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Im a newbie to this site. I live in Moray Road - Charteris Road end and I have live here for a year. Before that I lived in Stamford Hole, Essex Road for seven years and prior to that I grew in in Crouch End, Haslemere Road to be precise, my mum still lives there.
I campaigned in the 80s against the Parkland Walk becoming a toll road - Peter Bottomlys idea. Hopefully it is safe now for a few decades at least. Not that I go down there anymore since my dog died years ago.
Here are my good things about Stroud Green, my bad and questions?
Good:
Patek, is The Ivy of Stroud Green! I have been far too many times to remember: birthdays, New Years etc. I gave them a thank you card yesterday.
Would like to say the fish shop as its great to have one, noone seems to go in there, I made a point of buying bream or bass in there every week, but not sure how fresh it is. I tried to be friendly to the special needs guy who works there.
Finsbury Park. Has got better - no more flashers.
Front Room - average food, but nice atmosphere and somewhere to hide away with other middleclass people in SG!
The Tube. Being near Eurostar.
The lovely pharmacy with the sliding doors and the brilliant helpful staff
Bad
Tescos food, would be nice to have a nice deli.
Nowhere to get a good coffee.
the Italian cafe - awful food and drunken fights outside it.
People spitting on the streets.
Horrible kids walking around in hooded tops with/without dogs.
No good hairdressers unlike Crouch End, cant one move to SG?
No gym or DVD rental shop.
Near Holloway Road.
The stench of blood and chicken feet hanging outside Halal butchers.
Too many Halal butchers.
Friends cant come and stay and park their car for more than a day.
Questions
I was going to ask is Home closing - but someone else has asked - i think it is...shame.
A friend of mine wants to open a deli/coffee shop around here, he is a New Zealander he has the money and has been in discussions with various landlords. It will be a bit like Flat White in Soho. Do you think he will do well, or is it too much for SG right now?
What do you think the next chain will be in SG?
What do you think MR Pak will open next?
Where has the young Big Issue seller gone from Tescos? Is she ok?
Thats it from me - enough waffling!
Bridget xx
If your friend opened a cafe like Flat White, I'd be in there everyday. I go out of my way when I'm in town for FW and Monmouth coffee - maybe crouch enders would do the same.
Re: the Big Issue seller. I think there was a dispute about the pitch. I saw the guy who's currently there in a row with her - he was saying that he'd been to head office and they'd said it was his. Haven't seen her since.
I'd say there'd be a market for a good coffee shop, but he ought to aim for the top end (geographically, that is) of SGR if he wants to capture some of the Crouch Enders. And also I'm biased becuase that's where I live. I'd love a place to pick up good coffee beans though. Yum.
I hope Home isn't closing - I'll ask the guy next time I see him, he's a friendly chap and lives on my street (he claims to lurk on this site actually...)
As for nice hairdressers - has anyone tried Blossom? the amount of effort they've put into decorating the place is impressive - the guy is always in there after closing doing some work on the place. I think it looks lovely.
I just wanted to second katiejane's sentiment. I also go out of my way for good coffee. If your friend opened up a place in SG, I'd be there daily. If he promised to play decent jazz or blues instead of terrible pop, he could have all of my lunch money. And if he stayed open after 7pm, he could have my first born, as well.
I will let you know what happens with the deli/coffee shop and tell my friend Sam what you say, feel sorry for the big issue girl, she was annoying always going "how is she?" to my little boy - I said he loads of times! He looks like a big bruiser with a frosting of hair so its strange!
Bridge xx
Hello everyone, I joined a while ago but have been lurking in the undergrowth for a bit, peering out from the under-visited New Members Start Here outpost
I've been living on Cornwall Road for the past four years and during that time have come to the conclusion that I like
The Noble (though preferred the Polish owner who had DJ sessions there), the Faltering Fallback (for the Ewok smokers' village) and the Swimmer off Holloway if I can be faffed going up there; Mari e Monti for Sunday breakfasts; the Mind shop for picking up books; Blackstock Road for friendly spice shops and, occasionally, T-Bird; the fact that there's a chap with the Hammer & Sickle flag outside Tesco; the "exotic" dancers at The Triangle; Jai Krishna,despite the fact they've gone posh with indoor toilets; the small library near Haringey station; Tollingtons Fish & Chips.
Don't like: the fact that the Chrysos hardware shop has closed; the Dairy pub (great building, boring people); too many estate agents opening up; dog shite on my street
Deli/coffee shop with jazz would be good, probably.
Welcome Agaton Sax. I've read all your books.
.relleps drawkcab a fo tib a m'I
Christ this is hard. Hello anyway.
Krapy Rubsnif
Thanks for introductions. Is this site strictly virtual then, or do people meet up in the pub?
Not that I'm gagging for a drink...
Not so much an introduction as a re-introduction. I registered on here over a year ago (and said hello then) but then pretty much forgot about the site and haven't been around since. It's now been added to top of favourites list so no more forgetting. I stumbled across it again today and remembered what a cracking idea for a site it was and how nice and simple and friendly it is so I'll try and stick around and if not become a regular, at least a valued occasional contributor, like Hunter S. Thompson was at Rolling Stone.
Quick update: When I registered, I'd been living here for 6 months with some friends from back home in Ireland and was still quite the newby. 12 months and one house move down the line (just went 100yds from Lancaster Rd to Carlisle Rd - if anyone saw a guy moving his whole house by hand one weekend last Septmeber, that was me) and I'm still here and still loving it. A hardened and grizzled veteran by now (in my own eyes, though I've a long way to go on some of you). Myself and the better half and the lesser half (our housemate) can often be found in the front bar of the Fullback (especially when Irish rugby on but not exclusively) or wandering out Upper Tollington Park at exactly 10.29 with a bag of Tollingtons.
I have one potentially helpful suggestion and one question:
Suggestion for people on Scarborough Rd or Carlisle Rd: I've just recently realised you can get straight from top of Oxford Rd through to Scarborough Rd over the top of the Parkland Walk by just hopping a tiny wall. Saves walking the whole way around if you dont have bag/suit. (BTW, does anyone know what goes on in that "Studio" building at the end of Scarborough Road?)
Question: Anyone know an early house or something nearby that would be open at 8am this Saturday morning and have Sky Sports? I need to see Ireland V All Blacks. Will ask Pat in the Fullback but might be pushing it.
Yeah, it's a pretty nice road. Trains are a bit of a pain, especially on our side but I'm used to them by now. In fact I think the old house may have just been shaken apart by them! Some of the freight trains feel like they are going through the kitchen when you are upstairs. The road itself is nice and quiet though, except for the ocassional screaming fox. Get loads of them because of parkland walk and the railway line, I expect. I grew up in the country so knew what it was but you don't get urban foxes in Ireland and my girlfriend thought it was a child getting murdered the first couple of times.
Similar to the studio building, there is a premises near Pak called Topic Records which I believe was a very important record company in the folk world at one point but I've never once seen it open (always full shutters down and padlocked). Similarly though, I never see the area between 7.30am and 7 or 8pm on a weekday so maybe it does open. Does anyone know?