Cricko
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They have a preview of the new Woody Allen film coming in the near future.
I have got to say mate I think you need to get yourself on trip advisor before your next holidays.
I cant believe many people book a holiday to the Forest of Dean and then moan that there is not a lot to do or a cinema in the Forest.
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And re runs of the Toronto Maple Leafs Stanley Cup win in 1967
Gillingham
Hartlepool.
Luton/Bedford.
Bradford.
Dudley.
90 per cent of South East London and the Kent Medway Towns.
Not in that order but they are all ****hole areas.
Woah... as a SE London resident, I'll have to beg to differ!Good call. How could I forget that place! I went out with somebody from Forest Hill for 4 years. Even the muggers were too scared to go out on their own!!90 per cent of South East London and the Kent Medway Towns.
Woah... as a SE London resident, I'll have to beg to differ!
* 90% is way over the mark. I'll not quibble with the fact that parts of SE London are absolute sh*tholes. Those that jump to mind include Belvedere, Erith, Thamesmead, Welling, Kidbrooke, New Cross, Bermondsey, Peckham, Catford, Nunhead, most of Deptford, most of Surrey Quays, parts of Woolwich, parts of Plumstead, parts of Lewisham...
Hmm. I make that about 70%.
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Seriously, though, there are some nice bits of SE London - Greenwich, Blackheath, Dulwich, Brockley, Honor Oak, Crystal Palace, Herne Hill... and Forest Hill. It's obviously a while since you've been there, Bigshrimp - but places like the Horniman Museum and the advent of the East London Line extension mean that Forest Hill has really come up in the world in the last few years. If it weren't for the fact that Forest Hill is reknowned for being the subsidence capital of SE London, property prices would have rocketed in that area.
As with almost all of London, whether somewhere is nice or not changes rapidly - both in distance and time. You can go from a nice street to a skeggy street in the matter of a few yards, while a crap area can become very pleasant in the space of just a few years. My sister used to live in Clapham in 1990, and it was rough and dangerous. Now, you can't move for BMWs and yummy mummies.
Basically, don't write SE London off entirely. It has some bloody rough bits - I was shocked at some of the sink estates around Belvedere in particular, when I last went there I thought I'd been teleported to Bucharest c. 1970 - but it's not all bad.
Matt
A very well put argument there Matthew, but whenever I'm south of the river I tend to feel very ill at ease. I know there's dodgy areas there too but give me Norf London any day (probably relates to my time at uni in Hertfordshire where we'd often head down for nights out in Camden, Kentish Town, Islington & Canonbury)!
Basildon. Twin town Basra.
Luton (again)/Grimsby
i.e. it's only ignorance that scares us. There's a message for the BNP if ever I've heard one.whenever I'm south of the river I tend to feel very ill at ease. I know there's dodgy areas there too but give me Norf London any day (probably relates to my time at uni in Hertfordshire...)
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Basildump isn't that bad...!