When and why did ED become so poncey?

[macroban]

I see from the recent Blue Mountain thread that the revisionist history of when East Dulwich gentrification started has raised its ugly head again.

I still think this started with Tiger Lily (54 Grove Vale) in 1979.

Sex in East Dulwich started in 1963.

[Moos]

The trouble with bloody poncey East Dulwich is that there isn't enough Philip Larkin.

[RosieH]

The trouble with everywhere is that there isn't enough Philip Larkin

[Cassius]

Isn't knowing who Philip Larkin is poncey?

[Moos]

Busted.

But he was working class, you know.

[SimonM]

You're just saying that cos he was a librarian at Hull Uni and not at an Oxbridge one...And wore a flat 'at :))

[Zebedee Tring]

Larkin wasn't working class. He was solidly middle class - his dad was Borough Treasurer of Coventry City Council, albeit a Fascist supporting one. And biographies of P Larkin since his death have shown P Larkin in a less than PC light. Like father, like son.

[Moos]

Oops, sorry. And a bad man too? Must have been middle class.

[RosieH]

That's right - poetry only for the bourgeoisie

The working classes are too busy with colliery bands (lord love scargill) and eating battered sausages (god bless aunt bessie) to waste their time with such effete nonsense as literature