Entirely blocked from spreading to the North by the unassailable respectability of Wanstead, and prevented from expansion to the East, by half-decent Ilford and to the West by up-coming Stratford, lies the stagnant pool of liquified shit that is Manor Park.
Manor Park. A shithole that is so wretched, it even makes Forest Gate seem charming.
A complete eyesore, Manor Park is nothing but a living dumping ground.
Romford Road scythes through it on the way out of London and represents the only element on any value in the landscape as it’s some kind of road out of there – which is all it’s used for, apart from being a speed-record proving ground for every Asian boy-racer.
For everyone else, it must be torture to have the landscape dominated by that trunk road as “Out” is the last place any of them are going in a hurry.
The place abounds with shambling losers, wastes, the aged and the dumb – and broken-english speaking refugees and dodgers of every race, colour and creed. A hovel and a ghetto at the same time. Failure hangs over the place so heavily you can taste it. Everyone else tastes it too, judging by the big gobbets of phlegm you can see gobbed out on the pavement every ten paces – the different colours inside of it are something to look, I suppose: street art.
Pound shops and take-aways are what there are plenty of – they almost outnumber the benefit-scroungers that populated the dump.
The Lumiere Building residential conversion made a proud and bold attempt to make itself an outpost of aesthetic modernism in advance of the regeneration of Stratford 2 miles up the road. It was a breathless attempt to attract some people with some kind of profession and regular wage into the area. It was always doomed – it’s all just a bit too far from the action. When anyone with an upbringing of any value, or the slightest splinter of intelligence got sick of living in an ivory tower that happened to be in the middle of a sewer – and when even off-street gated parking and the fact they bought cheap weren’t enough to take the feeling of sinking into a bath of shit out of coming home – Owners sold up quick smart, the Council bought – and so the Wastes, Chavs and Tenants moved in to stink up the place with their foul breath and worse habits. Now there are washing lines strung behind it’s panoramic windows, condoms litter the stairwells and piss-stained mattresses block the refuse area.
The Tesco-metro next door is like Precinct 13. God bless Tesco. Just go to Manor Park and imagine that store not being there – you’re left with a bleak stinking waste with the musty and shabby and useless Army & Navy Stores straddling the junction up the road, selling tat to the poor, fishermen and door-staff…
Manor Park – the most complete and irredeemable shithole in London.
Not really accurate, mate. In general, This article captures and then amplifies everything that is wrong with the London borough of Newham, manor park being by a long way the most habitable town in the borough.
Manor park is a simple place. It has two of the most spectacular green spaces in east London, none of the desperate overcrowding of neighbouring forest gate or east ham and decent transport links to wanstead, ilford, Stratford, romford and london. It feels like a far more settled community than the rest of newham, which has the feel of being overrun by desperately poor people who have just arrived in England.
It lacks nice cafes, shops and bars etc but these are
The entire borough of Newham has an air of failure about it, a grey tinge even on a sunny day, newham is the only place where i’ve had a 10 year old pull out a 6 inch blade to me, and i’ve been to a few of the ‘ghetto’ areas of los angeles.
What happened to reviews about hackney, lewisham, deptford, croydon, illford, barking, greenwich, hammersmith, whitton, southall, hounslow, hanwell, ealing and many many more places.
Londons streets would be millions of times safer if people living in council estates and people with a ghetto mentality would just behave.
i think this is a very mean article and im tellin u manor park ant nuffin like dat ok?!
i think this is a very mean article and manor park aint nuffin like dat ok.
Believe me mate, Forest Gate is by far the grottiest place on the planet!!! I came from Eastern europe i know what i am talking about.
NO I WONT HAVE THAT………….Hartlepools a lot worse
I can’t believe the amount of hatred and racism pouring out of this website…whoever set it up should be ashamed and whoever advertises here should be boycotted. I’m shocked by the lack of understanding and abundance of ignorism about the issues which are truly at the core of all this….”The place abounds with shambling losers, wastes, the aged and the dumb…… Failure hangs over the place so heavily you can taste it.”
Barry Champlain, shame on you.
Oh shut up and you mincing boring f**k faced left wing tree hugging commie pervert kiddie fiddling nonse case,bald headed bum bandit scum.
there is poverty in manor park, but at least its a real community where your neighbor watches your back, u know there are things in life worth more than money
you surely have ommitted the most glaring blott on the landscape.
the cheap flea bitten scabby faced blotchy legged crackhead whores, plying their wears for all to see, sometime after eleven pm on the romford road very near to tesco metro. I have had the unfortunate but timely tap on my window from a prostitute touting ‘ you want business love ‘as i tried to drive down a side road as an escape route off the romford road only to be sirened, flashed and screeched to a halt but two young bolshy coppers who jumped out and proceeded to inform me that i was soliciting prostitutes and to my dismay and defence telling them not so politely that they need their eyes tested as i said… ‘well if thats the case where is the prostitute cos she aint in my car and with that and without further words or provocation on their behalve they proceeded to their car and promptly drove off leaving me sitting there like a lemon wondering what the f**k just happened!
Wow you must be spoilt! Imagine if you went somewhere really shit, like Reading or Swindon.
Manor Park has lots of green space and very few chavs. It could do with less cars though, they are the real let down, people driving to the supermarkets in Becton at 1mph stinking up the place.