Ladies of the Lordship night: Stoke Newington sex scandal 6
It’s hardly Soho in the seventies, but the seedier side of the Stoke Newington nightlife scene appears to have manifested itself in the area around Lordship Road and Lordship Park. Stokey Talk sources report seeing young ladies in very short skirts patrolling the streets in the early hours of the morning. And no, they weren’t on their way home from Ryan’s Bar.
“My wife came out of the back door into the car park of our block,” discloses our man in a raincoat, “and there was a woman bent over a motorbike and a man hurriedly pulling up his trousers.” On another date, our source had occasion to hire a pre-dawn taxi . “The driver told me that a woman had tapped on the window enquiring if he wanted any business.”
Who would have thought that a leafy (admittedly, not the leafiest, but still pretty verdant) part of N16 could become a venue for red-light activity. Letters have been sent to Hackney Council, and Stokey Talk will keep you up to date with developments. Maybe a site visit is called for? Then, at the crucial moment, your correspondent would have the opportunity to make his excuses and leave.
“Who would have thought that a leafy (admittedly, not the leafiest, but still pretty verdant) part of N16 could become a venue for red-light activity”. Welcome to the real world.
http://finsburypark.wordpress.com/2007/07/02/kerb-crawlers-apprehended/
Until the Police action in 2007,street walking and kerb-crawling had been commonplace in the Brownswood/Lordship area for at least the last couple of decades(I moved here in ‘91)-hopefully it won’t get as bad again.Maybe,if any of your female friends are unlucky enough to get propositioned by dodgy male kerb-crawlers,as happened to friends of mine in the past,you’ll be a little less flippant about the subject.
P.S. I wouldn’t have thought that a letter to Hackney Council will be giving anybody nightmares-they have better things to do with their time,like defacing local artwork. Try the Police.
Oh yeah – it’s definitely a Met Police “Safer Neighbourhoods” job rather than the numpties at the Council – who, as the previous contributer has correctly indicated, are busy defacing local artwork.
It’s hardly new in N16. I grew up in Stokie/Stamford Hill in the 70s and 80s. It used to be mostly the Finsbury Park area, which then saw the sex workers move towards Stokie and Stamford Hill. Manor Road and Amhurst Park were rife with kerb crawlers in the 80s. It’s never really gone away.
You seem to be able to notice this on Manor Road now even in the day time – short skirts and dodgy wigs and even the odd rent boy around as well. Not very nice for residents using the local bus stops where sex workers try to pretend they’re waiting for a bus. At least it’s not in the numbers on St Anne’s Road in Tottenham. I know one resident whose been brave enough to use during the summer one of the large water drench guns to deter sex workers from outside their house.
I’m afraid to say we’ve just moved into a flat in Stoky that (a week prior to our move) was raided for being a brothel… any advice on wording of ‘this brothel has now moved’ notice that’ll go our door is most welcome.
I think the “brothel has now moved” should do the trick.