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mango5 said:
That's a bit sad. I went up to Ruskin Park today for the first time in years. Smaller than Brockwell and more established, varied, prettier than Burgess. We should have some picnic action there this year.
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The Ruskin Park Summer Fete is taking place on Saturday 24th June 1pm - 6pm. Please do come along, and if anyone wants to help we are always in need of volunteers! Ruskin Park Summer Fete - Friends of Ruskin Park
 
Camberwell Arts Festival started today, I hadn't spotted anything about it until I saw tents going up on the Green. To make up for this oversight I offer you this FB_IMG_1497127986730.jpg
 
sankara said:
I noticed that it's got a new name.does anyone know if it has new owners?
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Yes. The people behind 'fins and trotters' food wagon. They have proper malt vinegar on the tables :cool: Called something like Fladda.

Just took a look at the menu, quite short and interestingly features battered mackerel.

In other Camberwell Church Street news, Nigerian Street Food emporium I Go Chop has just opened as well.
 
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The kids on bikes were apparently on a ride out against knife crime, according to the one I asked anyway!

Him and his mates said it was called "bikes against knives", but I can't find anything about it online.
 
drachir said:
The kids on bikes were apparently on a ride out against knife crime, according to the one I asked anyway!

Him and his mates said it was called "bikes against knives", but I can't find anything about it online.
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Ah that's great thanks. Shame the news didn't cover it either - there must have been hundreds of them.
 
Tonight and running till the 19th

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Camberwell College of Arts MA Show opens tonight, Thurs 13th July
 
I've been predicting this for Morrisons car park since the redevelopment plans for Butterfly Walk were published. It's inevitable.
 
mango5 said:
I've been predicting this for Morrisons car park since the redevelopment plans for Butterfly Walk were published. It's inevitable.
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Think of all the pop ups they can pack into it! The whole boxpark thing is like a like a well-oiled gentrification machine these days.
 
Tough place to set up a business i think, Camberwell, little independent ventures seem to disappear very quickly, lots of large empty retail space that's been empty for ages and a few big chains, that's almost all there is on that bit near Morrissons. I'd be happy to see something with small units where people might be able to try doing something different.
 
I think that's the idea. There's been one near elephant for ages, with the temporarily displaced library in it. And the shopping centre development plan is supposedly aimed at nurturing small independent businesses.
 
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Think of all the pop ups they can pack into it! The whole boxpark thing is like a like a well-oiled gentrification machine these days.
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Ed, I know you have a chip on your shoulder about the Brixton one and to an extent I can understand that, but I genuinely think that a focal point like this could help the Camberwell area if it's successful.
 
hungry_squirrel said:
Ed, I know you have a chip on your shoulder about the Brixton one and to an extent I can understand that, but I genuinely think that a focal point like this could help the Camberwell area if it's successful.
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Be careful what you wish for: the Brixton one we were promised turned out to be nothing like we got. There's a whole container park full of entrepreneurs who are well skilled in turning great local ideas into an extension of their fucking cash-raking, gentrifying empires.
 
Good work. I just copied the text
camberwell online blog said:
Boxpark
There’s a chance that Camberwell will get its own Boxpark, the temporary retail / entertainment spaces made up of converted shipping containers, that are beloved of the hipsters in Shoreditch and, er, Croydon. ‘Camberwell Yards’, as it’s called, is mooted to be on the smaller area of the car park behind Morrisons in Butterfly Walk.

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The proposed location of ‘Camberwell Yards’
There are a planned 14 shipping containers around a central communal area. The intended uses are:

  • Four containers for food and beverages
  • One container for local community use
  • Eight containers for local businesses
  • One container for WC
  • A central communal area for flexible use, e.g. a pop-up cinema

14 Container units surround a communal area
It’s fair to say that reaction on Twitter to this news has not been entirely positive, with much muttering of gentrification and hipsters. I’m not entirely against the idea myself, although I think the key word used in the description above is local. How will businesses be judged to be local? Who will decide? How will that be enforced?

If this brings new people to the area and gives support to truly local businesses, then yes it’s a positive move. If all it does is bring people in who stay only in the Box Park, don’t get out and see more, and in fact attracts custom away from existing local businesses, then no, it’s not a good thing.

Notices up on the former HSBC building state that there will be a public consultation about this on Thursday, 20th July, from 3–7pm, in the old bank itself. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to make this. If anyone is planning to attend, do please get in touch and send me a report.
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eta the blog has been updated to clarify the idea is for *a* boxpark not *the* boxpark.
 
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mango5 said:
Good work. I just copied the text
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I wonder if they'll be applying the Pop Brixton globe spamming definition for the "Eight containers for local businesses." Box parks are great ideas in theory, but most of them swiftly turn into hideous money making machines for hipsters and the well off, run by entrepreneurs who know how to tick the right boxes.
 
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