Brixton news, rumours and general chat

[Winot]

Walthamstow?

No that’s underground. Sounds like it’s a bit from Seven Sisters to the depot.

Victoria line

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[happyshopper]

The depot, where the trains go to sleep, is above ground.

 

[editor]

Still mighty chilly out there

 

[editor]

Loved how Brady's looked last night

 

[pbsmooth]

shame about the tags

 

[editor]

shame about the tags

Shame the developers couldn't fix the clock too

 

[newbie]

Yes happy to of you are still interested

Sorted now, but thanks anyway.

 

[snowy_again]

Victor Lewis Smith has died

 

[cuppa tee]

Victor Lewis Smith has died

....was he a brixton local ?

 

[snowy_again]

I always seemed to see him in brixton

 

[Leighsw2]

I was looking for an air fryer few weeks ago. As trying to cut down on fat. Doctors orders. Found one in Morleys that was on cheap price. Argos did not have any available that were cheap.

Found Morley staff friendly and helpful.

The air fryer I got has been really good.

I notice Morley have big range on cosmetic counters. With a lot of staff. So if that is what one is looking for then it is up with West End stores.

The stairs had some good photos of Brixton. Recent and historical.

Morleys were also plugging online sales.

I kind of thought Morleys as long standing store that has stuck it out in Brixton through good times and bad deserves support..

I try and support Morleys as much as possible, though I'm not sure about kitchen and tableware on the second floor. For some reason I always associate that department with the basement in department stores. Don't know if it's me, but their ranges seem to have shrunk (I wanted a festive tablecloth and they didn't have any. And see my thread on tinsel!)

 

[pbsmooth]

I thought you were all talking about the chicken shop.

 

[ChrisSouth]

I always seemed to see him in brixton

From his obit in the Telegraph, 'one of the few white men to get away with wearing his hair in Caribbean-style dreadlocks'. Nah, no white man can get away with that.

 

[editor]

From his obit in the Telegraph, 'one of the few white men to get away with wearing his hair in Caribbean-style dreadlocks'. Nah, no white man can get away with that.

Thanks for the tip.

 

[Rushy]

The latest somewhat Brixton focused account of London's proposed ring roads, starring Southwyck House:

London’s lost mega-motorway: the eight-lane ring road that would have destroyed much of the city

In the car-crazed 1960s, planners came up with a scheme to slash through the capital’s inner suburbs with huge freeways. Only fragments were ever built – but they tell of a fate narrowly avoided

www.theguardian.com

 

[editor]

The latest somewhat Brixton focused account of London's proposed ring roads, starring Southwyck House:

London’s lost mega-motorway: the eight-lane ring road that would have destroyed much of the city

In the car-crazed 1960s, planners came up with a scheme to slash through the capital’s inner suburbs with huge freeways. Only fragments were ever built – but they tell of a fate narrowly avoided

www.theguardian.com

That's a really good piece. I love the Barrier Block!



That's now two articles in two years in the Guardian about the block

Brixton’s Barrier Block: ‘When it went up everyone hated it’

Fifty years on, architect Magda Borowiecka explains why she had limited scope in designing Southwyck House

www.theguardian.com

 

[Rushy]

That's a really good piece. I love the Barrier Block!

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I think the point the architect makes is a good one - hardly anyone sees it from the other side. Glass and terraces.

 

[editor]

I think the point the architect makes is a good one - hardly anyone sees it from the other side. Glass and terraces.

Curiously enough MyLondon also wrote about it last week (clearly using my pages as a resource)

Brixton's Southwyck House so 'ugly' it's often mistaken for a prison

There's even a rumour the building is the 'wrong way round'

www.mylondon.news

 

[pbsmooth]

missed opportunities to show pictures of the other side!

 

[ChrisSouth]

Thanks for the tip.

Not a tip. More a statement.

 

[editor]

missed opportunities to show pictures of the other side!

The front is the sexy 'hardcore' view though!

 

[pbsmooth]

just seems weird they always mention how much nicer the other side is and say the 'problem' is people only see the front... well show the other one!

 

[Angellic]

Not sure I agree with this. I regularly attended Sub South from about 1998 through to a few years before it closed. Wasn't Susie's night Sadie Maisie? I remember Fist being up at the Imperial Gardens in Camberwell where she moved to after falling out with Lambeth (though moving back to Vauxhall later on). Sub South was great - Boot Camp on Wednesdays, Dirty Dishes on Fridays, Queer Nation on Saturdays and an indie night (name escapes me) on Sundays. A great time was had by all!

Marvellous

 

[CH1]

Curiously enough MyLondon also wrote about it last week (clearly using my pages as a resource)

Brixton's Southwyck House so 'ugly' it's often mistaken for a prison

There's even a rumour the building is the 'wrong way round'

www.mylondon.news

Did this ever get posted here? The Accidental Brutalist: Magda Borowiecka

 

[Rushy]

I was pretty impressed to stumble across The Brockwell Igloo yesterday ...

 

[CH1]

The latest somewhat Brixton focused account of London's proposed ring roads, starring Southwyck House:

London’s lost mega-motorway: the eight-lane ring road that would have destroyed much of the city

In the car-crazed 1960s, planners came up with a scheme to slash through the capital’s inner suburbs with huge freeways. Only fragments were ever built – but they tell of a fate narrowly avoided

www.theguardian.com

A couple of Lambeth Labour councillors from the 70s had erata:

Thank you for this *******. Of course, one would not expect Pravda to give pre Ted Knight Lambeth credit for anything.

It seems that that their search of the archive frailer to note the policy on the ‘Inner London Motorway Box’ This was based on a resolution opposing it outright proposed by me in 1972. We held a publicmeeting to gauge the level of support for our position’ It was packed out. Geoffrey ‘Manning for Planning’ took the Chair.The article suggests quite wrongly, that opposition was limited to ‘a small number of local and fragmented campaigns.’ David and I attended a Labour Party meeting where the GLC’s Jane Phillips unveiled their vision for 4 ringways plus the 25, that they envisaged would surround London. We were appalled.

I am in E******** just now but will circulate the 1972 resolution on my return,

For those of you who are not Guardianistas, there is an interesting piece in today's paper about the Motorway Box, and in particular the Barrier Block, with comments by the 92 year old Magda Borowiecka:

London’s lost mega-motorway: the eight-lane ring road that would have destroyed much of the city

The article says that the construction of the block was authorised by John Major as chair of the planning committee. Shouldn't that be housing committee

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So apparently Lambeth Council and the local Labour Party (from 1972) were to some extent involved in the motorway debate - opposing.

 

[CH1]

PS to the above (from another former Lambeth Labour councillor):
"History moves on and the tower blocks proposed in the plan, have their successor in the site bewtween the railway lines in Brixton, previously occupied by quicksave/tesco"

 

[editor]

£1,500 donated to local charities and campaigns with links to each donation page:

• £500 Norwood & Brixton Food Bank – foodbank feeding the hungry
• £100 Mosaic Clubhouse – providing support and opportunities to people living with a mental health condition.
• £100 Raw Material – improving the lives of young people through creative music opportunities
• £100 School Ground Sounds – improving young people’s lives through music
• £100 Brixton Soup Kitchen – offering year-round support to homeless people
• £100 Youthsayers -south London charity bringing young people together through music
• £100 Papa’s Park – volunteer-run, friendly and welcoming playground in the heart of Brixton
• £50 Loughborough Junction Action Group – bringing people together to improve wellbeing and decrease isolation
• £50 Juvenis – charity helping vulnerable young children
• £50 Friends of Brixton Windmill – supporting Brixton’s historic building and community centre
• £50 Brixton Advice Centre – offering local help and advice since 1966
• £50 Indigo Youth – helping disadvantaged children
• £50 Oasis Children’s Venture – running unique facilities for disabled and non-disabled young people in Stockwell
• £50 St Matthews Project – providing a safe and encouraging environment for kids to get involved with sports
• £50 Cressingham Gardens – community fighting Lambeth’s plans to demolish their estate

Brixton Buzz and Chucklehead Cider donate £1,500 to local Brixton charities – see the full list here

Back in 2019, Chucklehead Cider – long term supporters of the Lambeth Country Show – had their takings stolen in Brockwell Park and we decided to hold a crowdfunder to help them get som…

www.brixtonbuzz.com

 

[cuppa tee]

I was pretty impressed to stumble across The Brockwell Igloo yesterday ...

...needs a ' to let' sign as a finishing touch....

 

[prunus]

...needs a ' to let' sign as a finishing touch....

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