What would you like to see on SGR?

Tallboy

What sort of shop/restaurant/commercial outlet - that we don't already have - would you like to see on SGR and its very close borders.
I'd like to have a gym. Preferably one that is prohibitively expensive to keep all the meatheads away. But that'll never happen.

JungleFaceJake

McDonalds
KFC
Starbucks
99p Store
Another Nandos
Cash Convertors
Topshop

Oh and somewhere to get a nice organic, locally sourced Lentil soup and roll... MMM...

ActionVerb

I'd second the gym, the ones round work are far too expensive and there aren't any leisure centres which are particularly handy on the route home from work.

A good butcher and a bakery would be nice. Has anyone used the butcher half way down SGR?

Tallboy

No. But I have used the butcher over the top of SGR, opposite the Old Dairy and next to the paper shop. Buy my bacon there. Made me realise how rubbish supermarket bacon is.

staplejack

<a href="http://www.haringey.gov.uk/leisure/leisurecentres/finsbury_park.htm">Finsbury Park, by the running track</a>
<a href="http://www.aquaterra.org/sobell-leisure-centre.aspx">Sobell Centre</a>
<a href="http://www.factorylondon.com/">Factory</a>

Plus Rowans (I think), Virgin and YMCA in Crouch End. And the gym at Park Road swimming pool if you want to swim after.

I make that 7. Which, is 7 too many in my book. My vote for a new shop would be for a recording studio / practice rooms venue.

Guess where I went during P.E. at school?

Ali

That is Tony the butcher. His eggs are very good, huge and well priced compared to Tescos etc. Most of them seem to have double yolks . His Christmas turkey was very good and his chickens which we have quite often.

Billy Bookcase

I recall there used to be a rather good recording studio on Tollington Park.

Tallboy

@ Staplejack. Yes but they're all too far away. I want somewhere on my doorstep. And most of the ones you mention are rubbish. It needs to be large, clean, well equipped and never gets busy.

andy

@Jeremy Fisher: A Decca recording studio that became a masonic lodge that became a 'highly desirable live-work space' <http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/house-and-home/property/buy-of-the-week-finsbury-park-london-n4-469883.html>;

charlieboy

SGR def needs a specialist cacti shop....

Slabber

They should turn the Rowans disco back into a snooker club.

Mirandola

A second hand bookshop. Not a charity one. Something like Walden's in Camden.

Slabber

What's wrong with the Beacon Book Store?

ADGS

Bit niche in its holdings, isn't it? I'd like a secondhand book store too. Or a secondhand record shop.

Mirandola

Beacon is great, but I'm with ADGS. I'd like a general bookshop as well as a specialist one.

krappyrubsnif

Another Internet cafe. Dream River was full today.

missisclack

Tallboy - I think the answer is in your name, but if you are a woman (!), Paradise Walk next to the Dairy is always empty, but it's laydeez only.

Tallboy

@Missisclack - Could have been perfect for me. Ideal location and free of sweaty, lumbering grunters. Sadly I'd never get past reception what with my inappropriate appendages.

Slabber

Prospero's Books in Crouch End is up for sale.

JaneDoe

I would love a gig venue. I dream of The Rainbow re-opening or the George Robey.

I've also read about a smallish club called 'The Fickle Pickle' which was once the place to go in Finsbury Park (I think in the 60's?) Does anyone know where it was?

theolddairy

someone open a Deli please!

sincers

A Woolworths; or a hairdressers. I have to walk at least 20 yards to get to one these days.

Jenowl

I would like a swimming pool.

tosscat

The biggest helter-skelter in the world.

Jenowl

The Magic Faraway Tree.

Tallboy

Now you're all just being silly. Of the above suggestions, I am now prepared to ditch my original wish for a gym and will support theolddiary's campaign for a deli. Something like the one in Highbury Barn.

tosscat

You can be Moonface!

tosscat

The deli that used to be where Taste of Italy is used to be nice, in fact, isn't Taste of Italy a deli?

Ali

Glad to see people are still reading Enid Blyton. The adventure series is great !

miss annie

@slabber
The Muswell Hill Bookshop, which is the sister shop to Prospero's Books is also up for rent.

I'd like a deli that sells good marinated artichokes and rollmops or failing that, a Dunns bakery with tearoom attached - like that new Haberdashery cafe in Crouch End but not as overpriced. Perhaps with a little selection of old fashioned sweets for sale too to cater for pick and mix needs.

N4Matt

A reasonably priced taxidermist or a Gentleman's outfitters.

Failing that a wig shop, oh, hang on.....