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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

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.

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.

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)

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.

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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