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

[upsidedownwalrus]

I've got to say, I'm North/North East by origin, but there's no contest is there?

Somewhere like Crystal Palace is as leafy, viewy and nice as Hampstead or Richmond, yet it's a fraction of the price and anyone can afford to live tehre.

 

[Paulie]

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

Norwood lake, Crystal Palace lake - Ok both a bit small but bigger than a pond...

 

[fractionMan]

clapham south tube station

 

[T.H.R]

North London has urban, grimy parts, and green, leafy suburbs.

Shock, so does South London.

I immediately think of Brixton, Camberwell, and Walworth in South London, yet I've noticed a lot of North Londoners paint south of the river to be one big park, barely an urban environment at all. Once you cross the river there's still plenty of inner city before you get to Crystal Palace or Dulwich or wherever.

 

[Ralph Masters]

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

and the SE/SW divide is what? surely the postcodes play a defining role?

 

[Pip]

and the SE/SW divide is what? surely the postcodes play a defining role?

Battersea is in South London, then you've got the Thames, then Chelsea etc. I wouldn't call it North London, but it's north of the river and I'm a bit at it being included as part of South London.

 

[Ralph Masters]

my point is, if we don't take consideration of postcodes, how do we define SE London?

 

[Pip]

my point is, if we don't take consideration of postcodes, how do we define SE London?

By looking at a map of Greater London and dividing it into quarters.

 

[cybertect]

my point is, if we don't take consideration of postcodes, how do we define SE London?

My mental map places it North and East of Crystal Palace and south of the Thames.

Brixton has SW2 postcodes and I wouldn't really suggest it's SW London, but just plain 'South'.

 

[Pip]

My mental map places it North and East of Crystal Palace and south of the Thames.

Brixton has SW2 postcodes and I wouldn't really suggest it's SW London, but just plain 'South'.

Geographically Brixton (or my old part anyway) is South East. I dunno how it got a SW postcode.

 

[ovaltina]

I love that I can live cheaply in Vauxhall, which is right on the Thames, and within a few minutes of the South Bank or a long walk to the West End.

 

[Pickman's model]

North London has urban, grimy parts, and green, leafy suburbs.

Shock, so does South London.

I immediately think of Brixton, Camberwell, and Walworth in South London, yet I've noticed a lot of North Londoners paint south of the river to be one big park, barely an urban environment at all. Once you cross the river there's still plenty of inner city before you get to Crystal Palace or Dulwich or wherever.

south london's divided into two parts: the parts which are estates or rows of terraced housing, and the rest.

 

[ChrisFilter]

My mental map places it North and East of Crystal Palace and south of the Thames.

Brixton has SW2 postcodes and I wouldn't really suggest it's SW London, but just plain 'South'.

Don't forget us South Norwoodites... we've got an SE postcode too

 

[Pickman's model]

Don't forget us South Norwoodites... we've got an SE postcode too

no more than you deserve

 

[T.H.R]

south london's divided into two parts: the parts which are estates or rows of terraced housing, and the rest.

This doesn't really mean anything to me

 

[T.H.R]

Battersea is in South London, then you've got the Thames, then Chelsea etc. I wouldn't call it North London, but it's north of the river and I'm a bit at it being included as part of South London.

This is the thing though, people generally seem to include everything north of the river as north london. Someone said earlier the buildings are higher in north london than south, I think, which is nonsense, unless you argue that central London and the Isle of Dogs are in fact north London.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

BRAAAAP BRAP!

I was wondering what that was. I heard two youths listing it and rocking backward and forwards on a rather loud tinny MP3 speaker thing a year or so ago


"You know I went to school in Peckham. So you know I got links in Peckham"

Great job rhyming Peckham with Peckham

 

[spring-peeper]

My first thought is always the same - "London, Ontario or London, England"

 

[krtek a houby]

My first thought is; former home.

Second is; I kinda miss it

 

[Meltingpot]

A taxi driver saying, "Sarf of the river, at this time of night? You're having a larf, mate!"

Is Roehampton South London? I went for an interview at a college there once - I forget the name of it now except that it was situated in Gerard Manley Hopkin's old house - and when I looked out the window I saw Richmond Park (superb). I also applied for a job at a school there but which I didn't get.

 

[fogbat]

BRAAAAP BRAP!

What an edifying discussion in the comments

 

[ChrisFilter]

This is the thing though, people generally seem to include everything north of the river as north london. Someone said earlier the buildings are higher in north london than south, I think, which is nonsense, unless you argue that central London and the Isle of Dogs are in fact north London.

The mains streets are narrower in north London than in the leisurely Victorian south, so buildings probably seem taller. Perspective, innit.

 

[DotCommunist]

What an edifying discussion in the comments

I like how they proper dissect the logic of smashing a lightbulb in his mums vadge.

Representing sarf london

 

[AKA pseudonym]

family and good people...

as ive quite a few about that manor and have sporadically lived there through my life...

 

[maldwyn]

Mr Blake and his Mrs naked up a tree.

 

[IMR]

Someone said earlier the buildings are higher in north london than south, I think, which is nonsense.

I said that, and I reckon it's likely to be true. I've visited nearly every part of London over the last 6 months, noise surveying kind of work, and north London definitely looks more built-up than south London, with bigger houses and more developed town centres.

 

[ovaltina]

North London:

South London

 

[ovaltina]

North London:

South London:

 

[krtek a houby]

North London

South London

 

[Ralph Masters]

South London's much bigger and more prosperous, but it has less tourists and less black cabs.