Frumious B.
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How theft-proof are these shelters? Won't be long before someone sticks a jack into that inviting gap between the shelter and the road.
Brixton news, rumours and general chat - March 2013
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MillwallShoes
Don't kill the Lion
revealing how small the margins are...morbidly fascinating to see gentrification in action...interesting to see useful places replaced by places of luxury and gluttony.Poor guy has lost his business.
I expect that unit will be snapped up pronto by a foodie place. With a greatly increased rent.
dont know why this has annoyed me so much as i don't live there. but i have family going back there generations. brixton has always been an integral part of south london life. will stop going on now as i risk boring myself, let alone others.
InShops seem to be running a policy against more food places. It's a shame about Freeman Textiles, but quite a lot of these ten-year leases are expiring and not all businesses can survive.
I expect that unit will be snapped up pronto by a foodie place. With a greatly increased rent.
I wonder how much impact the opening of smart new Nasseri Fabrics on the site of the old Latinos Butchers on Atlantic Road has had?
The other big textile shop, African Queen in the Granville Arcade, has halved in size. Rumour had it that the other half was going to be doing chicken and chips but it's now a very expensive looking clothes shop called "the keep".
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It's generally not Brixton residents 'feeding' the new businesses.
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That's sad. They've been there for ages.
Frumious B.
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Another textile/clothes place that's really struggling is Ladies Fashion, next to Freeman Textiles. The lady there is very upset, can't see a way to carry on.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
This is a good point. And a general one too. Everything is now retail, and mainly food retail
Witness our railway stations, such as the new St Pancras
Mrs Magpie
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There used to be two Nasseri fabric shops iirc. I think African Queen, if it's the one that's been there in Granville for a long time, never got my business because when I asked how much a bolt of fabric was greeted with a KMT and "if you have to ask, you can't afford it" so I only ever bought from Nasseri (which I did, a lot).
Minnie_the_Minx
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Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Yup, Kiss My Teeth...or KMFT...well, you get the idea.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Never seen it abbreviated before but it was the only explanation I could come out with, besides Kick My something or other beginning with T
I hate teeth kissing
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Can't say I much care for it either.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Very good idea.
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I'm on it!
Edit: Ritzy film thread here: http://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/brixton-ritzy-upcoming-films-reviews-and-opinions.307893/
I've bundled in as many film posts from here as I could find.
Edit: Ritzy film thread here: http://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/brixton-ritzy-upcoming-films-reviews-and-opinions.307893/
I've bundled in as many film posts from here as I could find.
cuppa tee
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Other local cinemas are available...... A friend was enthusing over a movie about Indian sweet makers at whirled recently for example.
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Well, maybe start another thread for Whirled?
gaijingirl
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yeah.. i would include all local cinema/viewings/screenings etc... lots of that sort of thing going on outside the Ritzy.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Agreed. Some people go to the Streatham and they might want to come on here and moan about how freezing it is
They even have notices up saying that if you decide it's too cold once the film's started, you can't get your money back
cuppa tee
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My daughter loves the Streatham Odeon, but they don't feel it as much at that age.Agreed. Some people go to the Streatham and they might want to come on here and moan about how freezing it is
They even have notices up saying that if you decide it's too cold once the film's started, you can't get your money back
Minnie_the_Minx
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Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
hip hop pop-up shop on Railton Road this weekend
Image is a bit small - full details here: http://www.mbcfoundation.org.uk/events
Image is a bit small - full details here: http://www.mbcfoundation.org.uk/events
snowy_again
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MCBFoundation was set up in memory of Max, who lived on Dulwich Road and was killed in a bus crash last year isn't it?
HustleBucks is the 198 Gallery social enterprise led by young people, and has a shop in the much disliked Granville Arcade.
HustleBucks is the 198 Gallery social enterprise led by young people, and has a shop in the much disliked Granville Arcade.
Rushy
basically a scrotum
It is interesting the ways in which gentrification manifests itself. I was out clearing the usual cans of White Lightning, Tenants, Red Stripe and Coke which people think nothing of throwing over the garden wall, and in amongst them were two empty bottles of Moet and a bottle of Jack Daniels "Single Barrel" (£40). 
Frumious B.
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Puzzling contretemps just now in front of the vacant shop where Footlocker was. Four car loads of police, including an inspector, observing some religious speechifying. According to a bystander the speaker had thrown in some homophobic remarks. But he wasn't arrested. Ten minutes later all the police had gone, leaving the debate to continue.
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I passed that and there seemed to be a bustling crowd of people all trying to work out where the action was. There was a camera set up too.
I guessed that there was a religious element to it.
Frumious B.
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The guy had a white board connecting the 12 tribes of Israel to the West Indies. I wish I'd asked him about the West Indies not having a black population until the 17th century. Anyway, he wasn't displaying any homophobic material. Brixton police can be quite assertive about that sort of thing. In 2011 a guy I know accused his arresting officer of touching him up and called him a batty boy. It turned out that the officer is gay, so he went to court and told the magistrate that he had been caused distress. The guy was deemed to have had intent to cause distress, and he was convicted of Disorderly Behaviour with Harrassment (section 4a of the Public Order Act), which you can be jailed for. Interesting that he was convicted of 'intent', even though he didn't know that the officer was gay. I would have liked it to go to appeal, but there wasn't the budget for it. And it would have been a magnet for the papers, which the bloke would have hated.
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