Bye bye Country Show (picnic on July 22nd?)

[nagapie]

I consider my entrance, through the housing estate next to Tesco, a brilliant entrance. Near to the paddling pool, ponds and playground. Made of win for a happy Tulse Hill parent.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

This is my entrance (at least for another week) and I absolutely love it... the week the blossoms come out I almost weep with joy, it's exquisite. However, the entrance at the top of Brockwell Park Gardens is arguably prettier much of the rest of the year as you come through straight onto that heath land and spectacular views.

I'm not sure what entrance you're talking about?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I consider my entrance, through the housing estate next to Tesco, a brilliant entrance. Near to the paddling pool, ponds and playground. Made of win for a happy Tulse Hill parent.

Yes, but that's a new(ish) entranc. Lovely a quiet though

 

[Brixton Hatter]

There seems to be some frantic back-pedalling going on by elected Labour members of the administration to disassociate themselves from this "officer" decision and various sources are suggesting a September rescheduling.

But September still clashes with the Paralympics...??!

The Streatham Guardian are claiming that traders were told on 1st Feb that the show was going ahead - what happened between the 1st and the 3rd?

Also spotted this in the Streatham Guardian:

Councillor Steve Reed told the Streatham Guardian the Lambeth Country show could not be held in its “usual format” because police faced being over-stretched. He said there was “every possibility” of a similar event taking place later in the year, but said it would be a community-led exercise on a smaller scale. He said: “The country show in its usual format is cancelled. We have put the money into a pot for other events.”

Councillor Florence Nosegbe, cabinet member for Culture, Sport and the 2012 Games, said it was not safe to hold the event because of increased security risks. She said: “Since we can’t run the Country Show in its usual format we are putting money into a special fund so that community groups across the borough can run local events of their own, perhaps with an Olympic theme. I hope that one of these events will be a scaled-down Country Show-style event in Brockwell Park."

...which suggests the 'Country Show' will not happen in the format we know and love. I'm not being bought off with the possibility of some shit replacement festival in September.

People, our picnic is ON!

 

[gaijingirl]

I'm not sure what entrance you're talking about?

I'm not sure how to explain it better than the entrance at the top (ie up the hill just before it bends round to Trinity Rise) of Brockwell Park Gardens. Probably you've never used it - there'd be no reason to really unless you live up there or are heading to the church on Trinity Rise or similar. It's very pretty when you come through from the road onto the park. All the others are great for proximity to this, that and the other, but that entrance has a particularly pretty outlook.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

But September still clashes with the Paralympics...??!

The Streatham Guardian are claiming that traders were told on 1st Feb that the show was going ahead - what happened between the 1st and the 3rd?

Also spotted this in the Streatham Guardian:




...which suggests the 'Country Show' will not happen in the format we know and love. I'm not being bought off with the possibility of some shit replacement festival.

People, our picnic is ON!

Increased security risk or lack of loos?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I'm not sure how to explain it better than the entrance at the top (ie up the hill just before it bends round to Trinity Rise) of Brockwell Park Gardens. Probably you've never used it - there'd be no reason to really unless you live up there or are heading to the church on Trinity Rise or similar. It's very pretty when you come through from the road onto the park. All the others are great for proximity to this, that and the other, but that entrancehas a particularly pretty outlook.

I've just google mapped it, and no, I've never used that entrance

 

[nagapie]

Yes, but that's a new(ish) entranc. Lovely a quiet though

I don't mean the Brockwellgate entrance, although that's my next nearest one.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I don't mean the Brockwellgate entrance, although that's my next nearest one.

I know the one you mean. Through the new(ish) gated estate?

 

[gaijingirl]

I know the one you mean. Through the new(ish) gated estate?

no - she means the one behind Tesco on Crosby Walk. I went to see the house immediately next to that gate years ago. It's a tiny entrance - you've probably never used that one either.

 

[London_Calling]

This is becoming Brockwellparkgate gate

 

[Gramsci]

And another thing is the Olympics will be "Festival of Private Britain" as Anna Minton ( writer on housing and public space says):

"The true legacy of the Olympics is this litany of collapsed deals and broken promises by a confusing array of quangos and companies. The public-spirited legacy promised could have gone ahead only if the concept of the "public good" retained some meaning in today's political discourse.
Instead the term was quietly removed from legislation in 2004, reflecting the extent to which the market has squeezed the notion of the public good out of politics. If landmark events reflect the state of our society and democracy, then the Olympics never stood a chance of fulfilling a public-spirited legacy in tune with 1851 or 1951"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/24/london-olympics-festival-private-legacy

The Country Fair was the one Lambeth event of the year that everyone liked. It brought people together and is good example of "Big Society" or Lambeth alternative the Coop Council.

 

[Orang Utan]

who care where it is? it's brockwell park and it belongs to us all.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

no - she means the one behind Tesco on Crosby Walk. I went to see the house immediately next to that gate years ago. It's a tiny entrance - you've probably never used that one either.

Nope. It would seem there's lots of secret entrances I haven't used

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

who care where it is? it's brockwell park and it belongs to us all.

I don't think anyone really cares

 

[ViolentPanda]

I'm not sure what entrance you're talking about?

The one nearest the church spire at the top of the park, minnie.

 

[ViolentPanda]

And another thing is the Olympics will be "Festival of Private Britain" as Anna Minton ( writer on housing and public space says):

"The true legacy of the Olympics is this litany of collapsed deals and broken promises by a confusing array of quangos and companies. The public-spirited legacy promised could have gone ahead only if the concept of the "public good" retained some meaning in today's political discourse.
Instead the term was quietly removed from legislation in 2004, reflecting the extent to which the market has squeezed the notion of the public good out of politics. If landmark events reflect the state of our society and democracy, then the Olympics never stood a chance of fulfilling a public-spirited legacy in tune with 1851 or 1951"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/24/london-olympics-festival-private-legacy

The Country Fair was the one Lambeth event of the year that everyone liked. It brought people together and is good example of "Big Society" or Lambeth alternative the Coop Council.

Fucking A!!

 

[nagapie]

who care where it is? it's brockwell park and it belongs to us all.

Minnie is trying to paint me as some middle class interloper who only uses the gated community entrance. In fact I am a middle class interloper who uses the common people's entrance.

 

[paolo]

who care where it is? it's brockwell park and it belongs to us all

What, even people in Streatham?

 

[teuchter]

no - she means the one behind Tesco on Crosby Walk. I went to see the house immediately next to that gate years ago. It's a tiny entrance - you've probably never used that one either.

It's the best entrance. It was my favourite entrance, when I used to live on the wrong side of the tracks.

 

[Orang Utan]

What, even people in Streatham?

it belongs to EVERYONE, even North Londoners

 

[paolo]

it belongs to EVERYONE, even North Londoners

Ok, but let's stop short of offering to anyone outside of the M25. Start down that road and it'll trampled by clogs and overrun by whippets in no time.

 

[Orang Utan]

it belongs to foreign visitors too it's a park!

 

[paolo]

it belongs to foreign visitors too it's a park!

Right, that's it. Razorwire at dawn. Maybe Camden has some second hand talking-cameras they want to get rid of.

"This is a restricted area. You are being photographed. Go and play in your *own* road."

 

[Greebo]

It's the best entrance. It was my favourite entrance, when I used to live on the wrong side of the tracks.

My favourite is one of the the non gates, you'll have to find it for yourself though as I don't want it blocked up.

 

[teuchter]

My favourite is one of the the non gates, you'll have to find it for yourself though as I don't want it blocked up.

I know where it is.

 

[gaijingirl]

I have one too - but I think it's a different one to where you guys are talking about.

 

[Greebo]

I know where it is.

There's more than one along that side

 

[Orang Utan]

i like the underground entrance myself. no-one seems to know about that

 

[teuchter]

There's more than one along that side

I know where they all are, including some that you don't know about.