If Someone Introduced you to Perivale Would You Immediately Think "This Isn't a Patch on Ealing?"

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Or Greenford, for that matter?

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 30 September 2002 10:28 (twenty-three years ago)

jel to thread

― gareth (gareth), Monday, 30 September 2002 10:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Stop Acton the goat.

― U Asked 4 It, Monday, 30 September 2002 10:33 (twenty-three years ago)

I would think, "ACE!"

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 30 September 2002 11:27 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

yes i would, but Perivale does have Horsenden Hill and a 24 Hour Tesco's, put that in your pipe and smoke it Alperton

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 27 October 2003 10:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I can see the appeal of the Tescos, but what's the deal with Horsenden Hill?

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 27 October 2003 10:41 (twenty-one years ago)

it is the highest peak in West London, i haven't been up there since i was a kid but i bet you can see the Swiss Re and whatnot (you can also see Canary Wharf's flashing light from Perivale station platform on a clear night)

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 27 October 2003 10:43 (twenty-one years ago)

also not only is the Tesco's 24 hour, it's facade provides one of the better examples of art deco architecture in London

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 27 October 2003 10:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Wait... wait... is that the art deco Tescos in the former Hoover Factory on the Westway out towards erm, Oxford and Wiltshire, and other points West?

That's a great Tescos! Really amazing! (Though I don't know a single thing about the rest of the area.)

― kate (kate), Monday, 27 October 2003 10:48 (twenty-one years ago)

ie the Hoover Building

Perivale also has Goalz! football center, nowt much else though

― chris (chris), Monday, 27 October 2003 10:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Perivale was where Dr Who v7's companion Ace (played by Sophie Aldred) came from.

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 27 October 2003 10:59 (twenty-one years ago)

if you come to the OxFAP on Saturday, you'll be able to ogle the Hoover building as you pass it on the bus.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 27 October 2003 11:04 (twenty-one years ago)

i've just realised Dan Perry was way ahead and excruciatingly more subtle with the Dr Who companion thing

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 27 October 2003 11:10 (twenty-one years ago)

It should be re-named the Vale of Perry in his honour.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 27 October 2003 11:11 (twenty-one years ago)

It is the last location ever in Dr Who.

― Alan (Alan), Monday, 27 October 2003 11:19 (twenty-one years ago)

though if you are planning to travel to Horsenden Hill on foot, you have to watch out that you don't get decapitated by flying golf balls from the neighbouring golf course.

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 27 October 2003 11:27 (twenty-one years ago)

what kind of golf ball can decapitate you???

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 27 October 2003 12:06 (twenty-one years ago)

ah yes we negelected to inform you that perivale is populated by GIANT NICK FALDO

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 27 October 2003 12:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Most parochial ILX thread ever?

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 27 October 2003 12:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Nuh-uh, there was a thread which turned into a discussion about coffee suppliers in Mawdesley (v. small Lancashire village) once. Also, Ormskirk restaurants.

― Matt (Matt), Monday, 27 October 2003 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Perivale's most famous resident

Alan Bond from Launceston Gardens. Ex pupil of Perivale Primary School. Worked for a scrap merchant in Acton. Emigrated Australia. Big businessman. Jailed for irregularities.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Monday, 27 October 2003 12:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I've just remembered that my school biology teacher was born in Perivale! We found out when we on a sixth form trip to watch deer in Richmond Park. He said "If we were to go down there" (jerks thumb in general direction of Perivale) "we would come to the hospital where SJN was born".

...and yes he did refer to himself in the third person.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 27 October 2003 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)

a sixth form trip to watch deer? wot sort of hippie nonsense is this???

― ambrose (ambrose), Monday, 27 October 2003 12:55 (twenty-one years ago)

it was good fun, Ambrose, even if we were given the ridiculous task of trying to estimate their weight by looking at them.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 27 October 2003 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha I came to this thread not realizing I'd already made the post I had in mind a year ago! I like the renaming idea, too.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 27 October 2003 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Perivale is probably more famous than it deserves to be thanks to Ace and Hoover

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 27 October 2003 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

(Also I am still giggling at the idea of GIANT NICK FALDO)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 27 October 2003 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

It is interesting how many ILXors know about the Big Red Bus, Lewknor Turn, 'Wh ydo I do this every day' etc.

You're probably right next to me in this office.

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 27 October 2003 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

amazed that jel has yet to post

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 27 October 2003 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]

"PERIVALE, (or Greenford-parva), a parish in the hundred of Elthorne, county Middlesex. It is a small agricultural parish situated on the river Brent, near the Paddington canal. An art deco building will be built in about 60 years. There is no village, only a few farmhouses. The living is a rectory in the diocese of London, value £315. Nearby is a Londis where the young hang out with bongs."

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Monday, 27 October 2003 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

You're probably right next to me in this office

not unless you're really called Sarah.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 27 October 2003 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

An art deco building will be built in about 60 years

i find this extraordinary. was 'art deco' in widespred use as a term that far back? and how were they able to predict so far ahead??

looks like Ace and her employer have been to up some tricks

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 27 October 2003 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the Hoover building. Had a field trip to an industrial estate in Perivale once, we all took the piss out of this kid who was trying to act hard. Been to Goalz a few times. Perivale Park is quite nice when it's frosty. Horsenden Hill is cool, especially driving through to the top. Great view.

Ealing is a completely different place.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 27 October 2003 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Perivale/Greenford always feel's kinda cold to me, like some great sadness lingers in the woods.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 27 October 2003 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

That's not sadness, that's a Cheetah person!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 27 October 2003 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

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