Brixton news, rumours and general chat - October 2012

[Frumious B.]

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.

We must be talking about different entrances. There's definitely been Granville Arcade lettering there until recently.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

We must be talking about different entrances. There's definitely been Granville Arcade lettering there until recently.

Atlantic Road and Coldharbour Lane both have Brixton Village signs

 

[Frumious B.]

Yebbutt the Granville Arcade signs didn't all disappear ten years ago

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Who mentioned 10 years?

 

[fortyplus]

Who mentioned 10 years?

I did. "more than a decade". Anyway, there are 4 entrances and all 4 have had Brixton Village white plastic lettering on a blue background for years, I'm pretty sure since the Brixton Challenge rebranding in the 90s, and I don't recall anything saying Granville Arcade recently - in the last two years or so anyway. I do go through the Atlantic Road entrance several times a day, but then routine familiarity does breed a lack of observation.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I did. "more than a decade". Anyway, there are 4 entrances and all 4 have had Brixton Village white plastic lettering on a blue background for years, I'm pretty sure since the Brixton Challenge rebranding in the 90s, and I don't recall anything saying Granville Arcade recently - in the last two years or so anyway. I do go through the Atlantic Road entrance several times a day, but then routine familiarity does breed a lack of observation.

oh right

I can't remember when the signage changed but was definitely there in 2009

http://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/brixton-village-granville-arcade-indoor-market-brixton.237936/

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Mention of Brixton Village in 2005, although I'm not sure when the signage went up

http://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/pot-plants-brixton-where.32037/#post-1156571

 

[Frumious B.]

I did. "more than a decade". Anyway, there are 4 entrances and all 4 have had Brixton Village white plastic lettering on a blue background for years, I'm pretty sure since the Brixton Challenge rebranding in the 90s, and I don't recall anything saying Granville Arcade recently - in the last two years or so anyway. I do go through the Atlantic Road entrance several times a day, but then routine familiarity does breed a lack of observation.

Your memory is seriously defective

 

[fortyplus]

Mention of Brixton Village in 2005, although I'm not sure when the signage went up

http://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/pot-plants-brixton-where.32037/#post-1156571

At issue is not when the plastic signage went up - a good few years ago - but when the old signage saying Granville Arcade came down.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

At issue is not when the plastic signage went up - a good few years ago - but when the old signage saying Granville Arcade came down.

Oh

 

[Manter]

Oh

My brain officially hurts

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

My brain officially hurts

Probably not a good idea to go on the storm thread and see Greebo's posts about storms in the UK then

 

[Manter]

@Minnie_the_Minx Oh, but my advanced masochism means I will now have to.

Like I clicked on the link abut toenails when I hate feet.

Maybe I need counselling...

 

[quimcunx]

I think there was some Granville Arcade (ghost?) lettering still visible across from Nuclear Dawn. I'm sure it could still be seen somewhere in recent weeks anyway.

 

[Manter]

Brixton isn't gentrifying *that* fast.... I have just been followed down electric avenue by an apparently sober man saying that if I got any closer he would lick me. Not sure what the foxtons types will make of that.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

@Minnie_the_Minx Oh, but my advanced masochism means I will now have to.

Like I clicked on the link abut toenails when I hate feet.

Maybe I need counselling...

Enjoy. It gets very confusing

 

[Manter]

Enjoy. It gets very confusing

Yeah, I noticed. 2 days away and it feels like an alternate universe

 

[Greebo]

Brixton isn't gentrifying *that* fast.... I have just been followed down electric avenue by an apparently sober man saying that if I got any closer he would lick me. Not sure what the foxtons types will make of that.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I reckon he misheard and guy wanted to kick him

 

[Manter]

I reckon he misheard and guy wanted to kick him

(I'm a she)

Edit- tho possible.... May have to go back and check...

 

[Greebo]

(I'm a she)

Edit- tho possible.... May have to go back and check...

You'll have to excuse Minnie, she's had a trying and confusing week.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

(I'm a she)

Edit- tho possible.... May have to go back and check...

Oh yeah

Maybe he wanted to kick her

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

You'll have to excuse Minnie, she's had a trying and confusing week.

I was doing fine 'til you starting fucking my brain up with your wrong years

 

[Manter]

Oh yeah

Maybe he wanted to kick her

The slithery tongue action was fairly.... Illustrative. Pretty sure it was lick

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

The slithery tongue action was fairly.... Illustrative. Pretty sure it was lick

Oh, one of those leery disgusting old man slithering tongue action types (except younger)?

 

[Manter]

Oh, one of those leery disgusting old man slithering tongue action types (except younger)?

Yup. In fashionably- unflattering plastic glasses too. So maybe funkster on bad trip or common or garden crazy who had mugged a hipster

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Yup. In fashionably- unflattering plastic glasses too. So maybe funkster on bad trip or common or garden crazy who had mugged a hipster

Fashionably unflattering plastic glasses I normally associate with dirty old men

 

[editor]

Fashionably unflattering plastic glasses I normally associate with dirty old men

They're all the rage with the hipsters. Something to so with irony, I guess.

http://www.demeterclarc.com/tag/hipster/

 

[Manter]

They're all the rage with the hipsters. Something to so with irony, I guess.

http://www.demeterclarc.com/tag/hipster/

I can't decide whether the first pic is a bloke, or a girl with a stick on 'tache

 

[Ms T]

As forty plus has said, the renaming if Granville Arcade happened years ago and has nothing whatsoever to do with recent gentrification/trendification. That god-awful plastic lettering has been there for ages.