West London Poll

My shock vote goes to W3, for reasons personal.

the places i like best are in w1, but that postcode can be so soul-suckingly awful and tourist-filled that i can't bring myself to tick it. the rest of west london = UH

well i voted for w1 because i like tourists!

otherwise i might have voted for w2 because i really dont know the bayswater area that well, and im kind of a little intrigued by it

my dentist is in w4 and it doesnt seem particularly objectionable (for a rich persons area)

I'm thinking of starting an NW poll for the two of us who live there.

shame the centre has to have a W and steal many votes in the process.

worked in three of these (W4, W12, W13), lived in W14 for 5 months and enjoyed doing so.

yea thats kinda why i left the main postal district off the N poll (though didnt for E)

W1 - HMV
W2 - Cambridge Mansions
W3 - the level crossing at Acton Central
W4 - District Line trains passing over Chiswick Common in the sunshine + that awesome ice cream parlour round the corner (apple pie flavour!)
W5 - the Broadway
W6 - the Bridge
W7 - Bus garage
W8 - the daylight-exposed trench of High St. Ken station
W9 - BBC studio
W10 - Trellick
W11 - M&V Exchange
W12 - TV Centre / the Green
W13 - my old office (where i started posting on ILX ha)
W14 - Blythe Road/walking to Olympia

i love W

where's my NW poll?

lift up your eyes and look north

bump

W4 - The first place I ever had ice cream.

Good old Foubert's.

"lift up your eyes and look north"

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Didn't Soho House wassock buy the old Fouberts (best coffee float in all of London c. 1992) for his Club Ant and Dec thingy? I am tempted by W4, have lived in W14, but have to slide into W10 because of Golborne Road and a few of my favourite restaurants.

lived in: 4, 9, 10. worked in: 2, 6

Have lived in 4, 6 and 8.
Have worked in 6 and 8.

Would live in 4, 6, 12 and 14 if anyone's offering.

Haven't been down Chiswick High Road in donkey's ages so I'll be extremely saddened if Foubert's has been sacrificed for the feral pleasures of alleged local celebrities Ant and Dec.

i never went to fouberts. i don't like ice cream all that much tho. shops on chiswick high road always just seemed to be telling me that i shouldn't have lived there.

mark, if you want to live in 12, get a move on before the white city behemoth is finished

shops on chiswick high road always just seemed to be telling me that i shouldn't have lived there.

even the Blockbuster and MVC?

...or that i should stay at home and watch films all day?

i hate blockbuster and MVC always looked shit, so i never went in.

I practically used to pay Chiswick MVC's overheads in the mid-nineties, or so the guy behind the counter told me, but clearly that wasn't enough since the company has long since gone bust (?taken over by Music Zone, who themselves have gone to the wall).

Once I saw Michael Barrymore in there buying a Pan:Sonic CD.

was it shit?

MVC, not the Pan:Sonic CD

Marcello, apparently Fouberts is now on a side-street around the corner from the original, which YES is now Soho House West.

Fouberts = so old N3lli3's dad probably went there as a child.

Chiswick High Road's V-Shop was the first place i heard 'Discovery'. on it's day of release i went in and they were blasting out 'Crescendolls' and 'Superheroes'. good moment. V-Shops were rubbish tho.

V-Shops incredibly managed to be worse than the crap Our Price shops they replaced.

The Chiswick MVC was actually a very good one - pretty big and also pretty hip on what it stocked.

Bump innit

I vote Acton for the very simple reason that I used to go swimming there every week after work in Ealing in the swimming pool that had changing rooms right next to the pool. There was a fruit stall across the road where I used to buy a banana afterwards and it was nice.

Really I want to vote Hounslow (it's not on there, obv).

Sorry, inelegant sentence. I was excited about the swimming memory.

You'd have to start a separate Middlesex thread for that, but since that could mean anything from Wembley to Staines that also might need to be divided up, north-south fashion.

Tis true. I could 'sell' Hounslow to everyone by telling them that it is possibly the place where there is more chewing gum on the pavement than anywhere else in the whole world.

Ealing is okay. Used to work in a toy shop there (1999) and am about to get hitched in Walpole Park. The last time I was there to check it out I saw a pair of pants, a used condom and an empty Champagne bottle under a bench. Hm.

yay Acton does it! :-)

I didn't get a chance to vote :(

Anyway, Acton is worthy.

I would have voted for Hanwell.

Good old Acton and its swimming pool. Which might not even still be there.

I learnt to swim there!

Acton swimming pool: confirmed - still there.

Acton Swimming Baths
Salisbury Street, Acton W3 8NW
Tel: (020) 8992 8877
Facilities: two swimming pools, Harpers Fitness Club, fitness classes, sauna, steam room and sunbeds, party room, junior programme, bouncy castle.
Managed by:Leisure Connection

glad W1 didn't win. i like W14 a lot.

Ah, thanks.

Bouncy castle!

This has actually inspired me to buy a new swimming costume.

I bet they don't let grown-ups on their bouncy castle. i must return to planning the joynasium.

Once I saw Michael Barrymore in there buying a Pan:Sonic CD.

This is one of the most astonioshing things I've read on ILx. Can anyone better it, David Jason buying Merzbow, Natasha Kaplinsky checking out Autechre...?