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Brixton news, rumours and general chat - December 2012

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Manter said:
Is that it renovated? Gritty urban look? Or are they just not finished yet?
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I saw builders in the back yard so I'm guessing it's not finished yet. Bringing it back to the original brickwork would be fine with me though, but I'd imagine they'll repaint it at some stage. Hospital staff and other locals must be thrilled to have a pub back
 
Manter said:
Fai

Fair enough.... I will give up on my halfhearted defence. Tho you can't get anywhere near that place at the bet of times so god knows why he is trying to drive footfall....
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Cos it;s cold in the arcades and been quiet this week?
 
quimcunx said:
Actually it seems they are guarding an open manhole. I know not why.
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Maybe someone from our roadworks is floating down towards Brixton?

Wish they'd open our bus stop again. Had to walk to next bus stop today and then bus stop outside Sun and Doves is also closed :mad:
 
Ooh. Well basically they had tape along from the corner of superdrug round a pole, twice round the bin and back to superdrug wall with an open manhole. If it was only the fear that people would fall down the manhole (the cover was propped against the wall) then they wouldn't have firefighters guarding it. The tape would be enough.
 
'Mike's Night' seemed the FUNNIEST phrase EVA after a few too many - sorry for shouting it at you repeatedly.
 
Minnie_the_Minx said:
I saw builders in the back yard so I'm guessing it's not finished yet. Bringing it back to the original brickwork would be fine with me though, but I'd imagine they'll repaint it at some stage. Hospital staff and other locals must be thrilled to have a pub back
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Aye, still lots of work to do but it's already greatly improved inside since they opened. The kitchen is opening tonight which will hopefully make it a bit warmer in there!
Went there last night and it was a bit office-partyish wasn't it. Managed to bag a table quite swiftly though and had a good-news-from-Mrs BoxRoom drink before heading back home.
Really hope they sort out the exterior soon though, always feels like I'm intruding into a builders yard when I go in.
But yes, glad to have our pub back! :D
 
The revolving-door nature of Brixton Hill takeaways continues.

The Peri Peri chicken place has morphed into a Morley's, which opened about ten minutes ago.

The Brixton gentrification is not all it's fried up to be. Well, not up here on the Hill. We're proper Brixtons, clearly. ;)
 
Crispy said:
No idea, but I've seen his stuff at the Josephone Avenue art fair. That's not till summer but you could contact the organisers and see if they recognise the artist?

http://www.urbanart.co.uk/index.php?option=com_mad4joomla&jid=4&Itemid=78
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@luceh

Reckon Crispy might be thinking of Martin Grover at the Urban Art Fair although that's not one of his. He's been a regular at Urban Art for a long while. He's showing in an exhibition at the Gallery on Railton Road near Herne Hill today.
 
Rushy said:
@luceh

Reckon Crispy might be thinking of Martin Grover at the Urban Art Fair although that's not one of his. He's been a regular at Urban Art for a long while. He's showing in an exhibition at the Gallery on Railton Road near Herne Hill today.
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Nah not him (although he's got some nice pieces there :)). The one in the original post of the tree and the birds in black and green: I've seen it before...
 
Did anyone see the "winter wonderland fair" on Ritzy square? I was seriously underwhelmed given the hype and size of the poster dotted around for it.
 
Manter said:
In his defence it is a nationwide charity thing for cancer research- today is Christmas jumper day- rather than unprovoked twattishness
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Yeah, he's wearing a jumper for charity and offering a free drink, yes from his shop, to the wearer of a worse jumper. What's wrong with that?
Sometimes people take being cynical to a mean spirited place.
 
quimcunx said:
Maximum staff xmas dos. maximum drunkenness. maximum fights.
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I didn't see any fights but I did see a woman worse for wear after a work do throw up red wine all over a bus. good times.

Every time I go into the Village I get this profound sense of sadness.
 
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