Brixton news, rumour and general chat - April 2016

[50yrsInBrixton]

£350 for a 1 bedroom flat in Brixton.
Working class are getting annoyed.
People are getting violent.
We will me your price.
We will meet you in the street.

 

[50yrsInBrixton]

Those of you that occasionally express "left wing" views are as fake as your leaders dreadlocks.
If you want a voice, then stop speaking here, or take community control of this Board.
Or remain a slave.

You cannot own this Board because it is too valuable.

 

[50yrsInBrixton]

 

[50yrsInBrixton]

I never fake any of of it.
My mum died, my dad 18 months later.
I'm not sure what I was accused of because the accusation was "hidden" by another.
Can you be human?
Can you all accept that?

 

[50yrsInBrixton]

Then I can walk away from you people.

 

[BoxRoom]

It was ace. Pics here -
Photos: Carnegie Library campaigners march to Brixton Windrush Square

I think I saw you on London Live

 

[Ms T]

Just saw the Buzz piece. That looks like a great turnout! Well done to all concerned

My friends who used to live locally (albeit in Southwark) but now live in Epsom came with their three kids! It was their first demo and they enjoyed it (apart from the walking bit). Their granny was a children's librarian and their mum is a children's book publisher...

 

[GarveyLives]

A picture paints a thousand words ...

..."Vibrant" Brixton, April 2016​

 

[blameless77]

The suited guy who smirked at the library demo as it went past really pissed me off yesterday.

 

[elmpp]

Then I can walk away from you people.

[emoji317]

 

[editor]

Great to see local girl, Offline performer and Windmill regular Misty Miller got a great review for her new album in the Observer:
Misty Miller: The Whole Family Is Worried review – grungily honest, impeccably tuneful

 

[JobyTBrixton]

A picture paints a thousand words ...

..."Vibrant" Brixton, April 2016​

Such a great voice to be met with at the tube after a long day

 

[snowy_again]

Damage are playing the POW for all you fans of derivative 90s R&B.


Oh and happy 31st Brixton Riots anniversary.

 

[editor]

Brixton Pound gets a cash machine in Market Row
Brixton Pound: The world’s first local currency cash machine opens in Brixton today

 

[tompound]

Brixton Pound gets a cash machine in Market Row
Brixton Pound: The world’s first local currency cash machine opens in Brixton today

Thanks Ed. Just about works, will get some photos over to you shortly...

 

[editor]

Thanks Ed. Just about works, will get some photos over to you shortly...

Ian Cameron is not impressed: Brixton Pound: The world’s first local currency cash machine opens in Brixton today

 

[editor]

Looks like there's money to be made renting out your driveway
Brixton parking | Guaranteed Spaces | JustPark

 

[Pickman's model]

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[mrs quoad]

Those of you that occasionally express "left wing" views are as fake as your leaders dreadlocks.
If you want a voice, then stop speaking here, or take community control of this Board.
Or remain a slave.

You cannot own this Board because it is too valuable.

*leader's

 

[editor]

Curious graffiti off Acre Lane...

 

[sparkybird]

Maybe not, CFC could mean Chelsea football club, which would make the link to celery.....

 

[twistedAM]

Looks like there's money to be made renting out your driveway
Brixton parking | Guaranteed Spaces | JustPark

I keep getting emails from the company offering our customers 10% discount and include us in their website as long as we put their badge on ours. Err, yeah, right.
That entrepreneur at the Family Mosaic Housing Association on Wiltshire Road seems to be onto something - five cars in one night for a gig at the Academy at £25 a pop.

 

[LadyV]

I keep getting emails from the company offering our customers 10% discount and include us in their website as long as we put their badge on ours. Err, yeah, right.
That entrepreneur at the Family Mosaic Housing Association on Wiltshire Road seems to be onto something - five cars in one night for a gig at the Academy at £25 a pop.

Ah I love hearing stories like this, well done to them, can't believe people are daft enough to pay that much when there's loads of free parking around, I guess out of towners don't know any different

 

[editor]

Local boys The Thirst thumping out tunes by the tube:

Brixton buskers – funk-rockers The Thirst blast out tunes outside the tube station

 

[teuchter]

Ah I love hearing stories like this, well done to them, can't believe people are daft enough to pay that much when there's loads of free parking around, I guess out of towners don't know any different

Shows the value of the space we currently give away free to well-off car owning residents. We should charge everyone for parking and use the revenue to keep libraries open, or something.

 

[T & P]

Residents are charged for parking in most Brixton streets (though not all). Whether they are charged enough is a different argument.

 

[LadyV]

Shows the value of the space we currently give away free to well-off car owning residents. We should charge everyone for parking and use the revenue to keep libraries open, or something.

Quite agree but until the council sorts that out, well done to the person who is making some money right now. Although living in a Family Mosaic property myself, I know that parking spaces usually belong to individual flats rather than a general free for all so if I was being picky I imagine he owes some of the money to his neighbours but hey ho that's his problem.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Maybe not, CFC could mean Chelsea football club, which would make the link to celery.....

...the awful "celery song" that Chelsea supporters used to sing.

 

[T & P]

Quite agree but until the council sorts that out, well done to the person who is making some money right now. Although living in a Family Mosaic property myself, I know that parking spaces usually belong to individual flats rather than a general free for all so if I was being picky I imagine he owes some of the money to his neighbours but hey ho that's his problem.

I'm always amused by all those people who live near the All England Tennis Club and have a front garden/ drive, with signboards hiring parking space for the day for some good money. Many of them selling cold drinks and sandwiches from a folding table as well.

 

[leanderman]

I'm always amused by all those people who live near the All England Tennis Club and have a front garden/ drive, with signboards hiring parking space for the day for some good money. Many of them selling cold drinks and sandwiches from a folding table as well.

Buying a prestige, rentable home near there would almost pay for itself - or at least a big holiday.