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DietCokeGirl
Fishing in the rivers of life
I kinda like them. Bit of bright shiney light in the dark winter, but universal images rather than geared towards the Christian-rooted festival.
Agree - I'm liking them as well plus looking forward to the Daily Mail article on "Lambeth's woke decorations"!!
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Don't really agree with where you are coming from there - not that I can ever remember a Brixton Christmas decoration that evoked Christian symbolism.
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hiraethified
How about a polluting plane instead?
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Inittogether
Is there someone from UKCG on the inside at Lambeth or maybe traders paid towards them so had a say. Either ways it’s well dodgy!!
friendofdorothy
Solidarity against neoliberalism!
I saw them today and couldn't make out was some of them were supposed to be at all.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Funny looking dove in the middle!
thebackrow
Considerably more Brixton.
Hearing this Nick Cave tribute to his sometime partner Anita Ward (which has a voicemail at the end that mentions 'that little place opposite Brixton prison' I just knew it had to be Tudor Close.
And sure enough...
I'm sure it's been on here before but a fascinating place.
Pathe film about the opening - https://www.britishpathe.com/asset/40797/
Photos taken there in c1939 - Historypin
Typical floorplan (I think it's all one bed studios?)
Long piece on Anita - Friday essay: reclaiming artist-musician Anita Lane from the ‘despised’ label of muse
and from a Quietus piece on the Birthday Party.
And sure enough...
I'm sure it's been on here before but a fascinating place.
Pathe film about the opening - https://www.britishpathe.com/asset/40797/
Photos taken there in c1939 - Historypin
Typical floorplan (I think it's all one bed studios?)
Long piece on Anita - Friday essay: reclaiming artist-musician Anita Lane from the ‘despised’ label of muse
and from a Quietus piece on the Birthday Party.
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GarveyLives
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(Source: as stated in image)
On 22 November 2024, 39 year-old Nathan Grant was charged with attempted murder and theft, and appeared in custody at Croydon Crown Court yesterday. He was remanded in custody to next appear at the Old Bailey on 20 December 2024.
On 25 November 2024, 40 year-old Donovan Martin died from the injuries that he sustained in the incident on board the 59 bus in Brixton Road 21 November 2024.
The attempted murder charge currently faced by Nathan Grant will be amended to murder.
Anyone with information, including mobile phone footage of the incident or anything nearby that they believe may be relevant, is being asked to contact the police on 101 or messaging @MetCC on X, with the ref 2089/21Nov.
Information can also be provided anonymously to the independent charity Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
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GarveyLives
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Condolences to the friends, family, and past customers of The Late Tony Benest and all those affected by his illness and subsequent death. He will be fondly remembered by many who were part of the community for whom Brixton Wholefoods provided an important and well-loved service (unfortunately, many of whom have also now died or simply left the area).
(Source: brixtonblog.com)
The Late Tony Benest
Diverse owner takes over Brixton Wholefoods
felonius monk
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Good to see that the Blood Donor Centre has finally opened (next to Foot Locker).
Tulster218
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How long has that been almost open? It feels like a year or more. Either they don't want blood very urgently, or the landlord couldn't get anyone else, and was happy to wait.
felonius monk
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It was Feb 2023 when NHS Blood started looking for a site. The new one has odd opening hours, some days open from 8.20 shutting at 5.10, some days open late from 10.30am to 7 or 8 to catch people after work. Some days it shuts for lunch. It is open on Sundays though.
www.blood.co.uk
London Brixton Blood Donor Centre
Donate blood in Brixton – find your local centre and book an appointment
Tulster218
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They have free Wi-Fi! That's great!It was Feb 2023 when NHS Blood started looking for a site. The new one has odd opening hours, some days open from 8.20 shutting at 5.10, some days open late from 10.30am to 7 or 8 to catch people after work. Some days it shuts for lunch. It is open on Sundays though.
London Brixton Blood Donor Centre
Donate blood in Brixton – find your local centre and book an appointment
I wonder what their minimum quantity is. If all I want to do is check my email, can I just do half a pint?
felonius monk
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Full pint and you get an Orange Club biscuit.
Also in need of your support
OASISPLAY CHILDREN'S CHARITY RISKS PERMANENT CLOSURE BY APRIL 2025 UNLESS EMERGENCY FUNDS ARE FOUND
Uncertain future: Oasisplay is set to close after 50 years of serving the Lambeth Community due to budget cuts.
www.justgiving.com
And yet another Brixton institution that supports young people in need of support. This one just needs a vote, so please do so and share.
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One Club Charity Partnership
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Gramsci
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It was Feb 2023 when NHS Blood started looking for a site. The new one has odd opening hours, some days open from 8.20 shutting at 5.10, some days open late from 10.30am to 7 or 8 to catch people after work. Some days it shuts for lunch. It is open on Sundays though.
London Brixton Blood Donor Centre
Donate blood in Brixton – find your local centre and book an appointment
Good to see one local to Brixton open.
I was a blood donor and now a platelets donor.
Not sure from the info if the Brixton one does platelets as well.
I go to St Georges in Tooting as it one of the major donation centres in London.
Recently got this
One of the good things about blood donation in this country is that it's purely voluntary.
It's example of how not everything is about making money. It's something that's needed and people volunteer to do it.
Society doesn't have to be based on profit motive
I'd recommend people do it. Staff in these centres are always understanding and friendly
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Apparently it will “very soon”
The council have made a decision on the Pop Brixton site and International House:
Unsurprisingly the differences in the deal with the developer, London Square, are:
Seems like a bad deal overall to me.
From the email I got:
Unsurprisingly the differences in the deal with the developer, London Square, are:
- Reduce social housing by 10%
- Reduce overall amount of commercial floor space
- Seems like they are keeping the same amount of affordable commercial floor space
- I think they are selling (leasing) the land for less money overall now
- Remove the councils right to first refusal on buying affordable homes to then rent out
Seems like a bad deal overall to me.
From the email I got:
Tulster218
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From that report:
In other words, the new Labour government has made things harder for developers.
Elpenor
a clown’s heart and a mandolin
Not Brixton based myself but want to echo this post. Gives me a wonderful feeling knowing there’s something I can do to help those who are in need.
The developer paused the work long before the election, it basically didn’t get off the ground after the community consultation.
My read is more that this is the typical developer “we can’t afford that much social housing” line and they are using the part you quoted as a red herring.
But, things certainly are getting tougher for developers, both in some good ways and some bad.
Gramsci
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I was asked to take part in the community consultation.
Given my experience of Council consultations I said no.
For a start I object to Council selling off assets to developers.
I in particular objected to inclusion of International House into the block of land up for sale.
This was an addition by officers.
It is part of the Council owned Brixton Rec site. And designed at the same time with connected services.
It worked well as an affordable workspace and as far as I can tell Council still got a small income out of it and this was a good use of a Council owned asset
No one in local community had a problem with this use.
Council officers insisted it was a building past its use by date and needed to much work to keep. So up for demolition and bundled together with the Pop site for redevelopment.
It was pointed out to officers that the Council had spent money on it as it was used as temporary offices whilst Town hall
development was being done.
What I did hear was that at the consultation the developer did not have a problem with retaining the building. Which rather made me wonder why Council officers from Regen insisted it was at end of its life. And people like me were being unreasonable.
Senior officers always resented locals getting Rec listed. The listing did not include International House.
Years back when locals like me opposed revision of planning guidelines as officers tried to get it written into the guidelines that a new site for a Rec be found , the idea of Regen officers was to put together Pop site, Brixton Rec site and International House as one large site for disposal to developer.
The original idea was to ( hopefully ) get a developer to pay as Section 106 type agreement for a smaller rec on Pop site as part of Council approved development agreement
This cause uproar in community and eventually Council backed down on that.
Listing was sought to give Rec some more protection. It was opposed by the Council
On this development:
Council take on working with a developer is that they get more control over community benefits.
Idea being they would accept a lower capital receipt in exchange for more control over the development. It was supposed to be a kind of public private partnership.
Rather than straightforward sale at the highest price to a developer.
Looks to me at first hurdle they are already watering the scheme down.
So what happened to this much vaunted input of Council to this development?
As Council have been insisting this is a partnership
As I thought would happen. Which is why I said no to being involved in the consultation
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