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On Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:42:12 +0000
The Real Doctor wrote:
On 28/12/12 12:31, Clive D. W. Feather wrote:


So is much of north of the Thames. Places like Knightsbridge. Kensington
was a place that was difficult to get to because of the state of the
roads. When I was young West Ham was one of the largest towns in Essex.
Hammersmith was a place that rich stockbrokers lived because they liked
to be out in the country - why do you think *three* railways built lines
there from London?

The Gorbals was originally developed as an upmarket residential area for
rich Glaswegians who wanted to move out of the city centre.

Notting Hill in london started out as an upmarket Georgian area, then went
downmarket when all the immigrants moved in, now they're slowly buggering off
to turn somewhere else into a slum and the area had been going back upmarket
again since the 90s.

That must apply to many other areas too, such as Islington. Of course, the
development of public transport networks massively changes the character of
an area (eg, Metroland).