Brixton news, rumour and general chat - February 2015

[Dexter Deadwood]

 

[CH1]

Is that the Greek Finance Minster?

 

[technical]

Strike didn't seem to be having much effect this morning - I forgot it was on during walk to tube station given number of buses out there

 

[Neil G]

Another great night hosting the Robes Project at St Matthew's Church. 20 people with nowhere else to stay were given a hearty meal, a warm bed for the night and a cooked breakfast in the morning. More info here.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

People with table cloths for heads!

 

[el-ahrairah]

People with table cloths for heads!

its a sorry indictment of modern society that so many people with table cloths for heads are homeless.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

its a sorry indictment of modern society that so many people with table cloths for heads are homeless.

Negative attitudes towards Gingham are ingrained in our racist society

 

[el-ahrairah]

We're a white table-cloth supremacist society

 

[Nanker Phelge]

We're a white table-cloth supremacist society

Britain's finest!

 

[editor]

I think I've found out why this shop that apparently sells barely anything apart from a few trinkets for the well-heeled can afford to be on Coldharbour Lane.

 

[editor]

Anyone know what's replacing this piece of Brixton history?

 

[Orang Utan]

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I think I've found out why this shop that apparently sells barely anything apart from a few trinkets for the well-heeled can afford to be on Coldharbour Lane.

Money launderer?

 

[editor]

Money launderer?

There are so many snappy answers to that but I'd best keep quiet.

 

[organicpanda]

Anyone know what's replacing this piece of Brixton history?

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I believe the owners of the building are turning it into a bar of some sort

 

[editor]

I believe the owners of the building are turning it into a bar of some sort

I was just thinking to myself, "Surely there's not enough bars along that stretch" too!

 

[Thimble Queen]

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I think I've found out why this shop that apparently sells barely anything apart from a few trinkets for the well-heeled can afford to be on Coldharbour Lane.

Tell us

 

[editor]

Tell us

How about the daughter of the richest man in Brixton?

 

[Thimble Queen]

How about the daughter of the richest man in Brixton?

Lexadon dude?

 

[editor]

Lexadon dude?

That's what I heard. That shop is almost comically devoid of anything remotely useful to normal people.

 

[SpamMisery]

Looks quite nice to me, although I've never been in. Does it just sell soft furnishings type stuff?

 

[editor]

Looks quite nice to me, although I've never been in. Does it just sell soft furnishings type stuff?

Seems a fundamental fail if you can't work out what a shop does from its window display.

 

[brixtonblade]

That's what I heard. That shop is almost comically devoid of anything remotely useful to normal people.

You could say the same about the place next door that is selling babygros at £27 a pop.

 

[Onket]

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I think I've found out why this shop that apparently sells barely anything apart from a few trinkets for the well-heeled can afford to be on Coldharbour Lane.

This post is the messageboard equivalent of the 'click bait' you appear to dislike so much.

 

[Maharani]

Disastrous:

http://www.brixtonbuzz.com/2015/02/...along-atlantic-road-and-brixton-station-road/

 

[Maharani]

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I think I've found out why this shop that apparently sells barely anything apart from a few trinkets for the well-heeled can afford to be on Coldharbour Lane.

I was wondering what on earth this place did...

 

[Nanker Phelge]

How about the daughter of the richest man in Brixton?

JERRY BUILDER!!!

 

[cuppa tee]

Anyone know what's replacing this piece of Brixton history?

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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 ?

 

[madolesance]

Anyone know what's replacing this piece of Brixton history?

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Something that requires an awful lot of plug sockets. Have a look through the window and you'll see what I mean.

 

[leanderman]

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 ?

Just as these types are being priced out of living in Notting Hill and being forced to live here, they are being priced out of opening bars in Notting Hill and being forced to open them here

 

[Maharani]

Just as these types are being priced out of living in Notting Hill and being forced to live here, they are being priced out of opening bars in Notting Hill and being forced to open them here

Is this the new West Indian burger joint opening on station road?