tuffers#1 wrote: ↑Sat May 04, 2019 11:12 pm
Poppycock Thor
3 bed house on Eden road ( tiny houses ) £ 895,000. - I’ve seen that one and it hasn’t sold yet and a year ago it would probably have cleared a million.
No more stabbings in e17 than there was in the 80s 90s - mostly disputes were sorted by deists, but yes stabbing did occur.
Dont know if you.remember the murder outside of the rising sun - yes
Or the one outside mcCanns wine bar ( whipps cross wine bar) - yes
or the murder outside of mountjoys on markhouse road. - don’t remember
The market is the best its been since M&S left it & selbourne walk opened .- don’t agree
Stalls are being properly regulated with the 5 stall rule again as it used to be till the mid 90s - maybe so but there’s probably less than half of what there used to be and most now just sell crap and toot. ,
I got my 1st "bit of gear" ( lebanese ) down the market when i was 18
Whilst working down there. - I guess you’re talking drugs? If it’s food, nice one I ate my first experience of their food in Santa Barbara around a flame pit and very nice it was too.
Shops were getting done down there so often insurers were starting to refuse insurance policies. - its was a sign of the times, ram raiding, but things move on and now counterfeit goods are all the rage or cyber crime, it’s still there just concentrated on something else.
Mini Holland is great , keeps all the tourists away & boosts public transport & my lungs havent felt so clean in years& i smoke to. But it harms business which brings employment and taxes, there’s lots of complaints from them.
CPZ's have been in E17 since 1985 at least , our house was one of the first with permits. - they were promised to be free, never to be charged, granted its helped with parking so that’s a bonus, but you can’t park cos your not in that particular zone. Again it harms business cos you can’t stop.
James street was always a sh*thole. - not exactly true, but maybe
Gangs .
Markhouse road
Hoe street &
Wood street
Used to be a time people from certain pubs would visit pubs on any of the other 2 main roads for gang trouble - the visits from one pub to another was not gang related ever, I know cos I used to drink in them, they were to sort out differences between people, the type of people that don’t back down. Never gang related. Now Hoe St has the Somalian grug gangs openly peddling their trade, the Albainians drove them out of James St. that’s not what I want to see ever.
Remember the little alley way by the central
In the 80s it was known by locals as muggers alley
Not any more. - I don’t remember that and I used to walk through it often, maybe I was lucky?
Last of all the night the guns came out in the brewery tap - top pub that back in the day, used to love drinking in there, if you were an outsider then maybe you’d have a problem, but they looked after there own.
The day the guns came out down the high street to stop the steamers walking into shops by gangs with knives - don’t remember that, but that’s not to say it did t happen.
The day the guns came out during the race riots .- yeah sad time that was, I was proper scared when all that was going down and I’m talking Broadwater farm time as that was spreading like wildfire.
This rose tinted glasses b*ll*cks certainly isnt Walthamstow. - I can say I walked those streets every day, going to school I had to get a train and bus and never once did I get in a fight, maybe cos I was well known, I don’t know. Drugs were around, but not like now where you get asked if you want any and they get Annoyed when you say no. The streets were safer than they are now, cleaner too. The high st was buzzing now I see a sh*t hole. I hope it recovers and I do believe it will in time. The hipsters are moving in, lots of properties are being renovated and extensions and loft conversions are being done. The major minus is jobs and companies leaving the area, that’s a major downside.
