The Knowhere Guide

Best and Worst in Chiswick, Greater London*

Chiswick, Greater London Triumphs and Tragedies

Favourite Building

• 56 St Mary's Grove, the best house in all of Chiswick. And that round cavelike brick thing on Grove Park Road
• The Roman Catholic church "St Michael and All Saints" near Turnham Green Statition has a nice spire on top.
• The wierd Labour Party Campaign HQ in CHiswick High Road. The Chiswick library nice staff.
• St Nicholas' Church, it's a great old building. Plus it's in an area known as sluts yard :-)
• Chiswick House & the old long demolished Chiswick Empire
• ST NICHOLAS CHURCH
• The big church up the top end.
• My old family house [we all moved out of the area recently boo hoo]
• Chiswick House - very grand old building.
• The Old Cinema is nice if a bit twee.
• Fullers Brewery The BSI building
• The houses in Bedford Park, off The Avenue
• The Fire Station

Demolish It Now Building

• the Sports Hall at CCS cos i hated PE. The scary mannequin factory by the railway bridge near Gordon Road. There are bits of bodies in the window. The ex-park keepers cottage in chiswick park
• The little Conservative HQ down some steps further up. The incense ponging huge Catholic Church opposite Sainsburys which blocks the traffic every time a Mass comes out!
• Nimrod's House
• barwick house acton cum on its about time!
• barwick house acton strange people live there! or hang about nearby???
• Both corners of Duke Road = not an improvement on previous!!!!
• Mortimer and Bennet food shop Turnham green Terrace.
• Health Centre
• The Fire Station - very ugly building in the middle of a lovely residential area
• The big blue and white office block across the road from Kew Green Station
• The A4 (it's V noisey)
• big black glass prick thing
• BSI Tower (coz I can see it from the sitting room window - nice view!)

The Best Things

• Lots of lovely parks, clean safe streets, the river, very nice place to live
• crime rate
• Chiswick has the nicest atmosphere of any london suberb. People are friendly and there is so much greenery.
• People, general atmosphere.
• Quiet easy going cosy
• Lots of young single mothers displaying their assets in the summer
• Wonderful, marvellous place to live [can you tell I miss it?]
• The restaurants and atmosphere in evenings and weekends. The relaxed locals.
• Adamou grocers on Chiswick High Road
• The food
• People have respect for one another. It's always a joy to walk down the street without fear of getting knived. River Thames (esp in Summer). High Road (all year round). Best Things are numerous.

The Worst Things

• The traffic calming measures in Hartington Road, locally known as 'lunacy lane' The increase in grafitti in the last year or so.
• Peeps from kensington getting stabbed on my turf.
• the house prices are insane!
• crime rate
• The A4 Road. I live on Hogarths Roundabout and it really stinks!
• With house prices rising all the time unfortunately the "yuppies" have now moved in, the "oh how lovely to see you darling" ones!!!!
• NOWHERE TO DRINK LATE
• Mortimer and Bennet Food shop.Turnham Green Terrace. The service in here is "funny".There is always a tense atmosphere "in the air"from the "staff".Maybe something do with the high prices like Nougat bars @ £10 each. The staff do not seem to like helping customers at all(for instance rudely refusing to weigh vegetables)and appear cross if people do not buy anything.Some of the other customers are a bit "off"too. One day it all exploded in a major hooha with The proprietor using sexual swear words at a customer.The self declared odd greengrocer next door m&c (quoted as saying "we sell queer gear here"joined in with physical threats and it all became quite an argy bargy.I prefer Harrods so much "cooler".
• When I moved away [financial reasons]
• The Piccadily line no longer stops at Turnham Green station. Recently some pubs have been getting some very rough patrons. Obviously not locals!
• Peoples attitude. Going shopping is like Destruction Derby in Sainsburys. Parking is terrible. The whole area is to become a Resident Only Parking" area soon.
• The worst thing is that there are far too many pizza-pasta places.
• Pretty much dead after 11pm
• posh buggies

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Last updated: 2007-07-27