Colliers Wood is the new place to be. All the smart property people are snapping up the big houses there and turning them into flats, so that they can rent them to kids and stop them from ever getting their grubby little feet on the property ladder. It’s at the end of the Northern Line in more ways than one, and used to be the end of the line for property hunters. No one wanted to live there by choice. These days it’s in demand, and gastro pubs and coffee shops are popping up where corner shops and betting shops used to be. There are more and more women with bumps and new prams that are marketed as ergonomic infant transportation modular systems than ever before. Once you see a shop selling imported Italian bibs and Swedish feeding mats then you know that the area has arrived. In order to
