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Pearson, I am not asking anyone to move there. You've made your point that you don't like the area. I like trying different places with different foods and I know that there are others out there like me. So please stop running down the area for no reason. The Elephant is being revitalized and the market is changing all the time. They even have an Marks and Spencer which ED doesn't have.
The Minkey

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I've always found E&C to be a bit grim and only ever pass through on foot when I happen to be changing transport, however, I do find some of the predjudice expressed on here very distasteful.


Seeing as I'm such an irregular visitor, I didn't know there was a Sunday Market selling potentially interesting food stuffs. I might just browse it when I next pass through on a Sunday. So, thanks for posting, Cate.

SeanMacGabhann

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E&C is an unlovely spot at present but you would have to have your fingers in your ears going "lalalalalalaalalalalalal" to not see something is happening there and it's interesting to both observe and be a part of it. (Royal Court relocation, foodstalls, revamped Coronet etc etc)


Sadly if it ever does shed it's unlovely tag, it will then attract the "it's just full of pretentious tossers" brigade


Damned if you do damned if you don't

SeanMacGabhann

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start a thread on it - go for it


I would suggest more people find E&C accesible tho


But Im' genuinely interested - how come it's news to you?


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that's how it's flagged up on the front page

cate

cate

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elloriac Wrote:

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> Thanks Cate - definitely interested in finding

> Arturo! :-)


If you don't catch him at E&C then try to see him at his pitch at Lower Marsh Tuesday - Friday. You can always call him to check he is there.

katie1997

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SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> E&C is an unlovely spot at present but you would

> have to have your fingers in your ears going

> "lalalalalalaalalalalalal" to not see something is

> happening there and it's interesting to both

> observe and be a part of it. (Royal Court

> relocation, foodstalls, revamped Coronet etc etc)

>

> Sadly if it ever does shed it's unlovely tag, it

> will then attract the "it's just full of

> pretentious tossers" brigade

>

> Damned if you do damned if you don't


Exactly.


Anyway, who on the EDF used to sing the praises of Borough Market ~10-15 years ago?


My brother used to work in that area back then and I am sure it wasn't as 'trendy' as it is now (although happy to be corrected on this).


The forum will be a great historical record for us to look back on in a decade's time when E&C is full of etc etc .. :)


I hear Nick Cave's band played at the old cinema there last night too! :D

The Minkey

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ED itself has transformed from what it was when I first came across it in the early eighties. I'll be fascinated to see how Elephant scrubs up, and it will, it's so close to London Bridge and look how that area's transformed over the last few years.
Tarot

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The EaC has always had a bad name,made worse by the collosal gross Aylesbury estate, that killed a good community. Estates are souless places.Kennington is another gross example of bad housing and social misfits. Deptford also was always a low area, it improved when they shut carrington house.But when all the good shops went it turned into a third world type market. In some places there you can buy snake meat.No doubt the EC will go this way. To think there was a time there were only pie stalls . Telford pies come back please.
Pearson

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Elephant & Castle:

This!


Third World Market:

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://bp0.blogger.com/_ckWXu5q4YK0/R1O8MqqFPRI/AAAAAAAAAPw/BAeKIqhaRz4/s1600-R/shopping%2Bindia.jpg&imgrefurl=http://incredibleindia2.blogspot.com/2007/12/travel-tips-for-india.html&usg=__cDO-4HqlBFKKFmQw7-ZJdN1w2h8=&h=369&w=500&sz=156&hl=en&start=76&zoom=1&tbnid=9EvRh7rpukQkYM:&tbnh=131&tbnw=176&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmarket%2Bindia%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26biw%3D1131%26bih%3D603%26tbs%3Disch:10%2C2425&um=1&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=362&ei=AgKrTLSPCZTNjAean7HIBw&oei=5wGrTP7KMcTKjAfT0cG6Bw&esq=7&page=6&ndsp=16&ved=1t:429,r:6,s:76&tx=80&ty=71&biw=1131&bih=603



I'm afraid i have to disagree with Tarot on this.

Third World Market look much nicer!

Jeremy

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I don't think it's particularly accurate to say that the Royal Court has relocated to E&C...


I assumed that the shopping centre, along with the revolting sub-pavement area which homes the market would all be destroyed as part of the redevelopment work.

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