Your favourite part of London ?

[Surf's Up]

I worked at Guys Hospital for 9 years and spent many an after work hour or more getting shitfaced in the excellent pubs and restaurants around London Bridge. Also quite like Greenwich, Blackheath and Dulwich.

 

[LU7 RED]

I like where I work in St Pancras and it was such a dump when we first moved there 16 years ago. There is so much contrast in a small area; Bloomsbury on one side of Euston Rd, very quiet areas to the north like Chalton St and the Pancras churchyard; streets full of people just off the Eurostar by the station and new places opening up all the time. .

Yeah I work at St Pancras Hospital and it's getting a lot better. Still not braved the Cock (pub) in Summerstown yet though!!

 

[Pavilionaire]

Richmond is the nicest part of London to live but I do like the area north of Oxford Street they call Noho / Fitzrovia.

 

[BLOCK F]

Used to enjoy much of the W1 area when I worked in London, but I reckon Chelsea was my overall favourite area .
As others have said,when I'd had enough, Victoria Station was a welcome sight,getting me home to Reigate via Redhill.
Even East Croydon didn't look too bad as I knew I was nearly nearly there!

 

[Mattywerewolf]

Waterlow Park near Highgate.....

 

[burstead]

hampstead heath, hackney, bow, regents canal.
used to love camden but hate it now

 

[DavidRyder]

Too many differing areas to make a solid choice - but will go with Covent Garden theatre district. Love to look out for celebs!

We in the UK are lucky to have such a diverse place on our shores. Although there are some grotty areas.

 

[raba]

Hardly proper East End like Canning Town Beckton East Ham etc. They are only just outside of the City of London. Not what I would class as the East End.

It might not be what you class as the East End but then you don't have a clue.

 

[Wilko]

Covent Garden area for me too. Ex girlfriend lived in Wimbledon Village which was lovely too (Quite out the way of central I know).

 

[fat old seagull]

Richmond to reside.....Soho to get pizzed in, whilst watching the ensuing diversity of Homo Sapiens, and their behaviour. Those were the days

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Isle of Dogs of a weekend is a nice quiet local place for local people

 

[glasfryn]

the City
my first wife and I used to meet in london, for two years before we married, and used to go there a lot after we were married (we lived in East Acton and travelled in on the tube nearly every evening) we also used to go to the East End a lot as the pubs there were good, then with my daughter on the way we moved to Shrewsbury (boring) then Chemsford (even more boring) but at least that was within striking distance of the West End, then onto Bromley withing striking distance of London and more to the point the Albion ground(Goldstone)

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I've recently been to Shoreditch and Hoxton a few times after a gap of quite a few years. The landscape and people are unrecognisable from 10 years ago.

 

[BensGrandad]

None of the places you mention are even in the east end.

Try telling Harry Rednap that or any of the then dockers who worked in the Victoria Docks and drunk in The Connaught Central or Galleons pubs that they are not Eastend Londoners

 

[alfredmizen]

Try telling Harry Rednap that or any of the then dockers who worked in the Victoria Docks and drunk in The Connaught Central or Galleons pubs that they are not Eastend Londoners

Is that the harry redknapp who was born in poplar and grew up in stepney, both in the east end proper, as for the dockers , theyre londoners yes, but theyre not east enders , and id happily tell them so.

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

W11 - used to live just off Ladbroke Grove when working up there. But then came the Notting Hill movie, the prices skyrocketed and the "I Saw You Coming" types moved in.

Typical of what happened is that the bloke who had the shop that was used as Hugh Grant's in the movie could no longer afford the lease after it came out. And there used to be a great little cafe with proper formica tables just round the corner in Portobello Road. Last time I went by it had become some hopelessly trendy eatery with ridiculous prices. And bacon sandwiches were no longer on the menu.

 

[BensGrandad]

Is that the harry redknapp who was born in poplar and grew up in stepney, both in the east end proper, as for the dockers , theyre londoners yes, but theyre not east enders , and id happily tell them so.

I ran those 3 pubs in the 60s and all the customers who lived in the Prince Regents Lane area considered themselves true East Londoners, perhaps they were all wrong. It was London E16 then.

 

[Peteinblack]

I've recently been to Shoreditch and Hoxton a few times after a gap of quite a few years. The landscape and people are unrecognisable from 10 years ago.

Visited Shoreditch last December - full of blokes in their 20s dressed in lumberjack shirts or second-hand shop cardigans, skinny jeans, old-school NHS specs and, most important of all, big beards; many of them sitting around in pop-up cafes or bars trying so hard to exude effortless ultra-cool.

Another 'youth' genre whose adherents like to espouse their non-conformist individualism by all dressing exactly the same

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Visited Shoreditch last December - full of blokes in their 20s dressed in lumberjack shirts or second-hand shop cardigans, skinny jeans, old-school NHS specs and, most important of all, big beards; many of them sitting around in pop-up cafes or bars trying so hard to exude effortless ultra-cool.

Another 'youth' genre whose adherents like to espouse their non-conformist individualism by all dressing exactly the same

It was the geezer blokes and Sharon and Tracey's which shocked me most to be honest. That new Shoreditch Overground station has a lot to answer for.

PS do the hipsters you portray actually claim to be non-conformist individuals? I always thought it was the opposite ie they openly and freely follow certain ideas and beliefs.

 

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