area around upper holloway/archway

[holloway]

just wondered what this is like to live in? any ideas?

lol, bundle

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What a wonderful site this is- lots of very very useful information. My friend now lives in Hackney, her flat is in front of a telephone box which is used by heroin users, so she is not bothered by that. I think she finds them fairly harmless, all taken up by their drug. The question is: will she be worse off in Hackney or in Upper Holloway - I reckon she should move. Her choice is limited - she is not buying on the open market.

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happymum, i'm in hackney..the other side of the road is islington

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I'm in WC2 at the moment..

No, I'm in Islington -- the other side of the road is Hackney.

Hackney primary school, though. Can't see that Hackney secondaries are any better than Islington, tho, HMo2 -- which did you have in mind?

This thread makes me a bit
I live in Holloway and it's fine, Grafton school did better than Yerbury in the league tables and has great set of teachers - not so white middle class as Yerbury but that reflects the area.
Sure Start runs some good stuff for under 4s too.
True there isn't a good secondary school but Mary Mags is going to become one and that should help.
I've lived here for 15 years, have good friends and neighbours and a house that's never been burgled. There are all sorts of different bits to Holloway - changes from street to street - we have a Waitrose so can't be that bad, and I've never been terrified by teenagers either.
There's not enough green space though - that would be my main complaint.

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Welshmum, if any inter-generational terrorising goes on around here, it's me telling the St Aloysius boys to pick up their litter
True, none of them have done as requested yet, but it's worth if for the look on their faces -- see illustration

bp, I chase girls up Blackstock Road with crisp packets/drink cans..."here, you've dropped something"...magical especially when they're with mum (cue clip round ear)

bp which school do you have in mind for dd? i went with a friend to pick her dd up from channing the other day...

Bundle, I apprehended a schoolboy last week as he dropped his McD's cup 3 ft from a bin, and cordially invited him to pick it up. He looked astonished, and said in complaining tone of voice that 'it' had splashed his trousers. I pointed out that it had done it because he had thrown it on the floor by his feet.

cause-effect. great lesson for him to learn.

our flat was the exact distance it took to cover while eating a big mac from archway, I know this because it is the spot where all the cartons were discarded

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and then there's the archway tower's own weather system culminating in a whirlwind at that very bus stop

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We've been leafleted again about proposed overhaul of Archway, following recent public consultation. There are plans afoot to make one-third of roundabout a pedestrian-only piazza... with public art, farmers' market, new library, cinema etc. Yeah, right.
Sadly, it doesn't look as if the proposal to knock down the Tower is going to come to anything

the waitrose on Holloway Road has an interesting past! it was a branch of John Lewis for years then got closed down in the late 80s or early 90s, then became a series of pound/crap shops, and now has become a waitrose!!! weird. This thread is really taking me back and making me feel nostalgic.
Bundle, I lived in N4 for a bit too, Plimsoll Road to be precise, just opposite the Plimsoll Arms. This is before the mosque was built though. Is the George Robey ( or should I say Ropey) still there propping up the locals?

ooer donnie, i don't know....i'm embarrassed at my lack of local knowledge (though I do live over the other side of bstock rd)

it's the real dive rough house pub just before you get to the building that used to be the Rainbow ( which I think is now a big Jehova's Witness hall) on the left. But I haven't been up that way for a while!
I'll never forget the two huge fat Irish women fighting in the chip shop opp F.Park station once!!the good old days......(not!)I had to run for cover!