When you hear the words 'South London' what are your first automatic thoughts?

[liberty]

I thought surburban until I moved here

 

[the button]

Pigeons nesting on my balcony. Lewisham market. TK Maxx.

 

[Callie]

Not going there this time of night.

wimp

i think home

 

[Upchuck]

How long would me and my vespa survive in Sth London?

 

[Callie]

2 minutes


cos im gonna fuck you up

in the face

 

[FridgeMagnet]

My automatic thoughts are "where in South London?"

My response after any thought is this, really. Croydon? Wimbledon? Dulwich? Bromley? Catford? The Festival Hall?

My immediate image, though, is waiting for busses in places that I don't know to get anywhere. I did a lot of that when I was younger and I don't have to now.

 

[Ralph Masters]

I immediately thought of The Old Kent Road, but then I'm into Monopoly which has a North London bias. Did anyone ever make a SarfLondon version, or is that quite another game?

 

[dennisr]

Is that where Burgess Park comes out though?

Yer, runs between Old Kent Road (top endish) and Walworth Road (bottom end)

South London's home for me

 

[dodgepot]

parakeets and foxes

 

[the button]

Did anyone ever make a SarfLondon version, or is that quite another game?

More "Go to Jail" cards.

 

[paolo]

More "Go to Jail" cards.

 

[oryx]

For some reason I think 'what's the name of that lake' but I don't think there is one in Sth London.

There's one in South Norwood!

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Crystal Palace Park.

 

[5t3IIa]

Dump

 

[cesare]

I think I prefer SE to SW ... but what's South? All of it? Or a narrow band in between?

 

[Pickman's model]

2 minutes


cos im gonna fuck you up

in the face

 

[Pickman's model]

In winter: A looping soundtrack of Burial. Rain soaked housing estates viewed from the night bus.

I like it. It's not as pretty as North London, but it's got more culcha

it's not as pretty as north london - and as for culture south london's a rather poor second. why d'you think they put the tate modern where it is? it's simply because north london's full of culture and so there was nowhere to put it. so they put it as close to north london as they could.

 

[ovaltina]

it's not as pretty as north london

Blatently not true! There's a nice shot on here somewhere of Brixton Hill with loads of massive trees on either side and the City in the background, and there are lots more long straight roads with massive plane trees either side, like Kennington Park Road and Stockwell Road, which are great for cycling.

North London is full of boring suburbs that were carved up to make way for the North Circular Road. There are a few pretty bits but they're prohibitivly expensive (like Hampstead) and full of annoying wankers with three wheeler prams.

North London = Topshop

 

[Pickman's model]

Blatently not true! There's a nice shot on here somewhere of Brixton Hill with loads of massive trees on either side and the City in the background, and there are lots more long straight roads with massive plane trees either side, like Kennington Park Road and Stockwell Road, which are great for cycling.

North London is full of boring suburbs that were carved up to make way for the North Circular Road. There are a few pretty bits but they're prohibitivly expensive (like Hampstead) and full of annoying wankers with three wheeler prams.

yes there are parts of south london which have a certain grimy charm. usually places like train stations which take you back to civilization let's leave my feelings out of it, though, and look at the views of an architectural scholar, nikolas pevsner. the buildings of england series he founded devotes six volumes to london, only one of which covers south london, while four - north, north-west, city of london & city of westminster - cover north london (& it's five if you include part of east london in north london).

North London = Top

 

[ChrisSouth]

Buses, bikes, parks, trees and lidos

 

[pinkmonkey]

I thought of the pattie shop under the railway bridge at Clapham North, with the man who worked in there who always had at least a dozen filthy sticking plasters on his fingers.

This was over ten years ago. Is the shop still there?

 

[Pickman's model]

I thought of the pattie shop under the railway bridge at Clapham North, with the man who worked in there who always had at least a dozen filthy sticking plasters on his fingers.

This was over ten years ago. Is the shop still there?

more to the point: are the fingers?

 

[g force]

Grandma's is indeed still going serving Roti and Jerk Chicken.

 

[IMR]

Always think of South London as sunnier than North London. Which is probably just down to generally associating southerly things with warmth and northerly things with cold.

But there might be more open space in South London and I bet average building height is lower, so a little bit more sunlight might reach ground level.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Home, sweet home.

 

[Ralph Masters]

Chelsea has to be one of the most prestigious addresses in SW London

 

[clandestino]

Home
Space
Trees
Less hectic
Fewer twats
More interesting culture
More sky

But that's only really the bit of south London I live in, which isn't like all of south London at all.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Chelsea has to be one of the most prestigious addresses in SW London

It's north of the river, pay no heed to the postcode.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

oh no, here come's trouble....

 

[kyser_soze]

Home, parks, green, better than North London.