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Gants Hill is home to the illustrious Faces nightclub, well frequented by footballers and ladies with overinflated boosies. Back in my day it was the best place for 999 parties. We used to lovingly call it Faeces.

There's also a great bagel shop just off the roundabout, or at least there used to be.

Aye, living in the next door borough I too have heard of most of these places but didn't know about Gants Hill tube station being so grand.

Excellent as ever.

You're probably not 100\\% certain where Redbridge is, are you? Urrrr..... (looks at feet) Yep. I am. Looking forward to see what you turn up.

Hmm, I grew up nearby-ish, and must admit that I find Newbury Park and Gants Hill stations....fairly underwhelming, I'm afraid. (Partly because they were in a neglected state for so long, perhaps, but also because they are far less innovative than, say, most of Holden's pre-war buildings. Actually, my favourite of them is probably Redbridge - a lovely little circular building, like a less ambitious successor to Southgate).

I've never been convinced by the claim that Gants Hill is like a Moscow Metro station either...it's just too plain, and roundels on clocks notwithstanding, doesn't have the same attention to detail that one would usually find in Moscow... but I guess you differ...

Ahh, so near and yet so far...

Just on my doorstep this one DG and youre right, far more charm than it's given credit for (a cloak of snobbery means we get to enjoy our area in more isolation than we possibly would).

Woodford has some really nice parts and there is quite a bit of Epping Forest in Redbridge too.

The Hainault Loop stations would have probably been far grander had WWII not interrupted and cast its pall of austerity over proceedings.

Enjoy if you're back there again today sir, we're heading more in your direction to catch a sight of the fun runners chugging round Doclands in the marathon, my little boy has a penchant for sweaty people dressed as cartoon characters!

CF

Oliver *Hill*, not Wood? Shurely shome mishtake?

dg writes: er, yesh.

I have got to get me one of those Tube clocks...

It's near Dagenham, innit. As in Dagenham and Redbridge FC. I also know where Forest Green live.

We used to have LT roundel clocks at Bethnal Green but these valuble items "disappeared" during Metronet's stewardship of the refurbishment work a year or so ago...

I think Redbridge is one of [if not the] 'shallowest' station on the network. It's a shame the station is constantly covered in scaffholding.

Redbridge also has it's very own Route 66 too. Perhaps not as illistrous as the US version.

To be honest the seats and uplighters on the between-platform concourse at Gants Hill were not part of the original concept and went in late 80s/early 90s but, hey, they still look good.

As far Redbridge the last time I looked there was no scaffolding, just lots of ugly elf n'safety metal access laddering which has disfigured countless 'classic' 20s/30s/40s Underground stations.

There are Festival of Britain merit plaques on White City station, the Heath Park council estate in Becontree Heath and - I think - the Woodberry Down estate at Manor House. Any others left?

Bowroad...I think the Shacklewell Road estate in N16 had one(Harlow's architect, Gibbard). A couple in London are documented on the web... Penge and Woodford.

Hi - just to say that I've recently walked around the Hainault Loop, and it's inaccurate to say that Fairlop station is in the middle of nowhere. If you walk right out of the station, you'll see a large Jewish educational complex on the left hand side of the road, and suburban houses on the right hand side. Within half a mile or so, you're at Fullwell Cross Library.

I'm just a bit annoyed, as you are not the first person to comment on Fairlop's supposed "remote" status on the web.

dg writes: Fairlop is the only tube station in London to be entirely surrounded by Green Belt land. But see my 2018 post for a far more detailed report I hope you'll prefer.










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