xsunnysuex
Life is a horizontal fall.
It has totally been ruined. Such a shame. I miss all those shops. Especially the big pound & plus one. where I could mostly buy anything I needed.
Brixton news, rumours and general chat: Summer - Autumn 2018
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hiraethified
It really is like the entire life and soul of the street has been sucked out by those two fucking awful corporate behemoths. That market has been there for over a hundred years and now it's dead on its arse.It has totally been ruined. Such a shame. I miss all those shops. Especially the big pound & plus one. where I could mostly buy anything I needed.
BusLanes
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Interesting - that's Another Europe is possible - following on from the local Lambeth for Europe's Brexitometer earlier in the week at the same - then Streatham for Europe was up in Norbury last weekend with it as well
Re Pope's Rd, the DIY supplies shop just round the corner under the railway on Brixton Station Rd is still going. I just bought a 30p washer there which sorted my leaking shower head, and some Araldite. Great place for all sorts of hardware like light bulbs, brushes, fuses, sink plugs, mousetraps, potting compost... Use it or lose it!
friendofdorothy
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When I last walked there there were no stalls in front of the shops - are they permanently gone now?
I liked the general shop that was there before - I think that was one of the few places left around the market to buy household stuff like decorating stuff, paint and tools. Does any where still sell paint in Brixton now? I still miss Force Homecare.
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Seems so. At best there's a couple of stalls opposite but I've never seen anything directly in front of the Sports Direct monstrosity.
friendofdorothy
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Well at least their shoppers get a clear view of the public toilets then.
lefteri
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There’s a decorator’s merchants on acre lane, roughly opposite lidl
ChrisSouth
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They were there last night about 5.30pm. To be fair, 6.48pm on a wet Monday bank holiday isn't really representative of moribundness
xsunnysuex
Life is a horizontal fall.
I passed through at around 3pm yesterday. It was as dead as a dodo.
DietCokeGirl
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Quadrant DIY in Stockwell is good for paint and general DIY materials, the bloke who runs is it refreshingly honest and won't up sell you and gives decent advice.
I miss Pound Plus on Popes Rd though, it had everything.
I miss Pound Plus on Popes Rd though, it had everything.
CH1
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Just to remind people of an old Urban post. 1956 - with coal merchants lingering on on the right hand side and the toilet block already built. The coal merchants were replaced with a Tesco store at some time in the 1960s presumably.
Back in the 1970s/80s Popes Road outside Tescos was certainly busy. Not sure if as crowded with stalls as this pre Tesco photo. I also remember taxis touting for business from heavily laden shoppers when the store morphed into Kwik Save.
Back in the 1970s/80s Popes Road outside Tescos was certainly busy. Not sure if as crowded with stalls as this pre Tesco photo. I also remember taxis touting for business from heavily laden shoppers when the store morphed into Kwik Save.
David Clapson
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Has anyone heard of a striped tabby cat going missing? There's one in Rushcroft Road trying to adopt me. It's slim, seems in good condition. My own cat is outraged.
David Clapson
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I'm a big fan, always trying to use it. Great service.
Gramsci
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There are several places I go to in Stockwell. The plumbers merchant near Quadrant. Also the DIY store near the tube station which is open Sundays. Been a godsend. And has everything. Says something about what has happened to Brixton that I have to go to Stockwell to get DIY building materials. Brixton is basically a place for "eateries" now. Not for what the ordinary person needs.
lefteri
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I agree with you about Brixton’s trajectory- but was it really much better in the past for DIY? Ten years ago I can remember the paint shop on Brixton Road but I can’t being to mind any other shops that have since closed
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theboris
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There is still Brixton Hardware on Acre Lane - pretty much opposite Lidl and the huge Screwfix on Lyham Rd
theboris
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Have you tried Nextdoor is the free private social network for your neighbourhood community. ? Half the posts on there are about lost cats.
I'm not plugging nextdoor, it's interminably dull
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jimbarkanoodle
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i see that the Wednesday Jam thing that was running at the 414 has moved to the Queens Head.
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Yep but the 414 is still carrying on with its own live jam night, headed up by Be Atwell from Alabama 3. So Wednesday is going to be a bloody great night out in Brixton!
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Drop me a PM if you want a free guest place:
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Ms T
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You could take it to a vet who will check for a chip?
This happened to us a few years. Similar outrage from our two resident furry parasites. The interloper wasn’t chipped and still had bollocks. We now have three cats! The stray had to forfeit his knackers but he didn’t seem to mind too much when it meant Gourmet Perla on tap.
Very instagrammable!
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I've asked you before and I'll say it again: can you stop being such a twat, please? Thanks.
Gramsci
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When I was first in Brixton there was a good tool shop in Coldharbour lane plus a DIY shop as bit later.
The DIY shops in Stockwell are fairly recent. For some reason the building materials area is now Stockwell.
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