the northolt pyramids

[stanley75]

I don't think the Wembley thing is a myth. In fact I am pretty sure the Council claimed it was a "coup" that allowed them to make money from building an "attraction" and it all being environmentally friendly etc. Might have other rubble in there as well I suppose!

[Scarlet pimple]

The money got from the company who dumped there, paid for the whole project.

Plus there are a number of fishing lakes there also.

Us Northolt breathren are not stupid ya know.

[stanley75]

Not been behind the mounds tbh. Amuses me watching people walking dogs in circles round and round them. Whilst I accept they may be lovely when you are inside the perimeter, as features go they are up there with Milton Keynes concrete cows for a drive by mocking.

I am not, btw, saying my neck of the woods (which pretentiously calls itself Harrow Garden Village) is much, if indeed any, better either. It is a toilet and our only attraction is decent curry houses. But you all seem to actually like Northolt. It's that I don't get!!

What's the marina like? (I mean that as an honest question - I'm not taking the **** - I have been intrigued by it for years but never made it). There a pub or anything to do there?

[Dazzer1977]

THIS SHOULD CLEAR IT UP:

Standing right beside the A40, a short distance from RAF Northolt, are four conical mounds, the the tallest stands at 26 metres. These are part of Northala Fields, one of London's newest parks, opened in 2008, and were constructed using waste material from the original Wembley Stadium the new Westfields shopping centre.



The mounds shield the rest of the park, created on the former Kensington and Chelsea's Playing Fields site, which includes a model boating lake, play areas and an amphitheatre, from the noise and pollution of the A40.

The project cost £5.5m, and started in 2000, but Ealing Council hit on a cunning plan to reduce costs, charging £70 to £90 per lorryload to dispose of spoil from the Wembley and Westfields sites, and using it to build the mounds, allowing the developers the added bonus of only transporting it 10 miles rather than the usual 100 miles to a landfill site.

Northala Fields lies within the Northolt and Greenford Countryside Park, which covers approximately 45 acres.

SOURCE: http://www.tiredoflondontiredoflife....la-fields.html

[80sCasual]

Great photographer! lol, getting his shadow in the pic, can't believe they would use it for an article.

[G.T.P]

its three mounds of earth on top of a land fill next to the A40 which has been handed over for recreation purposes

yeah cheers, i know where they are, just didnt have a clue what they were. just thought they were a fancy landfill, didnt know it was a mini gunnersbury park.
'happiness is northolt in the rear view mirror'

[qprted]

i grew up

i grew up in northolt and i got my broken nose outside northolt station,sadly its not a battle scar i was drunk and jumped onto a 140 bus,strangly my broken nose with the scar running down it is my most famous facial feature
and i love it most northolt boys have broken noses and shaven heads

WE ALL STAND AROUND THE GREAT PYRAMIDS CHANTING


GIANNI....GIANNI......GIANNI..................we do it every sunday morning
then the scarlet pimple comes out all dressed in purple and holds his hands out in front of himself

he shouts out.........ROY CURTIS....MARK MACDONALD...KENNY SWINDLES

these are of couse the greatest qpr fans who ever lived

then scarlet shouts out,WHO ATE ALL THE PIES

we all have to shout.........VICTOR

northolt has become a very strange place since the magic pyramids have been erected

[WeAreQPR12]

Dexter will you be turning up for the millwall home game?

If you have a broken nose we could send you in 1st as the canon fodder!

[stanley75]

I'm genuinely puzzled where you lot could possibly drink in Northolt. And it is clear you all like a bevy. From some of the commentary on here you must all be on wi-fi in the snug pretty often! I have seen a few Rangers in the Harvester on match day mornings. But that's about it in terms of options isn't it? Do you all drink in Yeading or something?

[G.T.P]

laurel and hardys aint int?

[stanley75]

You are not one of "them" i.e. Northolt posse are you? The only L and H I know is Hanwell. Which if its true would sort of prove the point there is nowt there. There ius a nice pub in Yeading "village" which I can't remember the name of now.

[G.T.P]

laurel and hardys is the shop front pub next door to the star wars shop and mcdonalds.
and im an 'ex' one of them.
the target and the crown used to be my homes.
tho there was also the white hart, the load of hay and the plough.

[stanley75]

I remember the Target. Was alright in its day. But unless you want shake and fries not much use now of course. Never been in the White Hart. More landmark than boozer isn't it. I imagine it is pretty grim. Is one of the other to you mention not now the Harvester. And the other one is , I imagine, the one that converted to cirry house and then not-so-mysteriously burnt down.

[G.T.P]

white hart was always a good boozer, load of hay is a harvester now, the crown was always a beefeater at the back, but the pub bit at the front was always chocked full of dirty birds who were up for it, and the plough was the pub on the main road with the thatched roof just before the clock tower and had a nightclub out the back. it burnt down in 2009.

[The Merry Ploughboy]

I'm genuinely puzzled where you lot could possibly drink in Northolt. And it is clear you all like a bevy. From some of the commentary on here you must all be on wi-fi in the snug pretty often! I have seen a few Rangers in the Harvester on match day mornings. But that's about it in terms of options isn't it? Do you all drink in Yeading or something?

Where the Norfolt drink is none of your business as you are a Harrow p1ke y