Brixton news, rumours and general chat - December 2012

[Onket]

Yeah, I got that.

£6.80 is a treat lunch for me at the moment. Closer to £9.00 is a bit rich for most people. But your appetite is not normal

Oi! I've only eaten there once, I'd call that a treat. Hrdly a regular thing/spend.

 

[Onket]

Not sure- she was super busy today,

Very busy.

 

[Kanda]

Why can I hear booming? Not sure if it's fireworks or not?

It was Capo's birthday at the Hand. He always brings industrial fireworks.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

It was Capo's birthday at the Hand. He always brings industrial fireworks.

I see. I have no idea who Capo is though

 

[snowy_again]

Someone walked past my house this morning at an ungodly hour (6.30) singing Hark the Herald Angels Sing with a lovely voice. It almost made up for being awake at that time.

 

[shifting gears]

The blue roti van on station road has been given its marching orders. She has been told her chairs and bins are an offence and she gets in the way of the Sunday market. She's been given 21 days to go. She has a petition on the side that everyone was signing... So please do if you go past. And any other ideas? She's been there for five years, she is properly lovely and sells great food!

Ah for fucks sake! I knew she was getting a bit of grief but didn't know it was that bad. She mentioned to me that she was in discussions with one of the nearby shops about renting some space and cooking in there but don't know if it came to anything. Will pop down this week for some grub and sign the thing.

Fucking Lambeth.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Bloody Hell! Just got soaked in the few yards to where I put the recycling out. It's biblical!

 

[Mrs Magpie]

...and just as quickly it's almost stopped completely apart from the sound of my neighbour's overflowing gutter....

 

[Ms T]

I must get ready quick so the Retired Guide Dog can get his walk before it starts again!

 

[Brixton Hatter]

Brixton Market back in 1994

Nice one. Popes Road looks a lot busier than it does now.

A few blasts from the past in there: Kashmir greengrocers, Carousel amusement arcade, radio rentals....and that supermarket which used to be in Popes Road - was it Iceland??

 

[cuppa tee]

............was it Iceland??

Kwik Save possibly, maybe it was an Iceland before that

 

[Brixton Hatter]

Yes, I think it was Kwik Save, well remembered!

 

[boohoo]

Didn't it have murry meats at the front?

 

[editor]

Yes, I think it was Kwik Save, well remembered!

It was fabulously run down too.

 

[cuppa tee]

This colourful piece of work has appeared on the side of the Sunshine Shop
just off Vassal road quite recently

 

[editor]

I think it might be the same artists who were (presumably) hired to do all the other shop fronts around Brixton.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Didn't it have murry meats at the front?

Murrays Meat Market was where Iceland is now wasn't it?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Yes, I think it was Kwik Save, well remembered!

Deli counter on the right and on the opposite side, cheap packaged meat that was quite crap in its crapness

 

[boohoo]

I think it might be the same artists who were (presumably) hired to do all the other shop fronts around Brixton.

The quy who has done lots of work in Brixton is Marlarky (with a few of his friends - Mighty Mo, Billy and Sweet toof) He worked on about five shops in the area. When he did one, others asked him to come and do their shutters. He comes from South London (though not sure where)

The other artist who has done a lot of work is Tizer. He did the shutters on the Beehive(which have recently gone) and some of the other figures around the area including the new one on Atlantic road. He recently did a cover for Time Out. He's a local lad.

I don't recognise the style of that shutter on Vassall Road.

 

[fortyplus]

Yes, I think it was Kwik Save, well remembered!

It was Tesco before that.

 

[editor]

It was Tesco before that.

And a coal depot some time before that!

http://www.urban75.org/blog/lost-scenes-of-brixton-the-coal-depot-at-popes-road/

http://www.urban75.org/brixton/history/popes-road-staithes.html

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Didn't it have murry meats at the front?

No, I think it was the people who sold ham hocks, eggs and cheap bacon. They had another outlet in the covered market.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

It was Tesco before that.

The manager of that branch was great, an Irish bloke called Mr Doody (I always had to suppress the temptation to greet him with "Howdy Doody!"). He gave a lot of training and work to young people with learning disabilities from Shelley and Windmill schools. At least one of those trainees still works for Tescos all those decades later

 

[ajdown]

Did anyone see the man with the fire-breathing tuba busking under the christmas tree this evening?

I was a bit worried, an overenthusiastic parp could have seen the whole lot go up in flames.

 

[RubyToogood]

A man tried to sell me a kitten in a box outside Brixton Cycles today.

Have I mentioned I work in Brixton now?

 

[simonSW2]

3 bed flat on New Park Road up for rent:

It's, erm.............



£8450 a month.


OH MY

 

[editor]

3 bed flat on New Park Road up for rent:

It's, erm.............



£8450 a month.


OH MY

Lordy. How the other 'alf live, eh?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

3 bed flat on New Park Road up for rent:

It's, erm.............



£8450 a month.


OH MY

Is that the one that sets off fireworks? Is it on top of that old office block behind Alex Dumas House?

 

[Manter]

Is that fake grass?

 

[editor]

Is that the one that sets off fireworks? Is it on top of that old office block behind Alex Dumas House?

I went to a party on the roof of a block that looked a bit like that a while back, except it didn't have all the fake grass there. I felt quite out of place.