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Streatham High Road was voted 'worst high street in Britain' around 20 years ago. I'm not sure that it has improved much since then.
The first MacDonalds to shut down since their introduction to the UK, was in SHR.
And yet, when I was a kid, SHR was regarded as 'Little West End'.
2 Cinemas, theatre, bowling alley, dance hall, branch of John Lewis, numerous pubs and restaurants.
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Is it tho? That's the land of no craic. First time there was going to the cinema. Standing in the foyer debating whether or not to buy popcorn and a lit firework rocket was lobbed in through the front doors. Been back in the area periodically for the last 14 years, it has not got any better. My nearest big Tesco is the one by the common. Security guards are constantly given grief about the restrictions. A couple of weekly shops ago there was a man and a woman having a socially distanced fight by taking turns at ramming the same trolley back and forward into each other.