Favourite Road In Brixton.

[leanderman]

I think it sounds like an area someone's trying to make sound posher than it is. On a par with having a hotel on Southend seafront called Ocean View, except it overlooks a load of mud

Freshview's not a great name. But it is a great idea: Neighbours planting trees and stuff.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Freshview's not a great name. But it is a great idea: Neighbours planting trees and stuff.

It's very nice that you're planting more green stuff on our lovely green Hill, but I think at your next meeting/street party/pub quiz, renaming should be on the agenda

You could rename it Freshfields, and then all the oldies can say, "I remember when it were all fields and sheep and fresh air here, and we pranced along in our bare feet".

You may have to find some really old ghosts first though

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

For some reason, Freshfields makes me think of a retirement home or a cemetery

 

[Balham]

Freshview sounds like a place on the Isle of Wight , for 1960s holidays (we did go to Seaview near Ryde) and there is a Freshfields in Newmarket.

Crownstone Road, or part thereof, can see my Grandparents flat here and Basil's flat (steward at the club).

 

[Balham]

Forgot to say re the flats, a bit 'Poirot' - 1930s style block. Looked different in the 1960s to now, more tidy perhaps, different era though.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

For some reason, Freshfields makes me think of a retirement home or a cemetery

It's actually a firm of corporate lawyers iirc so renaming would have the writs falling on you like the summer rain. ie a deluge.


Just checked. I'm right except they're global. www.freshfields.com

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

It's actually a firm of corporate lawyers iirc so renaming would have the writs falling on you like the summer rain. ie a deluge.


Just checked. I'm right except they're global. www.freshfields.com

Shit! I knew I knew the name from somewhere (from when I worked at the AG's office)

 

[simonSW2]

I lived in Holmewood Gardens for 5 years, and loved it, but Archibishops Place, which is like a secret little world tucked away with it's cute little houses is the winner for me.

 

[Balham]

Just looked at Archbishop's Place on Streetview, looks amazing. What is the big(gish) white building in Merredene Street, can also be seen in Elm Park, has a swimming pool?

 

[artyfarty]

Just looked at Archbishop's Place on Streetview, looks amazing. What is the big(gish) white building in Merredene Street, can also be seen in Elm Park, has a swimming pool?

That's Tudor Close, a block of studio flats with a pool in the central garden, was built to house a 20's or 30's theater troop I think. Someone else will be able to give more info, I went to look at a flat there a few years ago. Nice big wildish garden in the front.

 

[Rushy]

That's Tudor Close, a block of studio flats with a pool in the central garden, was built to house a 20's or 30's theater troop I think. Someone else will be able to give more info, I went to look at a flat there a few years ago. Nice big wildish garden in the front.

That garden is also part of the Rush Common Act protected land - like Josephine Avenue.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Just looked at Archbishop's Place on Streetview, looks amazing. What is the big(gish) white building in Merredene Street, can also be seen in Elm Park, has a swimming pool?

That's Tudor Close, a block of studio flats with a pool in the central garden, was built to house a 20's or 30's theater troop I think. Someone else will be able to give more info, I went to look at a flat there a few years ago. Nice big wildish garden in the front.

A friend of mine used to live there so I used to be able to use the swimming pool. He had a 1-bedroom flat, although it was more like a bedsit. Absolutely tiny!

 

[artyfarty]

A friend of mine used to live there so I used to be able to use the swimming pool. He had a 1-bedroom flat, although it was more like a bedsit. Absolutely tiny!

Yep, it was tiny, that's why I didnt move in. I liked it tho...

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Yep, it was tiny, that's why I didnt move in. I liked it tho...

He hung himself in the flat

 

[shakespearegirl]

Archbishops Place is a lovely street to live on. Very community feel.

 

[gaijingirl]

Love Archbishop's Place, Holmewood Gardens and Josephine Avenue. Also have a special place for Crownstone Road having lived at Crownstone Court. I, personally, love Brailsford Road and really wanted to live there but there's no way we could afford it. Also a special place for Plato Road as my 1st Brixton home. I also like Nursery Road, Tunstall Road and Brighton Terrace and the area around The Trinity. I absolutely love love love the roads around Myatts Fields too.

 

[Orang Utan]

For some reason, the thread title irritates me. It should be 'favourite STREET in Brixton'. Don't ask me why though.

 

[MillwallShoes]

For some reason, the thread title irritates me. It should be 'favourite STREET in Brixton'. Don't ask me why though.

ask the mods if they'll change it for you?

 

[Orang Utan]

i think it's cos a road is just the road but the street is a road AND the houses AND the trees etc

 

[MillwallShoes]

i think it cos a road is just the road but the street is a road AND the houses AND the trees etc

it's annoying me now too.

 

[Balham]

I could have made it favourite Avenue as well but I settled on Road, why not Favourite Place in Brixton as Archbishop's Place seems nice. Keep it as favourite Road.

 

[Orang Utan]

but road just means the surface in the street. the street's what's important here, not the road.

 

[Orang Utan]

avenue wouldn't work either. not all streets are avenues.

 

[Balham]

So if the surface is the road then that means there is lots of scope according to what is around that road, it can be a street, an avenue, a lane, a path. As well as not all streets are avenues not all avenues are streets so road is probably the best generique term to describe any thoroughfare . Neither of my two favourite thoroughfares are streets, one is a road, one is an avenue . . . .

 

[Orang Utan]

no, you are wrong.
Street is the word you want, not road.
All roads and avenues are streets but not the other way round

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

no, you are wrong.
Street is the word you want, not road.
All roads and avenues are streets but not the other way round

What about mews?

 

[Orang Utan]

What about mews?

what about them?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

what about them?

I want to know if they're streets

 

[Orang Utan]

wikipedia is wrong too

 

[cuppa tee]

Thoroughfare ?