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Deptford High Street

Karim_myBagheri
Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,697
in Not Sports Related
not just in London or in the country but voted as one of the coolest streets in the whole world!

Number 17, who'd a thought it.  

https://www.timeout.com/things-to-do/coolest-streets-in-the-world

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-62693537
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  • charlton4ever
    charlton4ever Posts: 1,715
    Blimey when I worked there in the late 70s it was scary :)
  • Redhenry
    Redhenry Posts: 5,359
    edited September 2022
    My Dad used to own a large news agents on the High Street, early eighties. 
  • lancashire lad
    lancashire lad Posts: 15,626
    my grandad had a butchers shop there in the 50s & 60s
  • swords_alive
    swords_alive Posts: 4,258
    edited September 2022
    I miss the egg shop.
  • MrLargo
    MrLargo Posts: 7,989
    swords_alive said:
    I miss the egg shop.
    Which used to be next to The Codfather fishmongers, now also gone I think.
  • MrLargo
    MrLargo Posts: 7,989
    Not the first time Deptford High Street has been recognised globally: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/travel/22surfacing.html

    Lived there in 2006. Preferred it then to now. Lots more bookies these days, including Paddy Power taking over the Deptford Arms site, which used to be one of the highlights of the street.
  • Todds_right_hook
    Todds_right_hook Posts: 10,881
    The high street on market day is still
    pretty bad but having a beer in the arches is a cool place to drink 
  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    edited September 2022
    Used to live over a shop next door to Manzes and climb out via my bedroom window and back wall when I hadn't paid my rent.
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,418
    I used to be a Rent collector in Deptford high street  ;)
  • mendonca
    mendonca Posts: 9,405
    Personally, not a fan of the area at all really. 
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  • usetobunkin
    usetobunkin Posts: 2,182
    I worked under an arch in Ffinch Street, Manzes just across the road. 
    Never thought of the place as cool...more of a....????
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,677
    My Nan's mum lived there.

    We called her, 'Granny Up The Stairs' and I used to hate visiting cos it'd always end with a slurpy kiss off an ancient, toothless woman who had stubble. 
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,738
    T_C_E said:
    I used to be a Rent boy in Deptford high street  ;)
    😱
  • fat man on a moped
    fat man on a moped Posts: 932
    edited September 2022
    Coincidentally, went there on Saturday morning for the 1st time in over 40 years and had a coffee in The Waiting Room. 
  • Chunes
    Chunes Posts: 17,347
    edited September 2022
    The wandering drug addicts really add to the ambiance when you sit outside enjoying your IPA.
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,697
    Having the deptford market yard area has improved it a fair bit. before i think it was just a private car park. 
  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    edited September 2022
    Chunes said:
    The wandering drug addicts really add to the ambiance when you sit outside enjoying your IPA.
    Its Deptford, not Westminster.
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    one of the last cheaper areas to live in that's within a stone's throw of central london, so all the hipsters are moving in. Don't think it will quite go as far as shoreditch but is definitely the new peckham.
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,842
    My missus was raised in Douglas Way - I won't tell her this though as she has always been adamant Deptford was brilliant until Lewisham Council took over!
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,081
    It's a dump, I don't know anyone local who feels otherwise. 
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  • Vincenzo
    Vincenzo Posts: 2,911
    I love Deptford - from the Dog & Bell to the Royal Albert and the Birds Nest. Like the High Street and proper junk market too. Fantastic beer available throughout the market yard. Two great tap rooms in Villages and Little Faith. Watching Steam Down at the Matchstick Piehouse is as good a live music night as is available anywhere in London. If that's a dump, I wish I lived in one.
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,031
    kentaddick said:
    one of the last cheaper areas to live in that's within a stone's throw of central london, so all the hipsters are moving in. Don't think it will quite go as far as shoreditch but is definitely the new peckham.
    Peckham is a scary place.
  • Vincenzo
    Vincenzo Posts: 2,911
    Nonsense.
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,081
    Vincenzo said:
    I love Deptford - from the Dog & Bell to the Royal Albert and the Birds Nest. Like the High Street and proper junk market too. Fantastic beer available throughout the market yard. Two great tap rooms in Villages and Little Faith. Watching Steam Down at the Matchstick Piehouse is as good a live music night as is available anywhere in London. If that's a dump, I wish I lived in one.
    I was referring to the high street, where the job centre was closed down and replaced by a hipster pub named the job centre, which many view as a middle finger to the local community. Down the side streets you'll find an old man sniffing glue that you can set your watch to. I don't think I've ever been to the Sainsburys without seeing a crack head trying to shop lift. It's covered in graffiti and stinks of fish and despair.

    Villages does decent beer, thankfully they sell it at other pubs so you don't have to drink it in an old Vauxhall Viva seat.


  • MillwallFan
    MillwallFan Posts: 3,347
    Was always told by family members from the area that the creek divided the Millwall and Charlton ‘manors’. Seeing as the high street is on our side we’ll claim that 😉
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,081
    MillwallFan said:
    Was always told by family members from the area that the creek divided the Millwall and Charlton ‘manors’. Seeing as the high street is on our side we’ll claim that 😉

    I would be fine with that if I wasn't on that side of the creek myself.  :s

    The creek is the border between Greenwich and Lewisham so your family member is probably right.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,989
    edited September 2022
    Yes the Creek is effectively the border between The Cowboys and The Bandits  :D
    There's few good reasons to cross into the Badlands, unless you're on a train to London Bridge and beyond.
  • Mendonca In Asdas
    Mendonca In Asdas Posts: 22,650
    Can’t believe what I’m reading about Deptford, once you’d been there, you never went back!
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,031
    edited September 2022
    Vincenzo said:
    Nonsense.
    You must be blind then.


  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,031
    Friend Or Defoe said:
    Vincenzo said:
    I love Deptford - from the Dog & Bell to the Royal Albert and the Birds Nest. Like the High Street and proper junk market too. Fantastic beer available throughout the market yard. Two great tap rooms in Villages and Little Faith. Watching Steam Down at the Matchstick Piehouse is as good a live music night as is available anywhere in London. If that's a dump, I wish I lived in one.
    I was referring to the high street, where the job centre was closed down and replaced by a hipster pub named the job centre, which many view as a middle finger to the local community. Down the side streets you'll find an old man sniffing glue that you can set your watch to. I don't think I've ever been to the Sainsburys without seeing a crack head trying to shop lift. It's covered in graffiti and stinks of fish and despair.

    Villages does decent beer, thankfully they sell it at other pubs so you don't have to drink it in an old Vauxhall Viva seat.


    3 weeks ago there was a stabbing in Morrisons car park in Peckham, at 3.50 in the afternoon!  Shopping is not safe there.
    Peckham may make Deptford look like Kensington  but SE8 is not good.

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