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It also helps that the skylights provide a lot of natural light. I think it’s the extensive use of greys and white, with patches of green and black, and the little blobs of colour from the holds. The Stronghold somehow manages to be probably the most aesthetically attractive climbing wall I’ve been to. I also really like that the Stronghold promises on its website that two areas will be reset every week – meaning that there should always be new problems to climb every time I go. Plus, The Stronghold has a good mix of challenging, pumpy problems on which to push yourself and gentle problems to warm-up on. There’s just the right amount of physical and mental challenge in solving the problems. There’s variety in both the lines of the problems and the shapes of the wall that they go up. The problems at The Stronghold are interesting and great fun.

The Stronghold Climbing Centre’s training area. The remaining third has a traversing wall, a large training area with campus and fingerboards and what The Stronghold describes as London’s largest circuit board.

These are set with circuits colour-coded by level of difficulty according to the Hueco (or V) grading system. Two-thirds of this is made up of painted walls with holds and two freestanding boulders. Me climbing at the Stronghold Climbing Centre. There is so much bouldering here that I genuinely had trouble working out what to do first (and second and third). The first thing that strikes you is a huge arch and climbing walls with a beautiful variety of shapes that stretch out in-front of you before disappearing around a corner.

The Stronghold says that it’s London’s largest indoor bouldering space and that’s easy to believe when you walk from the reception through to the climbing area. These workshops have been replaced with a big, open and light climbing space and a range of good facilities. The Stronghold Climbing Centre is housed in an old warehouse that had previously been home to a charity recycling and reusing domestic furniture and appliances. London’s newest climbing wall is hidden away down a quiet street a few minutes walk from Tottenham Hale station.

But is it any good? Me climbing at the Stronghold Climbing Centre. The Stonghold Climbing Centre has a cool name and describes itself as London’s largest indoor bouldering space.