Brixton news, rumours and general chat

[ricbake]

Can hear the helicopter over Myatts Field South can't see anything on the
Traffic Cameras but the ones near the Police Station are all offline.
Traffic looks quiet

 

[ash]

What's with the fireworks Brixton?

They coincided with the Italy win?!?

 

[ash]

Helicopter is going
Mad over Ferndale ward.

 

[Bond]

Something big happening on High st.
helicopter etc

Pretty major for them to cordon off part of Brixton Road by the police station with ambulances, fire engines, police and the loud helicopter. Been like this for almost an hour now.

 

[ricbake]

Looking back to normal now

 

[BillRiver]

 

[cuppa tee]

....man on rooftop situation !

 

[CH1]

On National Windrush Day earlier this week, a Black Plaque was unveiled in respect of Val McCalla.

However, for reasons that have not been made clear, the tribute to the Seaford-based accountant and newspaper founder has been placed at Blue Star House in Stockwell Road.

Final McCalla serendipity post
Did Val have a relative called Casey Gane-McCalla self-described as a bourgeois black intellectual?
caution this very interesting article denouncing the Tea Party is over ten years old - dating to when Gordon Brown was PM here How Neo-Cons, Neo-Nazis And Neo-McVeighs Crashed Ron Paul’s Tea Party - Jack & Jill Politics

PS re your comments about the Voice offices - there were in Blue Star House and also at 370 Coldharour Lane, though I'm not clear which way round.

 

[theboris]

Big crane has gone up today on the former Olive Morris House site

 

[CH1]

Big crane has gone up today on the former Olive Morris House site

Looking at that empty hple makes me wonder about the idea of recycling rather than demolishing buildings.
SLAM seem set to do a much bigger destroy and re-erect on their Lambeth Hospital, which is to be flats as part of a PFI deal just like Lambeth's deal on Olive Morris House.
This is all a waste of energy and building materials - as well as providing the wrong type of housing.

 

[theboris]

Looking at that empty hple makes me wonder about the idea of recycling rather than demolishing buildings.
SLAM seem set to do a much bigger destroy and re-erect on their Lambeth Hospital, which is to be flats as part of a PFI deal just like Lambeth's deal on Olive Morris House.
This is all a waste of energy and building materials - as well as providing the wrong type of housing.

And the street-level extension to OMH was only ten years old or so

 

[Raheem]

Looking back to normal now

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Ramraiding double-decker ... Check!

 

[theboris]

Big crane has gone up today on the former Olive Morris House site

Second one now going up

 

[theboris]

Second one now going up

If you magnify the pic, you'll see someone has added ironic quotation marks around the word 'affordable'

 

[madolesance]

16£ cinema I Brockwell Park!

 

[Jimbeau]

Anyone know what’s happening with the bollards in Windrush Square? Back in May it was all action but now very little appears to be going on at all. I don’t think I’ve seen anyone working there for weeks.

 

[jimbarkanoodle]

16£ cinema I Brockwell Park!

There is some very 'instagrammable' plastic blocks to take a selfie beside though. Be a shame if it rained

 

[madolesance]

Anyone know what’s happening with the bollards in Windrush Square? Back in May it was all action but now very little appears to be going on at all. I don’t think I’ve seen anyone working there for weeks.

It looks like the contractors and their machines have left the area, leaving a-lot of unfinished works especially on the Effra Road side.

 

[David Clapson]

The materials are still there. Lots of bollards in bubble wrap.

 

[snowy_again]

16£ cinema I Brockwell Park!

The film is still playing!

 

[Gramsci]

If you magnify the pic, you'll see someone has added ironic quotation marks around the word 'affordable'

That's brilliant.

 

[northeast]

Looks like some more building work coming to Sudbourne Road / Acre Lane, just got the attached letter. Going to be chaos if you add in the building work is about to start on the 41-45 Lexadon site as well.

One of the warehouses has a faded sign about Film Scenery does anyone remember if being a working business?

 

[editor]

Library news Lambeth Libraries – events, exhibitions, discussions, meetings and more for July 2021

 

[editor]

Upcoming shows at the Electric Brixton Electric Brixton lists their highlights for this autumn/winter 2021

 

[snowy_again]

There is some very 'instagrammable' plastic blocks to take a selfie beside though. Be a shame if it rained

Very few people there last night

 

[jimbarkanoodle]

Looks like some more building work coming to Sudbourne Road / Acre Lane, just got the attached letter. Going to be chaos if you add in the building work is about to start on the 41-45 Lexadon site as well.

One of the warehouses has a faded sign about Film Scenery does anyone remember if being a working business?
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Its not vacant or derelict- there are businesses operating from there. I get that it is eventually going to get redeveloped, but why do they write like its just sat there for 17 years with no benefit to anyone?

 

[jimbarkanoodle]

Actually, having walked past a short time ago, the whole place has pretty much been emptied.

 

[RoyReed]

One of the warehouses has a faded sign about Film Scenery does anyone remember if being a working business?

The company was Kimpton Walker. They did theatrical scenery for stage, TV, film and exhibitions. They moved from this site to the small industrial estate at the north end of Lyham Road towards the end of the 1980s (IIRC) to where Howden's are now. I don't think they exist as a company any more.

 

[thismoment]

Very few people there last night

This would be quite a lovely family outing especially as it’s outdoors . But at £16 pp that’s way too much.I’m getting increasingly frustrated at the lack of fun whole family things to do outdoors that won’t necessarily cost the earth!

 

[madolesance]

Station Road outside Craft Beer. They have screens and the audience.