Clapham, Stockwell and Kennington news, rumour and general chat

[Spark]

I wouldn't mind if they carried on and opened a sainsburys beyond oval. We're stuck with pretty rubbish tesco metros.

 

[Black Halo]

I think there is also a Sainsbury's of some description going in at 130-138 Newington Butts London SE11 4QU. There was a planing permission thing on the hoardings and am pretty sure they mentioned Sainsbury's

A ha found it, it was a premises licence for a Sainsbury's.

 

[5t3IIa]

If anyone saw a load of Traveller's(?) caravans and vans etc on Clapham Common at the end of last week, and wondered where they've gone - they're in the carpark of the empty building behind my place

Apart from the generator starting 45 seconds after the police left until midnight and someone having Capital FM on so I had to listen to that fucking concrete jungle where dreams are made of song there's nothing much to report.

The empty building/site is set to be prepped for demolition starting this Monday.

 

[cuppa tee]

2 bed flat in Nine Elms
yours for just a bit over £11 million
Check out this property for sale on PrimeLocation!

 

[Crispy]

CHrist

 

[fishfinger]

2 bed flat in Nine Elms
yours for just a bit over £11 million
Check out this property for sale on PrimeLocation!

It even includes:

Indoor/Outdoor Swimming Poo

 

[billythefish]

2 bed flat in Nine Elms
yours for just a bit over £11 million
Check out this property for sale on PrimeLocation!

That's GOT to be a typo. It's a bog standard developer's flat. I really can't believe it!

 

[boohoo]

That's GOT to be a typo. It's a bog standard developer's flat. I really can't believe it!

It is, isn't it. I would hope all the added facilities are free. You could buy a street worth of houses with views in deep South london for that price.

 

[cuppa tee]

It is, isn't it. I would hope all the added facilities are free. You could buy a street worth of houses with views in deep South london for that price.

it isn't a typo because the £ per square foot works out the same

e2a oops..... it's only a million.......London Gentrification

 

[LondonLiz]

Talking of lovely Kennington you can vote for the Cinema Museum in the Love London awards - our very own little hidden treasure

Time Out Love London Awards

 

[friendofdorothy]

Had a great night out in the Brown Derby last night. Didn't realise that place is open so late, not sure what time it closes as it was still in full swing when I left about 1am ish.

 

[RoyReed]

Here's a few photos from the kids Christmas Lights parade in Clapham last night.











There's a few more photos here: ReedDesign» Blog Archive » Clapham Christmas Lights

 

[cuppa tee]

Bread and Roses closed for refurbishment

The Bread & Roses Pub

 

[cuppa tee]

White Bear, Kennington Park Rd, closed for refurbishment
White Bear Theatre

 

[boohoo]

I was at Stockwell Tube today - I see a Costa has opened - does it mean the other coffee place has been put out of business? Tricky Skills and anyone else Stockwell way

 

[Tricky Skills]

I was at Stockwell Tube today - I see a Costa has opened - does it mean the other coffee place has been put out of business? Tricky Skills and anyone else Stockwell way

Not sure if 'out of business' is the correct phrase, but yeah

 

[boohoo]

Not sure if 'out of business' is the correct phrase, but yeah

pushed out.... So big business over little business. At Norwood Junction there has been some hoo-ha with one of the coffee shops not looking the part

'Your café isn't hip enough to be at Norwood Junction'

It's a well presented space and they do a nice cheese bagel - not sure what the problem is.

 

[leanderman]

pushed out.... So big business over little business.

Strange to think though that Costa was set up, in Lambeth, in 1971, by a pair of brothers who had come to Britain only the previous decade. The first shop was on Vauxhall Bridge Rd, very useful when I worked next door.

 

[SpamMisery]

Strange to think though that Costa was set up, in Lambeth, in 1971, by a pair of brothers who had come to Britain only the previous decade. The first shop was on Vauxhall Bridge Rd, very useful when I worked next door.

I had no idea it was British, let alone Lambethian

 

[editor]

Strange to think though that Costa was set up, in Lambeth, in 1971, by a pair of brothers who had come to Britain only the previous decade. The first shop was on Vauxhall Bridge Rd, very useful when I worked next door.

Its roots were in Lambeth but it was new owners Whitbread who made them a well known uber-chain.

By 1995, the chain already had 41 stores in UK. In 1995, the business was acquired by Whitbread, UK's largest hotel and coffee shop operator, becoming a wholly owned subsidiary. In 2009, Costa celebrated the opening of its 1,000th store - in Cardiff. In December 2009, Costa Coffee agreed to acquire Coffee Heaven for £36 million, adding 79 stores in central and eastern Europe

 

[boohoo]

Strange to think though that Costa was set up, in Lambeth, in 1971, by a pair of brothers who had come to Britain only the previous decade. The first shop was on Vauxhall Bridge Rd, very useful when I worked next door.

Oh yes. I forgot its south London roots.

But it still seems to be big business favoured over little. And the man running the coffee place was from Kansas so not local.

 

[cuppa tee]

Kennington Park was the scene of some jolly japes in the form of a mass pillow fight over the weekend
Londoners enjoy mass pillow fight despite fears it had been axed
the resulting piles of feathers have left park regulars and staff a bit miffed tho.

e2a i saw the thing with my own eyes and it was just as shit as the video suggests

 

[50yrsInBrixton]

Oh yes. I forgot its south London roots.

But it still seems to be big business favoured over little. And the man running the coffee place was from Kansas so not local.

That's a bit wanky from you Tory types.

 

[boohoo]

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[5t3IIa]

That's a bit wanky from you Tory types.

If boohoo is far too polite to tell you to fuck off I will instead. Fuck off.

 

[Greebo]

That's a bit wanky from you Tory types.

Not the place for personal spats - and boohoo is very far from being a tory.

 

[boohoo]

5t3IIa & Greebo Thank you. xx

 

[Spark]

I've just seen that the new elephant and Castle leisure centre is finally due to open next weekend.

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[OvalhouseDB]

I really like The Sugar Pot on Kennington Park Road.
Excellent coffee- Volcano beans, roasted in another nearby local café that has a mini roasting operation. Fantastic sourdough, cheese and serrano ham toasted sandwich - they get the cheese all lacy where it oozes out of the side. Coffee and toastie :£6. Not the cheapest ever, but it is now my favourite local treat.
The new Que Arts shop on the same strip has a fantastic range of useful stuff - art and craft materials, wrapping paper, stationery, cards.

 

[editor]

There's some strange folks living in Kennington:

A homophobic commuter exposed himself on the Tube in a bizarre insult to a man he thought was gay, a court has heard.

Jason Seton, 37, began shouting abuse when he thought the man gave him a ‘signal’ on the Northern line platform at London Bridge station on April 10 last year.

Seton, who claims to have a ‘paranoid fear’ of being exposed as a homosexual, shouted “there’s a faggot on the platform” and made a gun gesture with his hand while he yelled “kill a fag”.

The victim, who cannot be named, used his smartphone to film Seton as he undid his jeans and shook his hips in a bizarre stunt compared to Richard Gere’s infamous nude scenes in American Gigolo.

The court heard that Seton – who maintains he is heterosexual – boarded the train and stared at his victim in a ‘menacing fashion’.

Police were able to track him using CCTV footage and Oyster card data after he got off at the next station.

At Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Thursday of last week, Seton was given a 26-week suspended sentence and ordered to sign the Sex Offenders’ register for seven years after pleading guilty to one count of exposure.

Chairwomnan, of the bench Jessica Baldwin, said: “We do find this is so serious that a custodial sentence is appropriate, however we have decided to suspend it today.

“You came within a hair’s breadth of going into custody today, straight down to the cells.”

Seton, of Ebenezer House, Kennington, must also pay an £80 victim surcharge and £85 prosecution costs.
Exposure homophobe avoids jail