I had a walk around my old neighbourhood in Palmers Green yesterday evening

[Peter]

It ****ing sucks.

Cycle paths everywhere, all the old greek and turkish shops are a Sainsbury's Express or some other ****e. My old boozer is a Holland and Barrett. Signs everywhere threatening you if stub a fag out on the floor.

They can ****ing shove it. The modern era is a piece of ****....

I might be getting a bit old :(

[Sir C]

It ****ing sucks.

Cycle paths everywhere, all the old greek and turkish shops are a Sainsbury's Express or some other ****e. My old boozer is a Holland and Barrett. Signs everywhere threatening you if stub a fag out on the floor.

They can ****ing shove it. The modern era is a piece of ****....

I might be getting a bit old :(

73 years of socialism, see?

Ban it or tax it, that's the extent of second half 20th / early part 21st century political thought.

[Burney]

It ****ing sucks.

Cycle paths everywhere, all the old greek and turkish shops are a Sainsbury's Express or some other ****e. My old boozer is a Holland and Barrett. Signs everywhere threatening you if stub a fag out on the floor.

They can ****ing shove it. The modern era is a piece of ****....

I might be getting a bit old :(

I wouldn't go back to my old neighbourhood without a police escort these days. :-( Shame, it was a lovely place to grow up.

[Peter]

I wouldn't go back to my old neighbourhood without a police escort these days. :-( Shame, it was a lovely place to grow up.

THis feels almost the opposite. It feels sanitised, stripped of its character. Bland....

Camden is a tourist trap. Nothing is sacred. I am bloody glad I'm old. I feel sorry for the youngsters growing up with this dull ****e.

[IUFG]

I wouldn't go back to my old neighbourhood without a police escort these days. :-( Shame, it was a lovely place to grow up.

Strange innit. You'd happily hang around the streets at night back then.

Nowadays I'd be reluctant to go back to my old stomping ground in a cab, after dark, in case it stopped at some traffic lights.

[Peter]

73 years of socialism, see?

Ban it or tax it, that's the extent of second half 20th / early part 21st century political thought.

It's PC gone mad. Cycle paths on a pavement FFS. How are you supposed to stumble along the pavement pissed out of your face?

Ridiculous.

[Sir C]

I wouldn't go back to my old neighbourhood without a police escort these days. :-( Shame, it was a lovely place to grow up.

I got mugged in broad daylight in Thornton Heath in 1978.

[Burney]

I got mugged in broad daylight in Thornton Heath in 1978.

Really? Whereabouts? Was it near Selhurst Park?

Must admit, I thought it a veritable idyll as a kid..

[Burney]

Strange innit. You'd happily hang around the streets at night back then.

Nowadays I'd be reluctant to go back to my old stomping ground in a cab, after dark, in case it stopped at some traffic lights.

It's odd, because in terms of casual violence at least, those were actually much more violent times. However, we're much more sensitised to the threat of violence these days and thus perceive it everywhere in a way we didn't then.

[Sir C]

Really? Whereabouts? Was it near Selhurst Park?

Must admit, I thought it a veritable idyll as a kid..

Down my auntie's road. Damned if I can remember the name of it. Sandringham Road?

[Burney]

Down my auntie's road. Damned if I can remember the name of it. Sandringham Road?

Up near the cemetery, Unigate Dairy way? I lived the other side of the Brigstock Road, but my sisters went to Ecclesbourne infants.

[7sisters]

It's odd, because in terms of casual violence at least, those were actually much more violent times. However, we're much more sensitised to the threat of violence these days and thus perceive it everywhere in a way we didn't then.

St Georges in the East, near wapping, back in the mid 1800's ?

[Herbert Augustus Chapman]

I got mugged in broad daylight in Thornton Heath in 1978.

Mugged! Who on earth dared to mug a great ugly brute like you c?

I know a fella who was so hard, when two scums tried to mug him he told them "Yeah.. I got a fair bit of cash in my wallet. If you can get it you can have it". I trust you did similar c?

[Sir C]

Mugged! Who on earth dared to mug a great ugly brute like you c?

I know a fella who was so hard, when two scums tried to mug him he told them "Yeah.. I got a fair bit of cash in my wallet. If you can get it you can have it". I trust you did similar c?

Ha. I was 13, and there were several large fellows involved. To my credit, I didn't cry.

[Herbert Augustus Chapman]

Ha. I was 13, and there were several large fellows involved. To my credit, I didn't cry.

"Several large fellows" ya lyin' cont. One scruffy chav and his sister and you gave it up without a fight like a trembly lipped little toff.

[Ash]

St Georges in the East, near wapping, back in the mid 1800's ?

Hawksmoor :bow: