Places that used to be good but are now crap

[????]

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

[PeckhamRose]

Wetherspoons pubs. I worked for the architects when they first started and they were different and nice, but then they just got so big and 'corporate', and became upmarket creches.

Good points above ????!

[Otta]

Carnaby Street. See what quids said about Greenwich market.

[KidKruger]

The Porcupine pub on Charing X Road - was fine in the early 90s.

[Dopamine1979]

The Vale pub on a Saturday night.

[El Pibe]

Not that I was ever the terror of the chicken run or anything, but so true of Upon Park, pin drop sometimes.

[MrBen]

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.

[maxxi]

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.

[Otta]

I quite liked the leather jacket hell to be honest.

[Guest]

Banking as a career.

[Ridgley]

A politician?

[Guest]

Blue Mountain cafe. Ten years ago one of the highlights of ED but no longer much fun sadly.

[DulwichFox]

The (Lord) Palmerston...

Was once a Pub...

Fox.

[maxxi]

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)

[????]

Nightclubs.....but I think it's just me

[KidKruger]

The Forresters pub, had pool tables and more interesting characters than Bishop.

[Annette Curtain]

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> The (Lord) Palmerston...

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> Was once a Pub...

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> Fox.

It was a sh*t pub

You must have the ol' rose tints on again Fox

[maxxi]

Dublin Castle and Town & Country Club (but, again, this may be the judgement of an ageing idiot).

[????]

Ahh, Maxi the T&C, good days (Wendy May on Fridays?) but I think it's The Forum or summfink now.

[Otta]

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> Nightclubs.....but I think it's just me

No, it is not just you!

[maxxi]

???? Wrote:

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> Ahh, Maxi the T&C, good days (Wendy May on

> Fridays?) but I think it's The Forum or summfink

> now.

B52s in 1989 was last great gig there for me.

[Otta]

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.

[DulwichFox]

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

[Marmora Man]

Newquay

[Otta]

Fox, that is how I felt about The CPT.