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Tricky Skills said:
;) taken on board. But this impacts our everyday lives in Brixton. The Budget is going to define what Lambeth Council can do to help residents over the next 12 months.

It is dull. But it is absolutely crucial.

;)
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In those kind of meetings I find it impossible to separate the bullshit from what is actually said and decided. It's a skill to be able to take the relevant points and make sense of what it actually means.
 
Mr Retro said:
In those kind of meetings I find it impossible to separate the bullshit from what is actually said and decided. It's a skill to be able to take the relevant points and make sense of what it actually means.
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it really is. i'm really bad at it because i lack the attention span to listen to all thsoe droney tossers and then pick out the killer facts to jump on later.
 
I'm in the bell of the beast of Babylon, (City of London) drinking on a tab and have just had chat with barmaid who knows about things like Cooltan before it moved to the old dole house and I'm trying to type this quick as I've had to invent my own wi fi hot spot but have encouraged her to sign up for site.
She is a bit older than me but not much and her memory and history is rich and deep.
Took me about two hours to type this post because of interruptions of a social not business nature, and my portable wi GI is fine. Not drunk.
 
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Look! A Shetland Pony periscope!

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http://www.brixtonbuzz.com/2015/02/...for-pedro-their-shetland-pony-the-pedroscope/
 
Whaddya know - there's actually an alternative Lambeth Tory Budget.

The Comms Team, Lambeth Talk and the bloody Co-op Council are all for the chop. The Tories are proposing to reduce Council Tax, compared to Labour putting it up.

There's a WEIRD bit as well about:

"top-heavy with directors and managers, for example social workers and health workers."

:facepalm:

BBuzz piece.
 
Tricky Skills said:
Whaddya know - there's actually an alternative Lambeth Tory Budget.
<snip>There's a WEIRD bit as well about:

"top-heavy with directors and managers, for example social workers and health workers." <snip>
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WTAF?
 
What the actual fuck was aimed at the tories in the council, not at you Tricky Skills.

If that's pushed through, I dread to think of the effects. There's so much coordination and paperwork as part of social work etc that people are needed to do it who aren't busy doing the bathing, dressing etc too. The alternative would be similar to what's already seen in some hospitals - nurses so busy with the admin side of things (including ringing other wards to find a bed) that they've hardly time to actually nurse. :(
 
Relax Greebo. It's only the alternative budget cobbled together by the 'Opposition' that is the three annexed Conservatives over in Clapham Common. It took me longer to write the blog post than it probably took for them to write this waffle.

It's actually decent (ish) that an Opposition budget has been presented. But it's all part of the political game. It only exists to show that they haven't completely given up.
 
All credit to Tricky Skills for doing some of the stuff the rest of us might find difficult and boring. Moreover, to put that content into easily digestible and interesting reads via Buzz is indeed a tricky skill; especially when working against deadlines and just dealing with everyday life.

I was blown away by my interaction earlier today with a barmaid in a wine bar that was designated to "look after me" whilst my sister went back to work upstairs (after a pub lunch Birthday thing for my sister), to deal with the misconduct of financial institutions. She (the barmaid) knows more about Brixton history than i do, way more; she even knew about the Brixton Fairies, Villa Road in the seventies all sorts of stuff and i had her nailed on for an Urbanite. I told her i was Dexter Deadwood and that was met with silence and that i post on Urban75; she wrote that down and i was happy with that.

She said Cootlan started in the old synagogue on Effra Road before they got evicted, at least that's how i led her via her description of the building but i think she was correct.

The Lord Raglan is also an excellent pub and a bit of an anomaly in the belly of the beast. Highly recommend that pub.
 
Dexter Deadwood said:
All credit to Tricky Skills for doing some of the stuff the rest of us might find difficult and boring. Moreover, to put that content into easily digestible and interesting reads via Buzz is indeed a tricky skill; especially when working against deadlines and just dealing with everyday life.

I was blown away by my interaction earlier today with a barmaid in a wine bar that was designated to "look after me" whilst my sister went back to work upstairs (after a pub lunch Birthday thing for my sister), to deal with the misconduct of financial institutions. She (the barmaid) knows more about Brixton history than i do, way more; she even knew about the Brixton Fairies, Villa Road in the seventies all sorts of stuff and i had her nailed on for an Urbanite. I told her i was Dexter Deadwood and that was met with silence and that i post on Urban75; she wrote that down and i was happy with that.

She said Cootlan started in the old synagogue on Effra Road before they got evicted, at least that's how i led her via her description of the building but i think she was correct.

The Lord Raglan is also an excellent pub and a bit of an anomaly in the belly of the beast. Highly recommend that pub.
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Cooltan didn't start in the synagogue, it started in the Cooltan (suntan lotion) factory on Effra Rd. I think Halfords/Curry's are on the site now.
 
Casaubon said:
Cooltan didn't start in the synagogue, it started in the Cooltan (suntan lotion) factory on Effra Rd. I think Halfords/Curry's are on the site now.
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She was very close and i might have misled her and she did mention the Halfords location. Thank you for the clarification.
 
Dexter Deadwood said:
She said Cootlan started in the old synagogue on Effra Road before they got evicted, at least that's how i led her via her description of the building but i think she was correct.
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I don't think she is right on that. The Cooltan factory really existed at 69 Effra Road, next to the old Effra Day Centre. The site is now housing association flats of modern design.

Can't be precise about when the Cooltan arts squat started in the factory after it closed, but in my Green Party days (around 1987-88) the Greens used to run rave-type events in the Cooltan at weekends, and I was on the rota selling cheap coloured Polish vodka at 50p a shot.

I think the Cooltan probably migrated from its original factory site in Effra Road to the defunct labour exchange on Coldharbour Lane around 1990/1. By that time the Synagogue would have been being rebuilt at the Eurolink Centre.
 
Casaubon said:
Cooltan didn't start in the synagogue, it started in the Cooltan (suntan lotion) factory on Effra Rd. I think Halfords/Curry's are on the site now.
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Halfords/Currys was a London transport depot of some kind. They repaired tube ticket machines and vehicles.
 
Some goings-on at the London Transport Effra Road Print Works (now Halfords and Currys)
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Miss Grace Cole of the book-folding and sewing section works at the stitching machine. Miss Cole had worked in the printing shop for twenty two years at the time that this photograph was taken.
Photographed by Photo Centre Ltd, Mar 1949
Location: Effra Road, Brixton, Lambeth SW2
Image no: HD764-8
Inventory no: 1998/49669
20th Century London caption: This picture shows London Transport employee Miss Grace Cole working a stitching machine. Miss Cole worked in the book-folding and sewing section of the Effra Road Printing Works in Brixton. The works are where all London Transport bus tickets were printed. It was also where manuals and leaflets for staff and public information were produced. Books were printed on flat-paper presses. The pages were folded and then stitched together using machines like the one in the picture. Grace Cole had worked at the Effra Road works for 22 years when this picture was taken in 1949.
 
editor said:
History of Cooltan here:

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http://www.urban75.org/brixton/features/cooltan.html
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I hope Shane Collins is still around and i love this quote from the article you linked to;

"All of us at various times and to varying extents have worked our butts off, not for ourselves, but for the craic, for the benefit of all and for a common and at times cloudy goal. While it is probably easier for us to remember the mistakes, we have also got to check that we did a lot of good and achieved something worthwhile.

To know this, to take comfort and confidence from this and be able to carry the lessons and experiences through into other things is our reward. A bunch of often quite different people on the dole came together and we did it. A totally independent community arts squatted centre. We proved to ourselves and others that it could be done."

I think the same sentiments can be extended to Urban75 and i would like to see more of that in the future from all of us that post here.
 
CH1 said:
Some goings-on at the London Transport Effra Road Print Works (now Halfords and Currys)
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:)

I have posted about this before, but yes - the Effra Road site was set up by the London County Council Tramways as its printing works - mainly printing the vast quantity of 'bell punch' type tickets needed, but also maps and other documents.

A second site, on Stockwell Road, looked after ticket punch maintenance.

Both sites took on additional work for the London Transport bus fleet and expanded tram fleet after London Transport was formed in 1933.

Effra Road was damaged by bombing in WW2, and was rebuilt post-war, taking over the ticket machine maintenance functions from Stockwell Road in the 1950s - the need for printed tickets reduced substantially from the early 1950s as bus ticketing was mechanised.

Effra Road was closed c. 1985 in the era of privatisation / outsourcing and the introduction of electronic ticket machines on buses.

I'm conscious that I promised editor a short article about this. I just haven't absolutely nailed the location of the Stockwell Road site yet...
 
Tricky Skills said:
Wednesday evening is Budget evening at Lambeth Town Hall.

Hurrah!

I think.

"We are instead seeing a significant rise in income directly attributable to the substantial and exciting new build private developments underway across the borough."

BBuzz piece.
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Greebo said:
A few people will be outside because of that.
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does that mean some of the Cressington Gardens residents might be there to protest? What time is the meeting?
 
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