Your favourite part of London ?

[gregbrighton]

Croydon

Nowt wrong with Croydon. It has both an IKEA AND Wing Yip

 

[dazzer6666]

Borough Market, and the proper 'old City' and pubs like the Jampot and Red Lion. Anywhere with a good view of the river too - London Bridge, Westminster Bridge.......

 

[taz]

Petticoat lane spitterfields and brick lane for a curry, pint in the blind beggar, Jack the ripper tour round Whitechapel, propper east end !!!

 

[Guinness Boy]

Tower Hamlets and anywhere that's been evacuated for Brighton the second that group of progressive middle class liberals realised that little Milo would be growing up next to a crack den.

 

[nicko31]

Chiswick, you can get on the M4 is a couple of minutes and get away from the place as fast as possible.

 

[BensGrandad]

Petticoat lane spitterfields and brick lane for a curry, pint in the blind beggar, Jack the ripper tour round Whitechapel, propper east end !!!

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.

 

[Spanish Seagulls]

Shepherds Bush used to be my favourite place in London and I still have a flat there but the longer I spend away the less it resembles the place I grew up in, Richmond is nice though.

 

[beorhthelm]

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.

adjacent to the the City is the proper East End. those places you mention are simply east London, they where Essex until 1965.

 

[clapham_gull]

South Bank.

Lived in Clapham for years but now is a weird West End South of the River where people go to be sick at the weekend.

I love the common though, particular the vast middle bit with no trees oddly.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Camden Town. I still love it even though it's changed a lot since I left.

 

[Megazone]

Greenwich is lovely.

Also like Primrose hill.

 

[essbee]

I've lived in London for 28 years and never tire of the place.

My favourite area is probably around Bloomsbury/Euston area. Some cracking "off the
beaten track" pubs and great restaurants.

Although London Bridge area is a close second.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Mainly because I lived there and went to school there, and allowing for the fact that it's changed ... Rotherhithe.

 

[seagurn]

The coming home part with 3 points.

 

[Dick Head]

Stoke Newington/Dalston, only because I used to live there.

 

[alfredmizen]

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.

Rubbish, Canning Town and beckon aren't even in the east end , which finishes at bow fly over, no matter how much they'd like to be.

 

[Peteinblack]

Pimlico.

Discovered it because my sister-in-law lived there before emigrating, so we'd visit her on any trips to London.

Has a village-like quality, even though it's only a short bus or tube ride from Chelsea to the West and Leicester Square/Covent Garden to the North.

Plenty of good restaurants, pubs, wine bars and second-hand clothes/book shops, a great little street-market on Saturdays, and the people are really friendly.

Me and Mrs Peteinblack have a couple of mini-breaks in London each year, one in the summer and one a couple of weeks before Christmas, and always base ourselves in Pimlico.

 

[The Spanish]

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.

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

 

[OzMike]

Would have been Camden 10 years ago.

 

[cheshunt seagull]

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. .