TS: Edgware's Broadwalk vs Brent Cross vs Watford's Harlequin Centre vs St. Anne's of Harrow vs the shopping mall in Ealing

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I put the last one in just for jel. Which of these modern wonders should I visit first when I make a glorious (and currently hypothetical) return to Northwest London?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Just a visit, of course.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

they all suck, but the Edgware one will probably appeal to you the most

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Oriental City in Colindale.

― darren (darren), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Uxbridge Pavilions - but not the Chimes, it's just a Jonnie come lately.

― chris (chris), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Oriental City in Colindale.

!!!!

Of course. I used to work just around the corner from there. I used to sneak off and play football games in that arcade thing.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Ealing, forever and for always. Brent Cross is the only other one I've been to, it's a bit too urban and car-centric for my liking.

Steve has become very much the villain since he left the west.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Steve's one of us now Jel, live with it

― chris (chris), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Oriental City ... where I nurtured my 'thing' for matters Japanese (way before Momus did, I'd wager..) in its slightly superior mid-90s guise as the Yaohan Plaza.

My missus used to work in the proto-Japanese £1 shop, btw. The owner is a randy old git - 57 or so and still chasing 23-year-old Oriental chicks.

― darren (darren), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

.... as opposed to me, needless to say ...

― darren (darren), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

But what triggered the switch from Yaohan Plaza to Oriental City? Politics?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Ownership. Yaohan went arse o'er tit and had to close or sell most of their European shopping centres.

― darren (darren), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

jel is there anything in West London (Ealing) you DON'T like? apart from the fact that I've left...

these places are all psuedo-malls and thus suck by default (/shoppin rockist)

Yaohan Plaza was cool for the arcade tho

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't like: the chewing gum streets, litter, traffic, the noise. But you get that in all parts of London. I like the west coz people here keep putting it down, like anywhere else in London is any better. It's got a lot of parks and there are good places to walk to and more than enough stations, and I like the architecture. If my friends and family weren't close by, and if I hadn't got streets full of memory it wouldn't mean so much to me. It's home. I don't plan to stay in London for more than 5 more years. That is all.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 4 December 2003 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

where are you going to live, jel?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 4 December 2003 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't think my new hometown is as 'nice' as my old one but is far more convenient and my social life seems a lot better since moving, what can you do?

and yeh where are you going in 5 years??

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 4 December 2003 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Dunno, by the sea, south coast or Norfolk would be nice. Though, I may have to accept the awful truth that London traps you, and you can't ever leave.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 4 December 2003 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to live in Norfolk. It's weird, in a really good way.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 4 December 2003 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

see what I mean?

http://www.krysstal.com/images/club_norwich.gif

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 4 December 2003 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

i like the Norwich badge, wouldn't want to live there tho

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 4 December 2003 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, I went to university there, so I probably got a slightly skewed version of what it is like to actually *live* there. The Norfolk countryside is fantastic, IMO.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 4 December 2003 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

yeh but so is Sussex, live in Sussex!

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 4 December 2003 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Next year, I'm going to visit these places! Jel is actually going to get out of London for a change! Oh, and I'm going to gop look at ruins too. Sorry, this thread has diverted away from shopping centres.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 4 December 2003 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

if this hypothetical return becomes reality don't forget to tell us so we can fap for ya.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 4 December 2003 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I will let you know.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 4 December 2003 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Go to BLOOWATER

― Mandee (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 4 December 2003 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Yaohan was v cool, I haven't been over there in absolutely ages.

― chris (chris), Friday, 5 December 2003 09:31 (twenty-one years ago)

uniqlo has closed down in watford's harlequin = bad. there is a cafe that sells san benedetto ice tea = good. this may make it worth a visit.
also, you can then go to freedom records in market st, and look at their poor selection of grime tunes.

if you are willing to travel, why not visit hatfield's 'galleria'? like wood green shopping city, it straddles a road, like some sort of spaceship, and makes you feel like yr playing wipeout. in fatc, the galleria really is like a spaceship.

― ambrose (ambrose), Friday, 5 December 2003 10:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Noooooooo, not the Galleria!

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 5 December 2003 10:41 (twenty-one years ago)

That's stevem's best spot! He doesn't want it trampled by Ye Hordes!

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 5 December 2003 10:48 (twenty-one years ago)

yeh, it's my primary hunting ground for picking up pikey girls who like a bit of sport. the Duke abides.

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 5 December 2003 10:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I am all to familiar with the Galleria. *shudder*

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Ealing, fool! Because it's the only one I've been to.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Friday, 5 December 2003 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

i was in brent cross yesterday, and struck by the architecture of the houses once again. it has its own peculiar style, brent cross, and i think i actually quite like it

its also a place of nostalgia and of travel, the (old) gateway, sliproard escape (but, in reality, sliproad return - though, in the past)

― charltonlido (gareth), Friday, 19 August 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

Brent Cross, where I bought my first ever record (25 years ago?), and wasn't allowed to play on the big wooden animals ouside Waitrose (are they still there?). Think I would hate the place now.

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 19 August 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

In my travels, I've been to:

Brent Cross (3 stars)
Watford's Harlequin Centre (4)
The shopping mall in Ealing (There's two, combined they get 3)

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 August 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

Ah the wooden animals. I was allowed to play on them, because I would get bloody grumpy if I had to go in the bleeding shops.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 19 August 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

I know all these places of course because I started the thread. The Broadwalk is a monstrosity, but I used to work in Brent Cross (WhSMiths) so I have kind of an affection for it.

Gareth, if you ahven't already, I IMPLORE you to watch this! I think that Jerry The Nipper and I are the only Patrick Keiller fans on ILX, but this stuff is made for you, I promise!

The reason I bring it up is that in "London", there is a visit to Brent Cross where Robinson says that if he were a poet, the shopping centre would be his muse. They also visit nearby Staples Corner just after the IRA bomb went off.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

six months pass...

COLINDALE

― Adam Rice Lacucaracha (nordicskilla), Friday, 3 March 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

COLIN FAVER

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Friday, 3 March 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=HvPdXhlBCtY

― hold tight the private caller (mwah), Friday, 3 March 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

my friend was accosted by an insane man at the shopping mall in Ealing who grabbed her and put her in a headlock and tried to choke her. that is my only other contribution to this thread

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 3 March 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

patrick keiller's not ready for the ABSOLUTE,SOLUTE

iain sinclair's not ready for the ABSOLUTE,SOLUTE

chris petit's not ready for the ABSOLUTE,SOLUTE

― hold tight the private caller (mwah), Friday, 3 March 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

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