Brixton news, rumours and general chat

[Gramsci]

This sucks:

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Brixton: striking street art celebrating ‘The Heroes of Palestine’ defaced

A striking piece of street art in Dorrell Place, Brixton, celebrating ‘The Heroes of Palestine’ has been defaced within days of its completion. The artwork, created by creativedebuts, f…

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And this is not tagging. It is deliberate defacing of the text and portrait

 

[Gramsci]

The ones I've seen elsewhere have been treated with more respect

 

[editor]

Just saw some prick cycling along Coldharbour Lane with an Apple VR headset on.

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

Just saw some prick cycling along Coldharbour Lane with an Apple VR headset on.

probably a fake you can see all the way through...
otherwise a pothole might beckon

 

[editor]

Body Shop closed today. Can anyone remember when it first opened?


I've got photos of it from 2000 but I know it had already been there for ages even then.

 

[oryx]

Body Shop closed today. Can anyone remember when it first opened?


I've got photos of it from 2000 but I know it had already been there for ages even then.

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I thought it opened after the 1985 riots, when businesses were looking to invest in the area.

 

[ChrisSouth]

I thought it opened after the 1985 riots, when businesses were looking to invest in the area.

It was there in 1991 at least

 

[editor]

Ceramic studios have opened up in Brixton.
£65 for a three hour session, or £200/month for open access

Saturday & Sunday Taster Sessions | Earthworks

Saturday and Sunday 2 - 5pm Arch 45, Nursery Road, Brixton Get a sense for throwing on the wheel in a relaxed light airy studio every Saturday and Sunday afternoon! Using stoneware clay you will have a go at wedging, centering and throwing on the wheel, you will be given instruction on how to...

www.earthworksceramicstudios.com

 

[BusLanes]

Seems pricey but then on other hand I have no idea how much this costs anywhere

 

[CH1]

Body Shop closed today. Can anyone remember when it first opened?
I've got photos of it from 2000 but I know it had already been there for ages even then.

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It was definitely open when this quirky Anita Roddick short about Brixton's Bon Marché was aired on BBC2 in 1992:

The Day the World Changed​

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BBC Two
First broadcast: Wed 26th Feb 1992, 20:00 on BBC Two England
Personal reflections on a day from the past, raising issues from history which have become issues of the present. Anita Roddick: 22 May 1877 This is the day James Smith opened the Bon Marche in Brixton - Britain's first purpose-built department store. For Anita Roddick , founder of the Body Shop, the opening of the Bon Marche store marks the death of the little community shop.


oryx is right - I think that Bodyshop was probably seen as a prestige tenant to launch the new-build development on the corner of Tunstall Road, late 1980s.
Of course you had Ted Knight's South Chelsea School of English upstairs, along with Sirena's music business (not been posting since 2017?)
Maybe one to check out at the new Lambeth Archive?

 

[RoyReed]

Body Shop closed today. Can anyone remember when it first opened?


I've got photos of it from 2000 but I know it had already been there for ages even then.

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It was still John Collier in 1978.

468-470 BRIXTON ROAD, BRIXTON - Landmark

Nos 468-470 Brixton Road, John Collier’s menswear store adjacent to Tunstall Street. The elevated pedestrian walkway above Brixton Road, was later demolished and replaced with a ground-level pedestrian crossing.Ref: LBL/DTP/UD/2/1/19/105

boroughphotos.org

 

[lang rabbie]

Body Shop closed today. Can anyone remember when it first opened?


I've got photos of it from 2000 but I know it had already been there for ages even then.

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This suggests 1989
Post in thread 'Who remembers Our Price records in Brixton?' Who remembers Our Price records in Brixton?

 

[GarveyLives]

Absolutely disgraceful. Hopefully, Abellio London Ltd have the entire incident captured on CCTV and those responsible can be identified:

Disabled Brixton woman 'humiliated' as school kids 'intimidate and harass' her on London bus

 

[nick]

Seems pricey but then on other hand I have no idea how much this costs anywhere

Seems to be the going rate, This is long standing in Tulse hill:

Classes | Parade Mews Pottery

www.parademewspottery.co.uk

 

[Buddy Bradley]

Brixtonites - I'm seeing a gig at the Electric on Sunday night, will the market and the food places be open on Easter Sunday?

 

[editor]

Brixtonites - I'm seeing a gig at the Electric on Sunday night, will the market and the food places be open on Easter Sunday?

I'm pretty sure some will be!

 

[Buddy Bradley]

I'm pretty sure some will be!

Cool - looks like we'll be in the Albert from about 3:30 anyway.

 

[editor]

Cool - looks like we'll be in the Albert from about 3:30 anyway.

I'll be DJing the Effra Social till 1am!

 

[editor]

Latest news: TfL announces plans to extend the Victoria line from Brixton tube into Clapham

 

[edcraw]

Latest news: TfL announces plans to extend the Victoria line from Brixton tube into Clapham

Typical that a Lambeth Tory councillor would support this gentrification. Unbelievable!!

 

[freshapple]

Typical that a Lambeth Tory councillor would support this gentrification. Unbelievable!!

April fools?

 

[dbs1fan]

A not- very- original April Fool wind- up.....well judged, though!

 

[BusLanes]

Latest news: TfL announces plans to extend the Victoria line from Brixton tube into Clapham

Managed to fool someone with this!

 

[Gramsci]

This on next Sunday

 

[editor]

Person thinks: I'll just stick my promo poster up in the middle of Brixton.

Still there, one week later

 

[editor]

Tree down in Trinity Gardens

 

[madolesance]

Tree down in Trinity Gardens

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To be fair, that tree looks like it hadn't really established it's self in very well amongst the bricks and tarmac of Trinity Gardens. A second home in the country may have offered it some better opportunities.

 

[CH1]

Well done Brixton Buzz for trailing this. The Creation by Joseph Haydn – free classical concert in Brixton tonight, Fri 5th April 2024
also give people a chance to experience the delights of Brixton's hidden Edwardian starchitect as written up by somebody in the recent Brixton Society newsletter

for some of Beresford Pite's more interesting other buildings see sages 9, 10, 11 in this Brixton Society newsletter

 

[felonius monk]

Mixed message at the Ritzy today...

 

[Mr paulee]

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