West London Poll

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Well, at least two people will be voting in this...but I have not included the north-of-river SWs as they don't really seem to fit in here either. Maybe they should have a poll of their own.

Poll Results

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W3 - Acton 4
W1 - Oxford Street, Mayfair, Soho, Piccadilly, HUB OF THE UNIVERSE 3
W9 - Maida Vale 3
W12 - Shepherd's Bush, White City 2
W4 - Chiswick, Turnham Green 2
W11 - Notting Hill, Holland Park, Ladbroke Grove 2
W10 - North Kensington, Kensal Green, every man for himself after Sainsbury's 1
W8 - Kensington 1
W7 - Hanwell 1
W6 - Hammersmith, Ravenscourt Park, Stamford Brook, Brook Green, Brook Benton 1
W5 - Ealing 0
W2 - Paddington, Bayswater, Edgware Road, Westbourne Park 0
W13 - West Ealing 0
W14 - West Kensington, Barons Court, Olympia0


Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 06:59 (nineteen years ago)

My shock vote goes to W3, for reasons personal.

Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 07:34 (nineteen years ago)

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

lex pretend, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

well i voted for w1 because i like tourists!

696, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 09:07 (nineteen years ago)

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)

696, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 09:09 (nineteen years ago)

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

braveclub, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 09:14 (nineteen years ago)

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.

blueski, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 09:15 (nineteen years ago)

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

696, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 09:18 (nineteen years ago)

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

blueski, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 09:37 (nineteen years ago)

where's my NW poll?

Alan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 09:43 (nineteen years ago)

lift up your eyes and look north

blueski, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 09:44 (nineteen years ago)

bump

Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 07:00 (nineteen years ago)

W4 - The first place I ever had ice cream.

danzig, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 09:38 (nineteen years ago)

Good old Foubert's.

Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 09:39 (nineteen years ago)

"lift up your eyes and look north"

http://www.transdiffusion.org/emc/tvheroes/images/mikeneville_finallooknorth.jpg

Alan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

ook orth

Alan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

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.

suzy, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 10:05 (nineteen years ago)

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

Alan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

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

Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 10:33 (nineteen years ago)

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

Mark C, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

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.

Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 10:46 (nineteen years ago)

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.

Alan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 10:52 (nineteen years ago)

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

Alan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 10:53 (nineteen years ago)

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

even the Blockbuster and MVC?

blueski, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 10:55 (nineteen years ago)

...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.

Alan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

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.

Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

was it shit?

Alan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 11:01 (nineteen years ago)

MVC, not the Pan:Sonic CD

Alan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 11:01 (nineteen years ago)

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.

suzy, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 11:04 (nineteen years ago)

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.

blueski, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

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.

Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 11:06 (nineteen years ago)

Bump innit

Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 24 May 2007 06:40 (nineteen years ago)

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).

Zoe Espera, Thursday, 24 May 2007 07:43 (nineteen years ago)

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

Zoe Espera, Thursday, 24 May 2007 07:44 (nineteen years ago)

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.

Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 24 May 2007 07:44 (nineteen years ago)

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.

Zoe Espera, Thursday, 24 May 2007 07:59 (nineteen years ago)

yay Acton does it! :-)

Marcello Carlin, Friday, 25 May 2007 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't get a chance to vote :(

jel --, Friday, 25 May 2007 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

Anyway, Acton is worthy.

I would have voted for Hanwell.

jel --, Friday, 25 May 2007 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

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

Zoe Espera, Friday, 25 May 2007 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

I learnt to swim there!

jel --, Friday, 25 May 2007 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

Acton swimming pool: confirmed - still there.

Marcello Carlin, Friday, 25 May 2007 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

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

Marcello Carlin, Friday, 25 May 2007 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

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

blueski, Friday, 25 May 2007 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, thanks.

Bouncy castle!

Zoe Espera, Friday, 25 May 2007 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

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

Zoe Espera, Friday, 25 May 2007 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

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

blueski, Friday, 25 May 2007 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

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...?

Billy Dods, Saturday, 26 May 2007 08:47 (nineteen years ago)


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