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Gramsci said:
The mosaics are worth seeing. Sadly they seem to be forgotten. Hardly see anyone there looking at them.

William Blake lived there. It was still partly countryside then.
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No railway line of course in 1795 or so. Jon Newman (Lambeth Archivist and walk leader) made the point that Blake would have had a view of the wall to the Archbishop's garden from the front window of his house (that bit is now called Archbishop's Park). As a radical spirit Blake would probably have been affronted by the vast private gardens at Lambeth Palace - indeed Jon Newman treated us to a recitation of "The Garden of Love" at the very end of the walk, when we had been round Lambeth Palace gardens.
The Garden of Love
BY WILLIAM BLAKE
I went to the Garden of Love,
And saw what I never had seen:
A Chapel was built in the midst,
Where I used to play on the green.

And the gates of this Chapel were shut,
And Thou shalt not. writ over the door;
So I turn'd to the Garden of Love,
That so many sweet flowers bore.

And I saw it was filled with graves,
And tomb-stones where flowers should be:
And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars, my joys & desires.

One final point - Jon Newman said (and it was confirmed by the lady from the Palace who was accompanying us round the garden) that Mrs Thatcher used to be brought to Archbishop's garden to walk around in her final years when she was very frail and senile - because the garden is private. Strange that a woman who had crossed swords with several Archbishops because of her hard line ("unchristian?") policies should have found refuge there.
 
Nah, the tables and windows layout stop you from seeing the trews from outside, and I cant imagine Editor going in when he had Kaff to go to.

I found myself walking up to a bloke who was wearingred jeans on sunday and having verbal aspergers and uncontrollably pointing and too loudly saying -lookatmyfuckingredtrousers.com.
 
snowy_again said:
Nah, the tables and windows layout stop you from seeing the trews from outside, and I cant imagine Editor going in when he had Kaff to go to.

I found myself walking up to a bloke who was wearingred jeans on sunday and having verbal aspergers and uncontrollably pointing and too loudly saying -lookatmyfuckingredtrousers.com.
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Tis a good site that, some cracking fuckingredtrousers on display.
 
Gramsci said:
I see you have. I disagree except for street dealers. Who seem to have gone. Which might be more to do with use of internet (Silkroad) and mobiles than anything else.

I never had a problem with beggars or ranters. So do not count there numbers as making any difference to whether Brixton is better or not.
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By 2003 IMO Brixton at 3 am was no worse than the Dalston Murder Mile, or Euston, or Peckham at the height of that crack era. There users at the desperate stage using the -I need £10 to buy my child nappies- aggressive begging with menaces thing, which i fell in with a few times, mostly as, alone, drunk with a guitar on my back which was worth more the value of their next fix, it was the price at the time.

Im not sure I feel safer with the new braying hordes - I understand their motives less than someone with a dependency. Its not better or worse, just different.
 
editor said:
Clapham.
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Really, whats it like, or is it for new people and-or the people who live in Brixton to whom the albert isnt the number 1 choice. Frankly it looks tiny, showy and arriviste to me, but hey ho. booze seems cheap.

That end of brixton has always had the more expensive houses - and a set of people who have had kids and been here for 15 years or more before I knew them. Even the most -old school brixton - to use your oft quoted term, BHC founder was excited that they use championship wine glasses and he wont have to go far afield for a change. It gives choice. i tend to listen to someone whos been here 40 years than 20.

Its a bar that sells wine - but means losing a shop for more night time economy. The number of local offies that are touted on here for offering a wider and better drink choice, and selling anything other than hardys and that being seen as a good thing would suggest that there is an appetite for something other than fizzy beer and the shit wine they sell at the effra. its not new, its a critical mass that serves long term residents and newbs.

the owners might find have their branded car a little dented this week too. Never good to be a twunt and drive with your phone number on the side
 
simonSW2 said:
Capital Printers on Brixton Hill being redeveloped into flats?? Those good Foxtons folk are offering a first floor flat for £995K.

I hope they keep those lifesize cardboard cut-outs of James Dean and the Royals in the window as 'original features'.
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never forgiven that place for cutting down the trees out front a few years ago
 
snowy_again said:
Really, whats it like, or is it for new people and-or the people who live in Brixton to whom the albert isnt the number 1 choice. Frankly it looks tiny, showy and arriviste to me, but hey ho. booze seems cheap.

That end of brixton has always had the more expensive houses - and a set of people who have had kids and been here for 15 years or more before I knew them. Even the most -old school brixton - to use your oft quoted term, BHC founder was excited that they use championship wine glasses and he wont have to go far afield for a change. It gives choice. i tend to listen to someone whos been here 40 years than 20.

Its a bar that sells wine - but means losing a shop for more night time economy. The number of local offies that are touted on here for offering a wider and better drink choice, and selling anything other than hardys and that being seen as a good thing would suggest that there is an appetite for something other than fizzy beer and the shit wine they sell at the effra. its not new, its a critical mass that serves long term residents and newbs.

the owners might find have their branded car a little dented this week too. Never good to be a twunt and drive with your phone number on the side
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The ex wine critic for Harpers & Queen and The Spectator throughout the 80s and 90s is an old school brixtonite. He has moved now and is author of the FTs slowlane column.
 
simonSW2 said:
Capital Printers on Brixton Hill being redeveloped into flats?? Those good Foxtons folk are offering a first floor flat for £995K.

I hope they keep those lifesize cardboard cut-outs of James Dean and the Royals in the window as 'original features'.
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Saw that the other day, but I'm not sure I saw James Dean, but I was passing on bus so didn't look properly.
 
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