Locals In London

[socks 32,253]

 

 

 

 

There used to be a cinema at a place called Well Hall mate, anyone who has ever been there will tell you it was a VERY interesting experience........it was like paying five quid to go and fight complete strangers in the dark ! Lol lol

Sounds like a decent night out when your 18 lol

There we go thats the spirit.......for scatty little hoodlums without a pot to piss in you couldnt find a more exciting place to live than the nastier parts of East or South London.

There's one of those places in every town I think .... There is a night club in the next village to me that I used to go to as a youngster and it was well known that if you couldn't at least half handle yourself you needed to leave before closing time as the burger van scrap was a bloodbath every weekend ... I used to go home by eleven .........

Mamas fecking shit hole lol.

Lol yep that's the one ... It was never going to win nightclub of the year lol .......

[king 12,022]

Lol your legs would ache not cos of dancing.but trying to pull your feet of the stinking super glue floor.good place for a fuss lol.

[gnasher16 31,205]

It was lovely when we moved to Essex at the time, little small town still pretty old fashioned, families that had been there forever (including my mums).......different world.

I used to go back and visit my old area a fair bit but after a few years I stopped going, now as an adult and having earned my living in and around London I hold no enthusiasm for it at all.......my area and my people are gone .

Unless your going to move right out into the sticks where time stands still then everywhere is going to change to a degree......i can live with that.....obviously when the time comes that you cant even hold a conversation with folk in day to day life in an area then its time to move on.......but personally i never moved away from the East End because of foreigners i just think sometimes you outgrow an area and want to live in nicer surroundings but i,ll never forget where im from or ever disrespect it as a manor i love the place......i just wish important people loved is as much as i do.

[WILF 49,569]

It's nice when you get to interact with your own Gnasher, sadly they get fewer and further between as the years go on mate.

[NEWKID 28,357]

Good posts lads, most towns hold a shit hole or 2, obviously a city like London and there's a fair few more..

Times are changing everywhere though, even this little city is growing far too quick, with all the wrong people...

I'm not bothered about town anymore, any town really, don't need it to earn money and much prefer being out in the country... Travelled all over for a lot of years worked in most big cities glad I don't anymore tbh

[Blackbriar 8,569]

I use to work down East Lane market over near the elephant and I can honestly say hand on heart........it's the shithouse of all shithouses !! Lol

I'm from Nottingham, Wilf - I reckon St Ann's is a good contender for that accolade !

 

They pulled down a slum area, and replaced it with a slightly larger slum area ! High unemployment, poor quality housing, large ethnic population, graffiti, rubbish, streets unsafe after dark - it's got everything!

 

It's title of "Gun Crime Capital of Britain" says it all !

[beast 1,884]

There used to be a cinema at a place called Well Hall mate, anyone who has ever been there will tell you it was a VERY interesting experience........it was like paying five quid to go and fight complete strangers in the dark ! Lol lol

lol i remember that cinema

i rteckon "studio 6 and 7" in lewisham was worse

[WILF 49,569]

As I said mate, the place holds no nostalgia for me......moving away was the best thing that could have happened for me.

I have no doubt I would be living a very different life to the one I now enjoy, sometimes you have to break the cycle.

You can't change who and what you are but its nice not to HAVE to be that if you get my drift.

[AKA-BRINDLE 879]

The Durham Arms at the back of Canning town station among the scrap yards...theres a little piece of England left in the eastend...place is a time warp

[Blackbriar 8,569]

Is it still that way Blackbriar ?

I thought that was 10 yrs or more

Tomo knows the areas well

He may even work there on one of them safe house type places for vulnerable women .

It was the case when I lived there, but in fairness, that's a few years ago now. I can't see any reason why it would have changed for the better, though !

Having said that, I spent a lot of my childhood in Hyson Green (my grandparents lived at the back of the Shipstones brewery) - not exactly prime real estate, either !

 

As you say, maybe Tomo has a different view......

[tatsblisters 10,926]

Remember going in the Knave of clubs in the east end of london in the 80s and was amazed at the number of dog men and bird men in the middle of an area dominated in their numbers by ethnics.

[gnasher16 31,205]

The Durham Arms at the back of Canning town station among the scrap yards...theres a little piece of England left in the eastend...place is a time warp

Anywhere round Star Lane from the Durham right down to the Peacock Gym both sides of the A13 even as far down as the docks and Custom House you will find plenty of solid communities who have stayed put through the generations and maintained traditional life from pubs to sport to crime its no different now to what it was when we was kids yes theres darkies and pakis same as there ever was but you dont get hoards of East Europeans and Africans setting up their own communities locals still have enough about them not to stand for it.

[gnasher16 31,205]

Remember going in the Knave of clubs in the east end of london in the 80s and was amazed at the number of dog men and bird men in the middle of an area dominated in their numbers by ethnics.

There we go you got the idea you have to get into the nooks and crannies of an area to see what its really like.......anyway the Knave aint there no more its a posh French Restaurant now

[WILF 49,569]

You sound like you hold a genuine affection for the place still mate and I like that.

I understand it too even though I may not share it for the place in general.

 

Sadly over the last years I only ever seen to be back amongst my own people at funerals or court hearings, lots of the old boys are sadly no longer with us.

It's funny but I even feel different when I am in that sort of company, it's a million miles removed from my ordinary little life......and you smile and laugh about things that lots of people would find extraordinary and remember some great old characters from when I was a kid.

But those days are gone and they were so much part of London for me that it can't be the same.

[beast 1,884]

you know what wilf i feel very much the same as you. i lived in new cross/deptford/lee till i was 25, then i upped sticks and travelled about the country and saw a bit of the world. that was nearly 25 years ago now, and whilst i have an affection for the memories the place will always hold for me, mostly because of shared experiences with my family,(my grandmother was born at Lee in 1892 so we have a history!) but i do not miss the place at all. i visit my old dad and my sister when i get a chance, but i drive down early sunday mornings and leave mid afternoon, its a toilet now.

 

by the way, you mentioning lee green on your other post, i got knifed by a black boy down there outside woolworths in the leegate, he wasnt even trying to steal anything, i just eyed him up as he walked by. knife went in my armpit but lucky i was wearing my dads donkey jacket so wasnt a bad cut. 4 of my older brothers went looking for him when i got home............