Brixton news, rumour and general chat - April 2014

[sparkybird]

Grrr - Lambeth Council are rubbish. I received no less than FOUR copies of the same planning application notification today - all the same addressee and application - 4 different reference numbers. I commented once on the application - so how come this generates 4 different references?

Maybe if they spent a little time cleaning up their database they might save enough money to spend on essential services

RANT OVER

 

[ViolentPanda]

The Crystal Palace crew took me up the Gypsy Hill...

Now there's a euphemism for sodomy that I haven't heard before!

 

[ViolentPanda]

I'm going to bed now and i'm going to take myself up the HAMLET.

Hopefully you're not going to "take yourself up the Hamlet" with a Hamlet cigar!

 

[Dan U]

Was listening to Radio 2 earlier while driving, Kathleen Turner was being interviewed and she said the video for that Billy Ocean song 'the going gets tough' (?) with her, Danny de Vito and Michael Douglas in was 'shot in an old theatre in Brixton'

Quite random I thought.

Also she has an amazingly deep voice now. Must have smoked a lot of ciggies

 

[SarfLondoner]

Yes it was. It was wooden shopfront so went up in flames quickly.

There was the jacket potato shop just along from the tube,didn't that go up as well ?

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

There was the jacket potato shop just along from the tube,didn't that go up as well ?

They reopened as Roast Potatoes R Us.

 

[SarfLondoner]

They reopened as Roast Potatoes R Us.

What was the original name? Spud u like or Jackets i was thinking.

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

What was the original name? Spud u like or Jackets i was thinking.

I can only vaguely recall it, and it may be a false memory but i do recall jacket potatoes being a fast food fad for a bit.

 

[SarfLondoner]

I can only vaguely recall it, and it may be a false memory but i do recall jacket potatoes being a fast food fad for a bit.

There where indeed spud shops popping up all over the place only to disappear not long after.

 

[CH1]

There was the jacket potato shop just along from the tube,didn't that go up as well ?

I think it was called "Jackets", and was run by a black guy. Not damaged in a riot - closed because the council redeveloped the block.

Goodbye Jackets, Index Books and the rather good Asian replacement for Burtons.

Hello WH Smith, Sainsburys, Argos and a variety of mobile phone shops.

Jackets did try another Brixton location - but it didn't last long. I think they had another branch in Clapham.

 

[CH1]

Yes it was. It was wooden shopfront so went up in flames quickly.

You're right about the ad hoc nature of the Dunns shop. But I don't think the video clip & photo are of Dunns. The Dunn & Co shop was roughly where Vodaphone now is, but projected out the width of one railway arch under the high level bridge as can be seen from that 1975 photo on Flikr.

You would have the complete width of the current Smiths & Sainsburys between Dunns & the Brixton underground station, whereas the film clip does show the flames adjacent to the Brixton Station sign.

That is why I am suggesting 7-Eleven as the towering inferno - together with the fact I remember seeing it the day after it got burnt out.

 

[Gramsci]

That is why I am suggesting 7-Eleven as the towering inferno - together with the fact I remember seeing it the day after it got burnt out.

Its the shape of the burning shop that make me think it might be Dunns.

I miss the 7-Eleven shops. They were always entertaining late at night.

 

[editor]

The is also the Cafe Rio on that stretch of road. Its amazingly cheap.

One of the issues raised at the recent consultation meetings about the redevelopment of that area is that this stretch of Brixton Station road is one of last areas of Brixton that has is affordable.

There is a danger it will be lost when that area is redeveloped.

I'll be utterly amazed if a large chunk doesn't go 'upmarket' eventually. It's already starting to happen along the stretch of Coldharbour Lane opposite the Barrier Block.

 

[Ms T]

The 7-11 definitely went up in 95. I'd just bought my flat on Kellett Rd. I went to see A Winter's Tale (I think) at the Ritzy with a friend, and came out to riot police and total mayhem. I was really scared but my friend, a journalist, insisted on roaming the streets to see what was going on. He ended up filing copy for loads of newspapers including, I think, the Independent.

 

[leanderman]

I'll be utterly amazed if a large chunk doesn't go 'upmarket' eventually. It's already starting to happen along the stretch of Coldharbour Lane opposite the Barrier Block.

Walking west along Bethnal Green Road last week, starting from the Tube station, I was amazed at how ungentrified it still was - right up to Brick Lane. It seemed hardly to have changed since we left the area in 2006.

 

[CH1]

I'll be utterly amazed if a large chunk doesn't go 'upmarket' eventually. It's already starting to happen along the stretch of Coldharbour Lane opposite the Barrier Block.

But we are still waiting for that Cocktail Hospital or whatever it was. Anything moving there?
The pop-up restaurant seems to have fizzled out and 334 is in negotiation with planning (he is trying to rob most of the ground floor space for residential leaving a much smaller space for the shop - which seems not to be to the liking of planning officers)

 

[editor]

But we are still waiting for that Cocktail Hospital or whatever it was. Anything moving there?
The pop-up restaurant seems to have fizzled out and 334 is in negotiation with planning (he is trying to rob most of the ground floor space for residential leaving a much smaller space for the shop - which seems not to be to the liking of planning officers)

There may be a very upmarket restaurant opening up in the Angel.

 

[CH1]

There may be a very upmarket restaurant opening up in the Angel.

Lexadon are specialist commercial residential landlords it seems. I can't think of a development where they have a notable retail or pub type arrangement. Maybe this will set a precedent then. Not that an upmarket restaurant would be much use to me (or to residents of Moorlands/Southwyck House).

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

But we are still waiting for that Cocktail Hospital or whatever it was. Anything moving there?
The pop-up restaurant seems to have fizzled out and 334 is in negotiation with planning (he is trying to rob most of the ground floor space for residential leaving a much smaller space for the shop - which seems not to be to the liking of planning officers)

I think they are calling themselves Salt of the Earth now. Salting the earth was a form of punishment for a defeated city, a curse for anyone who tried to rebuild it. It also has a biblical reference, i'm not one for quoting the bible but it's Matthew 5:13. "Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost its savor, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under foot of men." Essentially, the disciples were to provide the flavour for the rest of us because they are thoroughly decent people, good eggs.

But we can rest assured because salt can never lose its flavour, sodium chloride is extremely stable. Thus we do not need disciples. The workers united will never be defeated.

 

[Badgers]

Ms T

Did that new jacket potato place open?

 

[Smick]

Now there's a euphemism for sodomy that I haven't heard before!

A girl I work with was telling me about going on a first date where the guy took her up the Shard. I laughed and laughed. She didn't know what I was laughing at and I didn't have the nerve to tell her in case it made me seem like a porvort.

 

[ViolentPanda]

A girl I work with was telling me about going on a first date where the guy took her up the Shard. I laughed and laughed. She didn't know what I was laughing at and I didn't have the nerve to tell her in case it made me seem like a porvort.

She wouldn't have. "The kids" apparently consider anal to be passé.

 

[snowy_again]

There was a big fire on Norwood Road yesterday - wood and then plastic / rubber fumes. Had no internet access, but does anyone know what it was, and whether anyone was hurt? Seems to be just where that mentioned building had been knocked down...

 

[CH1]

I think they are calling themselves Salt of the Earth now. Salting the earth was a form of punishment for a defeated city, a curse for anyone who tried to rebuild it. It also has a biblical reference, i'm not one for quoting the bible but it's Matthew 5:13. "Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost its savor, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under foot of men." Essentially, the disciples were to provide the flavour for the rest of us because they are thoroughly decent people, good eggs.

But we can rest assured because salt can never lose its flavour, sodium chloride is extremely stable. Thus we do not need disciples. The workers united will never be defeated.

Thank you for an uplifting and erudite post!
I feel tempted to try the place (once) - if it actually opens, just for the name.

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

Thank you for an uplifting and erudite post!
I feel tempted to try the place (once) - if it actually opens, just for the name.

It was meant to deter folk

 

[teuchter]

There was a big fire on Norwood Road yesterday - wood and then plastic / rubber fumes. Had no internet access, but does anyone know what it was, and whether anyone was hurt? Seems to be just where that mentioned building had been knocked down...

Saw that from the train - looked like the smoke was coming from right by the railway line.

 

[quimcunx]

Police, ambulance and fire engine outside. They appear to be attending to an empty bus. More arriving by the minute.

I did hear a bit of a shout a few mins ago but that's not unusual.

 

[friendofdorothy]

I was buying stuff in Poundland yesterday at nearly six pm - the woman serving me looked tired so I commented that it must be nearly home time and was shocked when she said said she was working 'til eight but the shops open 'til ten - did I hear right? Why would people want to shop in poundland on a saturday night? Is this what Poundland make minimum wage / workfare workers do or do they have any choice?

 

[editor]

Police, ambulance and fire engine outside. They appear to be attending to an empty bus. More arriving by the minute.

I did hear a bit of a shout a few mins ago but that's not unusual.

Where is this?

 

[editor]

On Friday night, I saw a recently-ejected, well oiled bloke in an expensive shit silver suit make a catastrophic attempt at re-entering the Dogstar. As he was turned away for the nth time, he miscalculated the distance to the step and ended up face down on the pavement, his phone sliding across the pavement. Drink does weird things to people.