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?

Exactly that. No centre and no heart.

It was really eerie as you'd come up from the relatively fresh jubilee line to this barren wasteland but could see the rest of London in the distance. We haven't been back there in years - hope it has all been spruced up now

No, not really. It has thousands of flats around the ExCel (and a Tesco Express and a Nisa) but the only good thing to come out of Canning Town and Newham as a whole is the DLR to Tower Gateway,

South Londoner here, crossing the river gives me The Fear 😂

North Londoner here, although I've lived all over London.

T*ttenham is awful, for obvious reasons.

Not really scared of South of the river, just found it really odd how people would rave about how lovely Clapham, or Streatham (or even Brixton), are. Have you lot never been to Hampstead or Islington?

That makes sense. I like to think I'm a pretty robust sort of person — don't believe in all that ghost and spook malarky, not scared of the dark — but I once got badly jumpy while dog-sitting in a beautiful old Devon manor house in the middle of nowhere. I'd come from a small flat in a busy bit of London to look after the dogs for a week. It was a huge old place: lots of rooms off rooms and different staircases all over the place. A wonderful home for the posh couple who engaged me: totally Homes and Gardens. But despite the dogs, who remained calm and dignified throughout, I found it so big and so quiet (yet with odd creaks and strange noises from ancient fireplaces and cellars) that I spent every night on high alert. I knew it wasn't ghosts, I knew the dogs would go berserk if someone broke in, but the 'feels' still got me. I was disappointed in myself.

Have you lot never been to Hampstead or Islington? absolutely not!

Yes, all very interesting. Mile End was my station for a good while - I much prefer it to most of the ones around it, but before I had to use it regularly, remember overhearing a conversation on the Central Line where people were describing going above ground and seeing some weird dystopian things, ending "Just, never go there..." so I was full of apprehension about that for a while.

The only one I really get hackles raised with, is Limehouse (and have walked Limehouse to Mile End a couple of times, and agree with earlier thoughts). Speaking of the things that seem to have been left over from older times, and the way 'forgotten' qualities of places that see much less modernisation than others seem haunting, did people know the arches around Limehouse were also from a prototype overground infrastructure that never worked out, principally for the dock business. The 4-penny rope: The London & Blackwall Railway – one of the capital’s strangest railways | The History of London

No power except a huge cable, and carriages could be removed and left places along the route for the weight and collected back up again on the ends as engines came back. Also the scene of grizzly accidents because of the inherent dangers...

Oh, and Verney Junction - that still has British Rail signage and railway rules poking out of the long grass...

That’s funny. I drove up Cranley Gardens about 15 minutes ago! It has beautiful cherry trees in spring, not sinister at all. I confess I did make a point of looking for No 23 when the David Tennant drama came out. The police station where Nilsen was taken into custody is literally at the end of my road. It’s just about to be converted into luxury apartments.

Thought of another. That weird bit with Neasden, Dollis Hill etc. Just seems to exist on a totally different plane. I worked there for a bit, and just... no.

Kings Cross is all so different now, but I vividly remember when it reopened after the fire. The smell of smoke was still there, long afterwards, and persisted for several years.
Terrible tragedy, that was.

Where did you get your Haringey “map”? I’d love one!

My grandparents lived in Cranley Gardens 😁.

Ahhh Tayyab 😍 home of the best lamb chops I've ever had. Another reason to miss living in Whitechapel!

I have to go to Streatham today and I really don’t want to! So I’d add that to the list. I’m always surprised one when people recommend it as a place to live.

I'm a South Londoner. No one thinks Streatham is nice I promise.

i bought it in a glass and frame shop in Crouch End that has since closed down, but they have it here :

https://www.atomgallery.co.uk/search/for/Beyond+thrilled/

Thank you, @WhatapityWapiti !

Moorgate hasn’t looked like that for about 5 years when the walls were re-tiled and floors re-painted, about the same time the new Thameslink trains started service.

Thamesmead, Plumstead, Abbey Wood
Really sketchy characters and feels very deprived

Well, I left north London last year so that's one dragon gone 😂

Agree that Wood Green feels menacing all the time.

Interesting that so many people mention Croydon. Someone's talked about the High Street. Is that when you come out of East Croydon station and then there's a road with a Wagamama's in a PizzaExpress on it?

To the poster who said they're curious to go to Croydon from North London - I really wouldn't bother.

I only went because I went to see my friend in a play at Fairfield halls.
That venue seems like a really nice place with lots of stuff going on, but generally I didn't get a good vibe about the area. then after the show I suggested a drink at the Slug and Lettuce and my friends said "no, don't go in there".

I remember that they wanted to build a Westfield there, but I don't know why they haven't? I also don't know what happened to the Whitgift so I'm quite confused.

I don't find Moorgate creepy at all.

I wasn't born for that incident, but I watched a documentary and the possibilities around what happened are very sad.

I also think that London is absolutely packed full of history and I wonder what people pick up on. Someone has mentioned the Piccadilly line stations in central London.

When I worked around there, people used to say that all the cellars, like the wine cellars along Saint James' etc are haunted. I have got a book about London hauntings so I must dig it out.

Same. Extremely unsettling.

The High Street in Croydon is from West Croydon station up to where George Street is (so going towards S Croydon).

I concur that back in the late 80s and 90s that is what a brilliant place to go for shopping. Many a time I would go on a sat with my mum and nan or late night shopping after school on a Thursday night.

Actually you have a point. Dollis Hill has a lovely park, nice houses with gardens and a tube station but it feels like nowhere at all.

My area has been mentioned quite a lot on this thread.

I know it sounds stupid but I struggle with West London. Have lived North, East and South but can't get on that well with west. I know it's not all the same, but none of it feels comfortable. It's not even lack of familiarity as I've worked all over West London

@StellaGibson2022 thank you
I didn’t see it then.

wasn’t keen on the bit I did see but was impressed by Fairfield Hall and their events programme.