South London Poll (closes 18 May)

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There's always another one along in a minute; thought about splitting it up into SW and SE but no, let's stick them all in a fresh bouillabase...

Poll Results

Option	Votes
SE15: Peckham	4
SE19: Upper Norwood	3
SW2: Brixton, Tulse Hill, Streatham Hill	3
SW6: Fulham	2
SE1: Waterloo, Elephant & Castle, Bermondsey, tourist traps	2
SE10: Greenwich	2
SW16: Streatham, Norbury	2
SW17: Tooting	2
SW19: Wimbledon, Merton	2
SE24: Herne Hill	1
SW7: South Kensington	1
SW8: South Lambeth, Vauxhall	1
SW15: Putney, Roehampton	1
SW11: Battersea, Clapham Junction	1
SE20: Anerley, Crystal Palace, Penge	1
SE3: Blackheath	1
SE18: Woolwich, Plumstead, Shooters Hill	1
SE14: New Cross	1
SW14: Mortlake, East Sheen	1
SE12: Lee, bits of Lewisham	1
SE5: Camberwell, Denmark Hill	1
SW12: Balham	0
SW4: Clapham	0
SW5: Earl's Court	0
SW20: West Wimbledon, Raynes Park, every man for himself past Greggs the Bakers	0
SW10: World's End, West Brompton	0
SW9: Stockwell, Loughborough Junction	0
SW13: Barnes	0
SW18: Wandsworth, Earlsfield, Southfields	0
SW3: Chelsea	0
SW1: Westminster, Victoria, Pimlico, Belgravia, Knightsbridge, more tourist traps	0
SE4: Brockley	0
SE7: Charlton, Coca-Cola Championship Central (steward's inquiry pending)	0
SE8: Deptford Fun City	0
SE9: Eltham	0
SE11: Kennington	0
SE13: The rest of Lewisham	0
SE16: Rotherhithe, Surrey Docks, Canada Wharf whose appearance shames its name	0
SE17: Walworth	0
SE21: Dulwich	0
SE22: East Dulwich	0
SE23: Forest Hill	0
SE6: Catford	0
SE25: South Norwood	0
SE26: Sydenham	0
SE27: West Norwood	0
SE2: Abbey Wood	0

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 14 May 2007 11:01 (eighteen years ago)

self-correction: "Canada Water" which one really does expect to be something more than a grimy, grubby bus depot with a DLR station attached.

Do Frankie and Benny's restaurants ever appear in places where suicide is not a viable option?

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 14 May 2007 11:04 (eighteen years ago)

absolutely no contest.

sw19: this area made me. also, the TENNIS.

― lex pretend, Monday, 14 May 2007 11:06 (eighteen years ago)

SW17

― Dom Passantino, Monday, 14 May 2007 11:09 (eighteen years ago)

I picked one at random.

― Dom Passantino, Monday, 14 May 2007 11:09 (eighteen years ago)

I've just moved from SE1 to SE24. It now takes three days longer to go anywhere, so I don't. Plus, it is full of BABIES. But it's okay.

― Pete W, Monday, 14 May 2007 11:10 (eighteen years ago)

Currently SW16, but moving to SW6 with the missus before summer's out, so my vote goes to the mighty F'lam!

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 14 May 2007 11:18 (eighteen years ago)

SE3 all the way.

― Matt DC, Monday, 14 May 2007 11:25 (eighteen years ago)

SW15 obviously, and I hate you all for not realising that it's simply the only place to live.

― Mark C, Monday, 14 May 2007 11:32 (eighteen years ago)

If I feel like living in the country I'll move to the country! Until then it's SE1 BABY.

― ledge, Monday, 14 May 2007 11:35 (eighteen years ago)

Am I the only person that chose a postcode they don't live in? I live in SW16, but I picked SW2 because I love The Hill.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 14 May 2007 11:37 (eighteen years ago)

I don't approve of these places north of the river with an S postcode. Seems wrong somehow.

― Matt DC, Monday, 14 May 2007 11:38 (eighteen years ago)

SW17 is now the place I've lived in for the second-longest of my whole life.

― Groke, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:02 (eighteen years ago)

Out of all of these areas, the only one I've never knowingly been to is SE2.

I imagine that this is an experience shared by many readers.

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:12 (eighteen years ago)

I agree that the north-of-river SWs look a little incongruous. Perhaps I should have grouped them in with the Ws for a separate West London poll.

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:12 (eighteen years ago)

i would traditionally be against the shoehorning of sw and se together, but actually i kind of like it in a way

you know this is how titos yugoslavia started though, right?

― 696, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:15 (eighteen years ago)

north london has clear favourites to win i think, but this poll could be more open, and therefore more interesting

― 696, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:17 (eighteen years ago)

Parts of SE2 are lovely - Lessness/Bostall Woods, etc. The Crossness Pumping Station is good, shame about the odour from the Sewer Outlet. Abbey Wood and Thamesmead are fairly hideous.

SE9 has a similar distribution of pretty woodland, interestin' historical buildings and utterly dire residential areas.

― Michael Jones, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:24 (eighteen years ago)

i thought SW9 and SW12 also included parts of brixton?

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:26 (eighteen years ago)

i'm voting for streatham even though i've only been there like three times

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:26 (eighteen years ago)

SW9 includes the formerly dodgy part of Coldharbour Lane.

Balham isn't anywhere near Brixton - best part of an hour on the 355 bus in rush hour.

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:33 (eighteen years ago)

Canada Water is by Tesco and Decathlon and The Metro and there is a leisure centre and Southwark Park so there's a little more than Marcello states.

But not much.

I would heart to move back to SW8 but probably can't afford it (there's a knitting shop in Vauxhall now sigh). Peckham, get a knitting shop please. Maybe I should open one.

― Sarah, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:34 (eighteen years ago)

I used to live 2min walk from Brixton tube (on the other side of Morleys Dept Store) and that was SW9. Isn't it SW9 all round the tube station/Acre Lane?

I associate words with SW postcodes. SW19 = swig, SW8 = sweat, SW9 = swine. That's interesting, isn't it?

― Michael Jones, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:36 (eighteen years ago)

Acre Lane's a bit of both SW2 and SW9.

Coldharbour Lane is half SW9 and SE5.

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:42 (eighteen years ago)

SE12, even if it is actually the most boring place on Earth.

― Just got offed, Monday, 14 May 2007 13:12 (eighteen years ago)

you seem...familiar

― 696, Monday, 14 May 2007 13:17 (eighteen years ago)

SE7: Charlton, Coca-Cola Championship Central (steward's inquiry pending)

Oi, Marcello, enough of that. :(

― Just got offed, Monday, 14 May 2007 13:19 (eighteen years ago)

i cant quite put my finger on it

― 696, Monday, 14 May 2007 13:24 (eighteen years ago)

it is a mystery

― Just got offed, Monday, 14 May 2007 13:26 (eighteen years ago)

i will have to poppage it into the unexplained files

― 696, Monday, 14 May 2007 13:28 (eighteen years ago)

Is Herne Hill that bad transport wise? It is on my shortlist for New Places to Live, but I was led to believe the overland rail to CLondon's not too bad.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, Monday, 14 May 2007 13:29 (eighteen years ago)

Also, amused by the way ILE new answers is being brutally colonised with London and football specific shit, it's like marking territory

― Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, Monday, 14 May 2007 13:31 (eighteen years ago)

Herne Hill is beautiful, but the transport is Thameslinke - oops, sorry, First Capital Connect - which is not the most reliable thing in the world.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 14 May 2007 13:32 (eighteen years ago)

I've been using FCC every night since January (Tulse Hill station) and only had problems twice. I don't tend to use it in the morning though - trains are absolutely packed and I need a seat.

― Vicky, Monday, 14 May 2007 13:34 (eighteen years ago)

Herne Hill is fine, unless you are used to living 30 seconds from a zone one tube station or have walked to the West End for the past ten years.

― Pete W, Monday, 14 May 2007 13:35 (eighteen years ago)

I dunno, it's pretty reliable: I've been there two weeks and my train has been delayed every morning. Also, getting the train to work makes me feel like I'm in Mary Poppins.

― Pete W, Monday, 14 May 2007 13:37 (eighteen years ago)

With FCC, I tend to count the times that the train is on *time* as they are the aberrations, not the times they are delayed.

Don't even try to get a seat at rush hour, they're already grabbed by Streatham, which is two stops up the line.

But it is a short, convenient journey once the train actually comes.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 14 May 2007 13:41 (eighteen years ago)

You can also opt out and go to Victoria instead, which seems a bit less crap and packed.

― Pete W, Monday, 14 May 2007 13:42 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, but Victoria? that's so far West it's not even London! ;-)

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 14 May 2007 13:44 (eighteen years ago)

Herne Hill used to be where the Kent line to Blackfriars (from Sevenoaks and Orpington) merged with the Thameslink, so it's double the options you'd get from Tulse Hill. Assuming you don't mind not going any further than Blackfriars. But, y'know, Blackfriars is on the Circle & District, so there's options.

I always found Thameslink preferable to whatever Network SouthEast is called these days (it was Connex SouthCentral for a bit, because South Central is a much more desirable destination than the South East), anyway.

This said, I've not used the train with any regularity since 2001.

― William Bloody Swygart, Monday, 14 May 2007 23:12 (eighteen years ago)

Connex SouthCentral became ComptonRail for a bit before settling on Southern. Nice (and) livery.

― Michael Jones, Monday, 14 May 2007 23:38 (eighteen years ago)

Bump, but blimey where did all this train talk come from?

Best train journey in London - Victoria to London Bridge via Denmark Hill where you see all the famous landmarks at strange Cubist angles.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 07:24 (eighteen years ago)

I would heart to move back to SW8 but probably can't afford it (there's a knitting shop in Vauxhall now sigh). Peckham, get a knitting shop please. Maybe I should open one.

Living in SW8 feels really central - being able to walk into the West End etc. I'm in the SW8 trap though: I've got a very small flat and I could never afford to buy anything bigger in this area.

I live in the same road as the knitting shop and I'm surprised it's still going. I feel I should support it in some way, like buying a ball of wool, but I can't knit.

― Bob Six, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 07:35 (eighteen years ago)

Whenever I go down the South Lambeth Road the expression which comes instantly to mind is "busy squalor." Ideal if you like Portuguese food, though.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 07:37 (eighteen years ago)

Expensive squalor, too.

The oddity about SW8 is that I've only even been down South London Road a handful of times despite being here for 12 years. Although I live at the beginning of it, it feels more natural to head straight into central London.

― Bob Six, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 07:41 (eighteen years ago)

(Also, as you'll see, I've never really grasped the names of roads in Vauxhall)

― Bob Six, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 07:41 (eighteen years ago)

do you recommend any of those portugese restaurants marcello?

― 696, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 08:21 (eighteen years ago)

Vauxhall has the ugliest town centre in south London. It's Elephant without the charm. The bus station, spy building and St George's Wharf should all be ashamed of themselves.

― Pete W, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 08:24 (eighteen years ago)

ive just noticed that marcello has left off se28. perhaps the thamesmead vote will spill over into se2, giving it an unfair advantage?

― 696, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 08:25 (eighteen years ago)

I did, didn't I? Isn't SE28 a relatively new addition? You're practically in Kent out there!

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 08:29 (eighteen years ago)

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they stripped YOU etc.

― blueski, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 10:36 (eighteen years ago)

Olley's is great fool of fools (multiple xpost).

There is of course the Horny Man Museum.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 12:32 (eighteen years ago)

Does the Horniman still have that big stuffed walrus?

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 12:34 (eighteen years ago)

Horniman = SE23 = Forest Hill. Stop getting SE London wrong!

― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 12:36 (eighteen years ago)

Olley's is not as good as Masterfish on Waterloo Road or that one on Theobald's Road. Double points for Horny Man, but that's in SE23.

― Pete W, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 12:38 (eighteen years ago)

If the one on Theobald's Road is the one I'm thinking about, it's terrible. Never tried Masterfish.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 12:40 (eighteen years ago)

Does the Horniman still have that big stuffed walrus?

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/131/388509654_490c4f64fc.jpg

― blueski, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 12:41 (eighteen years ago)

Fryer's Delight? It's not terrible. Terrible is the Seashell on Lisson Grove.

Also like the one on Marylebone Lane. I am looking forward to trying Olley's again to see if it has lifted its game.

― Pete W, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 12:48 (eighteen years ago)

Ohmigod, that walrus is awesome!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 12:50 (eighteen years ago)

photoshop bucket

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 12:55 (eighteen years ago)

Bob Six: same road as the knitting shop! Gosh! Perhaps I should comment on here if I ever actually make a plan to Hit It Up - we could try a pint, in the Fentiman Arms, or the Albert or maybe good old Kellys Bar. Or maybe not good old Kellys Bar.

I went to a bakery on South Lambeth Road and got fab bread and CHURROS once - of course, I only did this like a month before moving away (see my finding of the knitting shop in Leytonstone LITERALLY the day before we moved from there)...

― Sarah, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 12:56 (eighteen years ago)

Any of you guys been to the Roxy on Borough High Street? We went last Sunday for the Audrey Hepburn triple bill and it was GRATE, fab way to spend a Sunday, although we didn't make it for the third film, needed fresh air, daylight etc (from a walk to Elephant and Castle, you must be joking). The food and beer is not that cheap but not TOO ridiculous and the films are free which makes it pretty good value!

― Sarah, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 13:03 (eighteen years ago)

It's not just walruses (walrii?) at the Man'o'Horn, y'know...

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/125/386761969_4b45762d27_m.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/386753531_b76384522b_m.jpg

― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 13:45 (eighteen years ago)

OK, I have got to go there.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 13:46 (eighteen years ago)

Any of you guys been to the Roxy on Borough High Street?

What? Bar and Cinema?! On Borough High St?!?!? Is it new? How come I haven't heard of it before? Heads will roll....

― ledge, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 13:52 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, Fryer's Delight (obv multiple xpost). That's the one I went to and it was ghastly.

The Golden Hind on Marylebone Lane is tip top.

But our current favourite, despite the rubbish name, is Rock And A Sole Plaice in Covent Garden. Lovely stuff.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 13:55 (eighteen years ago)

Best name: Fishcotheque, on Waterloo Rd.

― ledge, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 13:57 (eighteen years ago)

Worst name - a toss-up between the now defunct Thank Cod For Chips in Earlsfield and The Codfather at Clapham North.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

I like the way we've meandered through trains and on to fish & chips. It's like the 1970s. Someone crack open a bottle of Cream Soda.

(R&S Place in Cov Gar an old favourite from Po Caff days; I think my US in-laws would like to visit it again this week, Tales of the Sea in SE19 still having not been adequately replaced [well, Torre is great, but it's not a chippy]).

― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

Ledge, it's right next door to Sainsburys!

― Sarah, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 14:28 (eighteen years ago)

Well I don't actually walk down Borough High St too often... have had fun exploring the various pubs in between there and Blackfriars Rd though.

― ledge, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

It can be a bit difficult to spot - the name is on a glass door set in from the road a little bit so it's easy to walk past thinking it's just an office building.

― Sarah, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

bump - closing date tomorrow

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 17 May 2007 07:37 (eighteen years ago)

Peckham wins.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 18 May 2007 07:31 (eighteen years ago)

not hugely definitive. a very spread vote on this one

― 696, Friday, 18 May 2007 08:58 (eighteen years ago)

who voted for woolwich????????

― 696, Friday, 18 May 2007 08:58 (eighteen years ago)

Where the hell is Upper Norwood

― ledge, Friday, 18 May 2007 09:00 (eighteen years ago)

not enough tennis fans :(

― lex pretend, Friday, 18 May 2007 09:00 (eighteen years ago)

Upper Norwood = nondescript suburburban area lurking somewhere north of Croydon.

― Matt DC, Friday, 18 May 2007 09:05 (eighteen years ago)

Also this poll had too many choices, there's a lot to be said for splitting it into SE and SW.

The East London poll will be the most predictable by a mile I think.

― Matt DC, Friday, 18 May 2007 09:06 (eighteen years ago)

north was v predictable no?

― 696, Friday, 18 May 2007 09:08 (eighteen years ago)

I possibly might be the only person to vote in a West London poll.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 18 May 2007 09:08 (eighteen years ago)

(and the north-of-river SWs really should have been put in with the Ws)

Who was it voted for Sarf Ken then?

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 18 May 2007 09:09 (eighteen years ago)

The East London poll will be the most predictable by a mile I think.

not really i don't think! i guess there are several e residents but we're spread out over various postcodes. unless you mean e1? but everyone has a love/hate attitude towards it...

― lex pretend, Friday, 18 May 2007 09:14 (eighteen years ago)

i think e will be quite split

i would vote in a w poll

― 696, Friday, 18 May 2007 09:22 (eighteen years ago)

we should save the w and e polls til monday though?

― 696, Friday, 18 May 2007 09:23 (eighteen years ago)

I wish that I had tactically voted for Camberwell, that way it would have done twice as well. I suppose there were ethical considerations though.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, Friday, 18 May 2007 09:23 (eighteen years ago)

RAT Records ain't what they used to be.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 18 May 2007 10:18 (eighteen years ago)

i mistakenly voted 20 but i meant 19, so it should've been a draw.

― blueski, Friday, 18 May 2007 10:20 (eighteen years ago)

SE that is

― blueski, Friday, 18 May 2007 10:20 (eighteen years ago)

Total SE votes - 18
Total SW votes - 16

― Groke, Friday, 18 May 2007 10:27 (eighteen years ago)

three years pass...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12903670

― kid 606: the nultness (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 12:04 (fourteen years ago)

carmody bragging abt this on facebook, 'settled his hash' apparently

― Romford Spring (DG), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 15:17 (fourteen years ago)

Seriously wtf is wrong with you? Your recent posts are all beyond terrible and you just need to stop.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 15:22 (fourteen years ago)

didn't realise i need yr approval matt, thx for contributing

― Romford Spring (DG), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 15:24 (fourteen years ago)

I don't mean to be all moral panic but honestly five-year old girls being shot is not really an opportunity for meta-lolz about departed posters, and if you think so you're a fucking weirdo.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 15:26 (fourteen years ago)

what are you, my mother?

― Romford Spring (DG), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 15:32 (fourteen years ago)

sorta thinking this is 'just another day in them endz' but srsly those absolute fucking cunts

― kid 606: the nultness (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 15:46 (fourteen years ago)

the ppl they were tryin to shoot were unarmed

meshug

― kid 606: the nultness (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 15:48 (fourteen years ago)

six years pass...

Could you all throw some random fun yet relaxed (I know I know just be random then) places around SE: Forest Hill, Dulwich, Tulse Hill, Peckham, Den hill, Camberwell.

Lol all I can think of is the Ivy House and I need more like that.

― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 31 August 2017 15:19 (eight years ago)

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