Who has lived in Stroud Green the longest?
  • dion
    a measly 4 years 4 months
  • Liz

    Don't think I'll win, but 6 years and 10 months.

  • tosscat

    7y 4m

  • David

    a wee pup at 2 years pretty much on the nose. a guest and close neighbour for many years before however.

  • Ian
    Moved here in 97. OK - I have moved south of the park in the interim for a bit but home is where the heart is and all that.
  • SimonB
    I've lived here off and on since 1996 ... missing out for 6 months in SE London ( ...erk!) and a year in Highgate
  • andy

    A little over 6 years I think.

    Jesus. We were only stopping in for a cup of tea. We registered the domains because we needed an email address and couldn't think of anything else.

  • Ali
    Since 1981 when the area was really was quite dodgy! There was only the Stapleton Hall Tavern , the Osborne, the Park Tavern in Tollington Pk, The Duke of Edinburgh in Perth Road and the Worlds End was a very republican Irish Bar which was most interesting late on Friday on the stagger back at 11pm from town as it stayed open late.

    By 1983 you had Marlers Bar open which was the trendy pub of the area and absolutely packed to the door every night. It was pub no 6 win the Weatherspoons chain and is now the Nobel. The White Lion when it opened in 1986 was revolutionary and was the biggest pub in the chain and even made it into the style pages of the Observer Magazine at the time !

    The shining light the was the Vegie Indian which used to be frequented by Annie Lennox who was living in Stapleton Hall Road with Dave S. Still owned by the same people as well.
  • matt

    since 1998 for me, but Ali wins no doubt!

    Great to read some local history, thanks for that

  • flembo
    Just a mere 2 and a half years. I enjoyed Ali's history too...
  • David

    Bring back Busby.

  • tosscat

    Yeah, whatever happened to the wily old curmudgeon?

  • andy

    I think we can safely say that David scared him off

  • Liz

    Ah, the good old days, when David was randomly rude to people he's never met. Is it a coincidence that member numbers have increased since he stopped?

  • David

    I could be pointedly rude to people I have met if you'd prefer Liz, and ban you.

  • andy

    Ace. We haven't had random threats of banning for ages.

  • David

    Not true, I think I did one last week too.

  • Liz

    David, it's good to have the real you back.

  • David

    Ah no, that was a threat of douche bagging, not banning. Getting soft in my old age.

  • Ali
    Poor Busby !

    Thought his comments about the Stone of Destiny (he called it Stone of Scoon ( should be Scone)) interesting.

    If it is true that it did go up SGR after the heist from Westminster Abbey maybe we should watch out for film crews and a film about this is currently being made by Charles Martin Smith starring Charlie Cox and Robert Carlyle.
  • katiejane
    Does Tollington Way count?? We were right on the corner of Hornsey Rd...

    If it does, then we're just shy of 7 years and 6 months, but I suspect not, in which case it's 5 years and 3 months.
  • tosscat

    It's not a competition, is it?

    Is there a prize?

  • andy

    Geoff started it, so I guess the right to declare winners and award prizes sits with him

  • dion
    the winner is Ali with an awesome 27 odd years

    i dare say that that is more time than some people on this site are old.
  • katiejane
    Hear hear Geoff!
  • Ali
    maybe I am only 30 or so !
  • matt

    I doubt anybody on here is less than 27.

    I am 31

  • andy
    I'm 25
  • katiejane
    I'm 26
  • David

    Them two would have a terrible shock if they met up.

  • katiejane
    Har har!! How old are you David?
  • andy
    i am liar.
    but david is close to 50
  • David

    He omits that I'm a young 50 to his rather dated 45.

  • andy
    Apparently my new facebook photo has been compared to a young Robert Vaughn. Make of that what you will.
  • Ian
    How young a Robert Vaughan? Are you bald with chubby cheeks because it could be a baby shot of him they were thinking of?
  • David

    There's something in there, a little bit.

  • andy

    I'm really troubled by the fact that people on this site might know what i look like.

  • David

    its your Facebook picture? They might not be able to Poke you, but they can see the picture already. You'll probably get stopped for autographs now.

  • andy

    I have changed my facebook picture to the bloke from the Rockford Files.

  • andy

    It also blows out my earlier lie that I am 25

  • Busby
    It's nice to be missed. In fact I hadn't realised that there was anyone really taking notes of my musings...

    My sons bought me a new PC, so, thinking that I'd need to start again (so to speak) I threw out all my favourites and only today did I see that Stroud Green was missing.

    I'm no computer expert.
  • tosscat

    busby

  • David

    Heh. Not the first time that picture has made these forums.

    Busby, were you a cyclist then?

  • RJP
    I win this one, I think. I have lived in Stroud Green since March 1959. Beat that!
    I'm afraid I can't remember it when it was 'quite dodgy'.
  • dominic
    1917.
  • andy

    How can anyone have lived in Stroud Green before it was invented?

  • dominic
    Back when I was a boy, it was all fields round here...

    RJP wins.
  • David
    I was catching the 210 before I was born.
  • RJP
    Funnily enough so was I; if only when my mum was on the way up to the Whittington Hospital to give birth.
    Damn, that means I was born in Islington, not Hornsey.
  • David
    Ah. I was just joking. Just for clarity, like. I was born in 'Nam.
  • andy

    Dagen Nam.

    and he still gets flashbacks.

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