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hiraethified
This place looked fun - shame we've lost it.
http://www.urban75.org/brixton/history/brixton-skating-rink.html
http://www.urban75.org/brixton/history/brixton-skating-rink.html
Brixton Skating Rink
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hiraethified
That's an ice rink.
This was a skating rink. With a band and everyt'ing.
Just to mention that I may well have visited the roller rink in the very late Forties and that for sure I did do so from time to time in the Fifties - sometimes there were very long queues outside, you could use your own skates or hire them - sometimes the borrowed ones were pigeon toed, the noise was very great and of course there was music which in the circumstances had to be pretty loud too. The prices I cant now remember but would have had to be quite cheap. Of course it was quite good fun to go there.
colacubes
Mr Hot Cookie
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
This must have been where the Carpet/Tile shop now is, opposite the Hobgoblin/hootananny.
Of course, the ironic thing is that an ice rink may now be returning to Brixton (where the multistory car park is)....but as part Tesco's dodgy plan to try to wriggle out of their planning responsibilities in Streatham.
Of course, the ironic thing is that an ice rink may now be returning to Brixton (where the multistory car park is)....but as part Tesco's dodgy plan to try to wriggle out of their planning responsibilities in Streatham.
Gramsci
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thats interesting post. Do u remember what the Brixton market was like back then?
