What's the heart of Wandsworth? Can you spot it? Could you pick it out of a line up?
I think Wandsworth is about the most fascinating and frustrating area in London. It's sprawling, compact, beautiful, ugly, up-market and down-trodden all at the same time.
Walk along the Bellevue Road and you feel as if you're in a boutique gentrified neighbourhood with Gordon Ramsay popping out for a quick pizza, but trudge up Trinity Road to the one-way system and you're in hell. Traffic, pollution, noise, filth, burnt-out bins.
Ok, it's not that bad, but Southside shopping centre isn't the best place in the world to while away a lazy afternoon, and east hill aint a place to slide down on a toboggan!
And then you stumble across Old York Road, again boasting with it's Pizza Express and chic pub culture, before slamming into the horror of the roundabout and industrial estate.
It's weird. I don't get it, but in some ways I prefer the slummy Wandsworth to the posh bit.
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