Newham
 

This is a companion to every other companion thread on here.

It's where I was brought up and is a total dump. Avoid like the plague.

















This is my old school. Groovy, ah?

Wow! It sure does put the 'cold' into cold architecture.

The Time Out guide to London tried to say something nice about it, but really struggled and just ended up calling it a 'nugget of ugliness'.

Even Morrissey had trouble upping its profile, despite wearing this T shirt.





I mean seriously. Could they make it any shitter if they tried?

Ah, the Beckton Arms. Now that's what I call a good old traditional pub (as imagined by J.G. Ballard!)

the city does look like it came out of a j.g. ballard novel.

I agree. Although Newham isn't a city, it's a Borough within London. Actually, not all of Newham is quite that bad, but the bit I grew up in was completely destroyed in WWII so was pretty much built up from scratch in the 1960s, hence the really drab modernist look to it.




^Twilight Niteclub. Possibly the most depressing place you could spend a night out, ever.





^ A well happy local.

And just in case you didn't think it could possibly get any drabber ... the picturesque Balfron Tower. I mean seriously, what in the name of fuck were they thinking of?

Before the war it was a busy dockyard area which was the reason why the German's bombed the fuck out of the place.


Now large parts of it still look like this.

The Newham General hospital is notoriously shit, despite looking like a spaceship.

And gave it's name to Grime crew the Newham Generals

The Bobby Moore statue, outside West Ham's football ground.

i've got a friend who grew up in forest gate and who has terrible health, she's always going on about newham general.

Is Newham considered to be the worst part of London?

Well, if you want to take a glimpse, what a BAD neighbourhood looks like, take a look at this. A ghetto called "Lunik IX" in my home town Kosice, a socialist experiment gone wrong - back in 1970s the city mayors were intending to isolate problematic citizens (95% of them Gypsies) into this then-modern neighbourhood. But, the people there just ruined the fucking thing and now it looks like a warzone.






Welcome to European union.

I thought that Dagenham was worse. The only time I have been there I couldn't wait to go away.

it's hard to say, i think a lot of people in london don't even know it exists

well it does look cool. it looks like it's located on a hill with no roads leading to it.

i can't even think of anything to say when i see this.

fucking gypos!

It's a huge social issue in our country, especially in the eastern, less industrialized part of it. The social system and unemployment benefits is literally enforcing this part of society to remain unemployment and parasite on it (and now I'm not talking about the gypsies, I'm talking about lazy-ass bastards in general). This group of people will never adopt to society and this ghetto is a sad example of this. Luckily enough, it's pretty distant to the city and I, personally, have never been there. They say there's 100% chance of getting mugged there.

all of this shit looks dead depressing.

Newham General always makes local headlines.


Hospital to look into rising tally of dead patients

11 June 2008

AN investigation will take place into increasing deaths at Newham General Hospital.

There were 62 deaths in April. These included one patient who had gone in for planned, non-urgent treatment.

There were 16 deaths each in the general and geriatric medicine departments, 15 in rehabilitation, seven in respiratory medicine and eight 'others'.

All deaths are reviewed by the hospital Trust's clinical teams.

The mortality rate is showing "a slight increase" in recent months and is worse than expected, health chiefs were told.

A fully comprehensive audit of recent deaths is to be carried out to help chiefs understand what is going on and why that many people are dying.

It's weird, because of its closeness to trendier parts of London, a lot of people move there because of its cheap rents, especially parts of Stratford - which by and large aren't too bad.

At the moment, the areas within Newham that are in the most decline are Beckton, parts of Plaistow and Forest Gate, West Ham and Manor Park. You do get students staying in these areas, but the rise of drug related crimes there has made it difficult even for them to stay.

Plaistow and East Ham have made headlines recently as centres of recruitment for muslim terrorists.

Sarramkrops right about Dagenham though. That's even worse! Although architecturally It's not quite as grim as Newham.

Lunix IX! Christ. They need Geldof and Bono to come in there and sort things out pretty fuckin' quick I reckon.

I'm afraid they'd be beaten down with metal poles a couple of minutes after their arrival. Bono's sunglasses would be stolen post-mortem and sold to the black market.

Sounds like a great reason to send Bono there.

Agreed!

Jesus!!

Yeah, Dagenham is probably worse. It actually used to be quite OK. Boring, but OK. Things only really started to go down hill there when the Ford factory closed, which was pretty much the main purpose of its growth in the first place. It's a bit like England's Detroit in that sense.

Didn't produce any decent music though, did it?

rubettes mate. serious business

Not true
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFZ_b...eature=related

Looks like the fall of civilization. Of course, I think that after the fall of civilization, people are going to find discarded Street Fighter mechandise and think it was some kind of religion. Pray they never discover the remnants of the internet. It's not gonna be pretty.

"I'm fed up with people wearing bandanas/ this ain't new york it's the land of the hammers"

Fucking brilliant!

I feel like I've just been happy slapped.

I honestly think that I'd listen to those guys. :o


ps: this creepy thread makes me feel thankful!! praise The All-Tentacled One.

i actually find this really fascinating. you could never EVER have something like this in OKC. those skyway thingies would blow out.