Secret History of the Street

[MarillionFan]

BBC Two - The Secret History of Our Streets, Portland Road

For anyone who missed it, this was a fantastic program about how a particular street in London turned from a slum street into one of the richest places in London.

[ZARDOZ]

You have to laugh one guy calling his little patch a village and the neighboring tuliphole another village. And the Spanish banker trying to convince himself that being mugged at gunpoint wasn't such a big deal. Deluded.

[Spacecadet]

Was Sasguru in it?
How far was his council flat eco shed from the nice houses?

[TimberWolf]

My sister drove through somewhere called Leyton (think that's how it's spelt) in London with my Dad and she said he looked upset by how it had changed.

[Dallas]

You have to laugh one guy calling his little patch a village and the neighboring tuliphole another village. And the Spanish banker trying to convince himself that being mugged at gunpoint wasn't such a big deal. Deluded.

and a feeble attempt at pulling both sides together by comparing chappy who went to cornwall in a caravan to toff who sold up and shipped out to a field and him bathing out of a bucket.... pants

the difference is that the rich guy has options (and mummy and daddys mansion was probably in the other field and out of shot)

great series though - on iplayer if you missed the last ones

[Scrag Meister]

There was similar program on last week about Caledonian Road that heads north from Kings Cross.

Lived just off it when I first came to London in 2005 and amazed at what it used to be.

It seemed to be the abbatoir of London, and now where the slaughter house was sit some nice looking flats.

[Lockhouse]

My sister drove through somewhere called Leyton (think that's how it's spelt) in London with my Dad and she said he looked upset by how it had changed.

It's a tuliphole.

[Scrag Meister]

Loved the Cypriot chap last week who ignored the planners completely & just did what he wanted.

Though I wouldn't like to live in one of those basement flats of his.

Bit (a lot) of a dodgy geezer, he seemed convinced he was providing an important service to the area.

Seemed like he owned most of the road.