Every day the good folk of Devon , and I'm sure Liverpool, Newcastle , Cardiff, Edinburgh, Aberdeen et al feel the benefit of " the Olympic Legacy or whatever tosh they called it.
Mike, I have a vague theory about London's up and downs.
I started working in Hackney in the early 1970s, at that time parts of Hackney were dreadfully run down.
You could see though that many of these large terraced houses had once been very smart, but were by then dreadfully over crowded and multi occupied by poor working class people.
Families in two rooms, kitchens on landings and shared toilets.
The housing in the area of "London Fields" now very affluent and attractive just to the west of Kingsland Road was in a dreadful state .
By the time I stopped working there in about 1977 gentrification was really getting underway.
I am quite sure this cycle will be starting again. There are probably an academics somewhere who have charted these declines .
As before in this cycle London is becoming unaffordable.
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Oh go on go on go on. It's better out than in.
Oh yeah, I forgot the Olympics.
Every day the good folk of Devon , and I'm sure Liverpool, Newcastle , Cardiff, Edinburgh, Aberdeen et al feel the benefit of " the Olympic Legacy or whatever tosh they called it.
Mike, I have a vague theory about London's up and downs.
I started working in Hackney in the early 1970s, at that time parts of Hackney were dreadfully run down.
You could see though that many of these large terraced houses had once been very smart, but were by then dreadfully over crowded and multi occupied by poor working class people.
Families in two rooms, kitchens on landings and shared toilets.
The housing in the area of "London Fields" now very affluent and attractive just to the west of Kingsland Road was in a dreadful state .
By the time I stopped working there in about 1977 gentrification was really getting underway.
I am quite sure this cycle will be starting again. There are probably an academics somewhere who have charted these declines .
As before in this cycle London is becoming unaffordable.
'You must have some bread with it me duck!'