Putney (London)

it's either exSEEDingly good or exSEEDingly bad.

Oh, a place of contrasts? Well, for anyone intimate with the location i'm viewing a small flat on Montserrat Road tommorow. Hoping that's on the better side of things. Really don't want to land up living among hoodlums carrying knives, worse still episodes of gun crime breaking out, and in a grafitti, rubbish strewn urban wasteland.

Nice area

Monserrat Road is fine husky. I used to live a few streets down. Easy for both the tube and mainline.

Putney is very civilised in the London scheme of things - quite white middle class. Plenty of young couples - that sort of vibe.

great area

nice pubs

It's fine just fine.

^^^

Its a suburban Wickerman situation - beware evenings with a full moon and dont go to any bonfire partys.

Thanks Asparagus, that's settled my nerves. I'm not very familiar with London so this represents a big leap into the unknown for me. Crucially, it must be somewhere i'd be at ease walking the streets without fear of being mobbed by a gang, and clearly from your comments Putney's not got that simmering danger about it. Ticks the main box already!

Putney is a great part of London to live but is priced accordingly. If I remember correctly our very own Ken Masters lives there or nearabouts so he'll no doubt point you in the right direction. Just as well public transport is within easy reach as the traffic around that area is truly horrific at the best of times let alone the rush hours.

Thanks Slippy, looking forward to my experience there tommorow. I'm without a car, so the tube being around the corner from the flat counts for a lot. Might pop in a pub garden or two backing onto The Thames in the afternoon if the weather's good! Thanks for the comments lads.

Take your stab vest...!

Nice place, good transport links and by the river.

There is a cracking little pub called the bricklayers arms hard to find but worth it.  http://www.bricklayers-arms.co.uk/

Yes...bring a brick...

join the local swingers club all be be ok

Don't they all have A**s...?

The Leopard    PUTNEYIST !!!

Seriously, Have you had a bad experience/s there ???

nice for antiques.

The Bricklayer's Arms? Cracking? I've never been there, but it looks like a dive from outside. Might try it next time I'm in the area.

Husky, you have nothing to worry about. Putney is pretty nice, has its own reasonably good nightlife, some decent pubs about. Also, Putney overland station makes getting into central London very easy.

Montserrat Road is as good a place to be as any. Nice houses and very central. One of my mates used to live on Burstock Road, just off it.

In July 1995, Montserrat's Soufriere Hills volcano, dormant throughout recorded history, rumbled to life and began an eruption which eventually buried the island's capital, Plymouth, in more than 12 metres (39 ft) of mud, destroyed its airport and docking facilities, and rendered the southern half of the island uninhabitable. Following the destruction of Plymouth, more than half of the population left the island due to the economic disruption and lack of housing. After a period of regular eruptive events during the late 1990s, including one on June 25, 1997 in which 19 people died when they were overtaken by a pyroclastic flow

Think on ...!

Stab jacket in Putney? I can only assume you are fishing or you haven't been there for asbout 40 years. Like saying go to Dulwich Village for a night out but don't forget your tazar.

You're right.......I am only joshing......but take your dictionary....they are a clever bunch.....Putneyites...

Cheers History Maker (and everyone else), chuffed by the responses. Nice bit of background info for my visit later. Will look out for The Bricklayers pub, I always make time to check out a few boozers on a visit to a new place. With the cost of renting a place on Montserrat Road i'm glad to hear the houses there have some charm about them. My fears of Putney being a ghetto resembling Brixton or The Bronx appear to have been well wide of the mark!

It's a cracking place, I rent my old house out just round the corner from the Bricklayers, it's an excellent pub. I'm not really into ales but everyone I know says they have nice ones, so SDK and his bearded, bejumpered chums would be happy.

The Dukes Head on the river is where you take the parents, and the Half-Moon up the LRR is the best live venue for miles around, loads of small bands on and occasionally some big ones.

The *only* downside is you're under the flight-path, they come in at 2000 feet and that starts at 04:30 (16 planes allowed before 7am I think, it seems there are more than that). You get used to it after a while though and filter it out (takes a couple of years, mind). The *only other* downside is it's pricey. But the slodder, oh, the slodder...

Also, even though you're on a one-way street, look both ways before crossing - mofo's have a tendency to drive down them the wrong way causing occasional limb breakage and mild-to-intense peevage. This may not be unique to Putney, however.

The Jolly Gardeners on Lacy road.  Can anyone remember the name of the butcher shop on Lacy rd a couple of doors down from what used to be a Ladbrokes shop

Not me.

The butcher shop is long gone on Lacy rd (think its a deli now) just wondering what the butcher was called

Beware tide times when parking near the star and garter. You too can come back to a car under 3 foot of the Thames.

Which, as a resident, is always hilarious to see.

Moving to Putney !

Why not just move to Helmand Province instead ?

Would be much safer for you.

Equally amusing when it's not you but your mate from Manchester, who's got to go back there in it. Had to take his trousers off, and every time he braked, got muddy water splashing over his gonads. Superb!

Could the Londoner's on here tell me if it's regarded as a fairly nice area

I wonder if he moved? Incorrect apostrophe placement can land you in hot water in this area.

I believe eddietheshop frequents the bricklayers arms. You can find him on twitter under that handle

Good to see the original Slippy Blue on here, not that facking imposter with no space between his names.

Lived there a few years ago. They have turned the cinema into a cop shop.

You'll love boat race day. Loads of p1ssed up posh totty.

The cinema's still there, it's just in a part of the same building as plodhaus.

http://www.odeon.co.uk/cinemas/putney/119/.

It's got the worlds first and only water-soluble bridge, whenever it rains the whole thing partly dissolves, looks like we bought it cheap from Gaza. They're attempting to fix it now which means no-one can drive over it and they've left a 3 foot wide line for about 100 millionty billion pedestrians to cross over eash ruch hour, there are massive queues to get onto the bridge in each direction at both ends of the day. That said, the town centre is lovely now, no traffic whatsoever.

eddietheshoe ffs!

It took me over an hour to drive from Putney to Hammersmith earlier this year. It can't be more than 5 miles.

Was that you poking dogshiit through BF's letterbox?

As if Kenneth, I'm a good boy

Didn't V4 Vendetta live up the Fulham Palace Rd? Haven't seen him for ages.

Yes, he did, in a house made out of solid gold with diamonds for windows. It's also the road off which Jill Dando got capped, I'm not suggesting anything, mind.

*ahem* Barry George *ahem*

I was actually in the Kings Mall shopping centre that day so I can't throw stones - even if it's at goring's diamond windows.

Don't go into Waitrose on a Saturday afternoon expecting to get celery if Chelsea are at home

Speaking of Nick, Mr Clegg's house is the big one on the corner of Howard's Lane and Parkfields, a short stroll from the Arab Boy pub.

nice 'spoons down there, The Railway. Popped in when visiting a friend.

Visited eddietheshoe and his girlfriend for a couple of days last summer and was impressed with Putney Heath. The dog had a great time chasing squirrels. I hadn't realized such an area existed in the middle of SW15. A pub called the Green Man was good, especially as they welcomed the dog and also turned down the music when asked on account of my deafness.

There is no way anywhere in London is worth the ludicrous prices asked for accommodation, but if I had to live there again, I reckon I could enjoy life in Putney.

I would suggest you buy yourself a nice pair of burgundy cords, a pair of brogues and a nice tweed sports jacket to fit in with the locals.

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