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I spotted the block of four two bedroom flats on Underhill road / Overhill Road junction are back on the market..... at wait for it 369k !!!!!!! So after not selling these flats for around seven years and squatters move in they kick the sqautters out put a lick of paint on them and try and sell them for 50k more than the last time they tried (I last saw them for 317k). The main problem with these flats is apart from not being like the rest of the road at all is the bedrooms. You can see into them when you walk past which is not great but they are small and a strange shape and it looks impossible to try and fit a wardrobe and a double bed in the room becasue of this. The living room / kitchen area actually looks quite nice but trying to sell of the very top end for a two bed flat with its major donwfalls is a touch ambtious. These have to be an example of the woerst desgined flats I have seen !!!!

Hisar is my favourite. Good value and excellent food, their Humus plus Kuzu Shihs are excellent. As for Pubs the bishop is my favourite. Check the ED marke on Saturdays, in terms of food there is the Hot dog man with his gourment dogs, the Vietnamese Baguette man which are exceptionla and also a Hog roast, plus there is a whole hos of other things to eat there, enjoy !

I have an HTC with Orange too and the reception is ridiculous, I hardly ever get a recption in my flat and I live in ED. What a load of rubbish !

I have lived here fours years after a year or so in Balham and think it is a great place to live, sure a tube line would be good but its only 10 mins to London Bridge. There are loads of good restaurants and pubs and I have never had a problem getting a taxi back at night, even though I have many times from way out Shepherds Bush way which is a black cab most of the time. Especially good for foodies round here with delis, good food shops, hog roast on a Saturday, excellent fish man, butchers....

I have seen Gavin & Stacey's Staecy loads of times now, Sophie from Peep show a few times, Phil Mitchell's bird from Eastenders in Sainsbury's and also Tobias Menzies in Cafe Nero, Menzies is in Spooks, was in Casino Royale, Rome ect... and I had not seen him before. I am still waiting to see Mr Nesbitt & Ms Brand !

I do this journey everyday, get the 8:15 to London Bridge, this will get you there for 8:30 and 30 mins is ample time to wander over either London Bridge and hang a right or over Tower Bridge.

Mixed ractions. Commonly, "Where ?" , quite a few "I hear its nice there", the odd "I don't go south of the river" and some " I really like East Dwulich, whats that nice pub called ?" One friend kept refering to it as Peckham and snyped and then came to ED and really liked it (not saying there isanything wrong with Peckham) , they said lots of places to eat & drink and a good vibe unlike somewhere souless like Canary Wharf, I would rather eat my own feet than live there.

The P13 is the best bus of all time, it is amazing.

Finally !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Brazil does have a big Japanese community so maybe thats the link.

These are so badly designed it is crazy, the bedrooms are tiny and no storage space, and to top it all off you can get people looking into you bedrooms in the lower flat every time they walk past. I can't see these being sold for a very long time unless the price gets reduced massively.

I am gutted, I love Hisar, it is may favourite place to eat on LL, lets hope it gets filled with Japanese restaurant....... or another decent Turkish restuarant, still very sad though. My girlfirend wil be mortified !!!!!!!!

7.51 from ED was much more packed than usual, could hardly get on the trai and itnearly kicked off on my carriage between to angry gentlemen. I hope it is not so busy tomorrow or they could be more shenanigans.

Do you mean the four on th corner of Underhill / Overhill Road. All four are empty, no wonder, they donn't fit in with the road and have really small bedrooms. The ones up the other end of Overhill that I think this thread isabout look nice.

I have eaten a doezn times ath Hisar, and evry time it has been excellent. The only problem is I always over eat there......... good food and well priced.

I bought a flat in the second half of 2006 so am obviosuly concerned that my flat will continue to go down in value. However the only positive is I did not over stretch myself and the property went up (according to Zoopla !) to 15% over what I paid for it about 6-9 months later, which I at the time thought was unrealistic. I very much doubt however that a Victorian house on North Cross Road will drop to ?120k. The average UK wage and London wage was a lot less then and London was far less densley populated and the demand for rented properties was much lower. The property market still has some way to go I think but 50K flats and 100k houses in ED with the East London line coming in 2010 is unlikely I think........ hope !

I used to go to the drum a fair bit, it had good drinks & food an the owners were very friendly aswell as a fantastic dog.... it is sad they are closing it down.

O M R I T H

Omrith by a distance

I received Omriths menu through the door the other day and before reading about it on this forum fancied trying it, the postive reveiws on here made me want to try it even more. Tonight I gave it a whirl I was very impressed, I have had Curry's at 80% of Lordship Lane's curry houses and Omrith is actually the closest to my flat so this is a bonus. My impressions are excellent, all the dishes were very good and one was exceptional (Delhi Ka Makhan - Creamy dish with Coconut & Curry) & literally had my girlfrined drueling. I will definetley go back and this will be my regular curry haunt from now on as the extensive list of specialities will take some time to work through.

All Day Buffets are the food of the Credit Crunch !

I went in there the other day an thought it was good. There are a number of simlar but good pubs in ED and Adventure Bar is different to Licqourice so all in all another decent option of something different, I hope it is a success.

Duliwch Tandoori for me, fancy trying Mirash some time though.

I love the P13, it is so irregular in its times if it comes when I haven't been waiting long it makes me happy. I might even get a P13 tatoo.

I agree Hisar is very good, excellent value too.

Fujiyama, Brixton