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Brixton news, rumours and general chat - October 2012

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This came to my attention today, thought some people might be interested

I'd be grateful if you could help spread the word about an exciting charity football match that is happening locally next month.

BACKGROUND
- This year is the 140th anniversary of the first ever FA Cup Final, which was staged at Kennington Oval cricket ground.
- Lambeth in general, and the Oval in particular, had a key but unknown role in the early development of the world's most popular sport, and it's a personal passion of mine to ensure we reclaim this heritage for our area.
- To help do this, a rematch of the first ever FA Cup Final in 1872 has been arranged for Wednesday 7th November 2012.
- The game will see the locally-based Wanderers FC, who played at the Oval in the 1870s, take on the Royal Engineers FC. Wanderers beat the Engineers 1-0 in the original final to lift the first FA Cup.

CHARITY EVENT
- The event will be a major festival of football, raising money for three different charities.
- One of these is local youth football club Lambeth Tigers FC, who run teams for over 200 local kids across a variety of ages. The Tigers are based locally, and train in Myatts Field Park every week. As well as football they also provide mentoring and positive role models for kids. They were set up to keep young people away from gangs and help mould them into positive citizens.
- The other two charities are The Royal British Legion and The Haig Trust. This is in recognition of the fact that the first Cup Final included a military team, and that the rematch is a few days before Remembrance Sunday.

Tickets are £10 each and £1 for under 16s and available from the Oval ticketing office I believe.
 
The lettering saying Granville Arcade above the Atlantic Road entrance has been removed and replaced with tacky plastic lettering saying Brixton Village. It's cheap, horrible, shoddy and not in keeping with....anything. It's fucking BUTCHERY. I thought the building was listed? How can they get away with it? (Whoever 'they' are.) Who can I complain to?

It would also have been confusing for the lost visitors in Market Row who asked me for directions to the Colombian restaurant this morning...go out to the street, look across to the doorway with Granville Arcade over it...:confused:
 
Frumious B. said:
The lettering saying Granville Arcade above the Atlantic Road entrance has been removed and replaced with tacky plastic lettering saying Brixton Village. It's cheap, horrible, shoddy and not in keeping with....anything. It's fucking BUTCHERY. I thought the building was listed? How can they get away with it? (Whoever 'they' are.) Who can I complain to?<snip>
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No idea. Fuck whoever's behind that, and the horse they rode in on, preferably with something large, spiked and covered in chilli oil. :mad:
 
Frumious B. said:
The lettering saying Granville Arcade above the Atlantic Road entrance has been removed and replaced with tacky plastic lettering saying Brixton Village. It's cheap, horrible, shoddy and not in keeping with....anything. It's fucking BUTCHERY. I thought the building was listed? How can they get away with it? (Whoever 'they' are.) Who can I complain to?

It would also have been confusing for the lost visitors in Market Row who asked me for directions to the Colombian restaurant this morning...go out to the street, look across to the doorway with Granville Arcade over it...:confused:
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Maybe someone read these forums and realised after years of living here, people still didn't know where Granville Arcade was :hmm: :D
 
Frumious B. said:
The lettering saying Granville Arcade above the Atlantic Road entrance has been removed and replaced with tacky plastic lettering saying Brixton Village. It's cheap, horrible, shoddy and not in keeping with....anything. It's fucking BUTCHERY. I thought the building was listed? How can they get away with it? (Whoever 'they' are.) Who can I complain to?

It would also have been confusing for the lost visitors in Market Row who asked me for directions to the Colombian restaurant this morning...go out to the street, look across to the doorway with Granville Arcade over it...:confused:
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I can't actually think which lettering you are referring to. However, as I use the entrance several times every day, it's quite possible that by habituation I wouldn't notice it. But I don't think anyone has done much work around there for a while.

However, the Atlantic Road entrance to the Granville Arcade, like the Coldharbour Lane and Popes' Road entrances, has had plastic lettering saying Brixton Village over it for.. well, a long time. More than a decade - since the Arcade was idiotically renamed as part of the 90's Brixton Challenge process. I'm pretty sure that all signage referring to the Granville Arcade was removed at the same time. Well before the building was listed, which only happened in 2009 or 10 or so. Actually, because it is now listed, removing the tacky plastic lettering would probably require LBC.
 
I wondered! :D There's a documentary about the shop somewhere, I bet Rosa/Rosie/Fido is in it. Have a rummage on Vimeo, Youtube etc

Oops...Mrs M beat me to it.
 
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