| Richmond, Surrey 15:54 - Nov 13 with 1223 views | colinallcars |
Named best borough in which to live.
Can't argue - great pubs & shops, cinema & theatre ( pronounced thair tuh ), lovely buildings & churches, great transport links, Richmond Hill, Richmond Green & Richmond Park, lovely riverside.
I tell ya mate, when my Euromillions comes up, I'll move there.
'Til then, it's just pub crawls. |  | | |  |
| Richmond, Surrey on 16:11 - Nov 13 with 0 views | BlackCrowe |
I go there a lot, living near Ham as I do. Shops are closing at an concerning rate, but some very good pubs, cafes and restaurants and it's obviously very easy on the eye.
Flightpath is a bugger though. |  |
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| Richmond, Surrey on 16:28 - Nov 13 with 0 views | colinallcars |
| Richmond, Surrey on 16:11 - Nov 13 by BlackCrowe |
I go there a lot, living near Ham as I do. Shops are closing at an concerning rate, but some very good pubs, cafes and restaurants and it's obviously very easy on the eye.
Flightpath is a bugger though. |
I forgot the flightpath | | | |
| Richmond, Surrey on 17:22 - Nov 13 with 0 views | kensalriser |
| Richmond, Surrey on 16:28 - Nov 13 by colinallcars |
I forgot the flightpath |
SPEAK UP! |  |
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| Richmond, Surrey on 17:24 - Nov 13 with 0 views | Logman |
Never really liked Richmond. Up its own arse in my opinion and not a particularly accessible place if you haven't got a lot of disposable income. The park is really nice and the views from the hill but no, to live there, not unless you are like the middle/upper class English way of life. |  | | |
| Richmond, Surrey on 18:01 - Nov 13 with 0 views | Juzzie |
I think this is about the whole Borough, not just Richmond town itself.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/art
You also have Twickenham, Teddington, Strawberry Hill, Whitton, Fulwell, Hampton, Hampton Hill, Hampton Wick, St Margarets, Kew, Bushy Park, Sheen and Mortlake.
I do think Richmond town is a bit OTT (£1m+ and you have to park on the street… fk that) but the whole Borough has many nice places, where you actually can have a driveway.
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| Richmond, Surrey on 18:13 - Nov 13 with 0 views | MrSheen |
Obviously a happier place since I left. |  | | |
| Richmond, Surrey on 18:40 - Nov 13 with 0 views | dmm |
I've lived in Sheen, St Margarets and Ham. The kids grew up when we were in Ham and had a great time with the river and park nearby. The flight path was a pain even back then. |  | | |
| Richmond, Surrey on 18:52 - Nov 13 with 0 views | QPROslo |
| Richmond, Surrey on 18:13 - Nov 13 by MrSheen |
Obviously a happier place since I left. |
Yepp. I grew up there in the 50's and 60's. Spent a huge amount of my time waiting for the 267 bus and sitting in L'Auberge above Richmond bridge waiting for the party addresses. Don't know if it's still there. | | | |
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| Richmond, Surrey on 21:10 - Nov 13 with 0 views | Toast_R |
Not for me. Its very nice granted, but too many middle class hooray Henry's pushing up the property prices.
Rather move down to Dorset if I had a windfall. |  | | |
| Richmond, Surrey on 21:41 - Nov 13 with 0 views | Mick_S |
Nice place. Stuff driving (which most of us need to do) around that way.
To live there and have to do that in the normal regular lifestyle way would send me bonkers. Are the pram-bike things still a thing?
Not been there for a while since I gave up my driving delivery job. Couldn’t cope with it.
I’ve also just discovered that it is the only London borough that straddles the Thames and also has the largest park in London.
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| Richmond, Surrey on 22:16 - Nov 13 with 0 views | colinallcars |
Without the aforementioned Lottery win, I'll never get to live there.
It's…..
one for her and one for he
One for you and one for ye
One for thou and one for thee
But never, oh never a one for me.
( WS Gilbert ).
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| Richmond, Surrey on 22:28 - Nov 13 with 0 views | PunteR |
I grew up in Richmond town.
Its changed a lot in the 27 years since i moved out.
A collection of people from all walks of life when i was there. From musicians, actors , rock stars, graffiti artists , rogue's, gangsters and drug dealers, and just your everyday middle class , liberal folk. I lived on a small strip of social housing on the parish land, that ran between Richmond and North Sheen, down one side of Queens road, though Manor road and up to Kew. My folks still live there, bless them. Lively times in the 90s though. For me anyway. The District line served up London's finest looking for a hustle amongst the rich and famous.
We used to have Park Avenue and Joes on the corner by Richmond bridge that was always lively on a Friday/Saturday night. Bull and Bush opposite the station, Flicker & Firkin. Even The Crown had doormen on a Friday night. The Marlborough and The Hole in the Wall pub which was owned by David Attenborough, The Lass on Richmond Hill , and the infamous Black Horse pub("You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.") were my local pubs, all within 15 minutes walking distance. Great times.
The Roebuck is still going , and i'll be popping in there tomorrow on my way to Adesso Sicilia, a lovely little Italian/ Sicilian restaurant, courtesy of the kids for our wedding anniversary.
Richmond Hill is one of my favourite place's on the planet. The walk down to the river, along to Ham House, or up along to the White Cross pub or back through to Richmond Park. Just amazing any time of the year. Although its mushroom season atm!.. just saying. lol
Ahh Richmond.! Beautiful place. |  |
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| Richmond, Surrey on 22:51 - Nov 13 with 0 views | colinallcars |
| Richmond, Surrey on 22:28 - Nov 13 by PunteR |
I grew up in Richmond town.
Its changed a lot in the 27 years since i moved out.
A collection of people from all walks of life when i was there. From musicians, actors , rock stars, graffiti artists , rogue's, gangsters and drug dealers, and just your everyday middle class , liberal folk. I lived on a small strip of social housing on the parish land, that ran between Richmond and North Sheen, down one side of Queens road, though Manor road and up to Kew. My folks still live there, bless them. Lively times in the 90s though. For me anyway. The District line served up London's finest looking for a hustle amongst the rich and famous.
We used to have Park Avenue and Joes on the corner by Richmond bridge that was always lively on a Friday/Saturday night. Bull and Bush opposite the station, Flicker & Firkin. Even The Crown had doormen on a Friday night. The Marlborough and The Hole in the Wall pub which was owned by David Attenborough, The Lass on Richmond Hill , and the infamous Black Horse pub("You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.") were my local pubs, all within 15 minutes walking distance. Great times.
The Roebuck is still going , and i'll be popping in there tomorrow on my way to Adesso Sicilia, a lovely little Italian/ Sicilian restaurant, courtesy of the kids for our wedding anniversary.
Richmond Hill is one of my favourite place's on the planet. The walk down to the river, along to Ham House, or up along to the White Cross pub or back through to Richmond Park. Just amazing any time of the year. Although its mushroom season atm!.. just saying. lol
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And…….I think just one pub closure in all my drinking years, the Three Pigeons by the river on Petersham rd.
They had a basement bar looking out onto the river in the summer. A band I was in rehearsed there one winter but there was a freak high tide and all our gear was wrecked.
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| Richmond, Surreypeople on 22:53 - Nov 13 with 0 views | numptydumpty |
My own personal view.
If you want status, one upmanship and lots of looking down one's nose and zero care for those less fortunate then move to an area like Richmond.
If you want to pay five times over the odds for your property as opposed to certain areas of the UK where there are large swathes of land that is actually as nature is intended then joy is yours.
If you want to work your butt off, doing eighty hour weeks, step on many people's toes and drop dead two days after you retire due to extremely high blood pressure, then move to Richmond.
My parents both lived in Kingston - not the Jamaican version - and both lived in council tower.blocks and I believe even back then Richmond was a place to aspire to. Went to Richmond a lot as a kid, me and my dad watched London Welsh play rugby at Kew, whilst my mum and sisters looked round the town.
Yes its got its own parkland so has the lake district, the peak district and areas of natural beauty in the south west.
A mate of mine, his brother is very wealthy and lives there but he is a miserable man.
Am not against people gaining riches, some members of my own extended family are millionaires, my nan lived the last forty years of her life in a council flat close to Kingston town centre. She was the happiest person i have ever known and only had carers come to her home in her mid 90s and only moved into a home at 98 years old. She used to say every morning she woke up after she had turned ninety years old, "Oh my God, i am still alive, brilliant, better make the most of it."
Theres some people that hate their life and live in a bedsit and theres some people that hate their life and live in a mansion on the Thames. Theres some with no money and enjoy life and some who are totally loaded and enjoy life.
"Home is where the heart is." As is often said. "And the grass isn't always greener."
These polls have lots of random indicators in how they judge these things. Personally many areas in and around London to aspire to, are massively overvalued and overhyped for me.
And in these kind of areas the community spirit is often very lacking.
Apart from all of that said, my offer for the six bed, seven bathroom place in the royal borough of Richmond is currently under consideration !!!
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| Richmond, Surrey on 23:07 - Nov 13 with 0 views | hubble |
My Richmond days were exactly between QPROslo's and PunteR's - when the Auberge had become Crusts and Cheeky Pete's was in full swing, and all the pubs of Richmond Town were heaving. The Three Pigeons (that Colin mentions) was the 'in' pub for a while, but the scene moved rapidly along the river and up the High Street: The Ship, The Orange Tree, The Cobwebs (as was), the Bull and Bush... and then of course there was and is the green. What a scene that was. On the weekend there were 100s, maybe 1000s of us there, drinkers spilling out from the Cricketers and The Princes Head and joyful mayhem.
I worked as a cocktail barman in Cars Cafe, on the corner where the high street turns right and crosses the river at Richmond Bridge. That place was really buzzing back then and all sorts came in. My favourite punter was Phil Lynott who propped the bar up telling me tales while I mixed him cocktail after cocktail. Pete Townsend lived on a barge on the Twickenham side and I ended up there once too. And of course, strong echoes of the 60s still resonated, particularly with Eel Pie Island not that far away.... Peter Green was living a strange old life in a tiny house in 'The Alberts". But our era was punk, new wave, ska, glam, bam, thank you mam, what a feckin brilliant place it was to grow up...
And yes Punter, Richmond Park was (and maybe still is) THE place for shrooms... :-)
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| Richmond, Surrey on 23:52 - Nov 13 with 0 views | Ned_Kennedys |
Spent many a Sunday evening with the lads in the Racing Page back in the day when they had a resident jazz band: three or four veterans with a younger fella fronting.
Used to be packed until they decided to replace the jazz lads with a younger rock band: wasn’t the same vibe and we changed our Sunday routine. Don’t think the pub is there anymore? |  | | |
| Richmond, Surrey on 23:54 - Nov 13 with 0 views | stowmarketrange |
| Richmond, Surrey on 23:07 - Nov 13 by hubble |
My Richmond days were exactly between QPROslo's and PunteR's - when the Auberge had become Crusts and Cheeky Pete's was in full swing, and all the pubs of Richmond Town were heaving. The Three Pigeons (that Colin mentions) was the 'in' pub for a while, but the scene moved rapidly along the river and up the High Street: The Ship, The Orange Tree, The Cobwebs (as was), the Bull and Bush... and then of course there was and is the green. What a scene that was. On the weekend there were 100s, maybe 1000s of us there, drinkers spilling out from the Cricketers and The Princes Head and joyful mayhem.
I worked as a cocktail barman in Cars Cafe, on the corner where the high street turns right and crosses the river at Richmond Bridge. That place was really buzzing back then and all sorts came in. My favourite punter was Phil Lynott who propped the bar up telling me tales while I mixed him cocktail after cocktail. Pete Townsend lived on a barge on the Twickenham side and I ended up there once too. And of course, strong echoes of the 60s still resonated, particularly with Eel Pie Island not that far away.... Peter Green was living a strange old life in a tiny house in 'The Alberts". But our era was punk, new wave, ska, glam, bam, thank you mam, what a feckin brilliant place it was to grow up...
And yes Punter, Richmond Park was (and maybe still is) THE place for shrooms... :-)
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We always used to wander around Richmond park from our maisonette in Roehampton.We often got as far as Richmond gate and wandered past the star & garter home and down to the river.I was too young to use the pubs in Richmond,and by the time I was old enough I’d stopped wasting my days walking around the park.
But to have that place only a 5 minute stroll from your front door was amazing.Today’s kids will never had life as good as we did back in the 60’s and 70’s. |  | | |
| Richmond, Surrey on 00:15 - Nov 14 with 0 views | PunteR |
| Richmond, Surrey on 23:54 - Nov 13 by stowmarketrange |
We always used to wander around Richmond park from our maisonette in Roehampton.We often got as far as Richmond gate and wandered past the star & garter home and down to the river.I was too young to use the pubs in Richmond,and by the time I was old enough I’d stopped wasting my days walking around the park.
But to have that place only a 5 minute stroll from your front door was amazing.Today’s kids will never had life as good as we did back in the 60’s and 70’s. |
I used to do the opposite walk, up to Roehampton gate. Had quite a few mates on Alton estate, up Danebury avenue. Past sheen gate or via Pen Ponds. Isabella plantation is one of London's best kept secrets. Thats worth a visit if anyone is in the area.
The Star and Garter hospital which was for injured war veterans is now luxury flats. [Post edited 14 Nov 0:18]
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| Richmond, Surrey on 00:42 - Nov 14 with 0 views | PunteR |
| Richmond, Surrey on 23:07 - Nov 13 by hubble |
My Richmond days were exactly between QPROslo's and PunteR's - when the Auberge had become Crusts and Cheeky Pete's was in full swing, and all the pubs of Richmond Town were heaving. The Three Pigeons (that Colin mentions) was the 'in' pub for a while, but the scene moved rapidly along the river and up the High Street: The Ship, The Orange Tree, The Cobwebs (as was), the Bull and Bush... and then of course there was and is the green. What a scene that was. On the weekend there were 100s, maybe 1000s of us there, drinkers spilling out from the Cricketers and The Princes Head and joyful mayhem.
I worked as a cocktail barman in Cars Cafe, on the corner where the high street turns right and crosses the river at Richmond Bridge. That place was really buzzing back then and all sorts came in. My favourite punter was Phil Lynott who propped the bar up telling me tales while I mixed him cocktail after cocktail. Pete Townsend lived on a barge on the Twickenham side and I ended up there once too. And of course, strong echoes of the 60s still resonated, particularly with Eel Pie Island not that far away.... Peter Green was living a strange old life in a tiny house in 'The Alberts". But our era was punk, new wave, ska, glam, bam, thank you mam, what a feckin brilliant place it was to grow up...
And yes Punter, Richmond Park was (and maybe still is) THE place for shrooms... :-)
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Yeh Peter Green , god bless him. My uncle was a mate of his and one of the rare visitors to that house. Peter Green was a recluse . They played in the same band when Pete lived over Wandsworth way , before Fleetwood Mac. I used to see Peter about in a big brown duffle coat, never cut his finger nails, big beard and was nicknamed the wolfman for obvious reasons by the local kids. LSD didn't do him any favours. | |
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