Brixton news, rumours and general chat: Spring 2019

[DietCokeGirl]

I need some velcro. Any idea where to get some please? Does Morleys still have that haberdashery section?

It does and it does stock Velcro. Top floor.

 

[Brixton Hatter]

It does and it does stock Velcro. Top floor.

cheers

 

[SheilaNaGig]

Wha’gwan?

Brixton chorus for an hour at least this night.

 

[editor]

Some Brixton/Loughborough Junction pics

In photos: Brixton’s Wyck Gardens, Ebony Horse Club and Barrington Road tower blocks

 

[DietCokeGirl]

Does anyone know of a local charity (thinking an animal charity probably) that could use a load of towels, sheets, duvets?

 

[editor]

Bollocks. This has sold out already.

Dayglo: The Poly Styrene Story

 

[editor]

Palza!

Say hello to the BRIXTON PALZA – the latest name for the old Mothercare store on Brixton Road

 

[editor]

For you antique types
Brockwell Lido hosts The Modern Movement, 20th century vintage furniture dealers, 4th – 5th May 2019

 

[Pickman's model]

Palza!

Say hello to the BRIXTON PALZA – the latest name for the old Mothercare store on Brixton Road

i imagine they'll be selling the indonesian street food, palza.

 

[Pickman's model]

 

[editor]

i imagine they'll be selling the indonesian street food, palza.

Want to take a bet on that?

 

[Pickman's model]

Want to take a bet on that?

i don't bet on certainties

 

[editor]

If you can help... King’s College Hospital looking for volunteer qualified hairdressers

 

[theboris]

i imagine they'll be selling the indonesian street food, palza.

nice use of Friz quadrata

 

[Gramsci]

Does anyone know of a local charity (thinking an animal charity probably) that could use a load of towels, sheets, duvets?

Celia Hammond Animal Trust - UK Animal Rescue Charity

Set up by ex 60s fashion model. Helped out our Coop when large cat family moved in.

My old Coop donated them some money when we wound up the Coop.

They were very helpful. Not as well known as Battersea cats and dogs home.

 

[editor]

I've been invited to a "scoping session for a Creative Community Placemakers Network."

I literally have no fucking idea what that means.

 

[sparkybird]

I've been invited to a "scoping session for a Creative Community Placemakers Network."

I literally have no fucking idea what that means.

Are you going to go? I'm dying to find out what it means!

 

[BusLanes]

Please go!

 

[Angellic]

I've been invited to a "scoping session for a Creative Community Placemakers Network."

I literally have no fucking idea what that means.

of or involving an investigation or discussion to determine the effect a proposed policy or project would have on a community or the local environment: The public is invited to the scoping meeting on the proposed new refinery.

 

[T & P]

I've been invited to a "scoping session for a Creative Community Placemakers Network."

I literally have no fucking idea what that means.

 

[Lucy Fur]

. edit cos wrong thread.

 

[editor]

of or involving an investigation or discussion to determine the effect a proposed policy or project would have on a community or the local environment: The public is invited to the scoping meeting on the proposed new refinery.

So what is a 'placemaker'? Someone who gets the dinner table ready?

 

[editor]

Coming up Brixton Windmill Beer and Bread Festival returns on Bank Holiday Monday, 6th May 2019

 

[discobastard]

Funnily enough, all the information needed, including a definition of what 'placemaker' is, is on the event website. Fancy that!

Community - Global Urban Design

 

[CH1]

Funnily enough, all the information needed, including a definition of what 'placemaker' is, is on the event website. Fancy that!

Community - Global Urban Design

Sounds a bit Brixton Greeny though doesn't it?

As a cynic (in the Antisthenes sense) "one" wonders whether the scoping might come up with something requiring the architectural expertise of Jacqueline Bleicher on either a consultancy or permanent basis.

What is it with 27 Old Gloucester Street London, WC1N 3AX then?

This is an accommodation address, and the company known as Global Urban Design was formed a year ago, has never filed accounts and only one person listed as a director ie Jacqueline Bleicher.

Clearly a start-up, but one destined to take over the globe apparently.

 

[discobastard]

Sounds a bit Brixton Greeny though doesn't it?

As a cynic (in the Antisthenes sense) "one" wonders whether the scoping might come up with something requiring the architectural expertise of Jacqueline Bleicher on either a consultancy or permanent basis.

What is it with 27 Old Gloucester Street London, WC1N 3AX then?

This is an accommodation address, and the company known as Global Urban Design was formed a year ago, has never filed accounts and only one person listed as a director ie Jacqueline Bleicher.

Clearly a start-up, but one destined to take over the globe apparently.

Wouldn't want to comment on whether it is a good or bad thing. But it's a fairly detailed explanation, if a bit wanky.

Not dissimilar to Spacemakers, who we know filled the empty Brixton Village units. They also helped found West Norwood Feast, which has completely changed the dynamic in West Norwood in many positive ways. They were/are a consultancy too. Good things can and do come out of this kind of thing.

WC1N 3AX is a PO Box btw.

 

[editor]

Sounds a bit Brixton Greeny though doesn't it?

As a cynic (in the Antisthenes sense) "one" wonders whether the scoping might come up with something requiring the architectural expertise of Jacqueline Bleicher on either a consultancy or permanent basis.

What is it with 27 Old Gloucester Street London, WC1N 3AX then?

This is an accommodation address, and the company known as Global Urban Design was formed a year ago, has never filed accounts and only one person listed as a director ie Jacqueline Bleicher.

Clearly a start-up, but one destined to take over the globe apparently.

I find all this stuff weird and I resent the way that they use on-trend language that is almost guaranteed to exclude a large demographic who aren't tuned into their daft buzzword-speak. They sound a bit like those Spacemakers lot who got their paws all over Brixton Village. Brixton Village – London

 

[editor]

Thanks to the urbanites who came along - much appreciated x

Effra Social party night – photos from the Brixton Buzz DJ night on Friday 5th April 2019

 

[editor]

Coming up - Queer Walking Tour of Brixton, Thurs 20th June 2019

 

[editor]

There's an almighty bunfight going on in the comments section here - Demolition – is your estate next? Local councillors, housing activists, researchers and journalists discuss Lambeth policy