North Vs South....

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London! Inspired by another thread. Come and champion your side of the river Thames! Aibu to ask - which do you prefer - North or South London

the problem with the North, is once you're past Westminster and the City, you are either orbiting the black hole that is Heathrow, in the suburbs of Watford, or in Essex.

ShreddedBanksy I used to consider The Dog House my second living room. Kennington is great.

@craft1905 is sunbury North or South?

Definitely South West

Amused by the hate for West.

W11 ‘till I die

Sunbury is West London suburbs. It's not south west, as it's north of the river. You cannot be south unless you are south of the Thames.

Always south west London, love it so much but London is changing so much. Too many flats going up everywhere north & south

Ifailed was it the Knowledge that you failed?

the problem with the North, is once you're past Westminster and the City, you are either orbiting the black hole that is Heathrow, in the suburbs of Watford, or in Essex.

Clerkenwell, Islington, Highbury, Holloway, Crouch End, Muswell Hill, Finchley, Hampstead, Highgate, Tottenham, Green Lanes, Finsbury Park, Stroud Green, Walthamstow.....all North London and none that fit your description?!

South all the way. Whenever I travel through North London I always notice the lack of trees and open spaces 😄

Sunbury is north of the river but further south than lots of places south of the river eg Richmond. I wouldn't actually count sunbury as London but its definitely SW of the capital

South!

Sunbury is north of the river but further south than lots of places south of the river eg Richmond. I wouldn't actually count sunbury as London but its definitely SW of the capital

The river isn't a straight line. There are many places south of the river that are further north than places north of the river. And places north of the river that are further south than places south of the river. But the river is the boundary between south west, south and south east which are all south of the river and west, north and east which are all north of the river.

Lonelynessie I once worked with a woman, a north Londoner, who informed me that there weren't any green spaces south of the river! (She also thought that line drying was common, she really was quite daft.)

South!
Haha at penelop3 I thought you meant Morley’s Department Store , the Selfridges of Brixton!

Brixton, Peckham (with Peckham levels and Bussey Building) so much cooler than Hoxton Hipsterville, the mad quirkiness that is Hornimann and the CP dinosaurs.

The ring of great parks and woods: Sydenham Woods, Crystal Palace, Dulwich, Brockwell, (with Lido) Clapham Common Streatham Common with the fab Rookery, Tooting common, Lido and fishing, Battersea, Wimbledon Common, Richmond Park, Bushey Park and Hampton Court....

Grew up in north/east/Essex bit. The south had slam door trains and no cultcha! Now I live elsewhere but work in SE. Bloody love it.

@beanbaglady these are all my fave places in South London too.

North! And west too, actually - W10 girl here (don't live there now, though: can't afford it).

beanbaglady nope meant the fried chicken that is more likely battered rat . Do love that as well though, always pick up some free (don’t know if they’re supposed to be ) spoolies in the Mac

Another vote for SW London I'm afraid. If only they could replace those Heathrow planes with hot air balloons, it would all be so much more civilised...

North of course!

@chloe84 me too! I LOVE Isleworth and being so close to Richmond Park & holidaying is a breeze with LHR so near!

to you fellow TW7er

We used to refer to crossing over the Thames as ; going over the water.
This would normally involve the Woolwich ferry or the Blackwall tunnel.
Lived both sides but prefer the soufh.

Even the chicken shops are getting a bit gentrified. Hasn’t Morley’s become Rooster’s Spot in Brixton and Streatham?

We have great cemeteries in the S. (Maybe it’s linked to the chicken shops). Nunhead, West Norwood with actual catacombs, and others.

The best jazz club (The Hideaway), more parakeets than N London, enclaves if perfect modernist housing by starry mid-century architects all kept in perfect mid-century style by artists who open their homes as part of Dulwich Open Studios (The Sydenham Peckarmans Wood estates). A state secondary school designed by Zaha
Adid, that won the Stirling Prize, the whole of the S Bank from County Hall to City Hall that must be the best city riverbank in the world, with the Eye, S Bank Centre, Globe, Tate Modern, Borough Market, Southwark Cathedral, More London and ending with Tower Bridge (admittedly half of that is N).

A state secondary school designed by Zaha Adid, that won the Stirling Prize, the whole of the S Bank from County Hall to City Hall that must be the best city riverbank in the world, with the Eye, S Bank Centre, Globe, Tate Modern, Borough Market, Southwark Cathedral, More London and ending with Tower Bridge (admittedly half of that is N).

The bridges all belong to the south London boroughs. Sadly.

But most of those (admittedly great) places are within a stones throw of each other!