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Which part of London gives you the creeps and why?

satsuma said:
barbican's pretty sinister

don't think theres anywhere that actually scares me though...
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:eek:

One of my favourite spots in London. I sometimes go there just because I love the architecture so much.
 
eh? i always get lost round there and everywheres really dark and the architectures all sinister and angular...it's like something out of 1984...
 
Red Jezza said:
silvertown. utterly fucking horrible and with a permanent odour of excrement
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argh- i fucking hate that place, passed out on a train one sunday and ended up there completely fucked off my tits- spent ages wandering around thinking i was in a demonic version of athens for some reason.. :confused:
 
The Doctor said:
I'm suprised you didn't sat Harrow :confused:
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you mis-get me.
Harrow bores the arse of me and has no charm. I don't find it sinister or creepy; merely dull as fuck and utterly worthless and futlie.
to analogise; the difference betwen a serial paedo, and - plucking an example entirely at random - a chartered accountant.
or....





:p
 
posh bits can be annoying and that, but being stuck in victoria bus station with tramps and murderers or kings cross with crackheads is worse than feeling superior to trendy people, cos they dont wanna knife you
 
The bit of Fulham around Bishop's park has creeped me out ever since I was a nipper and my nan used to take me and my brother there.
 
pianistenvy said:
clapton E5 gives me the creeps, it's like a ghost-town, except you can sense that people are lurking in the bushes about to pounce on you
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:mad: i've lived there for nearly 10 years, no fucker has ever pounced on me

and i haven't lurked in bushes and pounced on anyone either



not for a few years anyway :cool:
 
St. Andrews Church, at the end of Landor Road (Stockwell going into Brixton) sure scares the shite out of me. It's well creepy. Someone posted a pic of it one here a while ago, but I can't find it.

I've found out since it's very old - dates back to 1767.
 
Pimlico. What's it for? It's smack in the centre of London but there's NOTHING THERE! It's so old and naff and weird. And that awful name (though it's fitting). No wonder they called that old film Pasport to Pimlico - going there is like going to some peculiar foreign place, like East Germany in the 70's.
 
Dr. Furface said:
Pimlico. What's it for? It's smack in the centre of London but there's NOTHING THERE! It's so old and naff and weird. And that awful name (though it's fitting). No wonder they called that old film Pasport to Pimlico - going there is like going to some peculiar foreign place, like East Germany in the 70's.
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There's a clue there it's old army barracks innit? :confused:
 
Carpenters Road, Hackney Wick.

Like walking through a scene from Mad Max.

A haven for some of the scummiest squad parties, endless disused warehouses, breakers yards, burnt out cars, not a soul for miles (or at least not a soul that you'd want to meet on a dark night....).

:eek:
 
There are so many places here that I agree with. I never realised London was such a creepy place.

I find Sloane Square/Chelsea quite creepy. Everyone there's a pervert of some sort. The place is full of fucking lizards.

I've never liked the whole of Holloway Road either. Kings Cross is definately a bit creepy - in fact anything South of Mornington Crescent, all the way down to Marlebone road. Pimlico's a bit odd - I used to squat there in the 80s - the council were deliberately not letting anyone new move in to the council places so they were just kindof letting it die.
 
I find Wormwood Scrubs rather sinister. I lived near there for 11 years and despite the fact that it was the nearest bit of green, I hardly ever went there. Largely deserted, completely flat, surrounded by industrial sites and the prison, it seems the perfect place to get your throat slit by an escaped convict while walking the dog.
 
EastEnder said:
Carpenters Road, Hackney Wick.

Like walking through a scene from Mad Max.

A haven for some of the scummiest squad parties, endless disused warehouses, breakers yards, burnt out cars, not a soul for miles (or at least not a soul that you'd want to meet on a dark night....).

:eek:
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no more sadly :( the whole roads been pretty much demolished now...
 
Dr. Furface said:
Pimlico. What's it for? It's smack in the centre of London but there's NOTHING THERE! It's so old and naff and weird. And that awful name (though it's fitting). No wonder they called that old film Pasport to Pimlico - going there is like going to some peculiar foreign place, like East Germany in the 70's.
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i worked there for about a year, it is pretty dead during the day too..
 
I squatted in Pimlico in the 80s - apparently the council has all these council houses that it wanted to sell off, so it wasn't letting any new people in - basically waiting for everyone to die of old age etc. When I was there it had this weird fortress mentality - quite posh mixed with an elderly-council-estate-dweller-with-noone-to-talk-to vibe.

I think the woman running the place got done for some sort of housing-related corruption in the end. A tory obviously. A tory's tory.
 
EastEnder said:
Carpenters Road, Hackney Wick.

Like walking through a scene from Mad Max.

A haven for some of the scummiest squad parties, endless disused warehouses, breakers yards, burnt out cars, not a soul for miles (or at least not a soul that you'd want to meet on a dark night....).

:eek:
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Backin the 70's, there used to be a pub called The Spooky Lady, just across from the Eastway, I bet no one remembers it.
 
zenie said:
Aaah you mean you dont like it there its a shit place rather then scary?

Shit place full of wankers. Shoreditch :rolleyes:
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:eek:

I used to live in Hoxton. I still have friends who live there.

Shouldn't judge the place by the types who frequent certain bars around Hoxton Square. Most Shoreditch residents are decent people - I know I was. ;) Of course I moved in before Hoxton became trendy (he says defensively) - just after the property price crash in 1992.

A glimpse of Fat Les's Vindaloo video filmed in Hoxton Street gives an idea of the real Hoxton crowd. Well not really, though I guess a fair few actor types may have moved in lately. Pop into the Wenlock Arms or the Macbeth to meet some real locals, but avoid The Queens Head unless you want to watch blood splattering on the walls :eek:

It's a great place with great history, and it has the wonderful Geffrey Museum in it. :)
 
nick1181 said:
I think the woman running the place got done for some sort of housing-related corruption in the end. A tory obviously. A tory's tory.
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shirley porter - :mad: :mad: :mad:
 
I had the misfortune to end up in Erith last night. I wasn't wearing a tracksuit so felt very overdressed.

Someone earlier mentioned Peckham and Bermondsey, I'd rather be there anytime.
 
New Cross and Waterloo East train stations used freak me out as they number the platforms with letters :eek: :eek: WTF?

Since I've worked out why I think they do this, the panic attacks have subsided but I'm still not happy about it.
 
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