Brixton Water Lane, old chip shop – and the Windrush ‘water feature’

[Minnie_the_Minx]

The kids of chip shop owners by the looks of things.

huh?

 

[bluestreak]

fountain of chips nom

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

fountain of chips nom

oh right






























I'm in a different world to the rest of you I think

I blame Editor for putting a post about fish and chip shops and fountains in the same post when they're not in the slightest bit related

 

[Nanker Phelge]

.....edit: Not paying attention

 

[walkssoftly]

Hello all, hope you are all well.

This chip shop used to be owned by an Italian family, they had a daughter who went to Dick Shepard school. I used to regularly buy chips from there in the 70s/80s and play on the space invaders game after school. Effra school stood opposite and has now been developed into flats.

Think it closed down just after the riots

 

[JWH]

Hello walkssoftly

Thank you for stopping by and also confirming that it was Space Invaders.

 

[MAD-T-REX]

I guess that Olley's took them to the cleaners

I've always wondered how Olley's do fish so well and chips so poorly - they are absolutely terrible. I think Ken's up Half Moon Lane is the only good chippy in the area.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I've always wondered how Olley's do fish so well and chips so poorly - they are absolutely terrible. I think Ken's up Half Moon Lane is the only good chippy in the area.

I've not been impressed with Olley's chips over the last maybe 10 years. They used to be much better

 

[JWH]

I am beginning to think that fish and chips is just one of these collective amnesia things - everyone really wants them to be good but usually they're crap. Really crap.

 

[snowy_again]

Ken's is good. The queues are always a good sign. I've given up on Ollie's.

The man who owns the effra parade one can still be occasionally seen sitting in there of an evening (at least he was last year).

 

[flickerx]

What are those road cones doing there?

Them cones havent been there next to the fountain the last few days I've been in the square on my break. I think they were just to do with the roadworks.

 

[teuchter]

I've always wondered how Olley's do fish so well and chips so poorly - they are absolutely terrible.

I agree.

 

[Badgers]

Claylands Fish place near Oval Tube is the best I have had in London for some time, possibly ever...

 

[teuchter]

London suffers from a surprising shortage of decent fish & chips places, I tend to find.

 

[Badgers]

London suffers from a surprising shortage of decent fish & chips places, I tend to find.

Annoying eh, worse if you don't drive.

 

[teuchter]

There was (possibly still is) a chinese takeaway on the narrow bit of Stockwell road, after the skate park and before the Far Side, on the LH side, which used to do good proper chips and it was only 75p. I don't live that side of Brixton any more so don't know if this is still the case.

 

[Crispy]

I've not been impressed with Olley's chips over the last maybe 10 years. They used to be much better

apparently, elfnsafety means chip shops can't make the oil as hot these days so the chips just aren't the same. not sure if true.

 

[5t3IIa]

I'll just add this because I can.

The Prince and the Showgirl was on the other day. Marilyn lived on Water Lane

 

[fredkarno]

I'll show my age now but when I was a kid inthe 60s/70s there was a great chippie on Water Lane called Ginger's. Ginger was a huge man who would cook wearing a vest. There were massive queues on a friday night. I think it later moved to Upper Tulse Hill for a while

 

[story]

I'll just add this because I can.

The Prince and the Showgirl was on the other day. Marilyn lived on Water Lane

Did she?? I'm very excited about this

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Did she?? I'm very excited about this

Yes, she did. I thought everyone knew that

 

[story]

Well now that I know it, everyone knows it. I was the last.

 

[quimcunx]

Did she?? I'm very excited about this

In the film. Her character in the film lived in Brixton.


Don't remember Brixton Water Lane being mentioned...

 

[Onket]

I didn't know.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Well now that I know it, everyone knows it. I was the last.

Do you know that Elvis was very briefly in the UK?

 

[quimcunx]

Do you know that Elvis was very briefly in the UK?

Prestwick Airport. It's like a bloody shrine to him.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Prestwick Airport. It's like a bloody shrine to him.

 

[story]

In the film. Her character in the film lived in Brixton.


Don't remember Brixton Water Lane being mentioned...

Ohhh that makes far more sense.

Brixton was theatre land for a while, wasn't it. Digs and rooming houses and such like for the theatre folk.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Don't remember Brixton Water Lane being mentioned...

It is. I've seen it a couple of times (crap film tbh) and it was on a few months back

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Ohhh that makes far more sense.

Brixton was theatre land for a while, wasn't it. Digs and rooming houses and such like for the theatre folk.

Yes, and quite popular with musicians as well