Brixton chitter chatter, part 2

[snackhead]

A gigantic Poundland I reckon.

I'm guessing Primark or Asda

 

[snowy_again]

YES

Poundland have just taken over the recently closed MKOne at the bottom of Brixton Road... there's shop fitters in there today. EDIT, actually its 99p Land!

 

[twistedAM]

Understood, but presumably blocking one end will have the effect of reducing total through traffic.

....and shunt it onto BWL but that's just council flats and not Victorian houses so it's OK I suppose

 

[twistedAM]

Poundland have just taken over the recently closed MKOne at the bottom of Brixton Road... there's shop fitters in there today. EDIT, actually its 99p Land!

Wow, that's a deal! Poundland rip-off bastards - they should come up with an offer of buy 99 get one free

 

[boohoo]

Poundland have just taken over the recently closed MKOne at the bottom of Brixton Road... there's shop fitters in there today. EDIT, actually its 99p Land!

That's a bit crap really - we don't need Brixton to return to it's late 80s look of lots of cheap crap shop.

(i think Mark One went into administration)

 

[twistedAM]

That's a bit crap really - we don't need Brixton to return to it's late 80s look of lots of cheap crap shop.

(i think Mark One went into administration)

If we have to have crap I'd prefer cheap crap to just plain old crap.

 

[boohoo]

Two proper pound shops in Brixton? next it'll be an Ethel Austins, Bon marche and Peacocks.. then we can compete with Edmonton shopping centre.

 

[ethel]

is it easy to find parking at the camberwell end of coldharbour lane?

 

[kittyP]

Quick question.

Does anyone know if the Catholic church on Brixton road, on the opposite side of the road and a bit further down from the police station, is called Our Lady of the Rosary?

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Yes, the one further up is Corpus Christi

 

[kittyP]

Yes, the one further up is Corpus Christi

The Corpus Christi is the one with the Van Gogh cafe?

 

[Mrs Magpie]

No, that's further down the road and it's C of E. Corpus Christi is opposite Brixton Water Lane.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

The van Gogh caff one is really beautiful...
www.southwark.anglican.org/parishes/040j_a.htm

 

[kittyP]

Thank you for the help

 

[Mrs Magpie]

That's me, I knows all the pubs, libraries, bookshops and churches

 

[kittyP]

That's me, I knows all the pubs, libraries, bookshops and churches

Not a bad lot of knowledge to have.

I would consider myself very very useful with all that

 

[clandestino]

The little swing park opposite what used to be the Queen has shut down. Run out of money, apparently.

 

[Bob]

The little swing park opposite what used to be the Queen has shut down. Run out of money, apparently.

Who ran it? I always assumed it was part of the council Ferndale leisure centre thing.

 

[Missez]

Is that the swing park on Ferndale road? I chased off a pedo there a couple of years ago and reported him to the police. He was hanging around there and apparently touching up the girls.

 

[ash]

I hope you don't mean papas on pulross rd that is such a lovely playground?!!

 

[clandestino]

I hope you don't mean papas on pulross rd that is such a lovely playground?!!

yeah, i guess i must do. don't remember its name. bang opposite the queen. tried to go in there on sunday, but it was locked with a sign saying closed for the foreseeable future or somesuch. a bloke sitting outside with his mate by the tyre place said it had run out of money.

 

[Jonti]

cyclist injured by juntion of Kellet and Railton Roads

just now ... nice light weight bike, heavily damaged rear wheel, rider being loaded into an ambulance and lots of cops ... all calm

maybe unrelated, but I'd earlier seen a large 4/4 SUV type vehicle standing stopped by cops at the crossroads of coldharbour lane and atlantic road. Driver was sat in the car with the hazard lights on, talking into a mobile phone as i passed, while cops directed the ambulance around it.

 

[Bob]

just now ... nice light weight bike, heavily damaged rear wheel, rider being loaded into an ambulance and lots of cops ... all calm

maybe unrelated, but I'd earlier seen a large 4/4 SUV type vehicle standing stopped by cops at the crossroads of coldharbour lane and atlantic road. Driver was sat in the car with the hazard lights on, talking into a mobile phone as i passed, while cops directed the ambulance around it.

Always a tricky set of intersections down there with lots of cars shortcutting.


On a related note a couple of young rascals nipped over our back wall and nicked our bikes on Sunday. A high wall meant we'd not even bothered locking them.

 

[snackhead]

just now ... nice light weight bike, heavily damaged rear wheel, rider being loaded into an ambulance and lots of cops ... all calm

maybe unrelated, but I'd earlier seen a large 4/4 SUV type vehicle standing stopped by cops at the crossroads of coldharbour lane and atlantic road. Driver was sat in the car with the hazard lights on, talking into a mobile phone as i passed, while cops directed the ambulance around it.

I drove past it later by the Dogstar-a RAC breakdown van had turned up.

 

[snowy_again]

Last night I watched someone climb into a car outside the effra and drive straight forwards, really slowly and deliberately into the car parked in front of it, and then casually drive off. Very strange.

 

[e19896]

good god the place has changed, i drove through on my way to Cane Hill Asylum Coulsdon, the mc murder looks funky mind you and just what has happened to the tube station?, we was there Friday 26 12 08 at around 1pm and the place was alive no preacher man mind you..

 

[snowy_again]

Preacher man's moved to the market streets and now has his own little personal tannoy.

 

[boohoo]

Is that the morning preacher man??

 

[snowy_again]

Dunno, as I don't use the tube that often, mid thirties / forties bloke always on about redemption and the lord, it was always good seeing his style and diction improve with time.

 

[bluestreak]

He's still about. He was preaching at the station on monday, tuesday, and wednesday last week.