Tescos has destroyed Orpington High Street, which got a mention in the Daily Mail recently. How they didn't see that coming I'll never know. I think Thresher's closed down whilst they were still building it!
Orpington High Street must be the best place around for a choice of restaurants. Looks more alive down there than I'd ever known it.
I think Petts Wood has a better choice only a mile up the road. I would agree with FoD, Tescos put the final nail in the coffin for the high street, also M&S leaving did no favors.
I think Petts Wood has 4 Indians now?
5, a new in petts wood road, opened this. Its expensive, the guy behind it has been on Saturday Kitchen (if that is any guide to being good)
Is that the Michelin starred chef? Very pricey.
Yeah owned by Atul Kochhar who's got 1 Michelin Star
I used to really like Dalston. Has it gone down hill that much? What with Ridley Road and the pie and mash shop there are worse places in London, Clapton for example.
I used to really like Dalston. Has it gone down hill that much? What with Ridley Road and the pie and mash shop there are worse places in London, Clapton for example.
You been gone too long!
Yes - it is utterly unrecognisable from what it was. Definitely one of the worst places in London now.
I used to really like Dalston. Has it gone down hill that much? What with Ridley Road and the pie and mash shop there are worse places in London, Clapton for example.
You been gone too long!
Yes - it is utterly unrecognisable from what it was. Definitely one of the worst places in London now.
That's a real shame, I had some great times in Dalston. The last was about 20 years ago mind.
Its a drug riddened hell hole when you go through there at night now the crack heads are out everywhere I had one approach me on weds about three am whilst I was stuck at a red light by the tube showing me where his right eye used to be saying he is blind and hungry aint eaten in days
His other eye was bulging out of his socket and he was foaming at the mouth like a rabid dog I jumped the light and didn't stop at another one all around the twenty four seven bagel\biegel shop its hookers crack heads pimps and dealers not a cozzer in sight
I used to really like Dalston. Has it gone down hill that much? What with Ridley Road and the pie and mash shop there are worse places in London, Clapton for example.
You been gone too long!
Yes - it is utterly unrecognisable from what it was. Definitely one of the worst places in London now.
That's a real shame, I had some great times in Dalston. The last was about 20 years ago mind.
went for a night out there (well, around dalston kingsland) and had a great time. Had beer goggles on, mind, so probably didnt get a good feel for the area.
Yep, I cycle through Dalston sometimes. Utter shit-hole also populated by home-counties rich-kids 'digging the edginess', i.e. middle class 'street-artists' luring their k'd up tarts to their grotty bedsits paid for by mummy and daddy.
This. Absolutely this. Living in Reigate, they're only two miles apart in distance, but light years apart in class. The absolute scum around the station and town centre have to be seen to be believed.
I scanned this thread looking for Redhill. Went to school there. It's gone backwards over the years to the extent that when I visited last week, I took a walk around in a state of awe at how scummy it has become. Last time I was there was when I was looking for my stolen property. Plenty of shops willing to sell it on.
Looking to buy in Reigate, but flatly refuse to go anywhere near the Redhill border, even if it saves heaps of cash!!
Used to work in Reigate at a firm that had relocated from it's "historical" office in Redhill simply because of the downturn in the quality of the population.
Being a South London lad and given the utter snobbishness of native Reigatians I treated this attitude with the contempt I thought it deserved until I had to go to a client meeting in the aforementioned Redhill.
There is massive snobbery in Reigate, 'tis true. Often unfounded. But I've schooled, lived and worked in Redhill over the years, and frankly, give me a wax jacket and call me Percy if it means living next to the Priory and not the Cromwell estate!
I don't know as much as maybe I should about the history of the area, but Redhill is on the London-to-Brighton line, whereas Reigate is set apart somewhat, tied closer to Dorking and Leatherhead. I've always assumed the divide is something to do with that. I'd be interested to know more really. As long as I don't have to go to the Harlequin library to find out.
The only problem with Reigate is that its so bloody expensive. I can't afford to buy there, so will unfortunately have to move when my divorce is finalised and I look at purchasing a place. Earlswood is ok - but dangerously close to Redhill, so will probably move to Shortlands or Beckenham. Belmont and Banstead are also really nice - but again, close to an abject shithole (Sutton). I can't really move any further out - Reigate is about the limit of drunkenscramblehomeability.
Apparently, it was only about 20 years ago that Redhill wasn't that bad. Must have been some kind of slum clearance done in the nineties.
Ah, what a shame. I may be forced to rent in Reigate 'cos of the pricing issue. I lived in Earlswood ten years ago and it was fun, lots of commuters and families there. Most the chavs are over in Cromwell on other side of town. We used to joke about the closing of Royal Earlswood in the early 90s and the subsequent effect on the town from care in the community...
Redhill was decent when the Belfry first opened. It had as good a range of shops as anywhere up until the late 90s and a couple of decent pubs. It's all discount and cash for gold shops now.
Romford is only crap in parts, some parts of Romford are lovely. Jaywick aint that bad and nothing wrong with a caravan, there are normal houses before you get to the front. Grays is pretty crap but Tilbury is worse.
I used to really like Dalston. Has it gone down hill that much? ! IWhat with Ridley Road and the pie and mash shop there are worse places in London, Clapton for example.
You been gone too long!
Yes - it is utterly unrecognisable from what it was. Definitely one of the worst places in London now.
That's a real shame, I had some great times in Dalston. The last was about 20 years ago mind.
went for a night out there (well, around dalston kingsland) and had a great time. Had beer goggles on, mind, so probably didnt get a good feel for the area.
In the sixties we used to say don't suffer from acne move to Dalston.
Home counties rich kids in Dalston! My dad will be turning on his settee. I used to play football over at the Britannia Leisure Centre, and we never but never went for a drink in Hoxton afterwards as we always ended up in some kind of fight. I was amazed when that became an artists quarter.
I might pretend I never read all the comments about Dalston, live in ignorance and keep my cherished memories.
Having read through this I can't ever see myself moving to London, seems to be many a shitehole area. Think I'll stay up north with the cleaner air and cheaper prices.
Having read through this I can't ever see myself moving to London, seems to be many a shitehole area. Think I'll stay up north with the cleaner air and cheaper prices.
The way Bexleyheath has deteriorated over the last 10-15 years It is on taget to be on top of everyones list in 2015! I travel the country daily and my first 10 places to close down and delete it from the A-Z would be: This.....
Having read through this I can't ever see myself moving to London, seems to be many a shitehole area. Think I'll stay up north with the cleaner air and cheaper prices.
Cheaper areas = better places to live?
Sadly not. Cheap up here means horrendous shitty areas. You've seen Shameless right? I'll just stick to York then.
The way Bexleyheath has deteriorated over the last 10-15 years It is on taget to be on top of everyones list in 2015! I travel the country daily and my first 10 places to close down and delete it from the A-Z would be: This.....
Ken - I passed along Bexleyheath Broadway for the first time ever a few weeks ago, on a walk down Watling Street from Welling to Dartford. While there are many far worse places in Britain, I was astonished by one of the most crass pieces of modern architecture I have seen anywhere: the Asda store. It is a huge, featureless, monstrous lump, muscling in to the sightlines of the thoroughfare. The black plasticky cladding almost literally sucks the light out of the street.
Having read through this I can't ever see myself moving to London, seems to be many a shitehole area. Think I'll stay up north with the cleaner air and cheaper prices.
Cheaper areas = better places to live?
Sadly not. Cheap up here means horrendous shitty areas. You've seen Shameless right? I'll just stick to York then.
Re shameless, I knew a fella whose daughter lived on the estate where they filmed it. They actually cleaned it up to film there to make it believable.
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Yes - it is utterly unrecognisable from what it was. Definitely one of the worst places in London now.
His other eye was bulging out of his socket and he was foaming at the mouth like a rabid dog I jumped the light and didn't stop at another one all around the twenty four seven bagel\biegel shop its hookers crack heads pimps and dealers not a cozzer in sight
Redhill was decent when the Belfry first opened. It had as good a range of shops as anywhere up until the late 90s and a couple of decent pubs. It's all discount and cash for gold shops now.
Jaywick aint that bad and nothing wrong with a caravan, there are normal houses before you get to the front.
Grays is pretty crap but Tilbury is worse.
In the sixties we used to say don't suffer from acne move to Dalston.
I live in Hitchin.
I might pretend I never read all the comments about Dalston, live in ignorance and keep my cherished memories.
I'm still in therapy.
I travel the country daily and my first 10 places to close down and delete it from the A-Z would be:
This.....
Paul Theroux should do a book on a bus ride through it.
I knew a fella whose daughter lived on the estate where they filmed it.
They actually cleaned it up to film there to make it believable.