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What's this place all about then? It seems to be an old theatre company, but are they still going?
http://www.urban75.org/london/onion-shed-camberwell.html
Yeah, I saw that but couldn't find any reference to any specific address.London_Calling said:Without going Internet-dolally, the last reference to a production I could see was 2001.
Lambeth's site has something about "home to the much loved Onion Shed Theatre" but I won't fall down if that site's out of date.
I sooo want that to be true!happyshopper said:It's called the Onion Shed because until the early 1980's it was used by a group of Breton Onion sellers. You used to see them cycling round south London with their bicycles heavily laden with strings of onions and garlic. If I missed them in the street I would call round and buy my onions from the shed, where they would be stringing then together. I always suspected that they slept in the loft, although it was all fairly derelict.
I can remember the rag and bone man on Coldharbour Lane too.ats said:When I first came to Brixton in the seventies I can remember rag and bone men.
It is true, I remember seeing the onion men when we used to pass through Brixton in the 70's when we visited my aunt.editor said:I sooo want that to be true!
Mind said:OK,
what the hell is a rag and bone man?
It sounds gross.
**Googles**
Mind said:OK,
what the hell is a rag and bone man?
It sounds gross.
I used to walk past it every morning on my way to work....you smelled it before you got there...I was sad to see it go. Speaking of rememberence of things past, does anyone else remember the ponies on Knatchbull Road?happyshopper said:It's called the Onion Shed because until the early 1980's it was used by a group of Breton Onion sellers. You used to see them cycling round south London with their bicycles heavily laden with strings of onions and garlic. If I missed them in the street I would call round and buy my onions from the shed, where they would be stringing then together. I always suspected that they slept in the loft, although it was all fairly derelict.
dogmatique said:Oh the youth of today!
I feel old.
ats said:Going back to the original question, I don't think it was ever an independent theatre company. I think that, after the onion men left, it became a theatre space belonging to Charles Edward Brooke School, which is just round the corner.