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Brixton news, rumours and general chat - September 2012

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Chilavert said:
Cheers Crispy!

I'm out for my birthday next Thursday so may well have a look.
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Here's a pic:

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You can get a nice night going for your birthday. Couple of pints in the Albert to warm up, next door for some jazz/ska live music, and then bust a few moves at the Dogstar. And they're all free!
 
Chilavert said:
Cheers Crispy!

I'm out for my birthday next Thursday so may well have a look.
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editor said:
You can get a nice night going for your birthday. Couple of pints in the Albert to warm up, next door for some jazz/ska live music, and then bust a few moves at the Dogstar. And they're all free!
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My birthday is on a Wednesday this year. Can you plan my night for me, please?
 
Crispy said:
It's surrounded by housing. I don't fancy their chances :hmm:
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It was for sale a few years ago - the building as a residential house - but there was some wierd arrangement whereby you had to still allow the c/club to use the premises for its meetings. I only know this because we were looking to move at the time and saw the estate agents details.
 
I think Badgers is beign a bit harsh here. The place is a bit run down but it hardly looks that bad.
 
Minnie_the_Minx said:
Will be interesting to see what the residents of Josephine Avenue say about this
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Quite a few have already said they support squatting.

(The residents of Josephine Avenue are more of a mixed bunch than people might imagine. We have *lots* of London and Quadrant social housing, quite a few ex-squatters as residents / owners. My next door neighbours are refugees. And there's a fair few long-standing Caribbean residents too.)
 
gaijingirl said:
It was for sale a few years ago - the building as a residential house - but there was some wierd arrangement whereby you had to still allow the c/club to use the premises for its meetings. I only know this because we were looking to move at the time and saw the estate agents details.
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I looked around it last month. When you saw tje details they were going bust and tried to sell part off but couldn't. Then someone invested for a share of the building. Then they ran out of money and members anyway. Sold for £850,000.
 
Rushy said:
I looked around it last month. When you saw tje details they were going bust and tried to sell part off but couldn't. Then someone invested for a share of the building. Then they ran out of money and members anyway. Sold for £850,000.
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yes... I did think at the time that it would be a hard sale to achieve!
 
Fifty years ago (well eight but it feels like a lifetime)

lang rabbie said:
If all the Rushcroft Road residents became Tories they could join the Effra Conservative Club (the victorian villa at no 89 Effra Road just before Brixton Water Lane). I understand that it now has so few members, that you could probably mount a palace coup by the second AGM

I've never been in, but usually reliable sources tell me that there is a barely used full sized hall (+stage+ meeting rooms???) at the back of the building - albeit with lousy disabled access. Can this be true?

Might Mr BC enlighten us?
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Mr BC said:
I certainly can. The Effra Club is a tardis. It's enormous. A huge room with proper stage and lights is in front of another huge room filled with snooker tables with yet another room behind that and large grounds at the back too. It is in a pretty bad state with no money having been spent on it in years. The cheapest beer in Brixton though and the excellent snooker tables keep the place ticking over.
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Personally I love my flat on Cressingham Gardens. I used to be one of those people who didn't think much of the estate from the outside, having rented in Victorian conversions near Brockwell Park. However, inside they are amazing. They are extremely light and with sloping ceilings. If you are a creative type, they are amazing canvases for interior design. The outside grows on you and it could be really beautiful it was properly maintained. Also, for the first time, I can sleep in my flat without hearing my neighbours snore or children running on wooden floorboards or wait half an hour to fill the bath because water pressure is so bad. I used to rent a flat on Dulwich road, and it would actually rain inside because the water used to come in through the bay window, insulation was non-existent so it was always woollen jumpers in Winter whilst inside, neighbour underneath would bang on the floor every time we walked more than a metre and the window frames so rotten that I could poke my finger through them. Flats on Cressingham Gardens are heaven compared to Victorian conversion flats.
 
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