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but david is close to 50
My sons bought me a new PC, so, thinking that I'd need to start again (so to speak) I threw out all my favourites and only today did I see that Stroud Green was missing.
I'm no computer expert.
I'm afraid I can't remember it when it was 'quite dodgy'.
RJP wins.
Damn, that means I was born in Islington, not Hornsey.
i fondly call this place the stroud green triangle, you never seem to leave it!
as for ali above post, i use to go osbourne, an had my first drink in the stapleton hall tavern.
First off in a flat off Scarborough Road and now much closer to the beating heart of SG, off SGR.
One of the things I like best is that almost everybody I've known in 21 years still lives here. I bump into them in Tesco or Woodys. Just older and more knackered but just the same otherwise.
Stroud Green Triangle indeed.
And new faces too.
Hard to believe but the old White Lion of Mortimer was the coolest pub around before its corporate vandalism. The Stapleton Hall (now Larrik) was a no go area if you valued your life. Woodys was a furniture store. No Pappagone. The old FP cafe by the lake did the best ice cream.
Brought up two kids in the area. Quite a time - hard for you whippersnappers to credit but when I came there were no mobile phones and no Internet. SG is just the same though except for parking CPZs. Have been awaiting/dreading 'creeping gentrification' but thankfully it has never really come - when anyone tries it just gets subverted, SG style.
Happy days.
I did spend some years in the US during that time so I guess if RJP's residency is continuous then s/he still wins.
But I did come back and am more Stroud Green chauvinist these days than ever.
But... At that time there was still gas lighting in the road and every evening the gas-lighter-man came along on his bike with a long pole and put the flame to the lamp (actually we only had gaslighting at home). In the mornings the gas company just turned the gas off. If I remember rightly the gas company was down by Hornsey churchyard.
Fin - what was the school your dad went to - is it possible that I knew him? I went to Stroud Green School, at that time it was infants, juniors and seniors and the Tuck Shop did great business!