Onket
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If you're talking about the place I mean, it clearly isn't going to provide anything different. As I said, a good variety of standard Anglo-Chinese food in an 'all you can eat' format.
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If you're talking about the place I mean, it clearly isn't going to provide anything different. As I said, a good variety of standard Anglo-Chinese food in an 'all you can eat' format.
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
i ate Penh An the other night. It reminded why I had only eaten there once before. Pretty awful.
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4 plates and a couple of extra bits.
The plates are smaller than normal sized ones, tbf.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Yeah, old Dawn of the Raj. Pretty sure there was some Vietnamese or Thai influenced dishes on the menu. Maybe they've done away with them
Minnie_the_Minx
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Rushy
basically a scrotum
Not sure this is entirely correct. The current owners only commenced plans for redevelopment after they purchased the markets in 2007. But it was run down for at least a decade before then - Granville more so - and I was never aware of any substantial redevelopment plans by the prior owners. There is certainly nothing in the planning database under either Market Row or Granville's postcodes. Whether people like the result or not, after having their redevelopment plans scuppered by the listing, the current owners quickly revived the indoor market rather than let it founder.
Ol Nick
beer in Brixton
Bromley? South London's musical hothouse? They even stole our own (Stockwell's) Bowie.I forgot how short the Thameslink train journey was this evening and therefore was daydreaming when it stopped in Herne Hill. Ended up in fucking Bromley
http://www.library.bromley.gov.uk/Arts/localheroes.html
You should have been damn proud to wake up there. Wherever it is.
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
I think you're probably right. Whatever the rights and wrongs of what's been done with it now, what was never going to happen was that it would fill back up with the more traditional stalls. The demand isnt there.
I'm not entirely sure that's true to be fair. Other caribbean/asian markets have thrived at times when Brixton was on the decline, Tooting's notably sprucing up whilst Brixton's indoor markets felt increasingly unloved and tatty. Not that the place wouldn't have struggled compared to its past - a hefty change in local population and associated migration outwards of many of the original immigrant families would have seen to that- but I suspect decline could have been far less notable with a little more care and maintenance. Insecurity over rents and the future of the place hardly encouraged existing traders to raise their game, nor encouraged enterprising others. I'm not suggesting it would have stayed frozen in aspic for one moment, but things could have developed along different lines.
Still, it's a moot point now. The place is holding on to some kind of balance at the moment, but I'm still a little fearful. It is harder to consistently pick up some more of the specialised produced now, which lessens its appeal as destination a food market. Let's see how it pans out, but given what's happened to many other London markets as they've gone upmarket/been trendified you'll excuse me a little caution.
On the plus side, there's some signs of life springing back up in the outdoor markets, with a couple of new stalls appearing selling (decent) Caribbean produce.
Still, it's a moot point now. The place is holding on to some kind of balance at the moment, but I'm still a little fearful. It is harder to consistently pick up some more of the specialised produced now, which lessens its appeal as destination a food market. Let's see how it pans out, but given what's happened to many other London markets as they've gone upmarket/been trendified you'll excuse me a little caution.
On the plus side, there's some signs of life springing back up in the outdoor markets, with a couple of new stalls appearing selling (decent) Caribbean produce.
sleaterkinney
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Article on cricket in Brixton: http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/587094.html
Manter
Lunch Mob
Is it even in London?!!
Just about - it's within the limits for using a PAYG Oyster card.
Gramsci
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I put this link on the Brixton square thread. But its relevant here. Basically the article says that housing near market puts up there price.
Trendifying a market is way of making people feel they live somewhere "authentic". What it remind me of is Marie Antoniettes rustic "farm"
Which ended up being one the things that people resented about her.
Manter
Lunch Mob
I didn't leave the station. Just huddled on a bench looking resentful and a bit confused
snowy_again
Slush
It's got several...
gaijingirl
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bits of it very much so! Bits of it on the edge of the countryside. It's a big place!
Manter
Lunch Mob
people were trying to talk to me on the station platform.... didn't feel like London
ajdown
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people were trying to talk to me on the station platform.... didn't feel like London
They could probably tell you weren't local, out in the sticks there most people are closely related. Very closely related.
Brommers Villaaage then?
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
I forgot how short the Thameslink train journey was this evening and therefore was daydreaming when it stopped in Herne Hill. Ended up in fucking Bromley
i've done that.
snowy_again
Slush
You've never been to The Glades have you?
gaijingirl
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my husband does it about once a month (the ending up in Bromley on the Thameslink). I used to have an alcoholic boyfriend who lived in Orpington. He would regularly wake up in Dover in the middle of the night after catching the vomit comet home from Charing Cross.
Winot
I wholeheartedley agree with your viewpoint
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