Which is the shittiest place in South East London?

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

There are some shitholes round here. Whether it's the scummy, ratpiss-infested wino excavation wasteland or the acres of chinless NIMBY haven't-spoken-to-another-disgusting-human-being-since-I-was-a-wayward-youth-living-in-the-slums-of-Manchester whitewashed lawyer-belt...where is the true filth??!

 

[behemoth]

Some wild generalisations going on there. Good and bad people in every area.

Thamesmead and Abbey Wood is an area I would hate to have no choice but to live in.

 

[lenny101]

From experience I have only lived around Deptford and New Cross which were both alright. Sometimes I had to go down to Lewisham town centre which seemed to be a bit of a scally infested shit hole.

 

[ddraig]

Woolwich, eltham, plumstead, abbey wood/thamesmead, downham, catford, peckham etc
e2a - agree with lewisham as well

 

[spanglechick]

thamesmead.

 

[cesare]

Oh blimey. I've either lived, worked or gone to school in most of the places named and shamed so far

 

[Melinda]

Woolwich, eltham, plumstead, abbey wood/thamesmead, downham, catford, peckham etc
e2a - agree with lewisham as well

My goodness, that is virtually all of SE London! There are some alright places in that bunch!

Catford isnt bad. Eltham too.

 

[softybabe]

My goodness, that is virtually all of SE London! There are some alright places in that bunch!

Catford isnt bad.

Downham, is not shitty and going through a lot of regen including my fab now health and leisure centre, complete with library and pool. ddraig's just got a thing against SE London, i really dunno why he bothers to come down

 

[Errol's son]

Downham, is not shitty and going through a lot of regen including my fab now health and leisure centre, complete with library and pool. ddraig's just got a thing against SE London, i really dunno why he bothers to come down

I wouldn't like to live on Downham Way.

But I would far prefer it to the concrete hell of Thamesmead.

 

[softybabe]

I wouldn't like to live on Downham Way.

But I would far prefer it to the concrete hell of Thamesmead.

I wouldnt like to live on Downham way either but putting all of Downham (which is quite big innit) under the same umbrella cheesed me off but each to their own innit

 

[Melinda]

Downham, is not shitty and going through a lot of regen including my fab now health and leisure centre, complete with library and pool. ddraig's just got a thing against SE London, i really dunno why he bothers to come down

Where is this leisure centre then? Im not familiar with it.

We go to The Bridge.

 

[softybabe]

Where is this leisure centre then? Im not familiar with it.

We go to The Bridge.

oh there's a new build one near the Co-op. http://www.leisureconnection.co.uk/centre/2/98/downham_health_and_leisure_centre.html

 

[Melinda]

It looks REALLY nice, if its the same people who manage The Bridge and Ladywell Leisure Centre, does that mean Im already a member?

 

[f for fake]

There are some shitholes round here. Whether it's the scummy, ratpiss-infested wino excavation wasteland or the acres of chinless NIMBY haven't-spoken-to-another-disgusting-human-being-since-I-was-a-wayward-youth-living-in-the-slums-of-Manchester whitewashed lawyer-belt...where is the true filth??!

all of it i thought

its great up north

well the midlands at least

 

[softybabe]

It looks REALLY nice, if its the same people who manage The Bridge and Ladywell Leisure Centre, does that mean Im already a member?

No mate, nice try though The gym and swimming pool is managed by Harpers. They had a special offer on last wk... and i cld always introduce u and we both get a mth free .

It is very nice! i'm motivated to go gym quite often for now

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

Some wild generalisations going on there. Good and bad people in every area.

Of course, I don't disagree, there are some very decent places in SE London. For example, I think Crystal Palace is great, Greenwich and Camberwell are pretty cool and Blackheath, Forest Hill, East Dulwich and Beckenham, if culturally 'thin', are okay places for a number of things. What I mean here is specifically the shitty and down-at-heel (e.g. Penge) or the wholesome-but-dull-as-ditchwater (e.g. Orpington), the kind of thing there seems to be a lot of in SE London.

Poll may follow.

 

[lau1981]

Abbeywood and Thamesmead by far! Truly horrid. Great place to buy or sell drugs.

 

[Andy the Don]

Woolwich Arsehole.. but I will counter with UN world heritage site that is Greenwich.

 

[foamy]

torchsong, i loves ya
i'm gonna vote for:
the concrete republic of Thamesmead - as it hosted my gorgeous but crazy, stabby chivvy saaaarflaaaahdarn luvvlie.



(but only cos i cant vote for the docks cos they is north)

 

[neonis]

Thamesmead is a crap hole.

Some wild generalisations going on there. Good and bad people in every area.

Thamesmead and Abbey Wood is an area I would hate to have no choice but to live in.

I agree with you, I also have no real choice but to live there.

 

[scifisam]

Thamesmead s probably the worst place I've been to in England, let alone London. I almost ended up living there too.

 

[London_Calling]

A two-year thread bump?

 

[dynamicbaddog]

Thamesmead s probably the worst place I've been to in England, let alone London. I almost ended up living there too.

I remember when it used to be really easy to get a council flat there because noone wanted to live there. Filmmakers seem to like it, it's been used as the set for Clockwork Orange and Beautiful Thing.
Not as much the shithole it used to be

but I still wouldn't like to live there..

 

[mao]

Thorton Heath, Walworth, Catford....

 

[ViolentPanda]

My goodness, that is virtually all of SE London! There are some alright places in that bunch!

Catford isnt bad. Eltham too.

Eltham is okay if you're white, not so cool if you're not.

Plumstead used to be a total shit-hole, but is a bit better now than it was.

 

[ViolentPanda]

A two-year thread bump?

FOUR years.

 

[MellySingsDoom]

West Croydon has it's "charming" bits - wandering round on a weekend night can be fun/injurous to your health.

 

[bromley]

Croydon.

 

[oryx]

Croydon.

Don't think Croydon is that bad.

Still LOL at Badly Drawn Girl describing Orpington as 'wholesome'!

 

[Artaxerxes]

FOUR years.

Awesome

I really hated living in Lewisham, parts of Bermondsey are pretty shit as well but not nearly in the same league