Who has lived in Stroud Green the longest?
  • sparkyley
    lived here since birth, moved to a horrible village in durham for 2 years, moved back, so lived here 30.
    i fondly call this place the stroud green triangle, you never seem to leave it!
    as for ali above post, i use to go osbourne, an had my first drink in the stapleton hall tavern.
  • Fin
    Personally 10 years. My Dad however went to school in the area in the 1940s, although the school's no longer there and he moved away many years ago.
  • krappyrubsnifkrappyrubsnif
    Since 1987.

    First off in a flat off Scarborough Road and now much closer to the beating heart of SG, off SGR.

    One of the things I like best is that almost everybody I've known in 21 years still lives here. I bump into them in Tesco or Woodys. Just older and more knackered but just the same otherwise.

    Stroud Green Triangle indeed.

    And new faces too.

    Hard to believe but the old White Lion of Mortimer was the coolest pub around before its corporate vandalism. The Stapleton Hall (now Larrik) was a no go area if you valued your life. Woodys was a furniture store. No Pappagone. The old FP cafe by the lake did the best ice cream.

    Brought up two kids in the area. Quite a time - hard for you whippersnappers to credit but when I came there were no mobile phones and no Internet. SG is just the same though except for parking CPZs. Have been awaiting/dreading 'creeping gentrification' but thankfully it has never really come - when anyone tries it just gets subverted, SG style.

    Happy days.
  • injoke

    10 years in N4 for me, not all of that in SG though

  • Billy Bookcase
    I've also lived here since 1982. We moved into U/toll park that November.
    I did spend some years in the US during that time so I guess if RJP's residency is continuous then s/he still wins.
    But I did come back and am more Stroud Green chauvinist these days than ever.
  • staplejack
    1998. Made the leap from south to north and never looked back.
  • Marquis
    November 08 here. Never looked back either.
  • unaestheticunaesthetic
    rainbow_carnage and i have been here just shy of seven years, and the only times we've considered moving were to another flat in the area. we're still in the same place though.
  • Busby
    Can't claim a record - we lived in Florence Road from 1945 till 1953.
    But... At that time there was still gas lighting in the road and every evening the gas-lighter-man came along on his bike with a long pole and put the flame to the lamp (actually we only had gaslighting at home). In the mornings the gas company just turned the gas off. If I remember rightly the gas company was down by Hornsey churchyard.

    Fin - what was the school your dad went to - is it possible that I knew him? I went to Stroud Green School, at that time it was infants, juniors and seniors and the Tuck Shop did great business!
  • ShaunG
    It's always great when busby posts. It's like our own little hovis advert.
  • Busby
    There was a time - before Dunn's - when Hovis was the only brown bread available in the whole of the UK. But even that wasn't PROPER brown bread as some of us now know...
  • Ali
    The man who invented Hovis Flour is in Highgate Cemetry
  • pseudonym

    Really, Karl Marx invented that too?

  • guin
    I have met someone who has lived here since 1940something- been to their house. I don't want to say where in SG exactly because I don't want to identify them. Sorry this sounds so mysterious!!
  • twinspark
    Moved here in June 1981, having squatted since '78 in Muswell Hill and Crouch End. Moved on same days as Charles & Di's wedding, there was a Funk the Wedding alternative event in Clissold Park!

    Ali mentioned most the pubs etc. but have to mention The Sir Walter Scott now the Fullback. Marlers was part of mini-chain and Tim Wetherspoon was one of the partners. After a tiff over who knows what - he quit and formed Wetherspoons and White Lion ws there 2nd or 3rd pub. [ btw Wham backing singers Pepsi and Shirley lived in flat abovr garage on Sparsholt Rd. - we sat in Marlers/ the Noble one luchtime watchng George Michael and Andrew help then move out. Much trouble ensued trying to get a standard lamp in the back of a shiny new Ford Capri I recall.

    Have to mention BeeWees the original and best caribbean restaurant- it was legendary. Owners were a husband and wife team but following a divorce Mrs opened her own place - next door the Hummingbird!!
  • taff bach

    I moved in in 1976. Was full of old tossers even then. Never dis your elders, they may be the people you become

  • Ali

    I think Twinspark means Tim Martin not Weatherspoon. That name is supposed to have been Tim’s teachers names in NZ. Beewees was ace tremendous Caribbean punch ! It was in the space were part one of Petek’s is. The new part of Petek’s back then was a great flock wall papered 1st generation Indian Restaurant.

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