Brady's, Brixton (Railway Hotel): history, chat and plans

[editor]

Yes, but now it just ends mid flight by crashing into a new ceiling, with a weird fragment of window showing. It looks ridiculous.

 

[Rushy]

Yes, but now it just ends mid flight by crashing into a new ceiling, with a weird fragment of window showing. It looks ridiculous.

Really? It looks pretty much identical to the original feature to me. The sofit to the underside of the stairs looks like it intersects the window in exactly the same place, just above the meeting point of the two sashes.

 

[boohoo]

I like the bit in the ad where it says the clock mechanism in the bedroom is a real talking point. Because that's what you want to do when you are going to bed - talk about clocks.

Flat looks cold - could have done with using a warm colour in all that space.

 

[editor]

Really? It looks pretty much identical to the original feature to me. The sofit to the underside of the stairs looks like it intersects the window in exactly the same place, just above the meeting point of the two sashes.

Except the stairs now go nowhere so the window is in a strange little triangle of space. But if you think it's great, that's fine by me.

 

[Rushy]

Except the stairs now go nowhere so the window is in a strange little triangle of space. But if you think it's great, that's fine by me.

That window is on the stair between the second floor and third floor. It leads to the third floor landing from which there are no more stairs up. It is exactly as it was. Not that that means you have to like it, but it has been restored as original.

 

[editor]

Edit: can't be arsed

 

[ChrisSouth]

So depressing.

I don't think it's depressing. Depressing is a black dog. Depressing is when you feel that you can't move. Depressing is a horrible situation. Brady's may be sad and upsetting, but it isn't depressing.

 

[editor]

I don't think it's depressing. Depressing is a black dog. Depressing is when you feel that you can't move. Depressing is a horrible situation. Brady's may be sad and upsetting, but it isn't depressing.

It is to me. Seeing that wonderful community pub turned into exclusive apartments breaks my heart. My heart sinks every time I go past it.

 

[uk benzo]

Brady's newly painted clock tower has been graffitied.

 

[CH1]

View attachment 59996 Brady's newly painted clock tower has been graffitied.

Yes I've noticed that waiting for the train recently. Shouldn't think Grime Busters will be going up there in a hurry.

 

[SpamMisery]

Looks like a nice flat.

 

[Gramsci]

For anyone with a spare £450k:

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-47680943.html

That seems an awful lot for a small flat. It looks interesting place but its right by railway and above a restaurant.

 

[Gramsci]

View attachment 59996 Brady's newly painted clock tower has been graffitied.

I like streetart but tagging does look crap most of the time.

 

[editor]

Looks like a nice flat.

Especially if you're a big fan of deep rumbling vibrations.

 

[SpamMisery]

Wouldn't have far to walk to catch the train

 

[editor]

Wouldn't have far to walk to catch the train

You can't catch the one that goes through the building.

 

[SpamMisery]

Lovely beams in the reception room

 

[editor]

Lovely beams in the reception room

I bet they rattle about a treat.

 

[SpamMisery]

Nifty secondary glazing though

 

[technical]

For once estate agents aren't lying when they mention close proximity to public transport

 

[leanderman]

For once estate agents aren't lying when they mention close proximity to public transport

I'd expect a hefty discount in return for having a rail line running through my home. Yet the asking price doesn't much suggest this.

 

[Rushy]

I'd expect a hefty discount in return for having a rail line running through my home. Yet the asking price doesn't much suggest this.

£625-660/sqft (with / without the long entrance hall - which you normally would include for comparisons) seems quite a lot lower than recent values for newly developed property. Still wouldn't tempt me to live under the train though!

 

[editor]

Nifty secondary glazing though

Have you ever been up in the top floors of that building? No amount of 'nifty' double glazing will stop the whole building shaking like mad when a heavy train rumbles overhead. Instead of trying to squeeze in expensive lifestyle flats the place should have been left as a community resource, for which is far more suited.

 

[SpamMisery]

I like the white paint

 

[sparkybird]

For anyone with a spare £450k:

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-47680943.html

I love the fact that the bedroom is described as 'a real talking point'....

By the time you get your 'friend(s)' into the bedroom, I would have thought not much talking going on.....

 

[editor]

I like the white paint

By Christ, you're becoming tedious.

 

[editor]

I love the fact that the bedroom is described as 'a real talking point'....

By the time you get your 'friend(s)' into the bedroom, I would have thought not much talking going on.....

More like a "bellowing point."

 

[SpamMisery]

 

[ViolentPanda]

By Christ, you're becoming tedious.

"Becoming"? You have a gift for understatement!

 

[colacubes]

Had a chat in passing with the guys who are painting the outside of the building earlier today. They're doing some spray paint stuff in reasonably nice sympathetic colours. IMO what they've done so far is looking pretty good Apparently the Bradys signage on Electric Lane is staying as it is, and they're also putting in a Railway Hotel type sign in a similar typeface on the Atlantic Road side. My guess is Wahaca will be open early November given how close it is to being done.