Brixton chitter chatter and news and updates (Feb-Aug 2011)
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Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Just back from Streatham. Went into that cafe Purple. Was ok.
Also noticed a new Moroccan restaurant is opening soon, but have already forgotten the name. Marrakech something?
Also noticed a new Moroccan restaurant is opening soon, but have already forgotten the name. Marrakech something?
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Holland and Barrett also has a sale on. 2 for 1, except it's not strictly 2 for 1 as the second item you pay 1p on
Nour Cash & Carry to close.Their rent is being increased massively.
No fucking way! Most my supplies come from Nour's!
Are they closing for sure???
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Nour Cash & Carry to close.
surprise surprise, the "regeneration" of the market with multiple profitable coffee and tat shops leads to rent increases that drive out the businesses that make it what it is. How long until it's turned into Spitalfields?
teuchter
je suis teuchter
This is a Brixton thread for Brixton matters.
Nour Cash & Carry to close.
Giant dog's cock. That's one of the most useful stores in Brixton by a long way, with a reliably huge range of stuff.
The balance in the market is taking a turn for the worst if they're being forced out, the predictions sadly coming true. No amount of sodding vegan cupcake and gluten-free fakeries will make up for the loss of affordable and everyday stores like that one.
clandestino
no llevar papel
Can you eat there or is it delivery only?
clandestino
no llevar papel
Oh, hang on...this is on Tulse Hill rather than in Tulse Hill.
Anyone recommend anywhere to eat out in Tulse Hill - within walking distance of the station.
Anyone recommend anywhere to eat out in Tulse Hill - within walking distance of the station.
In a way the vegan cupcake people are part of the problem. They paid top whack and made no attempt to negotiate the rent. But it is their first shop and perhaps they don't know the ropes. They're burning loadsamoney on fitting out their shop, marketing etc.
Seems to me that individual tenants are being bullied with ease by the market landlord. They don't seem to have any organisation. I'm no expert onthese things, but might it help if they all used the same commercial agent and organised some more public support. Is there someone on here from Friends of Brixton Market who could fill us in? There must be a few urbs who would pitch in to help. I would. Maybe the market needs its own thread?
ajdown
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One moment people are whining that the big corporations like Starbucks and Costa Coffee are 'invading' Brixton, and they wish there were more independent shops here - then when an independent shop comes to Brixton, at what is a tough time for any business let alone one trying to establish itself, that's wrong too.
Is it that vegan cupcakes are a bit too "Clapham/Hoxton" for people round here?
TruXta
tired
Did you even read nick's post ?
Clearly he didn't.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
This is the most depressing market related news I've had for a long timeNour Cash & Carry to close.
I actually feel tearful as opposed to "Oh, that's a shame."
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Where the fuck will I get the range of chilli sauces? Not to mention that they are the only place left to buy middle-eastern pastries. FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK. Just when I thought my day couldn't get any worse.
Ms T
Honey-coloured ramparts
This is the most depressing market related news I've had for a long time
It's really shit, isn't it?
gaijingirl
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Re Nour: That's very sad news indeed.... a real loss. It's an amazing shop.
@ nick.h: how reliable is your information re: Nour?
the market has a new landlord, LAP have sold it to a French company that specialises in running covered markets. Can't be any worse than LAP. Don't know if this has anything to do with the news about Nour. Haven't heard it from anywhere else. However I'd be surprised if it were connected, the new landlords don't take over until next month. Rumours abound in the market, and are often wrong. Tbh it's the last place in the market I'd expect to close, it's always got a really solid trade - it's busy 6 days a week.
But there is a long story about that unit. It's officially Brixton Market Hall, apparently got some funding years ago and wasn't ever supposed to be let to a single enterprise like Nour. It's possible that the new owners have
new plans.
But whatever, losing Nour would be a total tragedy. All we can hope is that if it does have to leave Brixton Market Hall, somewhere else in Brixton is found for it.
the market has a new landlord, LAP have sold it to a French company that specialises in running covered markets. Can't be any worse than LAP. Don't know if this has anything to do with the news about Nour. Haven't heard it from anywhere else. However I'd be surprised if it were connected, the new landlords don't take over until next month. Rumours abound in the market, and are often wrong. Tbh it's the last place in the market I'd expect to close, it's always got a really solid trade - it's busy 6 days a week.
But there is a long story about that unit. It's officially Brixton Market Hall, apparently got some funding years ago and wasn't ever supposed to be let to a single enterprise like Nour. It's possible that the new owners have
new plans.
But whatever, losing Nour would be a total tragedy. All we can hope is that if it does have to leave Brixton Market Hall, somewhere else in Brixton is found for it.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
@fortyplus
nick h is reliable. He lives in the heart of the market and he engages with people, goes and listens to them and checks stuff out. He's told me stuff in the past that I've been a tad sceptical about initially but he's never been wrong so far. He's got a lot of respect round these parts and he's earned that respect.
eta
By 'round these parts' I mean on the ground, in real life in Brixton and among people who don't know one end of a computer from another, let alone can afford one. U75 is a very useful resource but a lot of people who work in the market or live locally wouldn't recognise U75 if it jumped up and bit them on the bum. I've lived here for 30 years, know a lot of people and in a lot of ways he's got better info than I have.
nick h is reliable. He lives in the heart of the market and he engages with people, goes and listens to them and checks stuff out. He's told me stuff in the past that I've been a tad sceptical about initially but he's never been wrong so far. He's got a lot of respect round these parts and he's earned that respect.
eta
By 'round these parts' I mean on the ground, in real life in Brixton and among people who don't know one end of a computer from another, let alone can afford one. U75 is a very useful resource but a lot of people who work in the market or live locally wouldn't recognise U75 if it jumped up and bit them on the bum. I've lived here for 30 years, know a lot of people and in a lot of ways he's got better info than I have.
*Blushes* Erm, thanks Mrs M. 
I heard it from another of the tenants. The only other titbit I got was that Nour will be cut up into smaller units, which makes sense given the history related by fortyplus. I'll check tomorrow and get more detail. Maybe I could get properly introduced to the Nour folk and get it from the horse's mouth. Clearly a lot of people are going to be gutted about this. You never know, perhaps Something Could Be Done if a few of us poke our noses in.
I heard it from another of the tenants. The only other titbit I got was that Nour will be cut up into smaller units, which makes sense given the history related by fortyplus. I'll check tomorrow and get more detail. Maybe I could get properly introduced to the Nour folk and get it from the horse's mouth. Clearly a lot of people are going to be gutted about this. You never know, perhaps Something Could Be Done if a few of us poke our noses in.If you go into the unit and look past all the piles of Nour's merchandise you can see how it was originally intended to be - a lot of tiny units facing on to the glazed central area. If Nour has to go, it would be good if that original feel could be recreated, but I'd be surprised if it would be economic like that. Can anyone remember how long Nour's has been there? The leases are usually 3 or 10 years, maybe Nour's lease is up for renewal. Or it maybe that the new owners have just looked at the building and, not being from these parts, haven't yet had time to appreciate the unique qualities of the enterprise itself. (eta: and could therefore, perhaps, with more local knowledge, be persuaded of it in time)
Or, clutching at straws, it could still be that nick.h's informant is misinformed. I'm a BV tenant, not Market Row, but I do know how patchy and confused the information in and about the market often is.
Or, clutching at straws, it could still be that nick.h's informant is misinformed. I'm a BV tenant, not Market Row, but I do know how patchy and confused the information in and about the market often is.
Stolen Macbook Alert
Karl, the bloke doing the signwriting for Ms Cupcake, has had his newish 15" Macbook Pro pinched. (He was up some scaffolding outside the shop and left the Macbook down on the red bench under the arch. Which was a bit
tbf, but he's a country lad and this was his first day in Brixton.)
So if you should be offered a cheap Macbook in the pub he'd love to have it back and is prepared to pay the street price if that's the only option. It's silver but it's in a black sheepskin lined case. It has a circular orangey sunbeamy sticker on the lid. If the sticker's been removed it might have left a bit of a mark.
Karl, the bloke doing the signwriting for Ms Cupcake, has had his newish 15" Macbook Pro pinched. (He was up some scaffolding outside the shop and left the Macbook down on the red bench under the arch. Which was a bit
tbf, but he's a country lad and this was his first day in Brixton.)So if you should be offered a cheap Macbook in the pub he'd love to have it back and is prepared to pay the street price if that's the only option. It's silver but it's in a black sheepskin lined case. It has a circular orangey sunbeamy sticker on the lid. If the sticker's been removed it might have left a bit of a mark.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Do you mean Granville Arcade?
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
The shop that is Nour was much the same layout before they took it over except they didn't have the double entrance (ie in the covered market as well as onto Electric Avenue). btw I think they're open 7, not 6 days a week, because of their Electric Avenue entrance.
eta for clarity. Before Nour, there was only the covered market entrance. Nour started the Electric Avenue entrance iirc.
eta for clarity. Before Nour, there was only the covered market entrance. Nour started the Electric Avenue entrance iirc.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Just seen nick h's post about the nicked Macbook...see what I mean about him having local info?
I must admit he was a bit daft....he must be from deepest rural parts (Brigadoon?). I wouldn't have left summat like that lying around in Llandeilo Market 30 years ago. Not that Macbooks existed then, but you know what I mean.
I must admit he was a bit daft....he must be from deepest rural parts (Brigadoon?). I wouldn't have left summat like that lying around in Llandeilo Market 30 years ago. Not that Macbooks existed then, but you know what I mean.
New Ice Cream/Milkshake parlour
As mentioned upthread, here's the new ice cream/milkshake place which the new barber/tattooist has opened. Sorry about the rubbish pic. Franco Manca is to the left, out of shot.
Ice cream is always good news, so if y'all want this parlour and the charming Spanish lass to stick around we're going to have to buy loads or persuade them to cut their prices which are ABSURD. One scoop of (admittedly delicious) chocolate and caramel ice cream was nearly £2. And the cone was £2 extra.
So I had a free plastic pot instead.
My original intention was to have a milkshake made with said ice cream and was told they don't make milkshakes from ice cream because it's too expensive. (It would have been £8 for the 4 scoops required, plus an extra charge for the milk!) Their proposed ingredient for a chocolate milkshake is not ice cream but some mystery ingredient in a box which achieves Creme Egg flavour or KitKat flavour etc.
The above policies are all set by the barbershop people, not the Spanish lass, who is an innocent pawn in all this.
As mentioned upthread, here's the new ice cream/milkshake place which the new barber/tattooist has opened. Sorry about the rubbish pic. Franco Manca is to the left, out of shot.
Ice cream is always good news, so if y'all want this parlour and the charming Spanish lass to stick around we're going to have to buy loads or persuade them to cut their prices which are ABSURD. One scoop of (admittedly delicious) chocolate and caramel ice cream was nearly £2. And the cone was £2 extra.
So I had a free plastic pot instead. My original intention was to have a milkshake made with said ice cream and was told they don't make milkshakes from ice cream because it's too expensive. (It would have been £8 for the 4 scoops required, plus an extra charge for the milk!) Their proposed ingredient for a chocolate milkshake is not ice cream but some mystery ingredient in a box which achieves Creme Egg flavour or KitKat flavour etc.
The above policies are all set by the barbershop people, not the Spanish lass, who is an innocent pawn in all this.
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