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I'm really enjoying this series... Less High Streety High Streets than Stratford? Point taken, but I can think of a few...Shoreditch's is hardly a run-of-the-mill one now. I don't know them so well, but I have a vague feeling the High Streets of Lambeth and Battersea are not what one might expect of a place of that name...and that of Romford is rather well, grim, too. But the prize (at least of places close to London) must surely go to Leigh-on-Sea, whose High Street (as opposed to Broadway, up on top of the cliffs, which is more like a conventional High Street, as well as one of the nicest shopping and eating and drinking streets in Essex) is v. narrow, windswept, immediately adjacent to a railway line on one side, and filled with a marina and cockle sheds and other fishmongery sheds on the other side, before you get to a bit with a few pubs and outdoor seafront beer gardens, and a a restaurant, and a gallery or two, and the old railway station now used as a sea scout hut. Definitely not a high street chain, a department store in sight...and I think precisely one shop (selling rock and stuff like that, tourist season only). Don't think you could buy a Mars bar, and if you wanted a hair cut, you'd have to do it yourself. A great stone plaque reading "waste not want not" over the old well that supplied the town with water, too. Erm, sorry, I appear to have got carried away. Back to E15 |
There is also information and pictures of the Rex theatre on the Cinema Treasures site. http://cinematreasures.org/theat.../theater/12982/ |
Great series of posts DG. I am about to click the link to read them all on one page A South Londoner now, I knew the Whitechapel and Mile End area well in the past. It was always a strange mixture of buildings and people and, as you describe it now , the mix is still there and still changing. |
Surely the title of the least High Street-y High Street should go to a mountain of that name in the Lake District. |
Stratford is my town, anyway when this boring episode going to end? |
Enjoying this series and the pix are great |
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