Brixton chitter chatter, part 2

[gaijingirl]

Ok. My comment was just a joke about me not getting up in time to go to the lido therefore not wanting to read a thread about breakfast at the lido, thats all. Forget it.

Yeah - I have got some sense of humour you know... so YOU forget it...

 

[Greenfish]

christ, midnight here and it just seems to be getting hotter and HOTTER.

 

[editor]

The local unofficial car park/dumped car/stolen car/BBQ centre/drug dealing venue/takeaway food packaging repository/hang out outside the Barrier Block has just been cleared by cops and council officials with several cars being towed away.

 

[Janh]

The local unofficial car park/dumped car/stolen car/BBQ centre/drug dealing venue/takeaway food packaging repository/hang out outside the Barrier Block has just been cleared by cops and council officials with several cars being towed away.

Someone must have complained . I always wondered how that area got to be like that and thought that someone had permission to have those gates up to provide secure parking.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Someone must have complained

The local tenants associations (there are three locally, that I know of) have been on about it for ages. Rats and anti-social behaviour.
The big question is; why did it take so long?

 

[colacubes]

Came out of the tube about 7pm and looks like something nasty had happened. The bus stop outside Iceland was being police taped off and there was an ambulance, several coppers, a couple of crying teenagers and a big pool of blood on the floor

Just been past again and the tape is gone but there's still a massive blood stain on the floor

 

[boohoo]

was an accident down by the Lido this evening too...

 

[snowy_again]

was an accident down by the Lido this evening too...

Cyclist got knocked over by a car near Hurst Road. Taken off in an ambulance with a broken leg and some other injuries apparently...

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

4 things I have noticed today:

1) A road crossing near Coldharbour Lane that says "look both ways". Don't think I've ever seen one that says that. They're normally "look left" or "look right".

2) Black and White posters of old film stars being put up in the arched recesses of The Ritzy

3) Albert's Fish and Chip shop on Brixton Hill which became something else is now something else and is called Peri Peri.

4) Shop between the old Hill Rise Chemist and Morley's Chicken (near The Telegraph) being done out. I've forgotten what was there before.

 

[ajdown]

For "4", it was LL Frames.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

For "4", it was a LL Frames.

ah. Thank you

 

[Brixton Hatter]

Exhibition on Coldharbour Lane

Just noticed there's a photography exhibition at Loughborough Junction at the moment called "Last Orders at the Bar: the demise of the Great British Pub" - thought a few urbanites might be interested.

It's only on for a few days: 12 - 15 July only, so the last day is this Thursday. It's free.

More info here:
http://www.redgategallerylondon.co.uk/2010/07/last-orders-at-the-bar-the-demise-of-the-great-british-pub/#more-1372

 

[Janh]

Just noticed there's a photography exhibition at Loughborough Junction at the moment called "Last Orders at the Bar: the demise of the Great British Pub" - thought a few urbanites might be interested.

It's only on for a few days: 12 - 15 July only, so the last day is this Thursday. It's free.

More info here:
http://www.redgategallerylondon.co.uk/2010/07/last-orders-at-the-bar-the-demise-of-the-great-british-pub/#more-1372

Thanks for the tip

 

[twistedAM]

3) Albert's Fish and Chip shop on Brixton Hill which became something else is now something else and is called Peri Peri.

4) Shop between the old Hill Rise Chemist and Morley's Chicken (near The Telegraph) being done out. I've forgotten what was there before.

3. Is it open yet?

4. I -think- it was some kind of locksmith or something. Did it have turd-brown wooden panelling outside?

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Black and White posters of old film stars being put up in the arched recesses of The Ritzy

I love 'em, particularly the Bette Davis one.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

2) Black and White posters of old film stars being put up in the arched recesses of The Ritzy

They look great. Pam Grier

 

[Nanker Phelge]

That was some good rain!

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

3. Is it open yet?

4. I -think- it was some kind of locksmith or something. Did it have turd-brown wooden panelling outside?

Yeah, but saw a load of Asians out there today. Maybe a grocers?

No fittings inside yet so impossible to tell what it is

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I love 'em, particularly the Bette Davis one.

I was on the bus and couldn't see them properly. I think the first one may have been Jean Harlow (or was it Mae West?), can't remember the next, and there was scaffolding in front of one. Clarke Gable may have been there but like I said, was viewing from a funny angle. Bette was on the ground at the time

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

3. Is it open yet?

Don't know. Haven't been out in the evening since Sunday. Not noticed it opened in the daytime though

 

[ajdown]

Yeah, but saw a load of Asians out there today. Maybe a grocers?

No fittings inside yet so impossible to tell what it is

Be a bit silly if it was, it's not like we're exactly short of those kind of shops round there, particular with Sainsburys and Tesco within 10 minutes walk too.

The 'asians' you saw might just have been shop fitters because I saw a whole load of people there fitting that description ripping off the front and inside of the old shop a week or so back?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Be a bit silly if it was, it's not like we're exactly short of those kind of shops round there, particular with Sainsburys and Tesco within 10 minutes walk too.

The 'asians' you saw might just have been shop fitters because I saw a whole load of people there fitting that description ripping off the front and inside of the old shop a week or so back?

Yes, but Asians will often use people within their community (better communications/prices etc), so they could be family/friends.

Not to mention New Park Road

PS: Saw a guy with a turban. I don't see many builders with turbans

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Brixton Hill today

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Brixton Hill today

Alright, proof that they do do building work, but I don't think you'd see many of those Jews on Brixton Hill

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Anyway, why have none of them got a hard hat on?

They're probably cowboys

 

[teuchter]

Brixton Hill today

Are they trying to bury Richard Dawkins?

 

[editor]

The old Texaco garage site on Coldharbour Lane has now had all the vast piles of rotting rubbish, broken bottles, heaps of chicken boxes and other junk removed, and has been sealed off with an industrial looking 'Stalag 14' style fence, adding a little bit more to the 'prison' ambience of the block.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Alright, proof that they do do building work, but I don't think you'd see many of those Jews on Brixton Hill

You refuse to see the jews! anti-sssssemite.

 

[ajdown]

I can now reveal what's happening to the shop mentioned just as "4" above, the old frame shop.

There's a shopfitter van outside (well there was 2 minutes ago) and there's a new canopy pronouncing it'll be "Asphair" - which I assume is moving up from about 4 doors down for some reason.

Also, 4 coppers and an ambulance on New Park Road, dealing with a drunk guy who seems to have been caught trying to piss against a wall. I assume the ambulance is because he is having difficulty standing.

 

[paolo]

Anyway, why have none of them got a hard hat on?

They're probably cowboys

They tried the cowboys. Now they're trying the indians.