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Brixton chitter chatter and news and updates (Feb-Aug 2011)

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Pat24 said:
Both are food snobs, so I have to obey to their wishes or else! :) M&S was closed and it had its windows smashed! -kitties will have to wait until all this is over for their special food.
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Let them starve. When they're hungry enough they'll start tucking into you :D
 
ajdown said:
took an hour and a half to get home to the top of the hill from Tesco Old Kent Road - which was being evacuated and shut down as we were going through the tills.

it's not good out there this evening.
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:hmm: Never had you down as a looter.
 
another bunch heading down Tulse Hill a few moments ago - but then that's normal any night..

eta... another big group just gone down now.

Surely they're gonna run out of coppers at some point?
 
Don't bother trying to use the Tesco & petrol station on Tulse Hill, it's been taped off all morning. The shops on Elm Park are all okay.
 
Well I went to Lidl early this morning and it was great - completely abandoned, really easy shop. The guys working there were discussing the events and saying things like "Keep this shit out of Brixton" and "there'll be even less jobs out there now".... genuinely concerned, shocked and upset (although they reckoned there'd be some good labouring jobs in the immediate aftermath, cleaning up). The lady at the till was very very kind to me - it's a handful shopping with a toddler. Then I took my toddler to the free playgroup up the road - free fruit, milk, songs, games etc. Afterward, I got home and my neighbour had cleaned my windows for me as he was doing his own anyway. Just totally confirmed to me again that this is a great place to live.
 
gaijingirl said:
Well I went to Lidl early this morning and it was great - completely abandoned, really easy shop. The guys working there were discussing the events and saying things like "Keep this shit out of Brixton" and "there'll be even less jobs out there now".... genuinely concerned, shocked and upset (although they reckoned there'd be some good labouring jobs in the immediate aftermath, cleaning up). The lady at the till was very very kind to me - it's a handful shopping with a toddler. Then I took my toddler to the free playgroup up the road - free fruit, milk, songs, games etc. Afterward, I got home and my neighbour had cleaned my windows for me as he was doing his own anyway. Just totally confirmed to me again that this is a great place to live.
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That's lovely. Need to get some shopping. Any idea what's open in Brixton?
 
The big Tesco looked open, obviously the Lidl is open... dunno about on the main strip. Tesco on Tulse Hill is being guarded by coppers - all sealed up. Seems Herne Hill has a ton of coppers guarding shops up there too. I wouldn't be surprised if those that are open, close early today though.
 
Tesco on Christchurch Road was robbed at gunpoint when they were cashing up on Sunday night. About 3 grand I think was taken.
 
gaijingirl said:
The big Tesco looked open, obviously the Lidl is open... dunno about on the main strip. Tesco on Tulse Hill is being guarded by coppers - all sealed up. Seems Herne Hill has a ton of coppers guarding shops up there too. I wouldn't be surprised if those that are open, close early today though.
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M&S?
 
quimcunx said:
Most of the sirens I've seen/heard have been heading up B Hill.
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To belatedly add to this: My girlfriend and I were having a drink in Pauloz' Way last night and half a dozen riot vans went up the hill at around 7.30. A friend lives in Balham and saidb there was some trouble in Tooting, so perhaps that is where they were heading, although it does seem a little distant.
 
Chilavert said:
To belatedly add to this: My girlfriend and I were having a drink in Pauloz' Way last night and half a dozen riot vans went up the hill at around 7.30. A friend lives in Balham and saidb there was some trouble in Tooting, so perhaps that is where they were heading, although it does seem a little distant.
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There were small isolated incidents in Streatham as well, but yeah, they were probably on way to somewhere else.

Paulo'z has been renamed hasn't it. Had a paint job and under new management. Reckon it's just been handed over to one of the owner's family maybe?
 
Minnie_the_Minx said:
There were small isolated incidents in Streatham as well, but yeah, they were probably on way to somewhere else.

Paulo'z has been renamed hasn't it. Had a paint job and under new management. Reckon it's just been handed over to one of the owner's family maybe?
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There's a new sign on the front but it still says Pauloz on the side.
 
Yep it has got a new name on the front, seems more or less the same inside, with the exception of the fish tanks having been removed.

It used to be run by quite a large chap who also runs that furniture shop up past the Telegraph, but there were new staff in there last night.

Good food as well and whilst the chicken wasn't as good as the Gallery's, they have more variety on the menu.
 
Chilavert said:
Yep it has got a new name on the front, seems more or less the same inside, with the exception of the fish tanks having been removed.

It used to be run by quite a large chap who also runs that furniture shop up past the Telegraph, but there were new staff in there last night.

Good food as well and whilst the chicken wasn't as good as the Gallery's, they have more variety on the menu.
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The fish tanks were in the Green Market last time I saw them
 
I'm told Currys won't re-open and the staff have been given 30 days notice....... Well, those members of staff who weren't caught looting their own employer In THEIR UNIFORMS. Sad news if correct.
 
Chilavert said:
To belatedly add to this: My girlfriend and I were having a drink in Pauloz' Way last night and half a dozen riot vans went up the hill at around 7.30. A friend lives in Balham and saidb there was some trouble in Tooting, so perhaps that is where they were heading, although it does seem a little distant.
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Could have been going to Croydon even.
 
London_Calling said:
I'm told Currys won't re-open and the staff have been given 30 days notice....... Well, those members of staff who weren't caught looting their own employer In THEIR UNIFORMS. Sad news if correct.
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Blimey ^

Can't be sure if that is right or not but I would guess (if so) it is not solely down to the looting? Possibly the straw that broke the camels back as I could never see them making a huge profit on that site. Nothing to back this up, just musing....
 
London_Calling said:
I'm told Currys won't re-open and the staff have been given 30 days notice....... Well, those members of staff who weren't caught looting their own employer In THEIR UNIFORMS. Sad news if correct.
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Really? I feel sorry for those (honest) staff if that's the case. Things just getting worse for everyone.
 
There's a photo doing the rounds of one of their members of staff in her uniform being restrained by police outside the store....

(no idea if it's a genuine photo but it looked v. genuine - but I'm no expert in these things).
 
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