but in a way they're interesting too. Canary Water, for example, if you cycle around the back streets there are interesting old cobbled streets and churches with a long history. North Greenwich around the dome is part of the cycle network and is quite an interesting ride out to the Woolwich ferry - I guess interesting because of it's bleakness in a way - you have to cycle through what look like abandoned building sites and around the dome and through these Barratt identikit estates with no facilities in sight.... I wonder what that area will become eventually?

I think you mean Canary Wharf or Canada Water.

 

[Brainaddict]

The City (as in the traditional financial district) is a bit crap too. But it makes a lot of money and helps make London what it is.

A paradise for selfish arseholes you mean? It does that admirably. Myself I'd rather have a less wealthy city with no City and less cunts. But that's just me

 

[PacificOcean]

Leicester Square is up there - it seems to be brimming with hostility at night time..

Camden - just not keen. It was great when I was 13 but not now.

Clapham High St seems to have become more and more souless.....

Oxford Circus - bad for sanity.

Marble Arch - massive fucking roundabout.

Old Kent Road (I have to go there a lot and it's terrifying on a bicycle)

Westway - see Old Kent Road...

Strange. I think it's gone the other way.

When I was growing up, Clapham High Street was awful. There was nothing there and me and mum had to go to Clapham Junction or Brixton for any shopping.

Now it's full of bars, resturants, shops, supermarkets, delis and what not.

While those sorts of bars and resturants may not be your cup of tea - it's an improvement on what used to be there.

 

[maldwyn]

The City (as in the traditional financial district) is a bit crap too. But it makes a lot of money and helps make London what it is.

I love the City, though I’m usually only there at weekends - there’s a lot to explore of historical significance. I find the capitalist dominance and livery company (107 of them) stitch-up of the place interesting, and when only multi-millionaires are allowed to become lord mayor, probably the most undemocratic place in England. Kind of unashamedly says it as it is; money is power.

 

[ChrisFilter]

Most of North London, though Highgate is nice. I'll add my vote to Camden.

Dislike North London for the reasons already stated.. dirty, pollutiony, trafficy, soulless, boring. Streets aren't as wide and there seems to be less trees and greenery than down South. Though it depends where you compare.. I wouldn't send Elephant and Castle or Camberwell into bat against Hampstead.

 

[corporate whore]

Oxford Street, obnov. Messy.

Also Soho, the appeal of which I've never understood.

Went to Kentish Town last week, that's a bit of a hole innit?

Anywhere northwest of Paddington be dragons.

 

[marty21]

I love the City, though I’m usually only there at weekends - there’s a lot to explore of historical significance. I find the capitalist dominance and livery company (107 of them) stitch-up of the place interesting, and when only multi-millionaires are allowed to become lord mayor, probably the most undemocratic place in England. Kind of unashamedly says it as it is; money is power.

i love the city as well, but only at weekends, nice to wander about in, there's the barbican for films, theatre, museums and that, and it's dead quiet at the weekends

 

[hipipol]

The large statue of the naked roly poly lady, lying on her side in Excnage Square has Queen Victorias face
I have always found that quietly subversive and has taken much comfrot from it

 

[jodal]

though Highgate is nice.

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I love N London although I do agree that Camden is a shit hole, especially on weekends. I would say that most or all places named above have some redeeming qualities, apart from Kentish Town and Archway of course.

 

[blossie33]

North London is NOT lacking in green! There are lots of Parks, Woods and Hampstead Heath.

 

[dolly's gal]

camden is so disgusting one could be forgiven for thinking one had accidentally travelled to brixton, or some such similar shithole. although saying that, it's, camden's, smell is somewhat distinctive

no, camden is indeed vile and is an entity all on its own. it should be terminated.

 

[Errol's son]

Is the Socialist Party's shop still on Clapham High Street?

Or has that gone too now? I doubt many of its supporters still live in the area.

 

[corporate whore]

Is the Socialist Party's shop still on Clapham High Street.

Yep still there, looking a smidge out of place..

 

[Chz]

I'd like to say Homerton or Croydon, but those are so blindingly obvious it kind of defeats the point. We need to focus on shit places that not anyone with a clue would know is shit.

Obvious to anyone:
Croydon
Homerton
The eastern reaches of the DLR

Some people might not realise how shit they are:
Leicester Square is a good one.
I vote Harlesden for another.
Richmond town centre (controversial, because there's really nice stuff nearby, but the town centre is shit).

 

[zoltan]

I really cant see the point of Leicester Square - its is a crowded, rat infested shithole with bad overpriced food and tourists. When I lived in NYC, I saw gaggles of Brits making their way to Times Square - ehy ? fuck knows, but its a NYC version of LC

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Yeah richmond park is lovely in summer, one of my favourite spots anywhere, but the actual centre is quite rough at night...

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

As to LSquare yeah whenever americans complain about how bad the food is in "England", I always wonder whether they just ate the crap served around places like lie-cess-ter squayer.

 

[Errol's son]

I really cant see the point of Leicester Square - its is a crowded, rat infested shithole with bad overpriced food and tourists. When I lived in NYC, I saw gaggles of Brits making their way to Times Square - ehy ? fuck knows, but its a NYC version of LC

Times Square is even worse the Liecester Squayer. It has Broadway cutting past it doesn't it? And Broadway is a wide street with loads of cars on it.

 

[Janh]

Tower Hill
Greenwich
Beckton Alp
Downing Street
Strand
London Eye
New Hungerford Bridges
London Dungeon
London Bridge

 

[Sunray]

Most of North London, though Highgate is nice. I'll add my vote to Camden.

Dislike North London for the reasons already stated.. dirty, pollutiony, trafficy, soulless, boring. Streets aren't as wide and there seems to be less trees and greenery than down South. Though it depends where you compare.. I wouldn't send Elephant and Castle or Camberwell into bat against Hampstead.

You do realise that South London is much more polluted than north London.

http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEM2AS1DU8E_index_1.html

In hackney where I live, you see a Bermuda triangle thing event of near no pollution even during the worst moments.

Brixton has the worst air quality of anywhere in London. Look at fridays log. Its the only place in cold windy London that is showing orange.

http://www.londonair.org.uk/london/...ulletindate=23/03/2007&postcode=sw2&level=All

 

[Monkeynuts]

You do realise that South London is much more polluted than north London.

http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEM2AS1DU8E_index_1.html

In hackney where I live, you see a Bermuda triangle thing event of near no pollution even during the worst moments.

Brixton has the worst air quality of anywhere in London. Look at fridays log. Its the only place in cold windy London that is showing orange.

http://www.londonair.org.uk/london/...ulletindate=23/03/2007&postcode=sw2&level=All

I think Hackney is obscured by being highlighted.

SE doesn't look too bad but SW is a bit disturbing. Most striking is that it surges in rush hour in may places but that in Fulham it never really goes away at all!

 

[Hi-ASL]

1. London.
2. See 1.

 

[Fidel]

Harrods