First Time Buyer - advice on location (london-cambridge)

becky_rtw

hethmar wrote: »

Hi, no I didnt say every day becks - just some days. I also guess it depends when you are using the train - he works very strange shifts (tv) and may be thats the time when they would squeeze in minor works that holds up the system.

Ahh yes the overnight works - now that is annoying, as well as the fact they no longer run a proper service in the evenings - the last train back to Cambridge is so early now :rolleyes:

Where abouts in London is he looking? It took me about 4 months to find a decent flat :eek::eek:

hethmar

Well he works at White City but doesnt like the area west of there. He would buy Notting Hill ., Putney or Ladbroke Grove if he could afford it but has currently got an offer accepted on a repo in Greenwich (an area he is very familiar with). Not the nicest part of the borough mind you but he has to keep his other flat on aswell as its not sold - he has 2 tenants already lined up for that, people he has known yonks - but have to say he is dithering a bit now even though his offer is nearly 50% of the price at peak Jan 2007 ( new build in 2006)- it seems like the bottom of the world has fallen out the week after his offer was accepted Though he had a deadline for exchange, in fact the other side - a finance company - have been causing a delay as they didnt have all the paperwork they needed. This has made him think twice about the price and he is thinking of offering £10k less now and being prepared to walk away.

PasturesNew

To check at a street-by-street level, which areas are poor and which are affluent, I'd use this: http://www.uklocalarea.com/index.php

It can help to spot along one long road where one end is posh and the other's not. Or where the main road is posh, but all the side roads are not.

gingin_2

hethmar wrote: »

My son was born in Mill Road Cambridge

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The Rosie? I was born there - 1978

hethmar

I think it was just called Mill Road Maternity at that time?

PasturesNew

Mill Road Maternity Hospital and the Rosie are two entirely different places.

Mill Road Maternity Hospital shut down in the early 1980s and was then rented out as offices.

The new Rosie Maternity Hospital was an entirely new build, on the New Addenbrookes site.

Mill Road: http://www.addenbrookes.org.uk/serv/nonclin/archive/mill_road.htm
Rosie: http://www.addenbrookes.org.uk/serv/nonclin/archive/rosie.htm

My sister was born in Mill Road. I turned up a bit too sudden and was a home birth.

Stompa

gingin wrote: »

The Rosie? I was born there - 1978

Are you sure? The Rosie didn't open until 1983 on the Addenbrooke's site:

http://www.addenbrookes.org.uk/serv/nonclin/archive/rosie.htm

I don't recall the old Mill Road maternity hospital being called that before then - though I could be wrong!

gingin_2

Maybe I do have that wrong then, because my mother said the old Rosie used to be on/ just off Mill Road, where some flats now are. She definitely said I was born at the old Rosie. I have Cambridge on my birth certificate so it must have been somewhere! I am not allowed to ask questions about certain things to my mother so it has perplexed me.

hethmar

May be "Rosie" has become the by word for maternity hospital in the area I remember it seemed quite ancient when I was there, 1981, the long corridors and the large pipes running along the ceilings and walls were quite scarey

Chas

No, the maternity hospital in Mill Road was never known as the Rosie. It was just 'Mill Road Maternity Hospital'.

The Rosie was named after the mother of the person who donated money to fund the new maternity hospital - David Robinson, I think.

Maybe the confusion comes because there was an 'Old Addenbrookes' and the 'New Addenbrookes'?

Addenbrookes was originally in Trumpington Street, opposite the Fitzwilliam Museum.