{"id":1532,"date":"2014-02-07T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-forest-gate-east-london\/"},"modified":"2016-01-15T04:03:35","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T21:03:35","slug":"lets-move-to-forest-gate-east-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-forest-gate-east-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Let's move to Forest Gate, east London"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n‘Look at it on the map and think, well, not much. But then it turns out that Forest Gate is quite Hollywood’What’s going for it? Look at it on the map and think, well, not much. Get out at the station, the suspicion is confirmed: just another bit of east London. The usual. Terrace houses \u2013 some lovely ones, admittedly \u2013 footie-playing and dog-walking on Wanstead Flats, curry houses, smashing south Asian grocers. Then you read about the Upper Cut Club, once of Woodgrange Road, where Otis Redding, Stevie Wonder and Pink Floyd all played. Jeez. In its opening week alone, it hosted the Who, the Animals, the Spencer Davis Group, Geno Washington and “The Jimmy Hendrix Experience” (that’s the misspelt original, not a\u00a0tribute band). These days, Plan\u00a0B raps about its home streets, and men-of-the-moment Chiwetel Ejiofor and Idris Elba both wax lyrical about their childhood here in\u00a0the “real” East End. Forest Gate, it turns out, is quite Hollywood. Ooh, and have I mentioned Crossrail? Or the schools? Or the property prices?The case against The sense that, come rush hour, you are the mat over which a vast chunk of commuting London walks. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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