That counts as a country pub. Some of those are (were) very good. Not that one though.
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Looks lovely. Is that the Serpentine? I’d ask @MGOwner but he probably wouldn’t know as he’s never ventured above ground
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Funny, really, that we even bother to pick out certain towns when the entire country is a fucking toilet - shitty weather, ghastly people, decayed infrastructure, decades of underinvestment, rampant racism, delusions of grandeur, fucking awful roads, shoddy architecture, undereducated-and-proud-of-it, unemployment everywhere, dirty, crowded, and mostly horrifyingly expensive to live in.
Wish I’d had the spine to get out years ago.
It’s never too late. Just saying like.
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I came here from 10 years in southern California.
Lovely and warm, but I still prefer it here.
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Took me 8 years to shift Sam one county over - I don’t have the life expectancy to wait for her to come round to the idea of fucking-off overseas.
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This is one of the dangers of changing trains at Crewe. There is little chance of making it out of the station alive if you need to switch platforms.
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I have no idea why Silvertown never makes these lists.
Maybe because it is part of the Greater London sprawl.
On the north of the river it is an industrial wastelend with no redeeming features although I must admit it is nearly 40 years since I have been there (but it certainly made an impression).
Someone I worked with at the time said to me that ‘If England ever needed an enema Silvertown is where they would insert it’
Well, the included Croydon. I would add Abbey Wood as well.
Scent marked for some serious Hipster lifestyeee development…tho Covid may have slowed that down somewhat…Think Canary Wharf 30 years ago…
Wow, that is nothing like my memory of the place which was a Tate and Lyle sugar refinary and decaying bleak ruin of a place all around it,
Mind you that was before the City Airport opened and before the Docklands development
A lot of that is artistic projection Kev…tho they have made a start
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It has changed and improved a little (not that it could get much worse). I think I read somewhere that Silvertown was the most heavily bombed place in the UK (beating Coventry) which never helped it.
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Free spine on the NHS though. 
Upside: the actual woods.
Downside: absolutely everything else.
Few people who live there realise most of the area is riddled with shallow, un-propped chalk mines: it’s probably one of the most extensively mined parts of southern Britain - starting in the Neolithic and ending ~1920s iirc.
Even fewer know a small enclosure in the Wood is the site from which Western Europe’s most extensive fauna of Early Eocene mammals has been (and continues to be) recovered - dating from <10Ma after non-avian dinosaurs became extinct.
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Not for much longer buddy 