jezg
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Ghost Whale on Saltoun Road or London Beer Lab on Nursery Road(behind SW9) have a good selection.
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I went to London Beer Lab as I was in Brixton and haven't been there for years.
They were super helpful and opened the shop for me as it was still closed. Good range.
Only disappointment was everything is in a can. They said no one is making in bottles any more but at The Sympathetic Ear there were always loads of bottles and one of my friends likes bottles.
But definitely achieved the aim.
jimbarkanoodle
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Glass has got much more expensive in recent years. Although at the prices some of these 'craft beer' places charge, its a wonder they can't absorb the cost. They usually give a bullshit excuse about the environment, or even taste being why they use cans over glass (which loads of people fall for hook, line and sinker), but essentially they are lying about cutting costs to keep the profits healthy.
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They were really, really helpful when we launched the Brixton Buzz beers too. t's a shame we've never found another brewery to partner with, although I can see how our insistence of giving every single penny of the profits away to local charities makes it a less than attractive option for more profit driven enterprises.
felonius monk
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The last one I had a month or so ago was not as good as previously, probably 6 months before. Seems the Mama Dough chain went into administration in last December and bought out by new owners (who own The Exhibit in Balham). The new company kept 5 of the 7 restaurants and closed two. That may account for a change in quality (menu is a bit different). Collapsed London pizza chain Mamma Dough bought out, saving 47 jobs
jezg
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Most brewers moved to can before glass got pricey for operational(smaller, lighter, quicker to chill down) and quality reasons(no light, less oxygen ingress). Trend came from US and then small canning lines became available and affordable here. If u want glass from a local brewery try Orbit in Walworth, think avail. at Ghost Whale.
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I love those quiotes from Begbies Traynor. I was working for Lambeth Accord at 336 Brixton Road when they went bust in January 2000.
The charity was "put into administration" - which meant basically that the largest creditor HM Inland Revenue could not close it down.
There was a reconstruction involving two mortgages on the charity's ghastly building to be paid off in seven years.
Meanwhile Begbies got £50 an hour for telephone conversations about what to do with the accounts - if the call was with an administrator.
If however the call was with a Begbies partner it was £200 an hour. Then there was the correspondence - getting all the creditors to agree to this arrangement - chargeable.
And the creditor's meeting. Trauma-rooney!
I guess allowing for inflation those rates could have trebled by now. I don't think people realise how firms like Grant Thornton and Begbies Traynor enjoy a parasititc relationship with insolvency. The more firms go bust the higher the profits at Begbies and Co!
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You should try working in it for 20 years! The main problem is massive heat loss and heat gain due to huge areas of single glazing.
Needed air conditioning on in summer - which would add to the massive heating bills in winter, given current energy costs.
The actual style is 1960s brutalist - and the designer Owen Luder was chair of RIBA TWICE!
"Luder also has the unique claim to fame of having served as president of the RIBA for two separate terms: from 1981-83 and 1995-97. He also served as chair of the Architects Registration Board.12 Oct 2021"
Mr Luder - who built and lived in a small house in Herne Hill Road at one time - died in 2021 aged 93.
Owen Luder ‘Britain’s unluckiest architect’ dies aged 93
Owen Luder, the Brutalist architect and two-times RIBA president, has died at the age of 93
www.architectsjournal.co.uk
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You should try working in it for 20 years! The main problem is massive heat loss and heat gain due to huge areas of single glazing.
Needed air conditioning on in summer - which would add to the massive heating bills in winter, given current energy costs.
The actual style is 1960s brutalist - and the designer Owen Luder was chair of RIBA TWICE!
"Luder also has the unique claim to fame of having served as president of the RIBA for two separate terms: from 1981-83 and 1995-97. He also served as chair of the Architects Registration Board.12 Oct 2021"
Mr Luder - who built and lived in a small house in Herne Hill Road at one time - died in 2021 aged 93.
He did a cameo turn at the end of the TV series on brutalism by Jonathan Meader. Owen Luder, like Robin Day, always wore a bow tie.Owen Luder ‘Britain’s unluckiest architect’ dies aged 93
Owen Luder, the Brutalist architect and two-times RIBA president, has died at the age of 93
I forgot to post the last time you repeated the claim that Owen Luder designed 336 Brixton Road that Lambeth's planning records (page 328 of pdf) show that the original (1964) planning consent was granted to Messrs George, Davies and Webb of Jermyn Street. They seem to have been an unexciting commercial firm of architects. The only mention of them in Pevsner is a building they did at 55-57 High Holborn in the 1950s which is sober curtain walling in a stone frame. It is not impossible that they passed the job on to Luder, as the only other reference I can find to the firm is a merger in 1966 to create an architecture and engineering consultancy working in the boomtown of Abu Dhabi.
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Interesting about the original date - 1964. Was it ever used as a warehouse I wonder - before Coutts bank used it to house their mainframe computer and store records?
I had the suggestion that Owen Luder was involved from the secretary of a well known local society who studied at the Brixton College of Building in Ferndale Road - an establishment Owen Luder also attended, presumably at least 20 years earlier.
I never saw any record mentioning Owen Luder when I worked there. There was masses of stuff concerning a dispute with Pellings - who seem to have been the architect who converted the building from a computer centre and made it accessible.
Pellings still exist and I think designed the regeneration scheme for the Clapham Park Estate.
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Presumably not as lively as "Banged Up"?
TopCat
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This is in Brixton nick?
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stripey
Yes. You have to book beforehand and pay a deposit - then it’s about 30 minutes from arriving to sitting down given ID checks and going through scanners and that. But meal was absolutely great and obviously skills and experience people are getting feels well worthwhile
wemakeyousoundb
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not tried the clink yet but from the other side I had the most interesting meals while there during black history month sometime last millenium, made a massive change to the usual prison fare, but not everyone there liked it. where is the sausage and mash!!!
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Franco Manca will be closing their Market Row restaurant and moving to a bigger space in Brixton soon.
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Franco Manca’s original London restaurant is closing down
After 15 years, the high-street pizza chain’s first outlet in Brixton Market is shutting.
wemakeyousoundb
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I used to eat my takeaway pizza leaning outside a closed market shop next to Franco's before he went missing decades ago, bit of a milestone, the race bike riding waiter used to live around the corner from me in vauxhall, lovely person.Franco Manca will be closing their Market Row restaurant and moving to a bigger space in Brixton soon.
Franco Manca’s original London restaurant is closing down
After 15 years, the high-street pizza chain’s first outlet in Brixton Market is shutting.
happyshopper
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ex-Nanban’s?Franco Manca will be closing their Market Row restaurant and moving to a bigger space in Brixton soon.
Franco Manca’s original London restaurant is closing down
After 15 years, the high-street pizza chain’s first outlet in Brixton Market is shutting.
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That would seem a likely candidate and they could certainly afford the rent. Or maybe on the site of the flopped Brewdog across the road?
happyshopper
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Or The Railway/Brady’s as some of us think of it.
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
New (and IMO blandly corporate) 'The Black Farmer' signage has now gone up on the Market Row fascia. Rumour from other local traders is a 14 December opening.
ETA: 14th Dec now confirmed as official public opening date with 11th -13th Dec as "VIP testing days" with 20% off.
(Not the most generous of "soft launch" discounts given all that can go awry!)
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I went and had a look, didn't buy anything, had my hand shaken by Wilfred the BF. The space is amazing but the food prices look exorbitant. He has his own brand of crisps at well over £3 for a small tub. I don't think he'll be taking much of Nour's customer base.
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A full on rich Tory in the house. Mega gentrification in action.
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