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what is it like?

― gareth, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'Salright.

― Pete, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Pete is lying. We lived there for 18 months and it was a HOLE. The house was a slum and so were all the other houses round there. The 'park' by the station where they occasionally have a dodgy funfair is full of drunk tramps and men pissing against the pissing tree. If you are female (which obv Gareth isn't) do not walk around as you will be the subject of constant leering grossness. The only good thing about it is the RAINBOW shop at the end of Fairfax Rd which is open selling bouze all night and has lovely veg & olives & feta. Also the Queen's Arms is a revolting pub.

― Emma, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's not the nicest place. My friend Martin lives there, right oposite the park which is just as Emma describes. It's really quite depressing.

― Anna, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

But also cheapish and bang on the Picadilly line.

― Anna, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah Turnpike Lane is bloody horrible. Wood Green is right next to it and comparatively much nicer.

― Tom, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A friend lives in Turpike Lane and she also reports leering, which I was quite surprised about since I have never seen such behaviour in Wood Green. However, if you go a little bit further out you come to Palmers Green which is better than either and was once home to ace poet Stevie Smith.

― Richard Jones, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

everywhere is too expensive in london, it is really depressing, everything is grim grim grim. when did all the prices suddenly shoot up again??? i have fallen out with london big time, i don't think i really want to be here anymore

― gareth, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I live about 5 min from the Hornsey BR on the Crouch End side. Hornsey on that side of the rail track is very nice, and has the Great Northern Railway Tavern, my favorite pub. I think if you live around that area, you will be paying Crouch End prices (estate agents will tell you you live in Crouch End anyway) which are probably about the same as Turnpike Lane prices.

It takes me 15 min to walk to Turnpike lane from where we live and I find Wood Green more scary than TL.

― marianna, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i am looking at somewhere on hornsey park road tonight.

― gareth, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The park Emma mentions is called Ducketts Common. I've never seen a sould in there. It's really quite dark and forbidding. There are no decent pubs in that area at all. Or shops. Richard is right, Palmers Green is the tops. It has an ace park (Broomfield) and a half decent pub, the Inn on the Green. And it's name-checked in Bill Wyman's "Je Suis Un Rock Star". Southgate is even better than Palmers Green, but is spency.

― MarkH, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

When I lived there (not actually in the park you understand) the park was full of: tramps, beggars, people walking their ginormous slavering dogs, my 3 male housemates pissing against the tree on the way home from the pub when they knew I too was bursting and would have to wait till I got into the house and that I would have to wait for them as it was too scary to walk home on my own without them.

Grrr. My parents were deeply relieved when I moved out of there as was I.

― Emma, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I love Palmer's Green - on the High St. there's a newsagents called 'Smoker's Paradise' right next door to the Cancer Research Charity Shop, Nicola Barker wrote a nov set there, I never ever had any troub from the local youth the whole time I lived there, and the park is wonderful - but it is also fatally undone by not having a tube station.

― Andrew L, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Newsagent on Green Lanes nearest to us was called Fags 'n' Mags and the smell in there was so utterly indescribably revolting that you had to take a deep breath before you went in and try not to inhale at all whilst in there. It was horrendously untidy too (and anyone who has seen my bedroom will know that if I think it's untidy it is REALLY bad).

― Emma, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

On the plus side though I thought there was a great sense of community.

Ah fuck it, it was the pits (though if the house had been nice I could have stomached it).

Hornsey Park Road is North of The Ladder (what are talking about) and more WOod Greeny. Near the gasometers though if that floats yer boat.

― Pete, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My Dad lived on The Ladder until he was 13. In Burgoyne Road. Then the family moved to Tintern Road in Wood Green, off Lordship Lane. Unfortunately, when he got married the first time he moved to Edmonton and has stayed there ever since. No matter how scuzzy you think Turnpike Lane is, at least it's not boring like Edmonton.

― MarkH, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Wood Green Shopping City = Retail Mecca of Norf London. Where else can you spend a happy hour in the bargain section of Pearsons (where the Aussie voice on the tape recorder never tires of telling you all items are just nointy noin pey) before getting your photograph put on the back of a football at the stall outside Boots, then meandering up to Cineworld for the late afternoon screening of Kya Yehi Pyaar Hai? Nowhere, that’s where. Turnpike Lane, on the other hand = scary. Specially that pub next to the dodgy park where the GOFS drink.

― Jane, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I fear the dissing is now going too far and my nostalgia has been awakened. While the Queen's Head (not Queen's Arms, oops)is a VILE place and we would regularly witness vile underage youths being kicked out of it by the police (not to mention vile even more underage toddler offspring of its clientele staggering around barefoot), it had its moments. E.g. it was the last pub in our Farewell to Green Lanes pub crawl thus we were exceedingly pissed and they rewarded us by playing Iron Maiden v. v. loudly and then at midnite (late opening!) showing porn on the TVs. Huzzah. Also it is the setting for my one and only pool triumph, after a pairs game where my hapless partner had carried my crap playing I managed to pot the black in a v. stylish manner thereby winning us the game. Yay.

― Emma, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, I wouldn't know anything about GOFS (ahem) but you are quite right about Shopping City. Since other people have been so nice about Palmers Green perhaps this is an opportunity to mention that I am leaving my very large room there next month and it needs to be filled. Cheap(ish). Email me if interested (apologies for using ILE as if it were Loot)

― Richard Jones, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

palmers green not on tube, no good unfortunately. i dont want to move that far out anyway, i dont want to move out as far as turnpike lane either. i wish i could stay around the arsenal/finsbury park area, but its just not happening.

latest news: place in mile end to look at, weird person on other end says "ring me at tube station, i cant give you the name of the road but i can give you the name of another road near it". wtf?

― gareth, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

so, what you're all telling me is that turnpike lane, wood green and hornsey are grim and depressing, right?

― gareth, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yup. Sorry.

― Emma, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dude, I think if you've lived in Finsbury Park for, then you will be fine living in Wood Green, Hornsey or Turnpike Lane. I've never found anything reedeeming about the Finsbury Park area.

Actually, I do like the bowling alley there.

Why don't you move to Stoke Newington? You could move close to the BR there or make a 20 min walk to Manor House tube if need be? That'll be cheaper than Arsenal/Finsbury park, still close in, plus you get good shops and a nice park.

― marianna, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Rowans. Yay. That reminds me. ILE Bowling.....(I'm just chuffed about my final ball double strike winnah on Sunday).

I really didn't mind Turnpike Lane. In the end its about the house. How good is that?

― Pete, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the room wasn't that bad, but i didn't like the house too much, and the people were a bit 'civil service' you know. plus they were both blokes and i've never lived with blokes before, i'm not really sure about that

― gareth, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

and yeah, finsbury park is shit, but once you go down blackstock road a bit its fine, i'm on chatterton rd, which is near highbury stadium, and its lovely round there

― gareth, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

or if you go up Stroud Green Road towards Crouch End it gets nicer too.

― michael, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

stoke newington is alright.

what about stamford hill, by seven sisters???

― ambrose, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What does "the people were a bit 'civil service' you know" mean?

I don't like Stamford hill. Is Dalston Kingsland really trendy - or is it really sketchy - or getting trendy again?

― Marianna, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

should clarify my civil service statement (sounded a bit suzy didn't it *sorry suzy!!!*). ok, they actually both worked for the civil service which is why i think i can get away with my initial pseudo- elitism.

DK is trendy yea, its also pretty shoddy, and theres no tube, same goes for SH (except without being trendy). need tube unfortunately, we got a 4 bed place on st thomas's rd to look at, which looks real nice, but we need a 4th person now!

― gareth, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

three weeks pass...

Finsbury park is an absolute ghetto! I just moved to seven sisters a week ago, and I won't even go outside to smoke anymore---after the 40th man leered at me while licking his lips, I decided i would rather sit on my balcony away from the mess. Also, for get about walking alone at night, especially if you are a girl. On the first evening spent in our flat, my roommate was pickpocketed right outside of the d

― sarah `jenkins, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two weeks pass...

Hornsey Carnival takes place on Saturday 6 July, run by a group of volunteers, a charity organisation which raises money for many local charities.

If you belong to an organisation, pub or group wishing to take part - get in touch - if you just want to come and watch - the parade starts from the foot of Muswell Hill (Alexandra Palace Approach Road at 2.30pm sharp. Bring lots of money !

― Christine Bennett, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oi yeah! 'A bit civil service'? Better that than being a... a... creepy Saramago on the Picadilly line.... HAIR BOY!!! Ha!!! Ok so I am not actually a member of the civil service BUT I STILL WORK HERE! Am I actually defending it? Dere god.

― Sarah, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i know i know, i held my hands up and apologized for that one, it was a rubbish thing to say...

― gareth, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

three years pass...

u snooty maniacs, it's alright here! fags n mags has a... pleasant aroma and moreover does what it sez on the tin, tho somehow never has the times so i cant do the killer sudokos in the morn. and green lanes has everything, esp many millions of peculiar old men's clubs all brazenly MEMBERS ONLY

also whole SHEEP'S HEAD is easily purchasable here hurrah

― hold tight the private caller (mwah), Saturday, 3 September 2005 10:34 (twenty years ago)

also as pubs go the salisbury looked kinda classy and enormous from the outside, why bother with the queens head anyway?

― hold tight the private caller (mwah), Saturday, 3 September 2005 10:36 (twenty years ago)

crouch end is a bit twatty, but even then the oxfam has every 5ive cd single ever made. i got a hiphouse megamix from the cancer research too

― hold tight the private caller (mwah), Saturday, 3 September 2005 10:41 (twenty years ago)

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