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"Green Market Centre", apparently.
Brixton chitter chatter, part 2
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"Green Market Centre", apparently.
boohoo
No.
I had a chat with them last night - they seem to be working their way around Brixton - the shops are quite keen generally.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Oh, I like Thai
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
teuchter
je suis teuchter
I had a look in there the other day. I like the odd mix of stuff.
gaijingirl
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a bit outside Brixton but in Herne Hill Dust is closing down - which is a bit sad, they had good sales and saved my bacon on many an occasion when I had to get a card/gift.
And a BYOB mezze restaurant is opening up next to the Greengrocers.... which I'm very excited about...
And a BYOB mezze restaurant is opening up next to the Greengrocers.... which I'm very excited about...
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
i went to pullens in herne hill the other day - nice place, nice staff. apparently it's been there forever but i never noticed it 
they sell yummy springbok!
they sell yummy springbok!
gaijingirl
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actually we went there for the first time recently also. We did once start to go in there year ago but were horrified at the price of a breakfast so didn't. We ended up there on New Year's Day 'cos everywhere else we tried had run out of food... it was ok but I don't know that we'll go often. It's just a bit too pricey for what it is I think..
the staff though were very nice - that's true.
the staff though were very nice - that's true.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
how much was breakfast? i don't remember tea being that expensive.
gaijingirl
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Don't remember tbh - it was a long time ago.. from memory it was something like a set price for a couple of items and then £1 extra for every extra thing - so by the time you got a proper breakfast it was veeeeery pricey.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
google tells me £6.50 but in 2005!
billythefish
toad licker
Just been out in it... there was a wall of water coming up Brixton Hill towards me - like I was up in the mountains.
Am now back home, changed into dry jeans, supping tea and eating Nutella on toast
Am now back home, changed into dry jeans, supping tea and eating Nutella on toast
Am now back home, changed into dry jeans, supping tea and eating Nutella on toast
Mmmmmmmm I love that
han
love is the answer
I have to say, I'm missing the Lawrence (R.I.P.) and Julie clan running New Park Rd Fruiterers (Julie packed up and left just before Xmas).
The new guy is nice - but he hasn't got the passion for fruit and veg that Lawrence had, and the chattiness. I don't know - maybe it's just gonna take time - but it feels a bit like the heart's been ripped out of the street and it makes me sad.
The fruit and veg are all a bit old and ropey now - not the quality as before. People have stopped going to that shop - it's always v quiet, and I can't see it lasting very long at all. I'm hoping someone with some vision and passion for community takes it over and breathes life back into it.
The new guy is nice - but he hasn't got the passion for fruit and veg that Lawrence had, and the chattiness. I don't know - maybe it's just gonna take time - but it feels a bit like the heart's been ripped out of the street and it makes me sad.
The fruit and veg are all a bit old and ropey now - not the quality as before. People have stopped going to that shop - it's always v quiet, and I can't see it lasting very long at all. I'm hoping someone with some vision and passion for community takes it over and breathes life back into it.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
They'll be a hard act to follow. I only lived in the street for a year but I remember Lawrence ordering a case of Laxton apples just cos I said they were my favourites and he reckoned he would sell the rest anyway. The other great thing about both of them were when you needed potatoes you just asked for a kilo of whatever they recommended for mashing or whatever you wanted to do with them. Am afraid shops like that are like hen's teeth these days except for the chi-chi food shops which i always think recommend stuff they want to shift.
Orang Utan
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yes, ta! whereabouts on coldharbour lane is it? opposite the barrier block?
colacubes
Mr Hot Cookie
Looks like it - is it the Gresham Road junction?
boohoo
No.
Yes, it's that junction. I don't remember that area getting damaged but then it wasn't somewhere I would go past. The 1985 riots should be the oval, stockwell, Brixton riots as they started out nearer the oval than Brixton. They went past my house though I wasn't in. My mum and sister hid downstairs as it happened outside. My dad had to jump over the back wall to go and stop me and my brother coming home. Every other house on the street had windows broken. Ours and nextdoor didn't - maybe someone knew they were council .
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Orang Utan
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ah of course
All the shops down there are really struggling. Before they sold the greengrocer's, Julie's son in law told me that business had totally dried up. He blamed a couple of things such as the Tescos and Sainsbury's nearby (apparently the latter had a deal to fix some road with the council when they were building the shop and while they were doing this, they also put up a bus stop outside their shop for which there was no plan. This meant that all the foot traffic that used to get off and walk down the little passage next to the Telegraph and shop on NPR was lost to Sainsbury's). He also said the population in the area had become too transient, which affected their building up of a customer base.
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