FridgeMagnet
Administrator
There were loads of grocers on the high road last time I went down there (about a year ago now) - fresh veg, Polish sausages, spices, various different butchers...
What does everyone have against Streatham???
- Thread starter waverunner
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waverunner
Be nice or I'll bite
not saying there aren't any grocers/butchers etc, just saying i wish all pointlessly small supermarkets could be replaced with some decent shops. to be honest i haven't yet had the opportunity to discover where these grocers etc are cos, as i mentioned earlier, all i've noticed so far are the furniture shops.. only a few pieces left to go before i am officially living in a furnished flat!FridgeMagnet said:
PieEye said:
Lets get HAMMERED in a shite pub in Streatham when you move here. The weather will be getting warm and we can bowl about and then go dancing.
or go bowling and then go dancing
You can do it all in the same venue if you're lucky. you can get pissed up at McClusky's bar, play arcade games and throw up on the lanes all in the same MegaBowltastic venue. And from there it's just a short stumble to the ever impressive Caesars, where Chico and that dustman bloke were last seen entertaining the mini-skirted crowds.
I haven't been to Streatham Ice Rink since I was a nipper. Do they still do make you throw yourself on to the ice as a bit of a laugh at the end? It would probably be a little more funny if you didn;t exit the rink soaking wet and shivering...
I haven't been to Streatham Ice Rink since I was a nipper. Do they still do make you throw yourself on to the ice as a bit of a laugh at the end? It would probably be a little more funny if you didn;t exit the rink soaking wet and shivering...
gaijingirl
Well-Known Member
tarannau said:
I ran over the tip of my cousin's finger ice-skating in Streatham ice rink as a kid... we had to take him to the hospital to get it sewn back on...
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
waverunner said:i wish i did minnie! i've only been living in my flat a week and a bit, haven't met my seemingly antisocial neighbours yet, and all my friends live miles away so would be pointless them accepting for me. am a lonely soul in streatham!!!i could get it delivered to work but then lugging it home would be a nightmare (work at moorgate)...
Someone might delivery Saturday
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
tarannau said:
How on earth do you get pissed in McCluskys? It's difficult enough trying to find barstaff behind the bar to serve you
waverunner
Be nice or I'll bite
yeah some do but most don't. think i just have a problem trusting delivery groups. last time i arranged a delivery they didn't even buzz up to my flat to check if i was in. they just left a 'sorry we missed you' card and left. found it later and took me a week to get them to deliver it again at a time when i would be in. and i had to wait outside for them for 20 mins so they wouldn't try that sorry we missed you crap again.
Streathamite
ideological dogmatist
Dr johnsonspanglechick said:
"when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life"
and the bit he said under his breath
"and when he is tired of life, he moves to CROYDON"
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Yay! A stickytabled WetherspooonsPieEye said:
Lets get HAMMERED in a shite pub in Streatham when you move here. The weather will be getting warm and we can bowl about and then go dancing.
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
My preferred local 1988-1990 when avoiding quiz night in the Leigham Arms. Briefly traded as the Hobgoblin from c.1990 - 1993. IIRC during their management, the original classic pub signage with relief lettering, and a carved wooden white lion went, the Victorian bar was ripped out and the coal fire disappeared from the snug.Red Jezza said:
However the 1980s Xmas decorations remained undisturbed in the upstairs room!
Red Jezza said:BUT!!!! disturbing news. streatham is being poncified.
In the WL last night. this was my fave pub way back when. grotty old boozer, great scots 'n' irish crowd, footie on telly, tatty as fuck. terrif, in short. Now; moody lighting. designer low slung 'occasional' tables. posh leather sofas. 'theme' nights. STOP IT!!!!leave my fucking neighbourhood alone.
Not surprised that is now a bah. Looked empty most nights before the makeover!
The Samuel Johnson, surely! [After the murder, the trade at the Tavern did drop off pretty dramatically so I can understand why they felt a need to rename it. ]Red Jezza said:
lang rabbie said:My preferred local 1988-1990 when avoiding quiz night in the Leigham Arms. Briefly traded as the Hobgoblin from c.1990 - 1993. IIRC during their management, the original Victorian signage went, the victorian bar was ripped out and the coal fire disappeared from the snug.
Thanks for that Lang - I was beginning to think I was going mad with my recollection that it was the Hobgoblin.
It's a surprisingly large pub with a huge upstairs - something like 20 rooms of varying sizes IIRC.
Streathamite
ideological dogmatist
it WASN'T the Hobgoblin then. cos that's when - 91-94 - I drank there every night
E2A; but yer right about the sam johnson. It's a taylor's pub
E2A; but yer right about the sam johnson. It's a taylor's pub
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
Red Jezza said:
It's coming back to me through a drunken haze of Dirty Tackle - seasonal beer for rugger-buggers.
Didn't Wychwood buy the pub sometine around 1990? They threatened to rename it as The Hobgoblin and got rebuffed by local opinion, which was still traumatised by the loss of Pratt's (John Lewis's). The first landlords Wychwood put in were pretty good at running a real ale pub. Then after a couple of changes of management in which it lost its way, they did the infamous refit and sneakily changed the name after all sometime in the mid-1990s - possibly as late as 1996?
I'd moved "up north" to SW2 by 1994.
Think the name may not have changed back until after Wychwood sold off most of their pub estate (the Hobgoblinns ) in 2002 to the ill-fated Balaclava chain.
thebignoisy
Occasionally frenzied
i first went in the pub in question in around 1999/2000 - was a hobgoblin then I'm sure
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
there's quite a funny little head-type shop on streatham high road, nearer the top, brixton hill end - i'd never noticed it before until i cycled past it a few weeks ago. sells all your usual pot-smokers' paraphenalia, bob marley postcards and the like. seems really out of place amongst all the discount shops and random furniture places!
PacificOcean
Unhinged User
Brixton Hatter said:
Been there for years. At least since 1995 as I got a bong from there then!
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
waverunner said:
There's some in Argos. Not as cheap as you want, but at least you might be able to get a cab from there
http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ArgosBrowseIterator?storeId=10001&identifier=7794097&Trail=C%24cip%3D36693%3EC%24cip%3D36785%3EC%24cip%3D36793&catalogId=4501&langId=-1&currPage=2
PacificOcean said:
no way. the head shop next to Blockbuster has been there about 4 years tops.
Dubversion said:
Glad you said that. I was beginning to think that time was whipping past ridiculously fast; either that or I've banged my head and lost a good few years somewhere.
Surely Broken Arrow or whatever the shop's called can't be anything like 10 years old? I reckon it's closer to 5...
PacificOcean
Unhinged User
Dubversion said:
Are you sure? I am sure I remember buying a bong in about 1995 there. It's deffo been more than four years anyway.
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
tarannau said:
There was a previous "head shop" - in the same parade if not the same shop - that sold a bizarre combination of menswear and accessories as well as "smokers' requisites" from the 1980s until well into the 1990s.
Red Jezza said:
Timothy Taylor? Or Taylor Walker?
Makes a big difference ...
Streathamite
ideological dogmatist
not sure, may have it wrong, will check.
Streathamite
ideological dogmatist
bastard, I've been rumbledDubversion said:exactly.
maybe Jezza liked it because at last he'd found a pub where HE was the stylish one
g force
Affects Shatner's Basoon
The Pied Bull is my local
The High St is fairly shit, but I moved there because I could afford to buy a flat and really, the place can't get any worse, so there's only way to go! I quite like the fact it doesn't feel like London and although the commute into work isn't as handy as when I lived in Stockwell, I already prefer the place.
Plus, when your doing a place up a Homebase on your doorstep and a Wickes 15 minutes drive away are a god send.
The High St is fairly shit, but I moved there because I could afford to buy a flat and really, the place can't get any worse, so there's only way to go! I quite like the fact it doesn't feel like London and although the commute into work isn't as handy as when I lived in Stockwell, I already prefer the place.
Plus, when your doing a place up a Homebase on your doorstep and a Wickes 15 minutes drive away are a god send.
