Farmers' market in Brixton

[Badgers]

You can carry a lot more shopping in a car than you can on a bike or even on the bus.

By this logic are you suggesting that you can carry a lot more shopping in a van than you can in a car or on a bike or even on the bus?

 

[editor]

By this logic are you suggesting that you can carry a lot more shopping in a van than you can in a car or on a bike or even on the bus?

I think he wants HGV parking slots installed.

 

[Rushy]

New parking is open behind the Town Hall now. There have been loads of places available whenever I have walked past.

 

[ajdown]

I wasn't aware that there was parking up around the town hall. Either it's not signposted/advertised or I haven't spotted it.

 

[snowy_again]

Why on earth would you want to sit under the bridge outside the phone shops? It's pigeon poo and water dripping everywhere; and the railway arches and canapy amplify the road noise.

 

[Badgers]

Why on earth would you want to sit under the bridge outside the phone shops? It's pigeon poo and water dripping everywhere; and the railway arches and canapy amplify the road noise.

Still better than the old toilets in the Albert mind?

 

[Rushy]

I wasn't aware that there was parking up around the town hall. Either it's not signposted/advertised or I haven't spotted it.

It opened last month. It was provided as part of the temp ice rink proposal.

 

[ajdown]

Why on earth would you want to sit under the bridge outside the phone shops? It's pigeon poo and water dripping everywhere; and the railway arches and canapy amplify the road noise.

If you're down that end it saves having to go all the way up to Ritzy Square and sit on the stone turd.

 

[colacubes]

If you're down that end it saves having to go all the way up to Ritzy Square and sit on the stone turd.

OMG it must be like 40 whole metres

 

[editor]

OMG it must be like 40 whole metres

They should introduce a shuttle service.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

They should introduce a shuttle service.

I'd like to see AJ on a shuttle.

 

[editor]

I'd like to see AJ on a shuttle.

Instead of a running commentary, he could provide a running grumble over the 40m journey.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Instead of a running commentary, he could provide a running grumble over the 40m journey.

I was thinking more about sending him into space.

 

[gaijingirl]

If there were some car parking spaces then people wouldn't need to resort to having to ride a bike.

this is one of the most alien, random sentences I've read in a long time. Riding a bike is one of the greatest pleasures I know, I can think of days cycling in the sun with loved ones, laughing with a real sense of freedom, almost like flying, where I've whooped with delight! (perhaps not so much getting the shopping in at the market and more on a countryside right but nevertheless - it is sooooo strange for me to read this.)

 

[Ol Nick]

I see newbie's point, it was slightly annoying to see the bike parking space used for advertising, but then I thought "Hey! Brixton, eh?" and smiled and walked on. I advise it to anyone briefly annoyed by very minor things in Brixton.

 

[fortyplus]

New parking is open behind the Town Hall now. There have been loads of places available whenever I have walked past.

Because it's fucking miles from the market. Uphill with shopping. But downhill from Tesco, obviously.

 

[uk benzo]

The only people I ever see who justify bringing a car into Brixton are those that buy masses of meat from the butchers along Electric Avenue. But even this problem has been circumvented, as the butchers now trolley the meat for the customers to their cars in a shopping cart (all the way to the Tesco car park!).

 

[ajdown]

The only people I ever see who justify bringing a car into Brixton are those that buy masses of meat from the butchers along Electric Avenue. But even this problem has been circumvented, as the butchers now trolley the meat for the customers to their cars in a shopping cart (all the way to the Tesco car park!).

Sadly Brixton lacks a proper Butchers - unless you buy it overpriced at the farmers market of course, and I've got to go all the way to Herne Hill or make do with supermarket meat.

 

[tarannau]

Yes, all those places in the market, including Dombeys and that Latin American place, aren't real butchers. Those are fake sides of ribs and, if you look closely, you can see they've drawn the fat onto the beef steaks with a sharpie marker.

Knob end.

 

[newbie]

I see newbie's point, it was slightly annoying to see the bike parking space used for advertising, but then I thought "Hey! Brixton, eh?" and smiled and walked on. I advise it to anyone briefly annoyed by very minor things in Brixton.

No, sorry, I don't think that's the right approach. "Hey! Brixton, eh?" covers a lot of individual and collective behaviour that would be considered downright odd elsewhere. Champion, I like that, but there's obviously a fine line between accepting, accommodating or even celebrating oddness and welcoming systematic anti social behaviour. Which is what this is.

This is greedy outsiders parachuting in to Brixton thinking they can do what they like because it's the sort of dump where no-one cares, and where normal standards of consideration for others can be jettisoned.

I'm waiting for an explanation from the poster Londonfarmers. I suspect, though, that they're too cowardly to come here and explain why they think their unethical selfishness is acceptable.

 

[Badgers]

Yes, all those places in the market, including Dombeys and that Latin American place, aren't real butchers. Those are fake sides of ribs and, if you look closely, you can see they've drawn the fat onto the beef steaks with a sharpie marker.

Knob end.

Shaddup you. It is all out of date monkey or zebra and well you know it.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Shaddup you. It is all out of date monkey or zebra and sell you know it.

Aint no chicken breast, that be dodo boob!

 

[sleaterkinney]

No, sorry, I don't think that's the right approach. "Hey! Brixton, eh?" covers a lot of individual and collective behaviour that would be considered downright odd elsewhere. Champion, I like that, but there's obviously a fine line between accepting, accommodating or even celebrating oddness and welcoming systematic anti social behaviour. Which is what this is.

It really isn't.

 

[fortyplus]

I like the farmers' market. It says something about the rest of the market that it was the only place in the market you could get English apples during the apple season.

But using bike racks for guerilla advertising is a cheapskate circumvention of planning laws - amongst other things - in the same league as using a person to carry a sign for a Golf Sale. It's not (yet) high on my list of annoyances, but if I couldn't tie up my bike because of one of their adbikes it would quickly piss me off. And if it works for them, chances are that other enterprises will follow. Definitely a trend best nipped in the bud, now.

 

[editor]

I get more annoyed by the huge billboard illegally erected up outside my block. One slot in a bike rack being taken over by an independent market doesn't get me quite so worked up.

 

[Badgers]

I get more annoyed by the huge billboard illegally erected up outside my block. One slot in a bike rack being taken over by an independent market doesn't get me quite so worked up.

I think most people do. Personally I support the market and understand that their marketing options are a little limited. How would people feel if it was a McDonalds advertising bike parked up?

 

[editor]

How would people feel if it was a McDonalds advertising bike parked up?

It would be an entirely different thing because they're a multinational with a zillion dollar budget. I don't think the farmer's market is quite in that league.

 

[teuchter]

They are hardly a struggling local independent trader though. They run 20 markets around London and have been going for over a decade and seem to be doing ok. Do they really need to use up public bike spaces to do their advertising?

 

[Ms T]

Sadly Brixton lacks a proper Butchers - unless you buy it overpriced at the farmers market of course, and I've got to go all the way to Herne Hill or make do with supermarket meat.

Boarstall Meats at the farmer's market is very keenly priced. I got four chicken supremes, two chicken portions (all free range) and a packet of pork mince on Sunday for a tenner. An over a kilo of beef fillet for £20.

 

[editor]

They are hardly a struggling local independent trader though. They run 20 markets around London and have been going for over a decade and seem to be doing ok. Do they really need to use up public bike spaces to do their advertising?

Report them to the council if it's causing you that much angst. Couldn't give a fuck myself.