please empty your brain below
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Comment about how I used to live near there and went past it all the time, but never even knew it was there!
martin | 16.02.15 - 7:32 a.m. | #
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Comment about the train service. The nearest tube station is quite distant, but it's surprising how many people now go there by Overground, although that's not much nearer, actually. And as for the bus routes, well they haven't changed much since 1933. Except for some new routes, and some that don't run any more.
Malcolm | 16.02.15 - 7:45 a.m. | #
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This comment, will, of course, be totally off topic. But vaguely humorous.
Giles | 16.02.15 - 7:46 a.m. | #
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Comment about how close you passed to my house and i can't believe you didn't mention you were in the area or stop by for a cup of tea
Geofftech | Homepage | 16.02.15 - 7:56 a.m. | #
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Comment about how I don't live in London, but if I did I'd surely visit and maybe I'll pop it on a future itinerary ... and by the way were there any good coffee shops and did you see any kittens?
Antipodean | 16.02.15 - 7:58 a.m. | #
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And I'll post something on FB / Twitter / work newsletter saying the post is "smashing" or "delightful". :-)
Dan Hall | Homepage | 16.02.15 - 8:01 a.m. | #
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Comment about how it's blindingly obvious that the sub-station is on Wordsworth Road and how I've known about it's unique features all along, but actually your description of the brick work contains myriad inaccuracies.
Harry | 16.02.15 - 8:03 a.m. | #
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Comment about THIS. And More.
paul parkinson | 16.02.15 - 8:08 a.m. | #
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Comment about not being from/in London and finding it amazing that the town has THAT.
Caravelle | 16.02.15 - 8:20 a.m. | #
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Comment either being pedantic and pointing out a textual error or chipping in with local knowledge (that may or may not be right)
Peewit | 16.02.15 - 8:35 a.m. | #
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A comment about some obscure fact I have had bottled up for years but haven't had the opportunity to use it.
Note: If desperate one can always read the other comments and one may be able to link obscure fact to earlier comment.
Followed by another comment giving the impression I do still get out a lot whereas in reality I was there 20 years ago (I don't mention that bit).
Pedantic of Purley | 16.02.15 - 9:01 a.m. | #
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Comment about how Pedantic of Puley finally comes clean ...
Antipodean | 16.02.15 - 9:26 a.m. | #
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Comment about this is exactly why we keep reading your blog, and long may it continue!
Sam | 16.02.15 - 9:34 a.m. | #
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Open comment box. Think. Close comment box. Open comment box. Think better of it. Close comment box. No comment comment (as usual).
B | 16.02.15 - 9:35 a.m. | #
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Just wondered if you were succession planning here? After all everybody takes stock of what they do when a significant event approaches don't they? This sounds very much like a pitch.
Richard | Homepage | 16.02.15 - 9:44 a.m. | #
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Comment about how you never come south of the river except to write yet another piece about the dangleway
timbo | 16.02.15 - 9:47 a.m. | #
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I know where this is! Am I allowed to say...?
Working Class Hero | 16.02.15 - 9:55 a.m. | #
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Hoping for more of the same for a long time to come. I can't wait until everything that keeps me occupied at the weekend changes so I can explore pockets of London in more depth. Soon!
Carla | Homepage | 16.02.15 - 10:02 a.m. | #
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I'd probably say something about the disappointing lack of rivers (hidden, lost, rediscovered or otherwise) in the post.
6000 | Homepage | 16.02.15 - 10:13 a.m. | #
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My part of London. I was born there.
The sub-station is on what was, in the 19th. century and earlier, known as Cut Throat Lane but the earlier comment by Harry refers to it as Wordsworth Road. It borders the edge of what was until local government reorganisation in 1900, part of an one of several enclaves of another borough in another County, South Hornsey and Middlesex.
What a handsome building in the other photo. Shame about the nasty shop front!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/13156785@N06/9106879588
Winsleigh | 16.02.15 - 10:28 a.m. | #
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Comment about how I thought I knew where this was too, but would have put the first photo on the west side of the main road in question.
Possible additional comment about continuing absence of full report on 4 something something bus route reaching deep into adjacent county with accompanying pic of photo of subway at station where usage has been notoriously underreported in the past with photos of unusual river crossing and big hill.
Probably something along the lines of keep up the good work too.
Lorenzo | 16.02.15 - 11:56 a.m. | #
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No complaint from me DG. Keep 'em rollin'. Thank you.
THC
THC | 16.02.15 - 1:11 p.m. | #
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Comment on how this area looks like a district where I used to live. Oh, it IS where I used to live, but never noticed the building!
Bob Lindsay-Smith | 16.02.15 - 1:37 p.m. | #
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May comment if you have said something I know something about, or if I have actually been to the place. May also correct other commenters, like timbo who forgot the Avery Hill Winter Garden which is definitely south of the river.
Has a 24% chance of being inspired and actually going to visit place myself. Has a 52% chance of being disappointed.
the orange one | 16.02.15 - 1:46 p.m. | #
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Comment on how someone else has taken lots of photographs of the area which are on Flickr, but without telling you where or giving a URL.
Julian Bond | Homepage | 16.02.15 - 2:01 p.m. | #
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Comment about about people starting their comments with the word comment. Oh no...I done it too!
Grumpy Anon | 16.02.15 - 3:09 p.m. | #
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Comment about something to show a linked interest.
and a small additional aside.
rashbre | Homepage | 16.02.15 - 3:55 p.m. | #
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No comment!
Cornish Cockney | 16.02.15 - 4:49 p.m. | #
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Comment about a pun that was funny.
my name | 16.02.15 - 5:16 p.m. | #
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Comment on the fact that the first bomb of the First World War dropped from a Zeppelin landed in the garden of a local hostelry (sadly now converted into accomodation), and very nearby is a fine example of a Victorian Penfold pillar box.
firescout | 16.02.15 - 5:24 p.m. | #
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Even though it has nothing to do with today's post I cannot resist a comment that this link has a CGI of a future Crossrail station and, if you look carefully at the Service Update on the last picture, it definitely says Arabfly Dangleway Part Suspended.
And I give myself a bonus for doing an HTML href link and words in italics - neither of which were really necessary.
dg writes: Top marks, PoP! That picture is here, and the agency have clearly nabbed my mocked-up service board from this post. :)
Pedantic of Purley | 16.02.15 - 5:43 p.m. | #
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Would like to comment because these posts are always so fascinating and I do enjoy other people's comment as well.
Anthony Finerty | Homepage | 16.02.15 - 5:52 p.m. | #
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Pedantic comment about extraneous apostrophe in a possessive its about thirty comments back.
Sarah | Homepage | 16.02.15 - 6:24 p.m. | #
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Comment on how a whimsical article with no reference to Stoke anything provoked rather more than the average number of comments.
Malcolm | 16.02.15 - 6:27 p.m. | #
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Comment that the captions that appear if you hold your mouse over the photos are very clever, in the usual DG way.
Jim Webber | 16.02.15 - 7:00 p.m. | #
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Interesting appearance in the comments of names known from elsewhere!
eric | 16.02.15 - 7:36 p.m. | #
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Comment about the previous comment about an extraneous apostrophe in a possessive its about thirty comments back, and that this sort of pedantry really isn't needed and deflects from the main thrust of the comments.
Haywards Heath | 16.02.15 - 7:38 p.m. | #
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Comment about how utterly amazing and brilliant it is that almost all the comments on this post follow DG's clever theme of a typical theoretical visit to a typical theoretical location by making a typical theoretical comment.
Stephen | 16.02.15 - 8:10 p.m. | #
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Clicked on : links
Got : 404 Sorry this page does not exist
Colesville Garth | 16.02.15 - 8:34 p.m. | #
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Wot?
Jo W | 16.02.15 - 9:12 p.m. | #
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Comment that PC probably knows more about some bus-related vague link than I do.
Andrew S | 16.02.15 - 9:22 p.m. | #
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Lloyd George lived there for a while.
He knew my Father.
Temp | 16.02.15 - 10:43 p.m. | #
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Comment about not another bloody blog post about Bow/Cycleways/Trains.
dave | 16.02.15 - 10:46 p.m. | #
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Comment about wondering why Stephen above is amazed about commenters keeping to the theme. This is not amazing at all, since commenters are always far too disciplined to wander off chasing red herrings or bonnet bees.
Malcolm | 16.02.15 - 11:21 p.m. | #
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Comment that Pedantic of Purley's second comment has really made my day.
Great Aunt Annie | 16.02.15 - 11:27 p.m. | #
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Comment that sometimes I miss a day and catch-up the next day to find a witty blog and lots of comments to read.
Tunnel Bore | 17.02.15 - 8:45 a.m. | #
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@Temp - Lloyd George commented on my father. In this part of London. But my father never went there.
Herbof | 17.02.15 - 9:17 a.m. | #
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Comment saying I'm a first time commenter, and that though I've read (and enjoyed!) this blog in silence for a just a few months, I already find it one of the first things I look at each day.
X26 | 17.02.15 - 9:18 a.m. | #
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Dear Mr. Geezer,
I couldn't help noticing that you visited our part of town this week. How exciting! But I was surprised that you missed our . If you had been able to pop in I'm sure you would have been wowed by our .
I'd really love you to drop in again next week when we have arranged a which you would be welcome to attend, especially if you could kindly mention us in your blog.
Thanks so much
Ian | 17.02.15 - 1:20 p.m. | #
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Stoke Newington?
Kim | 17.02.15 - 1:33 p.m. | #
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^ Yes!
Working Class Hero | 17.02.15 - 3:40 p.m. | #
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Now I know everything I need to start my own blog (would 'Dublin Geezer' be too derivative?)
By the way I love the niche, immaterial and obscure stuff and particularly when it's all three.
Aidan | 17.02.15 - 4:49 p.m. | #
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I'll get around to reading your post a day or two after you put it up. I'll make a comment, but know that hardly anyone will see it as the majority of readers will have already moved on. I'm trying to contribute, but it's echoey back here!
martxw | 17.02.15 - 11:37 p.m. | #
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Comment about bloody cyclists.
Simon | 18.02.15 - 12:16 a.m. | #
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Here's the answer to where the first photo was taken - Walford Road, Stoke Newington.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 19.02.15 - 6:55 a.m. | #
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@ martxw
You'll be surprised to learn that you not the only one! ;)
E | 22.02.15 - 11:46 a.m. | #
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Is it echoey now?
J | 24.02.15 - 10:02 a.m. | #
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