Brixton Village/Granville Arcade indoor market, Brixton

[editor]

Nice and selective shooting there, ed.

There was nothing 'selective' about it at all.

I was with Eme, and we'd stopped to talk to two urbanites who were having a coffee. I looked up and grabbed a single shot. That is the picture. That is what I saw.

I can even give you the name of the two urbanites if you'd like to check my story, and then you might like to apologise.

 

[TruXta]

Still an impossible photo to take just 2 years ago.

Bollocks.

There was nothing 'selective' about it at all.

I was with Eme, and we'd stopped to talk to two urbanites who were having a coffee. I looked up and grabbed a single shot. That is the picture. That is what I saw.

Sorry, missed out a .

 

[ViolentPanda]

alright then - let's see everyone's 'multicultural' credentials.

i'm from africa. Your turn.

That's nice for you. Which part of that continent happens to be blessed with having you as a former citizen?

 

[ViolentPanda]

if you're going to offer multicultural credentials, why not make them multicultural.

TBF, "Africa" is extremely multicultural.

 

[pissflaps]

That's nice for you. Which part of that continent happens to be blessed with having you as a former citizen?

fuck off.

 

[TruXta]

I can even give you the name of the two urbanites if you'd like to check my story, and then you might like to apologise.

Apologise? What on earth for?

Jesus, man, get over yourself.

 

[ViolentPanda]

fuck off.

Ah, Saffa or Rhodey, then, wanker?

 

[Chilavert]

Here's a scene from Market Row today.

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A very obvious Where's Wally?

 

[ViolentPanda]

you might want to potatochop that african lady out of your pic. she's really fucking with your narrative.

"African lady".
Way to generalise someone's heritage, wanker!

 

[pissflaps]

have you just come on to this thread to pick a fight and call me names? knock yourself out gramps, i can't be arsed tho. your existence serves merely as a warning to others.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Here's a scene from Market Row today.

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Full-on beardage!

 

[editor]

Apologise? What on earth for?

Be even better if you just buttoned it for a while, I reckon.

 

[ViolentPanda]

have you just come on to this thread to pick a fight and call me names? knock yourself out gramps, i can't be arsed tho.

Don't flatter yourself.

 

[TruXta]

Be even better if you just buttoned it for a while, I reckon.

I'll stop my gob up with a pint or three shortly, thanks for the suggestion.

 

[Kanda]

Yeah, shut up Truxta, do as you're told

 

[pissflaps]

as i said. fuck off. please.

 

[editor]

There really are some silly hot heads on this thread. I'm going to close it for a bit and let people cool down.

 

[teuchter]

Here's a scene from Market Row today.

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Hopefully you asked for this chap's consent to having his photo taken and published.

 

[editor]

Hopefully you asked for this chap's consent to having his photo taken and published.

Signed in triplicate and forwarded to all the necessary legal channels.

 

[Gramsci]

Is a corporate Facebook page isn't it? They're not there to promote an honest picture of their business on the whole.

Is it corporate FB page? I looked at the "about" bit and it does not say anything. Whether its corporate or not.

Anyone can set up a FB.

 

[Gramsci]

It's pretty typical of Brixton Village specifically though isn't it?

No.

I walk through there most mornings.

The Atlantic road side still has a lot of retail shops. Fish, veg , meat and general goods.

I looked at the FB page and it does not show that side of the market.

 

[Gramsci]

people eating lunch annoys you?

why?

Because I sometimes get the same feeling there as I do when I am in the City. This is not somewhere I can really afford to eat in. So I feel out of place.

 

[Ms T]

I was chatting to the lady who owns the clothes shop Saloon at the country show and she said she was struggling. It's all about the food there now. And not that much disposable income, probably because everyone's paying huge rents and have had their pay frozen.

 

[leanderman]

No.

I walk through there most mornings.

The Atlantic road side still has a lot of retail shops. Fish, veg , meat and general goods.

I looked at the FB page and it does not show that side of the market.

I said Brixton Village specifically, not the wider market which you are right about.

 

[pissflaps]

Because I sometimes get the same feeling there as I do when I am in the City. This is not somewhere I can really afford to eat in. So I feel out of place.

Sorry you feel that way. Some of the restaurants are a bit hit and miss in the market, but they certainly have a lot more going for them and are far more accessible to the average punter than anything in the City.

 

[fortyplus]

Much as I am attached to the Granville Arcade, it has to be said that it's a pretty impractical building. For half the year it's baltic with icy blasts funnelling along the avenues and as soon as the sun comes out the glass roof makes it impossibly hot.

 

[editor]

Much as I am attached to the Granville Arcade, it has to be said that it's a pretty impractical building. For half the year it's baltic with icy blasts funnelling along the avenues and as soon as the sun comes out the glass roof makes it impossibly hot.

I wouldn't be surprised if they shove some kind of doors on the place eventually and turn it into a nice indoor mall.

 

[fortyplus]

I wouldn't be surprised if they shove some kind of doors on the place eventually and turn it into a nice indoor mall.

Would need listed building consent.
I have spent many hours shivering in there trussed up in multilayered thermals wishing for just that. Hard to imagine today.

 

[Gramsci]

I said Brixton Village specifically, not the wider market which you are right about.

I did mean Brixton Village. The aisle nearest Atlantic road is what I meant. Still has butchers and fishmongers.

 

[leanderman]

I did mean Brixton Village. The aisle nearest Atlantic road is what I meant. Still has butchers and fishmongers.

Ok. But I think the picture is typical!