Tim Morgan got in touch after buying his SE11 hoodie to tell us just what he loves about his postcode. Here are his insider tips:

What’s the best thing to eat in your postcode?
It has to be one of Rose and Halil’s fried breakfasts over at the Kennington Lane Cafe washed down with tea and (complimentary of course) tap water

What’s the best smell in your postcode?
The sweet smell of success emitting from the offices of Mint Digital at Westminster Business Square. (nice plug, Ed)

I have 3 hours in your postcode. What do I do?
Start in the Parma cafe and admire the enormous range of menus in there, go around the corner and spend some time with the great variety of rabbits and alpacas at Vauxhall City Farm.

Walk down Tyers street via the park until you get to the Jolly Gardeners German pub where you can sample one or two of an enormous range of German beers. Head back towards the embankment and walk along the river to the SIS building experiencing the amphibious vehicle entering the water at that point. Stop at a Portugese cafe for a farewell coffee.

If your postcode wasn’t in London, where would it be?
Cuba

What’s the best thing in your postcode?
It would have been the Royal Oak pub until Tony the landlord went back to Ireland a few months back. Ummm if England clinch the Ashes there in a few weeks, the Oval cricket ground.

Talk dirty to your postcode. Go on… what would you say?
Stick with the rough stuff SE11, Shoreditch can cater for those who prefer the missionary position

Best bus route in your postcode. Where does it start and where does it take you?
The 77 from Tooting to Waterloo hands down

Has anyone written a book about/set in your postcode?Have you seen your postcode in a film or on tv?
The aerial photo when England are playing at the Oval shows the whole shebang. The area features heavily in books about U2 as they used to squat here. Some of the victorian housing in Kennington is often used for period dramas and of course the SIS building was in ‘The World is Not Enough’.

Trading up or trading down?
Do you mean is it getting better? It is becoming more upmarket but thats a shame as we’ve lost some great institutions; Tony in the Royal Oak and the Ecuadorian cafe/barbers/shop/disco booth on Kennington Lane for example

Tim Morgan is CEO and one of the founding members of Mint Digital who make mass participatory websites. He spends most of his time bigging up SE11 in the face of relentless whining from some of the other Mints who say “Why cant we work in Shoreditch?” and my friends who say “lets have a night out in Spitalfields”. Tim also loves football and has played across some of Londons premier footballing hotspots including Dulwich Hamlets, Chiswick and dare we say it, Old Street. His latest football project can be found here www.football3s.com.

Aw, thanks Tim. It’s good to get some SE tips up on the blog, and we hope that the rest of your great institutions stay going strong. Love the tip about the city farm… we love a good city farm in postcode HQ!

Rachel (W12)

Photo taken from http://london.unlike.net/locations/302418-Vauxhall-City-Farm
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