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CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
I think her problem is she is "out of time". She would have got on famously as a Streatham Conservative councillor in the 1980s - when Cllr John Bercow was in the Monday Club.One suspects that "the real issue", whether for the residents of Clapham yesterday afternoon or listeners to LBC this morning, is that the Conservative Party 2024 London Mayoral Candidate is, so far, doing an excellent impersonation of a middle-aged bigot with little or no grasp of the issues relating to the office for which she is running and very little clue about very much at all, other than the possibility that some electors may support her campaign because her ethnicity differs from that of the incumbent.
(Source: Jeremy Selwyn)
"Robbery" victim and Mayoral Candidate, Susan Hall: "The answer is I have no idea"
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
Pavement outside the Town Hall will be busy tonight...
(Interesting that Lambeth LTN Watch have changed their campaign graphics from previous black and traffic light colours to avoid confusion with Gaza protests)
(Interesting that Lambeth LTN Watch have changed their campaign graphics from previous black and traffic light colours to avoid confusion with Gaza protests)
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hiraethified
They bang on about 'pollution fumes' whilst being fucking oblivious to the fact that it's people in cars creating them. People like them.
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"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Funnily enough, on the opposite side of the road from The Wellington there was a community asset type pub which is now truly lost: The Clock House
At least I can't find a photo - not on Urban75 lost pubs, not on Lambeth Landmark or Google.
The Clock House was at 156 Clapham Park Road - the bit of Clapham Park Road where the road narrows somewhat dangerously.
I only got to know it in the early 1990s when it had morphed into a "local" gay bar - with militant leather clad lesbians in the public bar and a saloon on the right hand side which had a small raised stage area.
They did drag, male strippers - and bingo!
My understanding is that the pub was sold off by the brewery in the days when Thatcher and successors had broken the brewers' monopolies - and was bought by the 1990s landlord as his plaything.
Evidently he got bored with running a gay bar - maybe not enough profit, too much competition? - and he started a major rebuilt.
The beautiful Victorian facade with suspended clock in the entrance went and the address became an intensely fashionable glass fronted restaurant called "Sand" which had queues down the street to get a table.
Fashions come and go - and the trendy restaurant has now become in international online business school (with flats to rent above)
This photo comes from a closed pubs website, and they are seeking information Clock House, Clapham
It would be wonderful if someone had photo - it was definitely a pub of some character
This site has a list of early tenants of the Clock House - but no pictures unfortunately. Clock House, 156 Clapham Park Road, Clapham SW4
Maybe it was always a house of ill repute where no-one wanted to be seen! I can however confirm that Keith Hill addressed a meeting there in 1997 - but then he was always a liberal sort of chap!
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hiraethified
It's so badly done that it's nearly impossible to read what it says. But now that the council say it's OK to use Windrush Square to paint whatever you like on the floor, I imagine there'll be plenty of taggers keen to have their say too.
GarveyLives
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Maybe the best thing to do is to get down to Brixton market with a list of things that are important to you, hand it to the people protesting about things that are important to them and tell them to protest about the things that are important to you rather than the things that are important to them.
sparkybird
ask the bird...
And it's already wearing off in parts!
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
I was assuming it has only been done to be filmed for a drone shot???
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hiraethified
They could have just used CGI, FFS.
Brixton Cycles is in real danger of going to the wall after a super rough 2023. They suffered a three-week external electrical fault which brought them to their knees, and are now asking for help to raise £30,000 to cover about 3-4 weeks loss of earnings from that power outage. Details here Cagnottes organisées par Brixton Cycles : Help to Save Brixton Cycles
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hiraethified
Terrible news. Buzzed here: Fundraiser launched to help save Brixton Cycles as profits plummet
Tulster218
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Blaming an electrical fault makes a change from the usual blaming the landlord.
Tulster218
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Don't be sad. The success of the country depends on some businesses failing and others succeeding, otherwise we'd still have blacksmiths and video rental shops and Rumbellows.
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stripey
Yeah - why be sad about people losing their jobs in a cost of living crisis in the most expensive city in the country?
Have a bit of empathy
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hiraethified
You're really exceeding yourself in the 'Let's sound like a Tory twat' stakes today.
Tulster218
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I don't have any stake in Halfords, but they've been around for 132 years and, like most shops, welcome anyone through the door. They publish their audited accounts and are owned by literally thousands of people, including pension funds, and little old ladies.
nick
Pleomorphic Adenomas R us
really?
FFS
ETA - dunno if pertinent to your point, but
CVC Capital Partners is a Luxembourg-based private equity and investment advisory firm with approximately US$155 billion of assets under management and approximately €157 billion in secured commitments since inception across American, European and Asian private equity, secondaries and credit funds.
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My bad - it was subsequently listed
Still, Winot (post below this) is right
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Winot
I wholeheartedley agree with your viewpoint
Halfords are shit. Brixton Cycles are great. HTH.
Tulster218
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If your view were representative, they wouldn't need to be handing round the begging bowl, now would they.
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hiraethified
Are they a workers' collective?
DJWrongspeed
radio eros
Donated. Reading CyclingWeekly multiple pressures involved , hope they can pull through. They're always busy whenever I'm there.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
It would appear that Winot's view is indeed representative, and they have a sufficiently effective business model such that when they run into difficulty people value them enough to donate without the expectation of anything in return other than the continuation of their existence & service.
sparkybird
ask the bird...
Please feel free to not donate. But thanks for bringing it to my attention so that I did
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