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

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I remember a BBC doc about Lidos and they said Brockwell Park was in Dulwich.

Sick fucks!

Outrageous

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Surely it's in Dulwich when something *nice* has happened, Tulse Hill when it wasn't nice, and Brixton if it's gang-related.

What happens if it's not nice and gang related?

 

[lang rabbie]

CHAPTER VI - Tulse Hill and Brockwell Park
The areas now known as Tulse Hill and Brockwell Park correspond roughly with the Manor or Manors of Bodley, Upgrove, and Scarlettes, (ref. 1) the boundaries of which cannot be established with any precision

From: 'Tulse Hill and Brockwell Park', Survey of London: volume 26: Lambeth: Southern area (1956), pp. 155-166. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=49778 Date accessed: 08 February 2012.

 

[Greebo]

What happens if it's not nice and gang related?

"Near the Hootahob" or "near Tesco metro on Tulse Hill", obviously.

 

[boohoo]

Brockwell Park is not Brixton, I repeat, not Brixton.

 

[ViolentPanda]

That's good. I'd probably have to get the dictionary out

Can you get him to post it up here so we can all be enraged together?

I'm sure I can force myself to do that once it's finished.

 

[cemertyone]

I remember a BBC doc about Lidos and they said Brockwell Park was in Dulwich.

Sick fucks!

I did some of my " community service" painting the Brockwell Lido when it was closed for the winter season..
On a lighter note that Irish twat from "cold feet" whats his name Jimmy Nesbit asked me for a light one day
when we were down enjoying the delights of a summer day and i handed him the spliff i was smoking
so he could light his own fag up..
Dont think he was to impressed.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Brockwell Park is not Brixton, I repeat, not Brixton.

Isn't it? Where's Brixton Water Lane then?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I'm sure I can force myself to do that once it's finished.

Looking forward to it

 

[Guineveretoo]

It stinks that they have cancelled it, but, in better news, the Crystal Palace Festival is going ahead in mid June, with the focus being on 16 June, I believe.

In fact, perhaps I should start a separate thread about that, at some point, to encourage urbanites to attend.

 

[billythefish]

Is urban art fair going ahead on Josephine Avenue? It's normally the same weekend and relies on a lot of foot-fall to the country fair.

 

[boohoo]

Isn't it? Where's Brixton Water Lane then?

I've never considered that area really Brixton. And the Water Lane heads toward Brixton Hill which is Brixton Hill rather than Brixton.

 

[quimcunx]

IBrixton Hill which is Brixton Hill rather than Brixton.

W H A T..... T H E..... F U C K ??

 

[boohoo]

W H A T..... T H E..... F U C K ??

You are the hill young woman, not the ton.

The area of Brixton hill is an earlier settlement than central Brixton.

 

[quimcunx]

The Hill of the ton!!!

Be off with you and take your ''earlier settlement''s with you.

 

[boohoo]

The Hill of the ton!!!

Be off with you and take your ''earlier settlement''s with you.

You can tell I've been watching time team ....

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

The Hill of the ton!!!

Be off with you and take your ''earlier settlement''s with you.

Stop moaning quimmy, we were here before that mob down there

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I've never considered that area really Brixton. And the Water Lane heads toward Brixton Hill which is Brixton Hill rather than Brixton.

Pfft, and pffft again

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

The Hill of the ton!!!

Be off with you and take your ''earlier settlement''s with you.

I reckon boohoo's calling you bumpy and overweight. That's fighting talk that is

 

[quimcunx]

I reckon boohoo's calling you bumpy and overweight. That's fighting talk that is

She's pretty bumpy herself just now.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Looking forward to it

Here you go!

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Dear Madam or Sir,
while perusing your excellent website in search of information on the 2012 Lambeth Country Show (see below), I came across your page for Brockwell Park (http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/services/environment/parksgreenspaces/parks/brockwellpark.htm).

While I realise that all local authorities like to put what they see as the best possible spin on local amenities, to claim that Brockwell Park is “located between Brixton, Dulwich and Herne Hill” flies in the face of both reality and any edition of the London A to Z. Brockwell Park in fact has as its' longest border housing estates that front onto Tulse Hill, which is in...wait for it... Tulse Hill.
I've no doubt it makes the park sound more amenable to visitors to represent it as falling between two comfortably middle-class enclaves and edgy, much-gentrified...Brixton Water Lane and Dulwich Rd, but perhaps you'd actually attract more visitors through a policy of honesty? Otherwise it gives the impression that LBL is ashamed of Tulse Hill and its preponderance of social housing, and that's surely not the case?

On a related note, congratulations are in order to the council too, for a thoroughly excellent plan to forego the Lambeth Country Show this year, citing organisational difficulties due to the Olympics. This is just the sort of thing one should expect a “cooperative council” not to do – pushing through policies that affect a significant minority of the borough's residents with absolutely no consultation of one side of the “cooperative” equation whatsoever – but here we see the same old Lambeth machine politics re-emerging: A lack of consultation; arrogant assumptions made by members; scurrying retrenchment in the face of local opposition, and then the pretence that the last-minute change-of-mind was planned all along. One only hopes that Lambeth councillors will not be attending any of the Olympics events, otherwise local residents might, doubtlessly mistakenly, get the impression that councillors sitting on the various committees of “the cooperative council” give more of a damn about their own entertainment than they do about their ward constituents.

Yours cooperatively​

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Too "nice", do you reckon?​

 

[ViolentPanda]

You are the hill young woman, not the ton.

The area of Brixton hill is an earlier settlement than central Brixton.

Yep. Sensible to occupy the high ground, rather than the bit that floods. This is something that most SW9ers still don't seem to have worked out.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Here you go!

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Dear Madam or Sir,
while perusing your excellent website in search of information on the 2012 Lambeth Country Show (see below), I came across your page for Brockwell Park (http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/services/environment/parksgreenspaces/parks/brockwellpark.htm).

While I realise that all local authorities like to put what they see as the best possible spin on local amenities, to claim that Brockwell Park is “located between Brixton, Dulwich and Herne Hill” flies in the face of both reality and any edition of the London A to Z. Brockwell Park in fact has as its' longest border housing estates that front onto Tulse Hill, which is in...wait for it... Tulse Hill.
I've no doubt it makes the park sound more amenable to visitors to represent it as falling between two comfortably middle-class enclaves and edgy, much-gentrified...Brixton Water Lane and Dulwich Rd, but perhaps you'd actually attract more visitors through a policy of honesty? Otherwise it gives the impression that LBL is ashamed of Tulse Hill and its preponderance of social housing, and that's surely not the case?

On a related note, congratulations are in order to the council too, for a thoroughly excellent plan to forego the Lambeth Country Show this year, citing organisational difficulties due to the Olympics. This is just the sort of thing one should expect a “cooperative council” not to do – pushing through policies that affect a significant minority of the borough's residents with absolutely no consultation of one side of the “cooperative” equation whatsoever – but here we see the same old Lambeth machine politics re-emerging: A lack of consultation; arrogant assumptions made by members; scurrying retrenchment in the face of local opposition, and then the pretence that the last-minute change-of-mind was planned all along. One only hopes that Lambeth councillors will not be attending any of the Olympics events, otherwise local residents might, doubtlessly mistakenly, get the impression that councillors sitting on the various committees of “the cooperative council” give more of a damn about their own entertainment than they do about their ward constituents.

Yours cooperatively​

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Too "nice", do you reckon?​

Brilliant

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Yep. Sensible to occupy the high ground, rather than the bit that floods. This is something that most SW9ers still don't seem to have worked out.

That's why Brockwell Hall was built on high ground rather than near the Herne Hill or Brixton entrances

 

[ViolentPanda]

That's why Brockwell Hall was built on high ground rather than near the Herne Hill or Brixton entrances

And near the water supply, given that the Effra was yards away.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Here you go!

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Dear Madam or Sir,
while perusing your excellent website in search of information on the 2012 Lambeth Country Show (see below), I came across your page for Brockwell Park (http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/services/environment/parksgreenspaces/parks/brockwellpark.htm).

While I realise that all local authorities like to put what they see as the best possible spin on local amenities, to claim that Brockwell Park is “located between Brixton, Dulwich and Herne Hill” flies in the face of both reality and any edition of the London A to Z. Brockwell Park in fact has as its' longest border housing estates that front onto Tulse Hill, which is in...wait for it... Tulse Hill.
I've no doubt it makes the park sound more amenable to visitors to represent it as falling between two comfortably middle-class enclaves and edgy, much-gentrified...Brixton Water Lane and Dulwich Rd, but perhaps you'd actually attract more visitors through a policy of honesty? Otherwise it gives the impression that LBL is ashamed of Tulse Hill and its preponderance of social housing, and that's surely not the case?

On a related note, congratulations are in order to the council too, for a thoroughly excellent plan to forego the Lambeth Country Show this year, citing organisational difficulties due to the Olympics. This is just the sort of thing one should expect a “cooperative council” not to do – pushing through policies that affect a significant minority of the borough's residents with absolutely no consultation of one side of the “cooperative” equation whatsoever – but here we see the same old Lambeth machine politics re-emerging: A lack of consultation; arrogant assumptions made by members; scurrying retrenchment in the face of local opposition, and then the pretence that the last-minute change-of-mind was planned all along. One only hopes that Lambeth councillors will not be attending any of the Olympics events, otherwise local residents might, doubtlessly mistakenly, get the impression that councillors sitting on the various committees of “the cooperative council” give more of a damn about their own entertainment than they do about their ward constituents.

Yours cooperatively​

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Too "nice", do you reckon?​

Do you think you could ask them if they have a map of Brockwell Park as well showing what part's in Lambeth and what part's in Southwark and where Brixton/Tulse Hill/Norwood and that other place meet in the park. We need to know

 

[ViolentPanda]

Do you think you could ask them if they have a map of Brockwell Park as well showing what part's in Lambeth and what part's in Southwark and where Brixton/Tulse Hill/Norwood and that other place meet in the park. We need to know

I'll get to work on it.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I'll get to work on it.

Good work. I reckon Tulse Hill are best off really. They have the prettiest entrance (trees full of cherry blossom in the spring) and all the duck ponds. Herne Hill has the Lido but that's about it. Not sure where Brockwell Hall is other than in the middle. Secret Garden seems to be more towards Tulse Hill as well.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

ah, found the website that I was referring to. Brockwell Park is definitely Herne Hill

http://www.brockwellpark.com/index.php

although I do wonder if that's a postal address for Brockwell Hall itself?

 

[gaijingirl]

Good work. I reckon Tulse Hill are best off really. They have the prettiest entrance (trees full of cherry blossom in the spring) and all the duck ponds. Herne Hill has the Lido but that's about it. Not sure where Brockwell Hall is other than in the middle. Secret Garden seems to be more towards Tulse Hill as well.

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.