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I've moved to Turnpike Lane. It's not very nice. Or is it?

There's a good pub for football but not really for sitting about in after matches. There appear to be no other nice places to eat/drink in unless you are Turkish and a man and like playing pool in a darkened room.

There's good cinemas and Shopping City (!!) but is that all we got?

― nickie (nickie), Monday, 6 October 2003 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I heard you have a freeform respray yard.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 6 October 2003 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

That's true. But they don't let us drink with them.

― nickie (nickie), Monday, 6 October 2003 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

You should totally open a pub.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 6 October 2003 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

The pub I think you're talking about used to have a good jukebox.

Turnpike Lane is horrible but I miss it a bit.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 6 October 2003 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

i quite like turnpike lane, i like the harinegy ladder anyway, not so sure about west green, and the bit where the 341 peels away eastwards though. nalini used to live on boundary road, up that way, there was a park.

― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 6 October 2003 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

You've just reminded me that I *have* been to Turnpike Lane. To a big pub where we watched Ireland beat Iran in a World Cup qualifier play off.

Alicia Keys was playing on the jukebox.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 6 October 2003 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to make regular visits to see my aunt when I was a child. She lived in Langham Road. Now I live about ten minutes down the road from Turnpike Lane but I have very little to do with the place beyond occasional visits to the High Street for shopping purposes, often at 4.00 pm on Christmas Eve. Oh and the doctor I'm registered with is just near the station. The charity shop near Burger King isn't bad. I also walked down Turnpike Lane itself once (turned left at Burger King) but got bored and turned back. Or maybe I was looking for a type of shop that just wasn't down there, I can't remember. I also did jury service at Wood Green Crown Court a few years ago - I ate some fish and chips in a place near Wood Green tube one lunchtime but didn't particularly enjoy it.

― David (David), Monday, 6 October 2003 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

The Hollywood Green cinema is leet-o as it can only cost £3.50 to see a film depending on when you go. Also, there's a grate pub opposite Alexandra Palace station, but that might be a little out of your way...

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 6 October 2003 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

What's the cinema like? I noticed the cheap ticket offer on the website but I wasn't sure about the sound quality, comfort etc. Tickets at Holloway Odeon are all £4.00 before 5.00 pm so I've always got that option. I was worried that the Wood Green cinema would somehow not be a pleasant environment.

― David (David), Monday, 6 October 2003 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Ummm... it's a cinema. The seats are alright and the sound's in maxi-stereosurround, or whatever the hell the technical term is. I prefer the one in the Shopping City because there's some tiny screens in there that have only about 50-60 seats, which is perfect for late night viewing of the last fortnight's old new releases which no one else ever wants to see. I've never known it to be completely empty then - I think the fewest people I've ever seen there were myself, my lady friend and three other random lunatics - but it's quiet enough for it not to be embaressing when you walk out of a late night showing of 'Legally Blonde', or whatever.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 02:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Cineworld in Shopping City is quite good as it has the odd interesting film on and it's only £5.50 a go in the evenings. And there's an all right noodle bar across the road.

From the evidence of this thread, there is nowhere good to go in TL.

N is right. I shall have to open my own pub. I shall open it in the squat across the road from my house! We will make cocktails and have a glitter ball made out of tin foil! Turnpike Lane will be the new Shoreditch. Oh joy!

― nickie (nickie), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 08:24 (twenty-one years ago)

If you are anywhere near Fags'n'Mags, do not be tempted to nip in for fags or mags unless you have some kind of breathing apparatus as the stench in there (which can only have got worse in the 3.5 years since I was living in the area) could be the end of you. TL tip 2: the Queen's Head shows the 15 mins free porn on satellite TV when it's open late if that's your cup of tea.

― Emma, Tuesday, 7 October 2003 08:34 (twenty-one years ago)

The ladder is lovely and seedy, if you like that kind of thing. Before they knocked teh Coronet down, it was the best proper flea-pit in London (I remember stamping my feet in joy on the wooden floor during a screening of Rush Hour). Further down Green Lanes, the Salisbury (aka The Sally) if architectuarally great, but not sure what its like these days (it used to change hands every three or four years).

The Cineworld in SHopping City has 13 screen and is 3:50 during the day, and is the best place to bounce from screen to screen and is possibly the best place to see Black Cinema in the UK. The Queen's Arse (the pub you reference) has lost some of its metaller tang but is still a really, really nasty pub.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 08:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmm. I like my porn WITH a cup of tea. I wonder if the Queen's Head will oblige.

Where is the ladder?

There's some sort of pubby dancey thing on a thursday somewhere in green lanes. We saw it advertised in the guide, but have forgotten where it was.

― nickie (nickie), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 08:57 (twenty-one years ago)

That could be in the back room of the Sally.

The Ladder: http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=public&X=531000&Y=189000&scale=10000&width=700&height=400&gride=531468&gridn=188098&coordsys=gb&db=&addr1=&addr2=&addr3=&pc=&keepicon=true&advanced=
Named such because the parallel roads between Green Lanes and Wightman Road resemble a Ladder FROM SPACE.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 09:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Before they knocked teh Coronet down, it was the best proper flea-pit in London
was that the cinema just south of Ducketts Common?

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 10:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Further down Green Lanes, the Salisbury (aka The Sally) if architectuarally great, but not sure what its like these days (it used to change hands every three or four years).

It had a grand re-opening about six months ago (refurbished and renovated after being closed for a year or so). I could have had a free drink on the re-opening night but I missed it. Since then I've had it in mind to drop in for one but I can't be bothered.

The Suffolk Punch shut down about the same time the Salisbury re-opened. Does Wetherspoons do that a lot? (shutting pubs down without hesitation if they don't meet profits targets...or perhaps there was some other reason).

The other pub along 'Grand Parade' is that Ye Olde Alehouse place (or whatever's it's called). I've been in a couple of times but I don't like places that get too full.

― David (David), Tuesday, 7 October 2003 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

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