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Tell me about the street you live on. Does anyone famous or exciting live on it? Does it have an interesting history? Do good things happen there?

Our road shares a name with an 18th century poet who commited suicide aged 18. there is a pizza restaurant at the end of our road, but it has been closed for the 10 months i have lived here. nobody knows why. nick hornby supposedly either lived or still lives on our street but i don't believe this.

― gareth, Friday, 24 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I used to live on a street in Willesden where the first stone roses album was recorded, but the only semi-famous person I saw there was Pete Waterman, unfortunately I didn't have a machete handy.

And when I was very wee I lived rpond the corner from Tony Christie, according to my mother he was a very pleasant chap.

My new road now is very very dull.

― cabbage, Friday, 24 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Adam Clayton grew up next door to me. His mother moved out about a year ago. Ronan Keating recently moved into my town, I intend on running up to him screaming and pretending to be a fan then making veiled criticisms that he won't understand. Something like, I loved that Greg Alexander album you sang on. Actually thats not veiled at all.

― Ronan Fitzgerald, Friday, 24 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A block south is a brick box that holds the christan science church. A block east is the presbryterians, two blocks west is a ctholic church. But not mine. Across the street is the elizabeth fry society. Within 12 blocks there are 25 hotels and 16 office towers. We live in the third oldest residental apartment building in edmonton.

― anthony, Friday, 24 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Caledonia Road - I suppose it's famous for Pentonville Prison. Nobody else I can think of though - which is good. My band Brazen Hussies are going to put Caledonia Road on the map, one day there'll be a subsection in the Record & Tape Exchange dedicated to all the 'Cali Road' bands spawned by myself, you heard it here first.

― dave q, Friday, 24 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Apparently, the apartment building I just moved into used to be one of the most infamous crack dens in Brooklyn, NY. Until a nice Jewish man bought the building, renovated, and evicted the dealers 8 montjs ago. A clueless police SWAT team came here 4 months ago to raid the apartment next to mine, only to find two blonde girls from Pittsburgh - a 2nd grade teacher and an interior designer. Taxi drivers still look at me funny when I tell them where I want to go.

Also, when I lived in an NYU dorm, Ricki Lake lived one building over. [1 University Place if you are a fan.]

― Phil-Two, Friday, 24 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

As I think I mentioned on a previous thread, North London's biggest Madam lives opposite our block of flats. Also we live on the same road as Suicide Bridge. And there is a school which has a very scary big sculpture of an insane chicken outside it.

― Emma, Friday, 24 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Lenin lived in Clapton Square, supposedly, for a month or so a century ago. Or might have done: he had a mate who had some rooms. Joseph Priestley discovered oxygen in the spare car-parts shop. (No, he lived in a house now demolished on that site, but discovered oxygen many years later...)

― mark s, Friday, 24 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A guy from a reasonably well known local band lives next door. I don't know anyone else on the st except their cats & dogs.

― duane, Friday, 24 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The earth must have been an awful place before oxygen was discovered

― Ronan Fitzgerald, Friday, 24 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Liberty Bell And The Black Diamond Express was recorded at the studio down the road from where I live.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Friday, 24 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Liberty Belle And The Black Diamond Express was recorded at the studio down the road from where I live.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Friday, 24 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(Ronan, if JP had been looking for oxygen today, I think Hackney wd be a very bad place to start...)

― mark s, Friday, 24 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My road is name after another Priestley, the writer. It intersects with four other roads, three named after writers and one after a cruise liner the architect liked (the Arandora Star). At one end is Barley Lane (B177), which used to have a dairy farm on it, and at the other is Christie Gardens (you see?), where Chadwell Heath Foundation School is. My family are the third occupants of the house, the most notable being the Feathers family, who were weirdo teachers whose daughter got pregnant in her teens (in the 50s or 60s, this would have been, so much controversy there)and whose son used to expose himself to the schoolgirls as they walked past in the morning.
"Does anyone famous or exciting live on it?" Yes, me. And my grandparents, who've lived here for 50 years and run their own spy network.
"Does it have an interesting history?" The estate was built in the 30s, so not really. I do live about 100 yards from a load of houses that were blown up by a V2, though.
"Do good things happen there?" Only me and Greenfield 2 scaring the neighbours.

― DG, Friday, 24 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Adam Clayton grew up next door to me.

Everyone in Dublin has a U2 member who grew up just up the road from them.

The road I live on is a backstreet that some of Dublin's trendiest pubs back onto. There are loads of building sites on it. Just up the road is The Vortex, a gay sauna. whenever I see people from work in the vicinity of where I live I always assume they're off to The Vortex.

― DV, Friday, 24 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There is not much to say about my road, at the end of it is a park which goes on for miles.

― jel, Friday, 24 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My road is very short it hides in Woodlands Grove, It really is a Treasure Trove, There are only two houses to see, Going by the numbers one and three There's a portaloo outside a door, And a building site so they'll be more. People in my road to meet, On the road we call Mell Street.

― Martin, Friday, 24 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No he really did. One morning I came out and there he was. It was like Jack in the Beanstalk only more terrifying because a beanstalk has nothing on a dull MOR bassist for sheer comic value.

― Ronan Fitzgerald, Friday, 24 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think I meant to say horror value

― Ronan, Friday, 24 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

horrific

― Ronan, Friday, 24 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My road's dull. It is named after an obvious geographical feature and filled with small suburban houses. The exciting parts would be the brick church and small park.

Good things happen. I run around on it.

― Lyra, Friday, 24 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I live on Columbus Avenue in NYC. My building is one of the original tenements - those of you who have seen West Side Story, it's one of THOSE buildings. The rest of them were all torn down and replaced with ritzy shit. Plenty good happens on my street, I suppose - I mean, nothing bad ever happens and they have lots of street fairs on Columbus. We have a lot of restaurants which are quite nice.

Howard Stern, Regis Philbin, Kim Cattral, Linda Evangelista, and Linda Fiorentino all live in the building on my block. Also nearby is Rosie O'Donnell, Harrison Ford and Alec Baldwin. My company owns a hotel down the streeet and there are always famous people staying there.

― Ally, Friday, 24 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A cabbie told me our flats were built on a bomb site, which makes sense because it's a square sixties block surrounded by late Victorian terraces. There's a synagogue at one end of the road and a park which has deer and joggers. Opposite us is the back of a school full of kids who like to scream at break time. You can spot our flat because of my two ginormous sunflowers which are about to bloom.

― Madchen, Friday, 24 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oops, forgot the famous people. I've seen Stewpot from Grange Hill a couple of times and actually, I sat opposite Zammo on the tube last night but he didn't get off at Finsbury Park so he can't be local. Other than that, nobody famous, but it does seem like the entire Hasidic population of Stoke Newington passes down our road each weekend.

― Madchen, Friday, 24 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A perfectly nondescript slice of LA/Orange County suburbia, not even a through street, and yet I love it. Always felt very relaxed there, never a worry, and the houses aren't all the same. The freeway roars in the distance and the sun shines -- I'm content.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't think there's anything famous about my street. Maybe there is, I dunno, I just moved here. But the next street down is the one that Jesse "The Body" Ventura, governor of Minnesota, lives on. This amuses me a great deal.

― Josh, Friday, 24 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My street's only claim to fame is that the closest intersection was named the third most dangerous intersection in the U.S. Huzzah!

― jess, Friday, 24 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

when I used to live in Acton...there was always a rumour that Linford Christie was going to move into a house on my street.

― jel, Friday, 24 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

four years pass...

I've written elsewhere about the "high street" I live near, but I don't live on it. My smaller street isn't particularly exciting itself but has some notable points. Virtually next door is a firehouse that lost lots of people on 9/11, and firefighters hang out in front and know people in the neighborhood and sometimes flirt with girls. Up the block in the leafier, nicer, queit direction there's a synagogue with some interesting architecture. A block or two down the street in the other direction there's a postage-stamp-sized sushi restaurant that gets high marks that I've yet to try. There's also a frattish-seeming bar that seems somehow attractive because you sort of have to know it's there to come across it. Haven't been there either.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 24 July 2006 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

Intriguing thread.

There's an elementary school down the street from where I live. The school zone begins in front of my house. Further down the street exists a nursing home complex. It's actually one of those multistage deals -- there's an "independent living" apartment complex, an assisted living facility, and a hospice. My street is actually used as a thoroughfare for people looking to either enter into or exit from a highway. There's a major thoroughfare maybe two blocks away from my house. My street started out close to another major thoroughfare, back when it was a country road, and the houses are smaller and flatter. As the neighborhood developed, the street expanded into more hilly terrain, and my house was among the last to be built on my street. I was once told that my house actually began life as a model home, which boggles my mind.

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Monday, 24 July 2006 23:20 (nineteen years ago)

frederick douglass used to live on my street, but that was before my time

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Monday, 24 July 2006 23:23 (nineteen years ago)

it's sad that, despite being away from it for a year, when i hear "your road" i still picture foster lane. my last "permanent" home. so wonderful. so halcyon. for now i live on eleanor st., soon to live on neyland with drunk college kids. c'est la vie!

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Monday, 24 July 2006 23:28 (nineteen years ago)

Two miles up the road that I live on is where G3r4ld Bu11 built his super gun that was developed for the US military back in the 70s & 80s. It's in the Guinness Book of Records for firing a projectile to a higher altitude than anything short of a NASA launch. Anyway, the US didn't want his gun after telling him to go ahead and develop it. So he sold it to S. Africa, got caught, and went to jail for a spell. Then he tried to have one shipped to Iraq, but the Israelis got wind of this and plain-old eliminated Mr. Bu11.

The gun is no longer situated on our hill but I did get to see it a few times after Mr. Bu11's demise. Even walked on top of it. It had to have been several hundred feet long.

Nowadays this place is just pretty regular.

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

magazine types are trying to label my corner "beldel" for below delancy. there's been a slew of restaurants open up in the past year or so, gaining attention.

― Sir Dr. Rev. PappaWheelie Jr. II of The Third Kind (PappaWheelie 2), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:30 (nineteen years ago)

"beldel" sounds silly in the extreme!!

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:51 (nineteen years ago)

There isn't a single shop on my road, which is odd because it's a fairly major street. There are shops nearby, but by the time the shops start the name of the road has changed.

One side of my road is a ten minute walk from the other side of my road, at the widest point. I live on the side with the even numbers.

Oh yes, and there are the angels, which William Blake saw on my road.

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 07:46 (nineteen years ago)

on my street we have chicken deliveries to the live poultry market at 4 a.m. and reggaeton and pentecostals who like to preach/sing in the street.

looking forward to moving!

― a mellow and sorrowful musical tapestry that is, for lack of a better term, (teh, Tuesday, 25 July 2006 07:59 (nineteen years ago)

Nathaniel Hawthorne lived for a bit in a house down my road. Actually, it's not REALLY down my road, it changes name midway through.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 08:05 (nineteen years ago)

There are no shops where I live either, although it does have quite a nice pub at the end of the road.

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― C J (C J), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 08:09 (nineteen years ago)

The small close I live on can't possibly have anyone famous in it as it's nothing but 60s council flats and houses. I can pretty much justify, I guess, saying I live on Upper Richmond Road (my kitchen window looks out onto it), which is part of the South Circular and therefore probably as (in)famous in itself as any of its potential residents. There are a few pop star connections, which I've mentioend before - Simon L3 B0n and his lovely family live in the big house next door, while Marc Bolan died about 100 yards from my front door.

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 08:09 (nineteen years ago)

my road pays host to the best baker shop in town.

the road ends a couple of miles to the east near some canal docks. another road not far from here has a very similar road name and i sometimes get mail for the address there.

my rented house was apparently where 'Just Juice' was first created. this is according to the landlord who is usually quite reliable.

It's alive and noisy with sirens and traffic at all times of day and night as it's a main link to both NS & EW bound motorways in Cheshire.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 08:13 (nineteen years ago)

The famous connection with my road is :

L3wis Carr0ll used to drink at the pub occasionally, and the story goes that one day while strolling around the village he stopped to admire the view across the moor from what is now my garden. The sight of the farmers' fields stretching out into the horizon in a neat multi-coloured chequerboard pattern inspired him to write the chess scene in Alice in Wonderland (so it is said).

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 08:20 (nineteen years ago)

More everday things about my road - its in the middle of an old, very green, very plush private estate full of some ridiculously big houses.

Our road in particular mostly comprises some small boxy 1960s houses with huge windows, including the one I live in. When we moved in, our neighbours came round with bottles of wine to introduce themselves, which has never happened to me before. There are a few old curtain-twitchers around as well. I wish I lived on the same road as a pub, although there is an off license behind our house that we somehow failed to notice for an entire year.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 08:23 (nineteen years ago)

Okay googleproofing Lewis Carroll's name beats even my G0rd0n Br0wn record.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 08:24 (nineteen years ago)

I've heard that the Lewis Carroll Massive are disruptive mentalists.

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 08:26 (nineteen years ago)

I live on a leafy street of victorian terraces, some quite grand, some not so grand. Its on a hill and the land falls away at the back. From the bedroom window you can see the houses of parliament, St Pauls and canary wharf, though the view is better in the winter when the trees are bare. There’s lots of cats on the street and there were six fox cubs in the back gardens at 4am a week ago. There are Doves, Jays and the odd Parrot flying around.
It’s in South East London so famous people are thin on the ground, though I did see Linda Barker driving past the other day.

― Bidfurd (Bidfurd), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 08:29 (nineteen years ago)

Do you live up the top round the left side of Greenwich Park, by any chance?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 08:41 (nineteen years ago)

No, at the edge of East Dulwich where it meets Honor Oak, We're on the side of the hill that eventually goes up to Crystal Palace, just under the 'Battleship' flats, if you know them.

― Bidfurd (Bidfurd), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 08:57 (nineteen years ago)

Top of Dawsons Hill then? That would have been one of my other guesses.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 09:04 (nineteen years ago)

yes! I didn't know the name of the hill but a bit of googling confirms you're right.

― Bidfurd (Bidfurd), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 09:12 (nineteen years ago)

Our road is opposite a big park, with lots of schools in it. There's a pub and a corner shop. A couple of years ago the pub landlord blasted his wife with a shotgun while she was sleeping. The police came round asking if we'd heard gunshots! :(

I've been told less-popular dinosaur the Iguanadon was discovered just down the road, too.

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 09:12 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't know that was Dawson's Hill either, I don't suppose that means the little River Peck ran through Dawson's Creek? One Tree Hill is over the back of Nunhead, too, so I'm expecting to hear about Forest Hill 90210 before long.

Bidfurd, are you up the top end, kind of near Dulwich library or at the bottom end near the Herne Tavern? Feel free not to answer if you don't want. Mostly I want to know if there are any good pubs up the top end, because I haven't yet found one.

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 09:22 (nineteen years ago)

Tim, the Herne Tavern end(Hillcourt Rd to be exact). You could try The Castle or the CPT on Crystal palace road. Are you on Peckham Rye? you probably know the Clockhouse already.

― Bidfurd (Bidfurd), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 09:48 (nineteen years ago)

I am on Peckham Rye, just a little way in your direction up from the Clockouse.

We should SE22FAP.

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 09:50 (nineteen years ago)

I live on Stanley Road. Some people claim that this Stanley Road, and not the one in Woking, was the inspiration for Paul Weller's album (his brother lived here or something). However I can't find any evidence that this is true.

I love my road. It has a cinema at one end for one thing. And it's full of nice people who sit out on their steps/front yards and pass the time of day.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 09:58 (nineteen years ago)

Beldel - not 'BenDel' (beneath Delancey?)

Howard Dean grew up on my street

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 10:35 (nineteen years ago)

Pete Doherty was arrested in my street earlier this year. 1980's development built on the site of a wharf. At the top of the hill there is a plaque to Leonard Woolley, the explorer and archeologist who discovered the Sumerian city of Ur.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 10:42 (nineteen years ago)

My road is supposedly haunted, if you believe in that kind of thing.. Someone hanged himself from a bridge, or so the story goes. There's also an old mansion that looks haunted, so it must be - yawn...

The person who used to own my house was a Physics professer at Ohio State - And so was my nextdoor neighbor, who just moved away after 40 years - I'm told that a lot of famous physicists had been to my house - Edward Teller being one of them. Other people have said that Einstein was there too, although I'm not sure if I believe that - makes good folklore though... (better than ghosts I think.)

― DAVE's secret to fortu-Oh look! Shiny! (dave225.3), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

This thread is just people begging for stalkers, isn't it?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

Beldel - not 'BenDel' (beneath Delancey?)

bendel, dundat

― Sir Dr. Rev. PappaWheelie Jr. II of The Third Kind (PappaWheelie 2), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

if you do a mapquest.com search for Toronto, Ontario, without specifying an address, you get sent to my road. Which means that, hey, I live in the centre of town, give or take a block, and that we get lots of lost people on our road, asking for more specific directions.

GoogleMaps, on the other hand, begs to differ as to where the exact geographical centre of Toronto lies.

― pauls00 (pauls00), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

i live on Manchester road Chorlton-cum-hardy, i share a flat win a member of Oceansize. not sure if anyone else on the street is famous, but Elbow, badly drawn boy, bez and someone from i am kloot live nearby.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

ooh - I also live down the street from the winner of the 2006 international handwriting contest!

― DAVE's secret to fortu-Oh look! Shiny! (dave225.3), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

I live in the same neighborhood as four of the members of the 1950 US World Cup team. Not quite on my road though. My road is steps away from the highest point in the city.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

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