Bad vibes in certain places in london

[stevens27]

Does anyone else just get a horrid feeling in certain places in london?

The only one that particularly freaks me out is Russel Square tube station. I feel so much sadness and get quite on edge down on the platforms and I don't know why! Does anyone else feel this way about anywhere in London?

Born and bred Londoner here, my top bad vibe areas:

1. Streatham High Road, especially around Caesars Nightclub which may well be gone now. I'm not sure as obviously, I've avoid ever going there.
2. Archway Tube (always a force 10 gale on that horrible corner) and parts of Holloway Road - although to be fair, it's improved a lot since the 90's (yes, I'm old). DH used to call it the Holloway Riviera, for obvious reasons.
3. Hangar Lane. Feel ill when I drive anywhere near it.
4. Aldgate: Horrible.
5. Harlesden: Hellsden.
6. Cricklewood High Street: Horrible - always stuck in a traffic jam there, even if you're travelling at 3 in the morning.

Edgeware, Colindale, Hendon, Golders Green, Neasden, Wembley, Cricklewood, Kensal Rise, Enfield, the Bakerloo Line. All grim.

Belgravia, Kensington soulless.

North Londoner here too! Tottenham is great! I grew up in ‘Islington’, but that’s like saying I grew up in Haringey/Harringay (if you know you know).

I’ve lived pretty much all over London, except the west. Battersea was the furthest west I would ever go and I wouldn’t go back there again.

Also Hampstead gives me the creeps too, like a PP said, the road to the Spaniards is disconcerting.

The Spaniards is a lovely pub!

Agreed. The whole of that Hampstead Heath/ Heath extension/ Hampstead Garden Suburb area is wonderful. I spent some of the happiest times of my life walking around there.

I love Hampstead and Highgate, though I've always thought there's a weird, claustrophobic vibe on Swain's Lane where you're walking between two high walls with no visible buildings. (I know this area is reputed to be haunted, but I think it's just the weirdness of being enclosed between two high walls and being isolated in the middle of a huge city that creates the 'apparitions', probably aided by steampunk hobby-vampire types getting into the east cemetery by night.

I adore Hampstead and Highgate

the scary bit of Swains Lane is the path is so narrow for pedestrians!

the ravens at the Spaniards Inn are scarily huge but otherwise I like it.

Yes to Hangar Lane.

I'd only ever driven round it but got the tube when I was working near there. I cannot describe the relief of simply popping up there, rather than crawling along in traffic.

I always feel disconcerted in the very residential parts of south London. It's purely familiarity, I think, as I have no qualms about Wood Green or Dalston.

Yes, that. That's what I was going for when I said Belvedere. Soulless. Horrid wide streets that you can't see past to a horizon of any kind and beige concrete roads and pebbledash houses everywhere. Just an awful, depressing place with no character.

I have to go there once a week for something and I drive along Brampton Road to get there. There's a running club there, and every week you see them running along the same road in their orange shirts. I looked them up. Apparently they run down the same road from the same point A to point B and back again at the exaxt same time every single week. Why?! It's like Groundhog Day. Just running along the street because there's nothing better to do. That for me is a perfect metaphor for the dullness of Belvedere.

We used to call those "murder pubs" in South London 😂

I saw Sooty at The Fairfield Halls, those were the days…😂

Isn’t that just what a running club is though? 😂

Really? Running up and down the same street every single week? Remind me never to join one then!

The Spaniard’s is great! I have fond memories of long lunches in the garden when I was on mat leave.

And the Bakerloo line is the best line.

There's a house up for sale that is literally in highgate cemetery shudder !

I love Highgate!

however I worked on Brick Lane in the Old Truman Brewery many years ago. On a floor with oversized huge dark wood doors and long dark corridors. At that time they have done a shabby job of converting into offices and there were literally huge dark unused areas with no windows with doors to more darkness.

For the mix of old Jack the Ripper vibes and modern IRA vibes.

I used to leave work for lunch and groups of people would arrive and lurk outside on ghost hunting tours and Jack the Ripper tours.

The nights I had to work late were thrilling and sometimes I was too scared to visit the ladies alone 😂😭 long dark corridors lead to an oversized room of toilets - with dark corners and permanently locked cubicles.

I half expected Moaning Myrtle to fly out the top of one of the locked cubicles and shout at me! 😂

I expect other bad things happened in that building and outside it! Especially back in the ripper days

Is it still there @Trumanghost ?

I’n glad for the posters who mentioned the Moorgate crash. I had never heard of it despite it being a service and station I’ve used a lot. Awful and interesting at the same time.

@NewHouseNewMe yes it’s still there it’s now a popular venue and art space! Hopefully a bit brighter and better lighting these days…

The history all around Brick Lane and Hanbury Street is fascinating. I used to enjoy my “oranges and lemons tour” where I’d walk to all the chapels and churches in the nursery rhyme on a sunny day!

The Moorgate crash stunned me. I had no idea yet my parents would have been nearby and they’ve never mentioned it. It’s a station I have used a lot as well

I love that house!

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/128075894#/media?id=media0&ref=photoCollage&channel=RES_BUY

Look at all those trees! I bet that house gets some huge spiders!

@RobBeckettsGiantTeeth Even if someone offered to buy me a house in any of those places; Welling, Blackfen, Belvedere, Erith (forgot that hell on earth shithole) I’d say no thanks. Dreadful monotonous voids. They make me want to scream with discomfort x

I love the Highgate Cemetery house too!

Speaking of Moorgate and similar tube stations, does anyone else freak out at the spiral staircases? I really dislike using them.. You’ve no idea who is above or below you at any point.