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Any particular reason ?
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I'm glad you asked that Bez. I kinda didn't like to, in case he came up with something horrid. Grin.
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Bez wrote: Any particular reason ?




Maybe my deceased granny being born and raised in Hackney borough of London had something to do with it, (actually, probably quite a lot!) My Mom was born in Hackney too, even though she grew up here in B'more. Beyond that, I'm just another one of those silly doting Anglophile Americans who makes a fool out of themselves when we're, "over there" (In other words, on your side of the pond.)

Yes, I was absolutely thrilled when the plane I was on in 1999 touched down at Gatwick. That was my very first time in England, after years of dreaming of going there.
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kumininexile wrote: Maybe my deceased granny being born and raised in Hackney borough of London had something to do with it, (actually, probably quite a lot!) My Mom was born in Hackney too, even though she grew up here in B'more. Beyond that, I'm just another one of those silly doting Anglophile Americans who makes a fool out of themselves when we're, "over there" (In other words, on your side of the pond.)

Yes, I was absolutely thrilled when the plane I was on in 1999 touched down at Gatwick. That was my very first time in England, after years of dreaming of going there.


O.K.....good answer...:)

I live about 30 minutes south of Gatwick, right on the coast....Where did you visit when you were here in '99 ? Hope you got to see some of the historical places...( and a few hysterical ones as well)
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[QUOTE=kumininexile]Maybe my deceased granny being born and raised in Hackney borough of London had something to do with it, (actually, probably quite a lot!) My Mom was born in Hackney too, even though she grew up here in B'more. Beyond that, I'm just another one of those silly doting Anglophile Americans who makes a fool out of themselves when we're, "over there" (In other words, on your side of the pond.)

May i suggest a full body armour and night vision gogs when visiting what us cockneys call "ackney"
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pantsonfire321@aol.com wrote: May i suggest a full body armour and night vision gogs when visiting what us cockneys call "ackney"That's so harsh! I lived in Islington for years, and my favorite walk was east through Dalston Junction and Hackney, down into Limehouse and back through Wapping and Shoreditch. The street markets and the crowds were a main part of the attraction. Bow, Mile End and Hoxton were fun too, if I came back that way instead. I don't think I ever had a sense of unease out there.
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spot wrote: That's so harsh! I lived in Islington for years, and my favorite walk was east through Dalston Junction and Hackney, down into Limehouse and back through Wapping and Shoreditch. The street markets and the crowds were a main part of the attraction. Bow, Mile End and Hoxton were fun too, if I came back that way instead. I don't think I ever had a sense of unease out there.




You walked all the way ...try it after 7pm tonight and remember to dodge the bullets along murder mile.
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kumininexile wrote: I Love The Brits!




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pantsonfire321@aol.com wrote: You walked all the way ...try it after 7pm tonight and remember to dodge the bullets along murder mile.I don't live there any longer, but I'd walk it still at that time of night. I'd be careful not to carry any bags with me - bag carriers are favorite targets for the local police. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/engl ... 965207.stm is far scarier than the local gangs.
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Nomad wrote: hmph :cool:


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spot wrote: I don't live there any longer, but I'd walk it still at that time of night. I'd be careful not to carry any bags with me - bag carriers are favorite targets for the local police. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/engl ... 965207.stm is far scarier than the local gangs.
Hackney is a god awful horrible place and the crime statistics are horrendous. Firearms offences, robbery and the drug trade have taken over completely and Islington is heading the same way. If you think its safe to walk the streets at night your a braver man than me.
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I can't wait to meet my share of "Brits" ahahaha
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pantsonfire321@aol.com wrote: You walked all the way ...try it after 7pm tonight and remember to dodge the bullets along murder mile.


I think you are scare mongering:-3
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Please....enough of these Hackneyed comments :rolleyes:


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We're predictable if nothing else :wah:


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I wont say a word:wah:

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minks wrote: I can't wait to meet my share of "Brits" ahahaha
I'll just bet you cant!;)
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Well some Brits are kinda okay, I guess. I vaguely seem to recall collecting one myself at one stage... he's still around the house somewhere. I think...
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AussiePam wrote: Well some Brits are kinda okay, I guess. I vaguely seem to recall collecting one myself at one stage... he's still around the house somewhere. I think...
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Brits are my favorite! :-4
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Too late for me, mate! Mine is a keeper!:-6
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Raven wrote: Too late for me, mate! Mine is a keeper!:-6
hmmm any of em want to migrate to Canada tee hee hee:D
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Celtic Thunder wrote: I think you are scare mongering:-3




I take it you know better than me you live / work there ..murder mile is the real tag for a particular part of Hackney that has had dozens of firearms incidents in the last 2/3 years. Why dont you do your research or better still go there come back and tell me what you saw.
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ArnoldLayne wrote: Oh No !! lock your doors.....phone the police.......get help quick :D


I hear you, Arnold. He's from Kent too!!! I understand that makes a man extra dangerous.
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pantsonfire321@aol.com wrote: Hackney is a god awful horrible place and the crime statistics are horrendous. Firearms offences, robbery and the drug trade have taken over completely and Islington is heading the same way. If you think its safe to walk the streets at night your a braver man than me.The only gunfire I heard while living there was invariably the Special Branch manslaughtering at yet another staked-out trap down the Caledonian Road. It became so commonplace that we ended up assuming the cause each time it happened, merely waiting for the local paper to confirm our suspicion.

This is a fairly typical report, since people will undoubtedly think I'm exaggerating:

A man who survived being shot in the heart during an ambush by Scotland Yard robbery squad detectives was freed at the Old Bailey yesterday.

John Atkinson, aged 20, a Fleet Street van boy, was cleared by a jury of plotting to rob security guards and possessing a replica Colt .45 revolver.

[...] The prosecution had alleged that the three men had been planning to rob security guards of pounds 15,000 outside the Bejam Freezer Centre in Caledonian Road, Islington.

The three defendants said that they were in the area for an innocent purpose and got caught up in the ambush.

The court heard that detectives staked out the area for three weeks and saw the three men near Bejam's. Detective Sergeant David Hopkins said that he fired at a car which Mr Gray was driving, with Mr Atkinson in the front passenger seat, because he thought Atkinson was armed and about to shoot him.

When Mr Atkinson was dragged out of the car neither he nor the police realised that he had been hit. He was thrown face down on the road and handcuffed. It was only when he complained of being unable to breathe that officers saw the wound.
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spot wrote: The only gunfire I heard while living there was invariably the Special Branch manslaughtering at yet another staked-out trap down the Caledonian Road. It became so commonplace that we ended up assuming the cause each time it happened, merely waiting for the local paper to confirm our suspicion.

This is a fairly typical report, since people will undoubtedly think I'm exaggerating:




Spot how many years ago did you live in Islington because it has changed quite dramatically. Guns ARE on the sreets of caledonian road and yob warfare is a reality ,but then you wouldnt of seen any of that in Ripplevale grove/Richmond avenue.
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Bez wrote: Where did you visit when you were here in '99 ? Hope you got to see some of the historical places...( and a few hysterical ones as well)


I got to London on a Sunday morning. Since I was exhausted, I went right to sleep, after checking into my hotel room. Woke up in the late afternoon, grabbed some dinner at a pub, and then went to see Picadilly Circus which I'd hitherto only seen on postcards, (it's much smaller than postcards make it out to look like.) Also tramped around Soho, not realizing it was so close to Picadilly. I strolled down Carnaby Street and was able to see how forty years earlier, it had been the rage it was for buying fashionable clothes. Since then, the street seems to have been transformed into slick-looking trendy boutiques, all of which were closed since this was a Sunday evening. Stopped into another pub at the very end of Carnaby Street for a Diet Coke, and ran into a group of very, very friendly Italians who invited me to sit with them, though none of them spoke very much English. I must have said something to them about not wanting to eat very much since I was trying to lose weight, and one of these guys went out of his way to make me feel comfortable being overweight, such as I am. He rubbed his own slender belly and said. "eez goood!" meaning it was perfectly O.K. that my belly isn't slender at all.

The next day, I walked the entire distance around Kensington Palace, ( I was staying just a couple of blocks away,) and up the length of Embassy Row to it's intersection with Bayswater Road. After a cup of coffee at a Middle Eastern deli across from the entrance to Embassy Row, I walked back down the entire length of the Row to where it intersects with Knightsbridge Street, which runs along one whole side of Hyde Park. I walked along Knightsbridge Street, eventually branching off to go down to Buckingham Palace. After gawking at the Palace for a little while, I continued on down to Big Ben, (which I hadn't realized I was going to run right into,) the Houses of Parliament, and Westminster Bridge, which I crossed. I ate lunch at a pub on the other side of the Bridge, took note of the fact that I was crossing the famed Downing Street as I walked, toured the London Aquarium, and took the Underground back around to Lancaster Gate, which was the stop closest to where I was staying. I was seriously pooped. My feet didn't even look like feet anymore.

Over the following week, I took a guided cruise down the Thames to Grenwich, though I didn't get off the boat after we tied up there. On the way down and on the way back, of course, we sailed right past the Tower of London, an event I was not prepared for. I'll never forget the horrible carnivorous feeling that permeated the air in the vicinity of the Tower. If I wasn't a believer in the authenticity of ghosts before that shocking day, I am now!

I also visited Churchill's War Rooms, Madame Tussaud's, and walked all through what must have been the Hoxton/Haggerston area in pursuit of Clapton Square in Hackney, the street upon which my granny grew up, and my mother must have been born on, roughly 100 years ago. I also introduced myself one afternoon to someone I'd been corresponding with before I came over there, and whom I had notified I was going to be in his neck of the woods.

After the first week of running around, I found I was really, "touristed out," and realized I'd made a bit of a mistake by budgeting for a stay of ten days, instead of just one week. The last couple of days there I found I had time on my hands, though I guess more because I'd done enough running around than that there wasn't plenty more to see. One of those days, though, I jumped on a train for Oxford, where my sister had been an exchange student back in 1966.
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Wow...you did a lot in a week...you must have been exhausted. It looks like you saw most of the sights from the outside. The Tower of London would have been worth seeing from the inside, and St Pauls cathedral. A day trip to Cambridge is worthwhile too.

I went to Shropshire a few years ago to find my dads 'roots', but the whole area had been demolished and re-built, however, I found it quite an emotional experience.
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kumininexile wrote: I got to London on a Sunday morning. Since I was exhausted, I went right to sleep, after checking into my hotel room. Woke up in the late afternoon, grabbed some dinner at a pub, and then went to see Picadilly Circus which I'd hitherto only seen on postcards, (it's much smaller than postcards make it out to look like.) Also tramped around Soho, not realizing it was so close to Picadilly. I strolled down Carnaby Street and was able to see how forty years earlier, it had been the rage it was for buying fashionable clothes. Since then, the street seems to have been transformed into slick-looking trendy boutiques, all of which were closed since this was a Sunday evening. Stopped into another pub at the very end of Carnaby Street for a Diet Coke, and ran into a group of very, very friendly Italians who invited me to sit with them, though none of them spoke very much English. I must have said something to them about not wanting to eat very much since I was trying to lose weight, and one of these guys went out of his way to make me feel comfortable being overweight, such as I am. He rubbed his own slender belly and said. "eez goood!" meaning it was perfectly O.K. that my belly isn't slender at all.

The next day, I walked the entire distance around Kensington Palace, ( I was staying just a couple of blocks away,) and up the length of Embassy Row to it's intersection with Bayswater Road. After a cup of coffee at a Middle Eastern deli across from the entrance to Embassy Row, I walked back down the entire length of the Row to where it intersects with Knightsbridge Street, which runs along one whole side of Hyde Park. I walked along Knightsbridge Street, eventually branching off to go down to Buckingham Palace. After gawking at the Palace for a little while, I continued on down to Big Ben, (which I hadn't realized I was going to run right into,) the Houses of Parliament, and Westminster Bridge, which I crossed. I ate lunch at a pub on the other side of the Bridge, took note of the fact that I was crossing the famed Downing Street as I walked, toured the London Aquarium, and took the Underground back around to Lancaster Gate, which was the stop closest to where I was staying. I was seriously pooped. My feet didn't even look like feet anymore.

Over the following week, I took a guided cruise down the Thames to Grenwich, though I didn't get off the boat after we tied up there. On the way down and on the way back, of course, we sailed right past the Tower of London, an event I was not prepared for. I'll never forget the horrible carnivorous feeling that permeated the air in the vicinity of the Tower. If I wasn't a believer in the authenticity of ghosts before that shocking day, I am now!

I also visited Churchill's War Rooms, Madame Tussaud's, and walked all through what must have been the Hoxton/Haggerston area in pursuit of Clapton Square in Hackney, the street upon which my granny grew up, and my mother must have been born on, roughly 100 years ago. I also introduced myself one afternoon to someone I'd been corresponding with before I came over there, and whom I had notified I was going to be in his neck of the woods.

After the first week of running around, I found I was really, "touristed out," and realized I'd made a bit of a mistake by budgeting for a stay of ten days, instead of just one week. The last couple of days there I found I had time on my hands, though I guess more because I'd done enough running around than that there wasn't plenty more to see. One of those days, though, I jumped on a train for Oxford, where my sister had been an exchange student back in 1966.


It sounds like you enjoyed your experience here in the UK you probably did more in your short stay than most brits do in a life time. I bet a lot of kids today have not seen Buck house or the Tower ....its such a shame .
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Been to the tower twice! (Going again soon!);) It is FANTASTIC! Ghosts and all!
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SnoozeControl wrote: That was very brave of you Kumin! I'm not crazy about going to restaurants by myself, much less to a foreign country.

I'd love to visit the UK someday.


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