Brixton Road closed off

[davey]

Isn't that pub just lovely looking. All that tiling and the inside completely preserved. Beautiful.

It's a top pub completely without attitude. Had some great nights in there getting beaten at pool while shit faced.

(sometimes get free food when the footy's on though the landlord still seems to maintain his image of miserable sod even when he's being nice )

 

[lang rabbie]

They've started building something on the big site between the Grantham Surgery and the estate. I couldn't make out what.

Planning permission was granted by the Planning Applications Committee on
27th May 2003 to Metropolitan Housing Trust for redevelopment of the site including erection of a part 4, part 5, part 7 storey building comprising sheltered housing (for the frail and elderly) flats with 1 caretakers flat, 46 private flats and 200 square metres of retail/office space, erection of a single storey summer house in the yard fronting Grantham Road, a garage fronting Lingham Street and provision of 6 parking spaces fronting Lingham Street.

And there was a great old Victorian hall on that route too. A big gloomy red brick pile looking sad and underused.

That doesn't ring bells?
St Andrew's Church - Landor Road/Lingham Street/Stockwell Green - Victorian front with round windows covering up a Georgian chapel
Back of the YMCA - six storey butterfly plan (ie. diagonal wings on corners) think they are looking for a heritage grant to do it up?

 

[Anna Key]

a large posh hutch full of people who complain about "Comedy House". LOL.

<Double LOL>

 

[Pie 1]

It was weird when they took the tape down. One second, eery quiet; the next, a bustle of people - it was if it was a film set and a director had yelled 'action!'

I thought exactly the same.
First the people then a Eurostar or two, then two police cars slowly guiding a procession of traffic down the road like a ribon and within mins, it was as if nothing had happened.

 

[Aitch]

Good to see you too Intostella

 

[Mrs Redboots]

There were a couple of angry people behind Morley's who returned to their cars to find they'd been ticketed despite the fact that they hadn't been able to get back to their cars - those Lambeth traffic wardens are nothing if not keen!

Tell me about it.... we got a ticket on a Sunday once I didn't think one could.....

Glad I was going in from Streatham today so missed all the fuss.

 

[Ol Nick]

That doesn't ring bells?
St Andrew's Church - Landor Road/Lingham Street/Stockwell Green - Victorian front with round windows covering up a Georgian chapel

It's called the Hammerton Memorial Hall. It's probably the church hall. Battered old sign over the door claims it's the headquarters of the 1st Stockwell Girl Guides and Brownies.