Hampstead, or anywhere

PS: There's nothing to do in West Calder.

(Yes, I am luckier than anyone from anywhere else within ten miles in that we have some shops and pubs, but the pubs either have nobody else under 60 there ever or are full of people who'd gladly remove all my teeth for breathing near them. OK, my real problem is that all my friends have long since escaped and any 20-somethings left already have kids and probably spent their/my teenage years spitting at me in the underpass. Then again I bet 99% of the clientele of Fabric or any other famous London club would rather beat me up than talk to me, too, but at least I'd get something to listen to while they did so.)

who have you kissed from here??

PS: livimakesmesick.

PS: Livi makes me sick too. I'm back there once a year maybe, to visit my mum. The only thing there is the Almondvale Centre (which has extended to poncey proportions since I moved). I'm walking throught there with my mum (who likes the 'designer outlets' whatever they are), and I'm hiding my face in case I see some bastard from the past. I want Livingston nuked.

the Centre.

I went to west calder high school. what was the sort of an ERA you had? I don't know anyone who went to st. kent's. but I still pass it every time I drive in to glasgow [often].

yeah, the Centre.

I'm trying to think what I ever did in West Calder. There was a pet shop there I used to go to when I was young. Oh and some asswipes I went to school with were really into golf, so I played golf there once. I might've played snooker there too. No, that was probably Bathgate. My paedophile neighbour used to take me in my tracksuit bottoms to watch the West Calder football team play in that cute wee stadium you've got there. Everyone in Livingston is still wearing tracksuit bottoms. I notice this when I visit. Especially the girls. In a sick way it turns me on. I used to fancy a girl like mad called Vicky Peel. I think she lived in West Calder. No, it was Polbeth actually. In fact I know more people from Polbeth. What's the difference, anyway? I was from Dedridge, so I was close. But I still didn't get the difference.

well, I didn't start high school until nineteen ninety....-three, I suppose. but I bet half of the wanks that were around in your days were still around in my days--wanks go nowhere. but I've lived in west calder my whole life. just down from harburn golf club. except for the last three years, sort of. I need to move back to glasgow. cuz, yeah. the Centre. and all it represents. [in my mind, at least].

PS: the pet shop closed down. I think there's some sort of care centre there now. [=what fun there was no longer is].

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anyway, i know hampstead garden suburb isnt exactly hampstead itself, but here is a site with photographs of every single house in hampstead garden suburb.

http://www.hgs.org.uk/mystreet/index.html

I went to school in Hampstead (with beanz and Chuck Tatum!) and the vast area between Mornington Crescent and Golders Green tubes was my teenage playground!

I don't know that there is anything "cool" north of Chalk Farm but I still maintain a great affection for it.

My parents are looking at moving to Hampstead Garden Suburb.

Camden Arts Centre, on Finchley Road, I think is quite cool.

i walked into HGS, via the heath extension. i went up as far as north point, which i had never heard of before. its all very 'bishops avenue', they are basically mansions arent they? and...a village green!

unbelievably, there is a hostel international in golders green!

Anyway, Golders Hill Park:
http://www.creamteaclub.com/town%20and%20country/golders%20hill/gh19.jpg

I used to live here, on North End Road anyway.

stumbled into hampstead garden suburb yesterday after rambling in big wood (that is its name) - the part with the hilltop churches & the memorial to the region's designer gave me a stronger sense of the occult than any other place in london

I walk through there all the time, you only ever see gardeners and pool cleaners, very rarely any actual residents. And security guards for the Jewish schools these days too, sadly.

the main church has an inverted cross above its door

Used to live not far from there, there's a strange atmosphere for sure, even the view from the A1 makes it looks oddly disconnected from it's surroundings.

A family friend lives in HGS, always creeps me out a bit. No way could I live there.

HGS realness : http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jan/31/inside-london-billionaires-row-derelict-mansions-hampstead

Steven Wilson lived there iirc, or his parents.

I used to cut through Bishops Ave on my way back from Kenwood to our house in Highgate, creepy as fuck

I havent been to London in a number of years, but this is probably my favourite area

walked down Bishops Avenue as well en route to Big Wood, having stopped for a piss at awful eugenicist rugby gastropub The Old White Lion