Doing London things you've never done

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Does it still run. I thought there was a slight accident?

As already mentioned, they stopped running a while ago. Access by MI6 was closed. They often broke down and needing rescuing.

 

[spitfire]

As already mentioned, they stopped running a while ago. Access by MI6 was closed. They often broke down and needing rescuing.

One of the reasons Daniel Craig resigned as Bond. He used to like taking Moneypenny for a charabanc on the DUKW. He was most put out when M shut the slipway.

 

[spitfire]

Keep it under your hat though.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

I’ve never been to Borough Market

I used to work in the next street, so walked past it on the way to work - when it was still a real wholesale market.

Never got as far as working there when I was doing casualish work (I'm not sure if it was the sort of place where you needed to know someone to get any work there)

Think I've been to Maria's Cafe inside the market once since it went hipster - it's changed hands now as she has retired, but Maria had run a proper caff on park street until getting priced out.

 

[Chz]

I liked her special roll - bacon, bubble and cheese. Only works if the bubble is good and crispy. I worked the other side of London Bridge (next to Hay's) for 10 years and watched the market change beyond all reason.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

I worked the other side of London Bridge (next to Hay's) for 10 years and watched the market change beyond all reason.

yes - I worked there 1988 / 9-ish, and fairly often there was a film crew round doing something where they wanted dickensian squalor...

i worked on a trading estate on park street that southwark council had built (not that long before) to generate some jobs in a depressed area. i went past a year or so back and the site's now a fancy hotel

 

[MrSki]

As already mentioned, they stopped running a while ago. Access by MI6 was closed. They often broke down and needing rescuing.

What you thought I had read the entire thread?

ETA one caught fire ten years ago.

 

[hash tag]

Digressing from thread, I seem to remember one sunk in Liverpool docks.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

and the site's now a fancy hotel

and i've never stayed in a hotel in london

 

[Elpenor]

They do a lovely £30 chicken.

Do you get corn and spicy rice with it?

 

[maomao]

Never been on the Woolwich ferry or in the Woolwich foot tunnel. Only standard river crossings that I've never done (up to Richmond anyway).

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[Spymaster]

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Skateboarding through that at full speed is quite a buzz.

 

[hash tag]

Great to see Tommy and sis out and about, I hope he is doing well.
AND, for my next trick, I will treat them to a ride on the cable car!

 

[hash tag]

Skateboarding through that at full speed is quite a buzz.

Spy, on a skateboard

 

[Spymaster]

Spy, on a skateboard

I had the mother of all skateboards, I'll have you know!

 

[maomao]

Great to see Tommy and sis out and about, I hope he is doing well.
AND, for my next trick, I will treat them to a ride on the cable car!

Fuck that shit. Their two cousins went off to do that after we had parted several hours later but you could not pay me to get on that thing.

 

[hash tag]

Fuck that shit. Their two cousins went off to do that after we had parted several hours later but you could not pay me to get on that thing.

Im not good with heights, but have done it strictly for the benefit of others. Try most things once.

 

[spitfire]

Skateboarding through that at full speed is quite a buzz.

So is jumping on the drainage board in the centre (on acid). What a sound. BANG whoosh BANG whoosh.

 

[ouirdeaux]

I had the mother of all skateboards, I'll have you know!

How exactly do skateboards reproduce?

 

[RubyToogood]

They do a lovely £30 chicken.

I have never seen, let alone been in, Fortnum and Mason.
I am inclined to believe it may not be real.

It's a strange place and mostly stocks mountains of tins of insanely expensive biscuits for tourists. Nothing actually worth buying as far as I could tell.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Don’t think I ever went to the London Dungeon. The out-of-work actors who bark for it always put me off

I assumed you’d like chamber of horrors type stuff.
I’ve never done Carnival either. A mixture of laziness and not liking crowds

 

[Aladdin]

I've still never been inside St Paul's.

Have you been outside?

 

[Aladdin]

I haven't been to Buckingham Palace, have no desire to go. Haven't seen The Mousetrap either , not arsed about that either . Never been to Madam Toussards either , again , not arsed about that either.

I saw the Mousetrap when they brought it to Dublin. I am so glad I actually got to see it. Woulsnthave a hope of seeing it now.

 

[ouirdeaux]

I did Carnival the first year I was in London, I think, so 1990. Never again. Too crowded, too many distorting sound systems.

Never been up the London Eye, or the Shard.

 

[maomao]

Have you been outside?

If she's never been inside St Paul's she must have been outside St Paul's.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

If she's never been inside St Paul's she must have been outside St Paul's.

Or hiding beneath the sofa if meant more generally.

 

[ElizabethofYork]

Have you been outside?

I'm permanently outside St Paul's.

 

[RubyToogood]

I'm permanently outside St Paul's.

How can you know this? You might go in some time, then it won't have been permanent.

 

[A380]

It's a strange place and mostly stocks mountains of tins of insanely expensive biscuits for tourists. Nothing actually worth buying as far as I could tell.

The fresh stuff downstairs, bread, veg, meat and cheese is pretty good.

 

[Epona]

I’ve never been to Borough Market despite being a bit of a foodwanker, if we’re talking nightlife, never went to Fabric.

OH worked for a while (as a temp) at Borough Market doing refuse collection/cleaning/sweeping - a bit too heavy work for him to do long-term with his back problems but it was fucking brilliant all the stuff that was thrown out due to "best before" dates.
Ate well that month or two.