14. Do you live in a trailer, apt or house? pics. describe
Sort of none of the above. I live in a pretty unique housing estate in South East London called Thamesmead. This place was a housing experiment in the late 60's/ early 70's when London needeed to find a lot of housing and fast. The way this place is laid out is rather unusual in that all the places are connected by a series of walk ways. There is a walk way that goes over to a doctor office and row of shops and originally there was a walk way that went over to a school. The idea was that at no time did anyone have to go down and cross a road. That combined with the fact that the houses were built in a butt ugly concrete gives is a weird feeling.
In fact, this place is so unusual and odd that it was the setting for the film version of A Clockwork Orange. If anyone remember the scene where they attack the bum? Well that parking garage is across the street from me and I do my best not to be there at night.
This place has also been used in a lot of tv shows in the UK but the only other noteable film is 'A Beautiful Thing' which is a gay themed movie version of a play that was actually written about life as a gay teenager in Thamesmead.
I just bought my cam yesterday so I don't have any of my own pics so I had to search the internet for pics of these places. Most of the pics are old so you have to forgive the quality but they demonstrate it.
This first pic isn't my house but it is exactly like it. Mine is a two story that sticks out on the end like this and doesn't share any walls. Most houses here share walls so I love my place for being detached. I moved here because my husbad lived here..I stay because I am close to London and my rent is sinfully low for this size of a place in London.
This pic shows the walkways:
This old pic is taken from across the street from me. Most of the Clockwork Orange bits were filmed over there and that parking garage I was talking about is under there. In addition there is a dogging site under there - or so I have been told.
My place is peaking out in the very distance of the pic at the end of the long walkway. You can just see the top of it hiden behind the row of houses on the right:
