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Inspired a bit by Snorks


1) Greenwich Market - all chains, tourists and tourist tat in the market compared to all the loads of different areas/markets back in the day

2) Shoreditch/Old Street - twats with beards and Essex boys, used to be fun up there

3) Upton Park - generally far quieter, just a pitiful handfull of songs, er somewhat safer for visitors

4)The EDF

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Glastonbury - pre-fence wild and crazy rock n roll... now Wayne Rooney, Orange mobile and Jay Z.

Carnaby Street- Recent makeover has helped bring it out of 80's leather jacket hell but it's 1967 heyday has long gone.

Adventure Bar - vs before it was Adventure Bar.

Granada Service stations - perhaps it was because I was a kid in the 1980's. But they seemed like places of dreams. Now overcrowded Moto KFC toilets with people in there that you never see anywhere else.

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definitely Borough market, La Rueda (Clapham), Duke of Edinburgh (Ferndale Rd), The Far Side (Stockwell Rd), The Abbey Arms (canning town).


ETA: The disappointment on revisiting some of these may owe as much to the past being a foreign country as the establishments themselves being 'crappier'


Oh, and yes, Upton Park - The scrapping of the South Bank for the BM stand was one step - but it's all gone really quiet over there since they moved the West Stand back and put up the disneyesque Castle-Facade.

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DulwichFox Wrote:

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> The (Lord) Palmerston...

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> Was once a Pub...

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I'm sure there's a thread on this elsewhere but...


'pubs that used to be good but no longer exist'...


Free Trader (Peckham)

Surrey Tavern (Surrey St off Old Kent Rd)

Trinity Arms (Borough)

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KidKruger Wrote:

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> The Forresters pub, had pool tables and more

> interesting characters than Bishop.



Agreed. People say it was a shit hole, but I'd say it only got really bad the last couple of years, at one point I really liked it.

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Annette Curtain Wrote:

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> DulwichFox Wrote:

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> > The (Lord) Palmerston...

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> > Was once a Pub...

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> > Fox.

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> It was a sh*t pub

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> You must have the ol' rose tints on again Fox


Yes .. But it was our sh*t pub ...and I had friends there.

Genuine decent people who looked after each other.


A few rough diamonds too..


But all in all characters... Colourfull characters.


Some sadly no longer with us.


Obviously not up market enough for you..


Fox

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