Brixton news, rumours and general chat

[Winot]

Any news when M&S is reopening?

Just had a rumour that it's now going to be January because original contractor went bust. Can anyone confirm?

 

[Mr paulee]

London to Brighton Veteran car run tomorrow
Always good to watch

https://cdn.asp.events/CLIENT_Goose_Co_7F6419AF_5056_B739_54C4F8B966B46831/sites/Veteran-Car-Run-2019/media/Routes/VCR24-Participant-Route-Guide.pdf

Route

 

[Rushy]

London to Brighton Veteran car run tomorrow
Always good to watch

https://cdn.asp.events/CLIENT_Goose_Co_7F6419AF_5056_B739_54C4F8B966B46831/sites/Veteran-Car-Run-2019/media/Routes/VCR24-Participant-Route-Guide.pdf

Route

Cheers!

ETA bollocks. Just remembered at 9.30

 

[CH1]

This was apparently on at the Academy yesterday. There was a heavy security presence outside including a van which looked like some sort of drug assistance vehicle.
BARRY CAN'T SWIM

 

[T & P]

The previously cobbled section of Effra Road by Windrush Square is now a much safer and smoother asphalt surface, in particular for cyclists and pedestrians. Shocking it has taken so many years to fix, but a massive improvement going forward.

 

[edcraw]

The previously cobbled section of Effra Road by Windrush Square is now a much safer and smoother asphalt surface, in particular for cyclists and pedestrians. Shocking it has taken so many years to fix, but a massive improvement going forward.

It's a shame as it's a nice idea but like Exhibition Rd & Upper Ground also show there's no point making cosmetic changes to roads without also taking measures to reduce the amount of traffic on them.

 

[Rushy]

The previously cobbled section of Effra Road by Windrush Square is now a much safer and smoother asphalt surface, in particular for cyclists and pedestrians. Shocking it has taken so many years to fix, but a massive improvement going forward.

It was originally intended to be the section that would be closed to traffic from time to time for events. Joining up with St Matthews Peace Gardens. But never happened. I tried to get it closed once for a community event and there did not seem to be any recognised process available for achieving it.

 

[Rushy]

Did anyone see the incident yesterday on Effra Road involving a dead cat? I was driving past and got the impression from people's reactions that it had been killed by two dogs being walked off the leash.

 

[xsunnysuex]

Did anyone see the incident yesterday on Effra Road involving a dead cat? I was driving past and got the impression from people's reactions that it had been killed by two dogs being walked off the leash.

Christ. Glad I wasn't there.

 

[Rushy]

Christ. Glad I wasn't there.

It must have happened that moment as there were probably twenty people with hands over mouths and look of total disbelief - some staring at the cat on the pavement and others at the dogs being led away by the owner. If it was the dogs that did it, they were the same ones I described being repelled with a makeshift aerosol flamethrower outside Brixton Wholefoods a few months ago.

 

[xsunnysuex]

It must have happened that moment as there were probably twenty people with hands over mouths and look of total disbelief - some staring at the cat on the pavement and others at the dogs being led away by the owner. If it was the dogs that did it, they were the same ones I described being repelled with a makeshift aerosol flamethrower outside Brixton Wholefoods a few months ago.

That's terrible. Poor cat. Poor owners, if there were any.

 

[editor]

Two weeks to go!

Marks & Spencer finally confirms the reopening date for their Brixton store

M&S has revealed the re-opening date for its Brixton Road store following a seven-month transformation. The doors to the new showstopping fresh market-style foodhall will officially re-open at …

www.brixtonbuzz.com

 

[Mr paulee]

Brixton House theatre on Coldharbour Lane has been shortlisted in this year’s Architects’ Journal awards – some of the UK’s most important – in the community and faith project category.

 

[ash]

editor Any chance this conversation could be moved to a new topic as I am loosing interest in checking for any Brixton news in all the beer chat.

 

[jezg]

editor Any chance this conversation could be moved to a new topic as I am loosing interest in checking for any Brixton news in all the beer chat.

could u move the posts to this thread?

Brixton - beer, craft ale and brewery news and discussion

Editor's note: The first posts in this thread have been moved from another discussion, hence the slightly strange start to this thread! I got to the second paraaaaagrrrrrrrr.zzzzzzz Re cans of luxury pale ale at £4 - I can't quite understand why anyone would want to can a good beer. Cans are...

www.urban75.net

 

[Rommers]

Two weeks to go!

Marks & Spencer finally confirms the reopening date for their Brixton store

M&S has revealed the re-opening date for its Brixton Road store following a seven-month transformation. The doors to the new showstopping fresh market-style foodhall will officially re-open at …

www.brixtonbuzz.com

So jealous! The one on the Walworth Road has shut down. :-(

 

[ash]

 

[editor]

could u move the posts to this thread?

Brixton - beer, craft ale and brewery news and discussion

Editor's note: The first posts in this thread have been moved from another discussion, hence the slightly strange start to this thread! I got to the second paraaaaagrrrrrrrr.zzzzzzz Re cans of luxury pale ale at £4 - I can't quite understand why anyone would want to can a good beer. Cans are...

www.urban75.net

Done Brixton - beer, craft ale and brewery news and discussion

 

[ash]

Done Brixton - beer, craft ale and brewery news and discussion

Thanks

 

[xsunnysuex]

Not sure if this goes here.

 

[story]

Not Brixton xsunnysuex .

Elephant and Castle is its own place, distinct and different, and some distance away.


Horrible story though.

Walworth: Man killed and two injured in stabbing

A man believed to be in his 60s has been arrested and taken into police custody, the Met says.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[GarveyLives]

Remembrance Sunday, Windrush Square, Brixton, 2023​

Footage of the Remembrance Day Parade held at The African and Caribbean War Memorial in the centre of Brixton yesterday:

​

 

[Mr paulee]

https://www.army.mod.uk/news/standing-together-to-honour-the-fallen-at-the-african-and-caribbean-war-memorial/?utm_source=BritishArmy_X&utm_medium=Social&utm_subject=RemembranceBrixton-SC&utm_campaign=People

 

[snowy_again]

The Post Office on Ferndale Road is now one of the ones earmarked for closure.

 

[story]

The Post Office on Ferndale Road is now one of the ones earmarked for closure.

…because it’s always empty, right?




Fucksake.
So… if I need to go to the post office….. what. Eh?

 

[ash]

The Post Office on Ferndale Road is now one of the ones earmarked for closure.

After they closed the Clapham one next year. There won’t be any proper PO’s near then?

 

[Mr paulee]

Bit more on possible PO closure

Brixton is one of the 115 Post Offices threatened with closure under plans announced today (13 November) by the provider.

The company wants to get rid of Post Offices it owns directly and shift their functions into “partners” like W H Smith – which already houses Streatham’s Post Office.

The move is estimated to put 1,000 jobs at risk.

 

[mother hen]

Just had a rumour that it's now going to be January because original contractor went bust. Can anyone confirm?

It’s opening on 20 November but it is true that the contractor went bust. It was supposed to open in early October.

 

[Brixton Hatter]

The Post Office on Ferndale Road is now one of the ones earmarked for closure.

Insane.

Another 'benefit' of privatisation.

Who could have guessed that splitting off the profitable bit (Royal Mail: £12.6bn revenue) would have led us to here?

 

[thebackrow]

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