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Brixton news, rumour and general chat - February 2015

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I've had four visits to the Ferndale Road post office this week. All of them unpleasant. Just had a visit from a colourful character liberally injecting her observations on the queue with racist comments. God I hate this place
 
cuppa tee said:
thanks for the update, seems the compulsion to open bars that leanderman
mentioned is more of a compulsion to open anything if the location is groovy enough

btw is there anything online about this development or is it the word on the street
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chatting with their business neighbours this morning one of whom has been chatting with the people fitting it out
 
Talking of changes to shops and the like, this morning I was very saddened to see this flyer in the Duck Egg Café.

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Sitting in the Duck Egg on a quiet weekday morning was one of my little pleasures while I lived here (along with The Breadroom in Market Row while it existed). Now it's going to be reduced to a weekend-only food residency inside a pub. That sucks. And I wonder what's going to take its place at 424?
 
cuppa tee said:
according to this licensing application[ pdf] it will be a bar trading as "Jack be Nimble"
http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/sites/default/files/brl-redacted-application-Prem1807.pdf

the names on the application are James French and Lockie Ashley-Holligan
by coincidence if you check the facebook profile of the head honcho of the "soon come" Boomburger
https://www.facebook.com/joshua.lisser?fref=ts
both names crop up in his friends list, and at least one of them attended the same £11,000 a term public school in Dorset as him
small world innit ?
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Google can't find an £11k a term school in Dorset :hmm:
 
editor said:
And it was very pleasant to meet you too! :)
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Likewise :)

editor said:
I've always been of the opinion that I don't really care much where someone is from or how rich they are - it's what they bring to Brixton. Not the Brixton they want to create in their own (upmarket and exclusive) image, but the one that's already here. And that's one of the biggest and saddest changes I've seen in the last 5 years or so: there's far less mixing of people from different backgrounds and cultures. That mix was one of the things that was special to me about Brixton but now it appears we're increasingly living in parallel worlds where money plays the defining and divisive role.
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Definitely. Like, do people actually live in Clifton Mansions? Apparently. I think I've seen people going through the gate once since it was redeveloped. The rest of the time it's like a ghost building, no sign of life. Nothing that makes me think "here is a building full of people that are part of this community".
 
editor said:
I've had four visits to the Ferndale Road post office this week. All of them unpleasant. Just had a visit from a colourful character liberally injecting her observations on the queue with racist comments. God I hate this place
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Why, whywhywhywhy go there? It's only a short walk up Brixton Hill to the one in Nisa which is lovely and quiet. I think I've only endured Ferndale Rd PO twice in 15 years. It's so horrific I always preferred to walk to a different one even when it was my nearest PO.
 
han said:
Why, whywhywhywhy go there? It's only a short walk up Brixton Hill to the one in Nisa which is lovely and quiet. I think I've only endured Ferndale Rd PO twice in 15 years. It's so horrific I always preferred to walk to a different one even when it was my nearest PO.
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I had to pick up a package that ParcelForce (or whatever they're called) had screwed up the delivery of so much that the sender had given up on it and refunded my money. And today I finally got it from the depths of the Ferndale Rod PO.
 
thatguyhex said:
Likewise :)


Definitely. Like, do people actually live in Clifton Mansions? Apparently. I think I've seen people going through the gate once since it was redeveloped. The rest of the time it's like a ghost building, no sign of life. Nothing that makes me think "here is a building full of people that are part of this community".
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I got to know a large chunk of the people living there, usually from seeing them in the Albert or in things happening around Brixton. I don't think I've ever met anyone living there now. Shame.
 
colacubes said:
Well I think it would be fair to say the drains are fucked in Electric Avenue again given the size of the hole being dug at the moment. They've been pumping on and off overnight for a couple of weeks but cancelling the market is quite a big step. This is the deepest hole I've seen since the great summer of raw sewage running down the street in 2005 :D
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It's a bit of a mess on Electric Avenue - and pretty tough on the traders which are normally there.
 
editor said:
I had to pick up a package that ParcelForce (or whatever they're called) had screwed up the delivery of so much that the sender had given up on it and refunded my money. And today I finally got it from the depths of the Ferndale Rod PO.
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Oh, so they sent it to your nearest sorting office/PO then. Poor you. I'm lucky, my nearest sorting office is Blenheim Gardens, it's nice in there. My favourite PO in the area is Elm Park Rd, but he does have the tendency to take 2-3 hr lunchbreaks regularly which can be a tad inconvenient. [emoji3]
I went there at 12pm once, and there was a scrawled note on the door 'saying back at 3'. Their website says they're open at lunchtimes. They never are.
 
The great thing about the hotel building site on Electric Lane is that cars can no longer drive through the middle of the market - which has always pissed me off, not just cos it's dangerous, but cos the road is supposed to be closed to traffic between 8.30am and 5.30am.

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According to a poster on the hoardings, the works "shouldn't be too noisy" :hmm:

Road is gonna be blocked off until April!
 
han said:
Why, whywhywhywhy go there? It's only a short walk up Brixton Hill to the one in Nisa which is lovely and quiet. I think I've only endured Ferndale Rd PO twice in 15 years. It's so horrific I always preferred to walk to a different one even when it was my nearest PO.
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Oi! Ssh...
 
han said:
Oh, so they sent it to your nearest sorting office/PO then. Poor you. I'm lucky, my nearest sorting office is Blenheim Gardens, it's nice in there. My favourite PO in the area is Elm Park Rd, but he does have the tendency to take 2-3 hr lunchbreaks regularly which can be a tad inconvenient. [emoji3]
I went there at 12pm once, and there was a scrawled note on the door 'saying back at 3'. Their website says they're open at lunchtimes. They never are.
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He's got a v young baby, and he goes to give his wife a break I think. We went there once and there was a note saying family emergency, and it turned out it was labour!
 
editor said:
I've had four visits to the Ferndale Road post office this week. All of them unpleasant. Just had a visit from a colourful character liberally injecting her observations on the queue with racist comments. God I hate this place
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I actively avoid it. Luckily, there's a big post office round the corner from work.
 
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