180!!!

[simsqu]

I live almost literally in the shadow of Alexandra Palace: a 5 minute walk up the hill to the palace from my front door, which means every Christmas the place is completely infested with massive, beer-swilling, loud, foul-mouthed, malodourous drunk oiks dressed up as anything from Traffic Cones, via Nuns and Sombrero-wearing Wankers to Minions and Bowling Pins.

The trains, train stations, buses and bus stops are swamped, and if you’ve been for a night out do NOT attempt to get a bus home at around 11.00pm: absolute beer-drenched madness.

It is the only time that I regret getting rid of the car.

Last match has just finished thank goodness. Now a bit of peace and quiet until next December.

[Lootman]

Not by any chance just east of Ally Pally? In my youth I lived right next to The Starting Gate pub there.

My school friend lived on North View Road, just south of AP.

Many fun CAMRA beer festivals at AP, until it burned down.

[Hallucigenia]

I live almost literally in the shadow of Alexandra Palace: a 5 minute walk up the hill to the palace from my front door, which means every Christmas the place is completely infested with massive, beer-swilling, loud, foul-mouthed, malodourous drunk oiks

But that's just the locals surely?

[Tedx]

Can't you do what they do at Wimbledon and rent your house out to a gaggle of traffic cones while you head off to the sun?

[simsqu]

Not by any chance just east of Ally Pally? In my youth I lived right next to The Starting Gate pub there.


Many fun CAMRA beer festivals at AP, until it burned down.

That's my local!! Well it would be if I went to pubs

And by the way, I burned it down

[simsqu]

I live almost literally in the shadow of Alexandra Palace: a 5 minute walk up the hill to the palace from my front door, which means every Christmas the place is completely infested with massive, beer-swilling, loud, foul-mouthed, malodourous drunk oiks

But that's just the locals surely?

Good!!

[Tedx]

STAND UP IF YOU LOVE THE DARTS!

I wasn't there this year, but I think I may have pissed in your doorway in the past.

[simsqu]

Now it's the snooker...

The clientele traipsing off the trains and buses are subtly but importantly different. 95% blokes to be sure, but absent are the costumes (unless you call a pot belly, woolly cap, gray-ish beard and a heavier foot-tread a costume), absent is 90% of the beer and 90% of the yelling.

You still wouldn't mistake the event as The Knitting and Stitching Show though...

[XFool]

I live almost literally in the shadow of Alexandra Palace: a 5 minute walk up the hill to the palace from my front door, which means every Christmas the place is completely infested with massive, beer-swilling, loud, foul-mouthed, malodourous drunk oiks

But that's just the locals surely?

When I originally read this thread I did think of posting a response to the OP:

So, just another Friday night in Muswell Hill?

But thought better of it, at the time.

[simsqu]

But that's just the locals surely?

When I originally read this thread I did think of posting a response to the OP:

So, just another Friday night in Muswell Hill?

But thought better of it, at the time.

Well frankly. a few malodorous drunken oiks in Muswell Hill would liven the place up a bit

[AleisterCrowley]

Not by any chance just east of Ally Pally? In my youth I lived right next to The Starting Gate pub there.

My school friend lived on North View Road, just south of AP.

Many fun CAMRA beer festivals at AP, until it burned down.

I used to live just off Tottenham Lane (almost in the shadow of AP)
Went up to the palace a few times with my then girlfriend. They had a very average bar with a nice view IIRC... we usually ended up back in Crouch End or in the Great Northern Railway in Hornsey (is it still there??)

[brightncheerful]

we usually ended up back in Crouch End

Used to be known as Couch End because of the number of therapist residents.

I used to go to Alexandra Palace regularly for classical music concerts. There were not many places where there were several choirs and an orchestra and plenty of room for the audience/listeners.

Interesting history here: https://artsandculture.google.com/story/7wVBLw9Ah9_wLA#