15 'Listed Londoner ' questions from Robert Elm's radio show

[mod]

Robert Elms hosts a fantastic show on BBC London 94.9 everyday from 12 to 3PM.

On Mondays he interviews a Londoner (sometimes famous and sometimes just an interesting characters) who then becomes a 'Listed Londoner'.

So, for a bit of fun to past the boredom of a working day, what are your answer to the famous 15 questions?

1) What's your favourite neighbourhood?
2) What's your favourite building?
3) What's your most hated building?
4) What’s the best view in London?
5) What's your favourite open space?
6) What's the most interesting shop?
7) What's your favourite bar, pub or restaurant?
8) What's been your most memorable night out in London?
9) How would you like to spend your ideal day off in London?
10) Where would you take someone visiting from out of town?
11) What's the worst journey you've had to make in London?
12) What's your personal London landmark?
13) Who's your favourite fictional Londoner?
14) What's your favourite London film, book or documentary?
15) If you could travel to any time period in London, past or future, where would you go?

 

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1) East Dulwich - The levels of gentrification have ripped the soul out of East Dulwich but its still a peaceful oasis surrounded by beautiful parks from Peckham Rye Common to Dulwich park. Fantastic range of indian restaurants, independent shops and pubs along Lordship Lane but I still morn the passing of Inside 72 which used to be one of the best bars in London. Wonderful little place which is now a wanky generic wine bar.

2) Stevenage Road façade, Craven Cottage.

3) Dawson Heights - Blights great views of the city from the Horniman Museum. Very ugly building that looks like a Boeing 747 has crashed through the middle of it.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_otta/970956109/

4) From the top of the car park above the Peckham Multiplex cinema. There is a pop up bar there in the summer called Franks Place.
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5) Battersea Park

6) Emporium, Greenwic.h

7) Tayabbs

8) Seeing Jeff Mills for the first time at LOST, Bagleys around 1992.

9) Walking from London Bridge to Waterloo along the Embankment starting with lunch somewhere at Borough Market and ending with a film at the BFI.

10) See no. 9

11) Getting to my mums in Hounslow West. Can take 2 hours from SE22 even on a Sunday.

12) Battersea Power Station

13) Alfie (michael caine's version)

14) Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton

15) 1963 - The height of the mod scene. Would've loved to have been part of that.

 

[_pH_]

1. Maybe that leafy bit just outside Kew Gardens station that I walk down when I go to Kew Gardens, that's nice.
2. Too many to choose. I quite like the Lloyds building for the fact that it has a Baroque dining room on the top floor of a building that is otherwise out of Blade Runner. The City Churches are all fascinating.
3. Too many to choose. Probably some post-modern rubbish like No 1 Poultry.
4. Sitting outside the Roebuck with a drink overlooking the river and Petersham Meadow as the sun sets.
5. Richmond Park.
6. Foyles. Or maybe Berry Bros & Rudd.
7. Cheshire Cheese for the history. Or the terrace bar on the 5th floor of the RFH for the view. edit: or Gordons.
8. Silver Jubilee fireworks 1977.
9. Champagne cream tea and Impressionism in the National, followed by something classical at the South Bank.
10. Museum of London.
11. Anything on a night bus.
12. Richmond Park.
13. Can't think of one. There have been so many fascinating real people, I don't need a fictional favourite one.
14. John Stow's 'A Survey of London', published 1598, still in print.
15. October 1940.

I will probably come back and change my mind on most of these.

 

[4to20characters]

1) Stoke Newington - yes, Church Street is a bit wanky but I love I can't stop myself wanting to live there... close second is the Harringay ladder.​

2) Trellick tower in North Kensington.​

3) Probably Centre Point - bland bland bland.​

4) From the top of the Gherkin, even though I got massive vertigo looking out the windows​

5) Clissold park (see Q1)​

6) Foyles. Predictable but true​

7) Pub: either the Camel (E2) or the Salisbury (N4). Restuarant: Buen Ayre in Hackney.​

8) New Order at the Troxy last December.​

9) Visiting as many of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries as possible with my camera. And then pub.​

10) On the Parkland walk if the weather's good, otherwise the BFI/Barbican for cinema.​

11) My commute from Tottenham to Hammersmith on tube strike days - it's never taken under three hours each way ​

12) Alexandra Palace, as it shares my name ​

13) Complete mind-freeze here. Going to say Phil Mitchell for the lulz.​

14) Maybe the Long Firm by Jake Arnott. Also Craig Taylor's oral history type book that come out last year.​

15) 1977, every punk gig I could find, as an 18 year old.​

 

[ska invita]

Keeping the questions in, as its hard to read peoples answers without them.

1) What's your favourite neighbourhood?
Have to go for Soho.

2) What's your favourite building?
I like all the Victorian functional buildings that have so much work put in them to make them look good. Bazalgette has done a few. Theres a water pumping station on the embankment thats great too

3) What's your most hated building?

I used to get angry about one opposite Tower of London - glass and steel shit, completely out of character whats around it. But ive lost the fight in me on that one. INstead I'll go for the Citigroup block. Most skyscrapers depress me (starting to be in two minds about the shard now) All the bank ones fuck me off, but this one is particularly ugly and shit.

4) What’s the best view in London?
From the reservoirs next to Nunhead Cemetry - you have to go through a hole in the fence to get there but its a well worth trying to get in there.

5) What's your favourite open space?
Blythe Hill in SE23. ITs like a planterium at night, views into town one side, out to kent the other, no street lamps so dark at night, little playground to sit/swing in if you're in the mood. Usually empty.

6) What's the most interesting shop?
not one for shopping really. Probably go Sound of the universe record shop in soho. Or Black Market. OR Supertone. One of those three.

7) What's your favourite bar, pub or restaurant?
Adulis, Eritrean restaurant in Oval. Lovely atmosphere (a little dark, very clean, wooden), brilliant food, and great staff.

Pub the goldsmiths tavern in New X (no longer with us)

8) What's been your most memorable night out in London?
Has to be music/dance related...lots of good raving memories, a few fun squat ones... I'll combine all Carnival memories into one for this answer.

9) How would you like to spend your ideal day off in London?
I like to chill at home on days off, an ideal one means not going outside at all!

10) Where would you take someone visiting from out of town?
I have lots of family living in other countries so do this a lot. Southbank is always on the cards, start at London Bridge, go up to Tower Bridge, back to Borough for market and a drink, on towards Waterloo, with something at BFI/RFH/NFT in theory at least. But thats a bit obvious maybe so...

...the other one people really enjoy is start with a walk in Dulwich woods, back through Dulwich park, a drink or two in the Dog (Crown and greyhound), and on into Brixton for some food and whatever else...

11) What's the worst journey you've had to make in London?
Visiting my mate who lives in Cockfosters regularly for a few years was looong, but its usually being out in NE London after tubes shut and walking and getting endless busses home. eurgh...hate that.

12) What's your personal London landmark?

Peckham Rye...if Ive been travelling anywhere, abroad, over the river, wherever it is, coming along the road past Peckham Rye makes me feel like Im home. At night you often get little mists that hang over the park...its not my favourite park even, but i just love going past it.


13) Who's your favourite fictional Londoner?

Artful dodger.

14) What's your favourite London film, book or documentary?

Absolute Beginners is the first thing that comes to mind...

15) If you could travel to any time period in London, past or future, where would you go?

Often think about this (because of Roberts show). Id love to see London before the Romans even got here...walk through the forest, wade through the bogs, see it in its untouched form. The future would be great too of course. But I think the question is to pick a period of London history, which for me would be before the fire - lets say 1665, and hang around for the fire too! When London was a proper gated city, the old lanes and so on. That sounds like fun. This is 1616

though going back to 88 and going full throttle through the golden rave years would be fun!!

 

[Favelado]

Robert Elms hosts a fantastic show on BBC London 94.9 everyday from 12 to 3PM.

On Mondays he interviews a Londoner (sometimes famous and sometimes just an interesting characters) who then becomes a 'Listed Londoner'.

So, for a bit of fun to past the boredom of a working day, what are your answer to the famous 15 questions?

1) What's your favourite neighbourhood?
2) What's your favourite building?
3) What's your most hated building?
4) What’s the best view in London?
5) What's your favourite open space?
6) What's the most interesting shop?
7) What's your favourite bar, pub or restaurant?
8) What's been your most memorable night out in London?
9) How would you like to spend your ideal day off in London?
10) Where would you take someone visiting from out of town?
11) What's the worst journey you've had to make in London?
12) What's your personal London landmark?
13) Who's your favourite fictional Londoner?
14) What's your favourite London film, book or documentary?
15) If you could travel to any time period in London, past or future, where would you go?

1) Brixton
2) Parliament
3) The 60s hotel next to Tower Bridge.
4) Primrose Hill
5) Primrose Hill
6) Sounds of the Universe, Soho
7) It's gone now. It was a tiny little Brazilian cafe called "Delicioso" in Fitzrovia.
8) A first date that went disastrously wrong and ended up with me and an Italian girl nervously chatting to each other in the victim suite of Brixton Police station, while I sat there with her drugs stuffed up my arse.
9) I'd spend the whole day wandering around, eating in and then getting wasted in Brixton.
10) Brick Lane, although it's a bit overrun these days.
11)I feel asleep on the night bus and woke up somewhere in Surrey, a long long way from home. The journey back was hideous.
12) The footbridge from Ferndale Road to Hubert Grove in SW9.
13) Terry Tibbs
14) Withnail and I, I suppose. Don't really have any that I like that much.
15) I would go to war-time London, maybe even during The Blitz.

 

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11)I feel asleep on the night bus and woke up somewhere in Surrey, a long long way from home. The journey back was hideous.
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Please elaborate!

 

[Favelado]

Please elaborate!

I have a couple of stories about falling asleep on night-buses actually. I'll post something up later.

 

[Numbers]

I like those questions, I've pondering over them since I read this thread y/day. I think it's a good exercise, altho' I could answer the 15 questions over and over.

 

[clicker]

1) What's your favourite neighbourhood?
Soho...Wardour St, Greek St, Rupert St , Gerard St and bits of Covent Garden.

2) What's your favourite building?
Battersea Power Station - big and powerful and especially lovely with a purple bruised sky behind it.

3) What's your most hated building?
Tricky - can normally find something to redeem most buildings...not all that enamoured with the Elephant and Castle shopping centre.

4) What’s the best view in London?
From the cafe on the 5th (?) floor of the Tate Modern, watch the little ants cross the wobbly bridge.

5) What's your favourite open space?
St.James' Park - spent endless nights akip up there as a teenager after unplanned late nights into oblivion.

6) What's the most interesting shop?
Fortnum and Masons for their amazing window displays and the smart chaps selling the tea leaves from the big silver urns.

7) What's your favourite bar, pub or restaurant?
Gordons Wine Bar on Villiers st, wonderful hideaway but not for the claustrophobic.
Mogul Indian restaurant in Greenwich.
Black leather sofa in the bar of the Royal Festival Hall.

8) What's been your most memorable night out in London?
Too hard to pick one, New Years Eve on top of One Tree Hill, any Pogues gig, or any Squeeze Christmas gig, or numerous Marquee / Moritz Club weekenders.

9) How would you like to spend your ideal day off in London?
A black cab would take me to breakfast croissants at Maison Bertaux on Greek St, then a visit to the Royal Academy, feed the geese in St James Park, an hour in a flotation tank, cheese and wine and olives in Gordons Wine Bar, walk along the southbank and spend the night in the boat hoisted up for nightly rentals near RFH.

10) Where would you take someone visiting from out of town?
I'd take them with me and do all of the above answer.

11) What's the worst journey you've had to make in London?
Anywhere that involves Woolwich.

12) What's your personal London landmark?
The Cutty Sark in Greenwich, somewhere that's always been there, from the days as a kid on school trips, to the present day, still love wandering around there.....it's a shippy island surrounded by nice pubs and restaurants and market stalls.

13) Who's your favourite fictional Londoner?
Jack Regan from the Sweeney.

14) What's your favourite London film, book or documentary?
Mary Poppins.

15) If you could travel to any time period in London, past or future, where would you go?
Jack the Ripper times....swirling mists, rowdy ale houses and gas lamps.

 

[ska invita]

BUMP!

Does no one else fancy a go a this?
I like reading peoples answers

 

[marty21]

1) What's your favourite neighbourhood?
Has to be Clapton , have lived here for nearly 20 years .
2) What's your favourite building?
The Hoover building on the A40 (spoiled by Tesco tbh)
3) What's your most hated building?
Any branch of Foxton
4) What’s the best view in London?
From Hampstead Heath
5) What's your favourite open space?
Walthamstow Marshes
6) What's the most interesting shop?
Any second hand book shop
7) What's your favourite bar, pub or restaurant?
Clapton Hart.
8) What's been your most memorable night out in London?
It was a bit of a mess , but ended up playing football at 5 in the morning in a park near Colombia Rd Flower Market.
9) How would you like to spend your ideal day off in London?
Drinking in Soho.
10) Where would you take someone visiting from out of town?
Walk along the Thames from London Bridge to the Southbank.
11) What's the worst journey you've had to make in London?
Hackney to Isleworth
12) What's your personal London landmark?
The Barbican.
13) Who's your favourite fictional Londoner?
The Artful Dodger
14) What's your favourite London film, book or documentary?
London Fields - Martin Amis.
15) If you could travel to any time period in London, past or future, where would you go?
1976/7.

 

[stdP]

1) What's your favourite neighbourhood?
Bloomsbury. Love the architecture and all these little communities crammed into one another. It's likely Georgian zoo for humans.

2) What's your favourite building?
St. Paul's Cathedral, and I rate the view from the golden gallery as the best in London.

3) What's your most hated building?
The walkie talkie. Fuckin' 'orrible.

4) What’s the best view in London?
See 2) for that, second-best is the view of the city and docklands from Blythe Hill Fields especially on a cold winter evening. November the 5th a highlight. Third best is so rare as to basically never happen, but the approach into city airport that comes along the thames and over the city is breathtaking especially if it occurs on a summer evening.

5) What's your favourite open space?
Crystal Palace Park.

6) What's the most interesting shop?
Not really one for shopping and I don't really recall any that I'd classify as "interesting"; very few even have interesting stuff. The various markets are still great to wander around though.

7) What's your favourite bar, pub or restaurant?
The much-missed Upstairs, second fiddle that is still extant is the Dovetail in Clerkenwell.

8) What's been your most memorable night out in London?
Memories are hazy but an epic 12hr drinking session with Kam and friends along old street that started at the Foundry and finished fuck-nose-where and (apparently) a taxi home. Not been able to furnish all the missing bits.

9) How would you like to spend your ideal day off in London?
People-watching in pubs and parks or cycling the thames path. In a fictional word where I'm not claustrophobic and have a key to every door, exploring the tunnels and the sewers.

10) Where would you take someone visiting from out of town?
Depends. Trawling weird shops if they like shopping, cocktails at the savoy if they like cocktails. What can I say, I like cocktails.

11) What's the worst journey you've had to make in London?
Every journey ever made on the thameslink during rush hour is pretty bad, but on the numerous occasions it hasn't been running the commute in or out is like something out of a Bosch painting.

12) What's your personal London landmark?
Too many to choose from... many mentioned here already but pretty much every landmark holds at least some significance for me.

13) Who's your favourite fictional Londoner?
The Marquis de Carabas...

14) What's your favourite London film, book or documentary?
...from Neverwhere.

15) If you could travel to any time period in London, past or future, where would you go?
Would love to witness the before and after of the Great Fire of 1666, assuming I can wear my plague-proof beak mask.

 

[mod]

7) What's your favourite bar, pub or restaurant?
The much-missed Upstairs

The place in Brixton? Loved it there. Shame.

 

[stdP]

The place in Brixton? Loved it there. Shame.

Indeed. Some of the best and most interesting food I've ever had and a damned sight better than swanky restaurants that cost twice as much. Hope Philippe, Stephanie and Martin are continuing to prosper.

 

[Epona]

Sometimes interesting threads get bumped!

1) What's your favourite neighbourhood?
- Difficult one, when I first moved to London I lived in Hackney back when it was fairly cheap and I quite liked it

2) What's your favourite building?
- Not the entire building as such, but I do like the new roof they did over the central bit of the British Muesum

3) What's your most hated building?
- Centrepoint (mostly cos of the way it funnels the wind around it, bad place to have to wait for a bus in winter), or The Shard, that thing is fucking ugly and looks unfinished.

4) What’s the best view in London?
No idea, nothing round here though

5) What's your favourite open space?
Not sure whether Abney Park Cemetery is an open space, but I love how decrepit and overgrown it feels.

6) What's the most interesting shop?
- Forbidden Planet

7) What's your favourite bar, pub or restaurant?
- I think a lot of them are much of a muchness, but can I pick the Tattershall Castle, circa 1995? When it was a bit shabby and creaking, and you weren't sure whether you were pissed or whether the boat was falling apart.

8) What's been your most memorable night out in London?
- Some bar in Soho with friends from an evening class after hours, overpriced green drinks, and feeling extremely ill the next day - but it was good company.

9) How would you like to spend your ideal day off in London?
- At home

10) Where would you take someone visiting from out of town?
- Museum of London, and to look at the bit of wall (see below)

11) What's the worst journey you've had to make in London?
- It's a tossup between 2 nightbuses from Brixton to Plaistow, or 2 buses from Plaistow to somewhere north of Walthamstow that I had to do for work for a while

12) What's your personal London landmark?
- There's this bit of Roman wall near the Barbican - it's old, crumbling, and a lot of people walk past it without really noticing it. Had some Canadians staying once, they asked how old London was, I took them to see the bit of wall (on the way to MoL, see above) and said see that bit of wall, that's nearly 2000 years old that is, and that's not even the first thing that was here. I know how to impress the tourists with my flashy tours

13) Who's your favourite fictional Londoner?
- It depends on whether Urban75 has decided whether Croydon is a part of London - if so, then Sarah Jane Smith

14) What's your favourite London film, book or documentary?
- Can't think of anything off the top of my head, may come back and edit this later if something occurs to me!

15) If you could travel to any time period in London, past or future, where would you go?
- backwards, to see that bit of wall (see above) before it was old and crumbling and mostly ignored.

 

[ska invita]

3) What's your most hated building?
- Centrepoint (mostly cos of the way it funnels the wind around it, bad place to have to wait for a bus in winter), or The Shard, that thing is fucking ugly and looks unfinished.

There was a plan to construct some kind of windrbeaking sail on that building - it may still happen as part of the crossrail redevelopments... yeah it does get a bit blowy down there sometimes

 

[hash tag]

1) Battersea, though it's rapidly loosing it's appeal
2) Crossness Pumping station ( astonishing Victorian ironworks in functional building )
3) IMAX Waterloo ( they kicked out a rough sleeping community to build it )
4) from Waterloo Bridge
5) Crystal Palace Park ( it deserves to be looked after much more than it is )
6) Any record shop or the shop in the Science Museum
7) Sorry. Possibly the Knights Templar or The Crosse Keyes
8) Started with a night shift on the close of Crisis at Christmas one year and finishing a few days later in a hotel in Brighton
9) So many places to choose - walk from home to any gallery, which are free
10) Depends on their interests
11) to Croydon Crematorium
12) Post Office Tower
13) Elementary, Holmes.
14) Wrong Arm of the law. It shows London in the 50's and footage of Battersea funfair
15) Victorian. The building of the underground, the sewers, the beautiful yet functional buildings like crossness and few if any cars.

 

[Orang Utan]

Can't believe you hate Dawson's Heights, mod - it's one of my favourite London sights

 

[Pickman's model]

Robert Elms hosts a fantastic show on BBC London 94.9 everyday from 12 to 3PM.

On Mondays he interviews a Londoner (sometimes famous and sometimes just an interesting characters) who then becomes a 'Listed Londoner'.

So, for a bit of fun to past the boredom of a working day, what are your answer to the famous 15 questions?

1) What's your favourite neighbourhood?
2) What's your favourite building?
3) What's your most hated building?
4) What’s the best view in London?
5) What's your favourite open space?
6) What's the most interesting shop?
7) What's your favourite bar, pub or restaurant?
8) What's been your most memorable night out in London?
9) How would you like to spend your ideal day off in London?
10) Where would you take someone visiting from out of town?
11) What's the worst journey you've had to make in London?
12) What's your personal London landmark?
13) Who's your favourite fictional Londoner?
14) What's your favourite London film, book or documentary?
15) If you could travel to any time period in London, past or future, where would you go?

a. tricky: but will go for homerton; b. senate house; c. arts depot, n12; d. prob view from auld urb picnic spot; e. i'll go for highgate woods; f. atlantis, museum street; g. elephant inn, n12; h. poll tax riot. or traf sq nye 87/88. ptr very good, nye shit.; i. with one other person in a museum, just the two of us in bldg; j. ideally on the piss; k. to work; l. too many to mentjon, will throw you the library in finchley central, but it's nothing to do with books; m. dyson outof three impostors; n. baedeker's handbook for london 1898;

 

[Pickman's model]

o. let's say the birth of punk: 1975 76

 

[boohoo]

1) What's your favourite neighbourhood?
There was a time I would have said Clapton/ Hackney but now it's anything around Beulah Hill (so upper Norwood)

2) What's your favourite building?
The Henry Vii chapel at the front of Westminster abbey. Also Westminster Hall is wonderful.

3) What's your most hated building?
Walkie talkie is ugly.

4) What’s the best view in London?
From Grange Hill off South Norwood Hill

5) What's your favourite open space?
Probably a few - use to love the River Lea. Really like the quiet and view at Norwood Grove.

6) What's the most interesting shop?
Liberty = Doesn't serve every need but I like it - not really a shopping person.

7) What's your favourite bar, pub or restaurant?
I don't have one at the mo.

8) What's been your most memorable night out in London?
Can't remember - a few different ones. Like various squat parties. And some of youthful nights out.

9) How would you like to spend your ideal day off in London?
I really enjoy going on walks with Miss-Shelf and zora So something like a walk and a greasy spoon and a pint or two.

10) Where would you take someone visiting from out of town?
A ride on a clipper boat up the Thames

11) What's the worst journey you've had to make in London?
Anything on the underground where the train stops in the tunnel.

12) What's your personal London landmark?
Not sure - the river perhaps.

13) Who's your favourite fictional Londoner?

14) What's your favourite London film, book or documentary?
Martin Millar's books - particularly Lux the poet and Dreams of Sex and stage diving

15) If you could travel to any time period in London, past or future, where would you go?
Torn between wanting to see the old London bridge probably pre-reformation and visiting South Norwood to see a row of derelict houses in the 1890s.

 

[Miss-Shelf]

9) How would you like to spend your ideal day off in London?
I really enjoy going on walks with Miss-Shelf and zora So something like a walk and a greasy spoon and a pint or two.

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This is my sort of London day too - even better with a new bus journey thrown in

 

[Miss-Shelf]

1) What's your favourite neighbourhood?
I'm forever fond of N16 but it will always end up being the place I live at the time
I'm spending a lot of time in North, north London at the moment and feeling quite fond of Barnet and Finchly
hopefully in a few months it will be Thornton Heath where I'm moving to

2) What's your favourite building?
Its not a building but its on the building - I like the peace mural at dalston junction

3) What's your most hated building?
dont have one although going to the old DHSS offices round the back of Mare Street was pretty grim

4) What’s the best view in London?
I like being able to stand at the top of the rise of Canonbie Road and see north to the city and south to I guess Bromley (not sure what is at that edge of London)

5) What's your favourite open space?
I like the River Lea / Marshes

6) What's the most interesting shop?
Theres a dolls house shop opposite Gospel Oak station - its literally packed with things to go in dolls houses including food, ornaments and dogs. Run by some eccentric people

7) What's your favourite bar, pub or restaurant?
does the 24hour beigal bake on Brick Lane count as a restaurant? Its featured in so many nights and days out in London since I first moved here

8) What's been your most memorable night out in London?
as with everyone, hard to pick one...its the variety of things that living in London has opened up for me
Going to an ultra Orthodox Jewish wedding, Bengali Weddings, Turkish birthday parties, squat parties, an elvis evening in east dulwich,

9) How would you like to spend your ideal day off in London?
So many to choose from
But if I could choose great weather then it would include a swim in the women's pond on Hampstead Heath
might involve a random bus journey and must have egg and chips from a caff too

10) Where would you take someone visiting from out of town?
More than once I've taken people to have a wander around bermondsey/ london bridge cos its central, there are lots of good buildings to look at, some views across the river, markets, crossbones cemetery, nice outdoor cheap turkish food in Tas

11) What's the worst journey you've had to make in London?
it would probably involve long waits in between night buses from one side of London to the other

12) What's your personal London landmark?
waterloo bridge

13) Who's your favourite fictional Londoner?
haven't got one

14) What's your favourite London film, book or documentary?
I enjoyed the recent documentary about smithfields market(odd for a vegetarian but liked for its London oddness)
In London, The Biography, I like the way Peter Ackroyd views London - that it is living through us - that areas of London keep doing the same thing for years and years and we just provide the means for it
I like Sarah Waters re-imagining of women's lives in London settings throughout history

15) If you could travel to any time period in London, past or future, where would you go?
Ive always wondered what Whitechapel and Stepney was like around 1900 when the Jewish community was in full swing
I'd also like to have seen what it was like for women during the Blitz (prompted by Sarah Waters 'The Night Watch')
I wish I'd moved to London a few years earlier(say '88) with a braver disposition and not been a parent so I could have gone raving with more commitment

 

[mod]

Can't believe you hate Dawson's Heights, mod - it's one of my favourite London sights

Really???! Why?

 

[Orang Utan]

Really???! Why?

Theyre beautiful buildings and people love living in them.

 

[mod]

Theyre beautiful buildings and people love living in them.

reminds me off this every time I see it.

 

[ska invita]

i like them too - ive been in one of the flats with a view - great place to live - i think it looks nice too - the design is meant to look like the rolling of a hill I reckon

i can see why its a bit marmite though

It does block the view from the south, say from Forest Hill though

 

[ffsear]

1) What's your favourite neighbourhood?
Streatham Hill

2) What's your favourite building?
Lloyd's of London

3) What's your most hated building?
That one down in Colliers Wood

4) What’s the best view in London?
Top of the Shard (building) Top of Honour oak park (natural)

5) What's your favourite open space?
My Back garden, South Croydon

6) What's the most interesting shop?
errrrrrrrr?

7) What's your favourite bar, pub or restaurant?
Bar: Madison in ST Paul's
Pub: The Red Lion, Soho
Restaurant: Clos Magiore, Covent Garden


8) What's been your most memorable night out in London?
I really can't pick one, there have been too many. And my memory sucks.


9) How would you like to spend your ideal day off in London?
Science Museum followed by a decent Pub Lunch with the Mrs.

10) Where would you take someone visiting from out of town?
Soho

11) What's the worst journey you've had to make in London?
Getting from Paddington to anywhere that not west London, with a suitcase.

12) What's your personal London landmark?
The Crystal Palace Towers. I always know where I am as long as I can see them.

13) Who's your favourite fictional Londoner?
Del Boy Trotter


14) What's your favourite London film, book or documentary?
Love Actually


15) If you could travel to any time period in London, past or future, where would you go?
Roman London - (2nd Century)

 

[ska invita]

14) What's your favourite London film, book or documentary?
Love Actually

sarcasm or for real?