Brixton chitter chatter, part 2

[Badgers]

Wicked isn't it?

Over our place in Brixton Water Lane here.

 

[Badgers]

Brixton Water Lane left side of the rainbow

 

[kittyP]

Wow. Badgers just got back from the shops and told me to put my shoes on and come outside.
Blood he'll!!!

I havnt seen a whole arc rainbow of that intensity for quite a while!!

 

[netbob]

 

[ajdown]

Glad to get a semi-decent picture with my PCP camera - nice to see others get it too. It's not often you see one like that indeed.

*PCP - point, click and pray.

 

[kittyP]

So many people walking along glanced up to see what we were getting so excited over and it was like nothing was there!
Just carried on walking for them.

A couple of people did stop and chat and take pics though so not all bad.

 

[Orang Utan]

it's just a rainbow

 

[ajdown]

Well I enjoyed seeing it anyway.

 

[kittyP]

it's just a rainbow

Yes it is just a rainbow but all the same it was incredibly striking and filled the whole sky

 

[kittyP]

it's just a rainbow

double post

 

[Orang Utan]

i much prefer the pink, orange and purple clouds just now in the sunset - much more spectacular and less commonplace as a tawdry rainbow

 

[Janh]

I still get a thrill seeing a rainbow. I missed this one so appreciate the pictures. I did see and get caught out by the dramatic rain clouds ahead of the rainbow that had me scuttling for cover.

 

[ajdown]

There's a banner on the closed and boarded up shop by the Academy, on the corner of the main road opposite the police station, that looks like they're hiring for what seems as if it's going to become a "payday loans" place.

 

[TruXta]

Brixton Market in the New York Times!

 

[snowy_again]

Hope it's not Evans (or similar) muscling in on Herne Hill bikes.

Nope, small independent outlet apparently, but higher end than HH Bicycles I think.

 

[brix]

Have got a bit obsessed with the Lambeth Archive website recently. New Park Road (my road) looked completely different 55 years ago!

 

[Orang Utan]

i can well believe. i used to live in one of the little cottages just off the road. it's like a tiny rural island. you think you've entered some kind of wormhole and gone back in time.

 

[ajdown]

Have got a bit obsessed with the Lambeth Archive website recently. New Park Road (my road) looked completely different 55 years ago!

Whereabouts on New Park Road is that? I'm round that way too and can't place where it was. I guess none of that exists any more?

 

[Mrs Magpie]

tawdry

One of my favourite words...interesting derivation too....it's a contraction of Saint Audrey's laces, which were necklaces sold at St Audrey's Fair in Ely in mediaeval times. Obviously they were regarded as cheap tat.

 

[Orang Utan]

Whereabouts on New Park Road is that? I'm round that way too and can't place where it was. I guess none of that exists any more?

i think that's the side with the hand in hand on it, looking down towards brixton hill.

 

[miss minnie]

Whereabouts on New Park Road is that? I'm round that way too and can't place where it was. I guess none of that exists any more?

Looks like a bit of it is still there from this streetview

 

[Orang Utan]

go have a look down the side street next to morelli's and you'll find the quaint little cottages i mentioned earlier

 

[miss minnie]

Free guided walk tomorrow!

Sunday 8 August, 2.30pm
North Brixton
Meet at gates of St Mark's Church, opposite Oval tube station
Walk led by Alan Piper, Brixton Society

http://www.brixtonsociety.org.uk/diary.htm

 

[Spark]

Someone appears to have abandoned a fire engine in Kellett Road - it's been there for a couple of hours at least but no firefighters to be seen

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I think they are doing their fire safety visits. They are usually pretty busy doing these after the Country Show where people sign up to get their homes checked for how safe they are, escape routes etc.

 

[nagapie]

Very good they are. I had 3 firemen in a fire engine come round to mine.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

My top Brixton Firefighter moment is getting rescued from a lift stuck between floors. This was one of the firefighters who manhandled me out of the lift......

http://www.gladiatorszone.co.uk/gladiators/male/saracen/


eta
He looks much better in his uniform.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

....and if any wisecracker remarks on the fact it took more than one firefighter to haul my short but wide frame out of a lift they can expect a weekend ban

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

This was one of the firefighters who manhandled me out of the lift......

You needed more than one firefighter. Why?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

....and if any wisecracker remarks on the fact it took more than one firefighter to haul my short but wide frame out of a lift they can expect a weekend ban

oh, just seen this