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Brixton Rec Users Group now has an occasional newsletter

This one has info on meeting next week and response by BRUG to the Council Culture2020 consultation.

BRUG in independent of the Council. It was reformed when the Rec was under threat a few years back of possibly being demolished. The threat is no longer but BRUG was kept going as a lobby group.
 
editor said:
I'm wondering if there's any emptier nu-Brixton shops around than the uber-trendy Article on Atlantic Road and Omnis on Coldharbour Lane. I don't think I've ever seen any customers in either shop and I walk past both at least once a day.
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I was helping a friend push a supermaket trolly of "supplies" up to Art Nouveau and the staff of "Article" were sitting outside ( it was sunny). Had a friendly chat with them. Invited them up to Art Nouveau ( no they did not come up) .As usual Article was empty so they had plenty of time for chat.

Article is so uber trendy its surreal.

Googled them and this get the sick bag out review came up

It’s got oddball market stalls and old stalwarts like Morleys, but Brixton doesn’t yet boast a crop of independent fashion boutiques to rival Shoreditch or Hackney. This makes Atlantic Road an interesting choice for streetwear store Article’s second branch. Tucked under a railway arch, the store has a full page of ticks on the cool boutique hit list – pot plants hiding under terrariums, minimalist wood fittings, and a corrugated metal roof that gives the feel of shopping in a hipster Anderson shelter. Like its Kingsland Road sibling, there’s carefully curated rails of understated designs from brands like YMC, Edwin and Levi’s, with bags and accessories from Sanqvist, Herschel and Nixon. It’s also worth asking the staff about the limited edition drops they have pencilled in the calendar. But Article’s real calling card is the beautifully laid out shoe room, found to the side of the main store – invisible from the street, the impressive array of trainers and shoes is coordinated by colour, making it almost too pretty to shop from. There’s a handful of women’s sizes available too, if you’re quick enough.
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Like the way the "impressive array of trainers" cannot be seen from the street. :rolleyes: I suppose they do not want to end up like Footlocker.
 
Maybe the shop design is uber trendy but the clothes strike me as boring. Especially the shoes. I don't see how they can go to so much effort and end up with something so meh. If 'understated' is their thing I wonder who their competitors are. M&S? The best thing in the shop is the big table at the front. But it's not for sale.
 
Apparently, they've also got some uber expensive on-trend coffee machine there too. Which I guess is nice for the staff.
 
Gramsci said:
I was helping a friend push a supermaket trolly of "supplies" up to Art Nouveau and the staff of "Article" were sitting outside ( it was sunny). Had a friendly chat with them. Invited them up to Art Nouveau ( no they did not come up) .As usual Article was empty so they had plenty of time for chat.

Article is so uber trendy its surreal.

Googled them and this get the sick bag out review came up



Like the way the "impressive array of trainers" cannot be seen from the street. :rolleyes: I suppose they do not want to end up like Footlocker.
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All seems a bit OCD to me, Overly Contrived Dicty.
 
I'm crossposting this from the ecigs thread because it's got a shelflife of about half an hour and I'd appreciate some advice.

I want to buy a last minute present for someone who is very skeptical about ecigs. Can anyone suggest a shop in/near Brixton and a decent starter kit they might sell?
 
Like its Kingsland Road sibling, there’s carefully curated rails of understated designs from brands like YMC, Edwin and Levi’s
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curated ? what a load of pretentious old bollocks, and those brands would be understated cos they're denim jeans wear
what sort of complete twat buys into this shite :mad:
 
newbie said:
I'm crossposting this from the ecigs thread because it's got a shelflife of about half an hour and I'd appreciate some advice.

I want to buy a last minute present for someone who is very skeptical about ecigs. Can anyone suggest a shop in/near Brixton and a decent starter kit they might sell?
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there's a shop in shoreditch that always seems popular, all the walk up from liver pool street.
 
Dosh.

Lambeth Council has published the Officer Pay Report for 2015/16. No surprises in seeing that new boy Chief Exec Sean Harriss is pulling in the top end of the advertised salary - £180,000. The lowest staff member is paid £16,678.

The average salary is £36,681. In total 213 staff are paid £50,000 or more.

This data doesn't include the pimped out local authority services such as street cleaning. It also weirdly omits all school staff working in the borough.

BBuzz piece.
 
newbie said:
I'm crossposting this from the ecigs thread because it's got a shelflife of about half an hour and I'd appreciate some advice.

I want to buy a last minute present for someone who is very skeptical about ecigs. Can anyone suggest a shop in/near Brixton and a decent starter kit they might sell?
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Shop opposite the Moroccan cafe on Brixton Station road probably does it. They sell all sorts of ecig stuff.
 
DietCokeGirl said:
Ladies, where do you recommend for getting your eyebrows done? Mine are going to want a referendum for independence soon if they get any bigger. I usually go to Stella's on Atlantic Road, but open to other suggestions.
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Are you wanting threading? Cheap and good place in the Reliance Arcade right down the bottom, on the left if you're coming in from the high street. Lovely Indian lady charges £3.00.
 
Another of my niche interest articles!

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The curious charm of the paint flaking postbox of Denmark Hill, south London – in photos. Most of the boxes near me as disappointingly well painted.
 
Don't know how much they charge and I've never been eyebrow-threaded or plucked by anyone else, but there are often threaders/shapers at work in Surperdrug and/or in the cosmetics dept at Morleys
 
editor said:
I'm wondering if there's any emptier nu-Brixton shops around than the uber-trendy Article on Atlantic Road and Omnis on Coldharbour Lane. I don't think I've ever seen any customers in either shop and I walk past both at least once a day.
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It's early days but I would include the expensive leather bag shop in Market Row in the list of empty shops.
 
happyshopper said:
It's early days but I would include the expensive leather bag shop in Market Row in the list of empty shops.
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I've not seen that one. The frozen yoghurt place in Market Row always seems untroubled with customers too, come to think of it, but corporate chains can afford to sit out and wait for the place to change.
 
editor said:
I've not seen that one. The frozen yoghurt place in Market Row always seems untroubled with customers too, come to think of it, but corporate chains can afford to sit out and wait for the place to change.
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The fro-yo place actually seems to have a fairly steady stream of customers during the day at the weekends in particular. Much to my bemusement.
 
Maybe this rapid gentrification thing will rapidly recede one day too. i walk past the Pop Up box park thing in Shoreditch, often at rush hour, when there are literally thousands of hipsters nad youngsters passing by the open entrances to the boxes and normally there are about 3 people looking. christ knows what it's like during quiet times. these types of shops, maybe they'll disappear as quickly as they came. supermarkets are the real enemy though if you want to know what destroys the souls of towns mroe than anything else.
 
and brixton was lucky in that respect as it is a town where most people who live there don't drive so have to "go into town" to get there shopping rather than drive out to the big super markets. so tehre is still hope that brixton will always be a place that small businesses prosper, even if they are a bit wanky and shit.
 
Tricky Skills said:
Dosh.
Lambeth Council has published the Officer Pay Report for 2015/16. No surprises in seeing that new boy Chief Exec Sean Harriss is pulling in the top end of the advertised salary - £180,000. The lowest staff member is paid £16,678.
The average salary is £36,681. In total 213 staff are paid £50,000 or more.
This data doesn't include the pimped out local authority services such as street cleaning. It also weirdly omits all school staff working in the borough.
BBuzz piece.
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Interesting table.
I have a query regarding the lower paid figure.
This is stated to be £16,678 pa PRO RATA.

Does this mean we actually have part-time librarians earning an actual £10,006 for a three day week, or dinner ladies (if they still exist) earning £6,672 for 2 hours per day?

I dare say is is not possible to get this further detail from Lambeth, but if there are part timers on the council payroll they could be earning significantly less than £16,678.

£16,678 is equivalent to £9.1637 per hour - so they are apparently a living wage employer as you say in the article.
 
BigMoaner said:
this i found quite interesting. how gentrification in areas happens but the schools stay the same.

http://grist.org/cities/gentrification-doesnt-fix-inner-city-schools/
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That's in the USA. Does their state school system operate in a sufficiently similar way to ours, such that the things they mention woudl apply here too?

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City officials strike a Faustian bargain with gentrifying parents that if they agree to buy into lower-income, segregated neighborhoods they need not send their children to the same under-resourced and struggling schools as their neighbors. Instead, Keels said, city officials set up elite, un-zoned public schools — often with strict admissions criteria –that educate the children of gentrified.
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Does this apply to the Academy/Free Schools the new government seems to be set on expanding?
 
BigMoaner said:
this i found quite interesting. how gentrification in areas happens but the schools stay the same.
http://grist.org/cities/gentrification-doesnt-fix-inner-city-schools/
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Would you say that our "inner city schools" such as St Johns Angel Town (currently in temp. accommodation in Somerleyton Road) or the Ark Academy need fixing?

Actually it would be interesting to check the ethnic balance of these vs. Sudbourne (since everyone on here seems to rave about Sudbourne, especially Foxtons).

There used to be a private prep school in Streatham for children of black parents wishing to send their kids to Dulwich College. Very popular with Lambeth Council officers in the 1990s.

But that is not really gentrification. More lack of faith of the council officers in their own council's education standards - at that time.
 
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