George IV/Music Bar at 144 Brixton Hill closing as another Tesco comes to Brixton

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Wow Tesco, £500. Your generosity is astounding

The doors of the new Tesco Express on Brixton Hill open for the first time at 8am on Friday 30th August, with the official opening ceremony and cheque presentation taking place later that morning at 10.30am.

How exciting. I must put it in my diary.

Oh dear. There's a clash. I will have to miss this thrilling opportunity

 

[editor]

£500 you say?

They were making a profit of £6,000 every minute a few years back. Which must have been nice.

 

[editor]

Goodbye George IV

http://www.brixtonbuzz.com/2013/08/...goes-up-on-the-george-iv-pub-on-brixton-hill/

 

[JimmyBignuts]

Ugh, the building work has been a total nightmare - 7 days a week with drilling starting around 7.30am. Last night there was hammering until 4am.

 

[quimcunx]

Um, complain? Complain vociferously. With guns.

 

[shakespearegirl]

JimmyBigNuts, I'd complain to building control. The will have restrictions on the hours they are allowed to work and particularly to the amount of the noise they are allowed to make outside of work hours. Building control can get very very shitty about this...

 

[shakespearegirl]

And I'm sure the South London Press/Tesco PR department would be interested, you might get some vouchers from Tesco

 

[Rushy]

JimmyBigNuts, I'd complain to building control. The will have restrictions on the hours they are allowed to work and particularly to the amount of the noise they are allowed to make outside of work hours. Building control can get very very shitty about this...

I don't think that's a building control issue, is it? It will be Lambeth noise control.

 

[shakespearegirl]

http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/NR/rdonly...4355/0/CodeOfPracticeForConstructionSites.pdf

You are right Rushy. I thought I remembered when I got planning permission that the hours of building permitted were listed within the permission document, but maybe I was wrong.

Good luck if anyone tries to get noise control to do anything especially out of hours, when I dealt with them they were worse than useless

 

[Rushy]

http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/NR/rdonly...4355/0/CodeOfPracticeForConstructionSites.pdf

You are right Rushy. I thought I remembered when I got planning permission that the hours of building permitted were listed within the permission document, but maybe I was wrong.

Good luck if anyone tries to get noise control to do anything especially out of hours, when I dealt with them they were worse than useless

Tell me about it

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I went in there at 10.00am today. No free bags like Sainsbury's, not that I want a free bag anyway.

No self-service checkouts, and all we wanted was a newspaper, and there were half a dozen people at the till and only one manned till.

Friend made a snide comment to someone suited who may have been the manager. On the other hand, he could have been a customer
We left and walked to a convenience store further down the Hill.

 

[leanderman]

I went in there at 10.00am today. No free bags like Sainsbury's, not that I want a free bag anyway.

No self-service checkouts, and all we wanted was a newspaper, and there were half a dozen people at the till and only one manned till.

Friend made a snide comment to someone suited who may have been the manager. On the other hand, he could have been a customer
We left and walked to a convenience store further down the Hill.

interesting contrast to the generally positive comments about the new Brixton Sainsbury at Lower Tulse Hill.

 

[Brixton Hatter]

interesting contrast to the generally positive comments about the new Brixton Sainsbury at Lower Tulse Hill.

Yeah, Sainsbury's are merely bastards, whereas Tesco are cunts.

 

[sparkybird]

I have to say that, although I will never set foot in there, the external signage has been done pretty tastefully. SOOOO much better than the big luminous FO sign that adorns the new Sainsburys

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

interesting contrast to the generally positive comments about the new Brixton Sainsbury at Lower Tulse Hill.

I'm not certain they were all manned checkouts, as I just saw the queue, quickly scanned for self-service and left

Will be going there again in a while though as couldn't stop off for shopping earlier and fridge is bare

 

[simonSW2]

I'm not certain they were all manned checkouts, as I just saw the queue, quickly scanned for self-service and left

Will be going there again in a while though as couldn't stop off for shopping earlier and fridge is bare

I don't really understand why you would go in there at all given your opposition to it?

 

[John Brixton]

Try
http://www.flickr.com/photos/georgeivbrixton/
should be OK!

 

[Brixton Hatter]

Try
http://www.flickr.com/photos/georgeivbrixton/
should be OK!

Great picture

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Great picture

...although the caption is wrong - it's looking south.

Isn't North towards central London? In which case, it's correct

 

[Brixton Hatter]

yeah whoops it's looking north, not south!

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

yeah whoops it's looking north, not south!

TFFT! I know I'm bad at directions, but I was positive looking towards central London was North

 

[billythefish]

TFFT! I know I'm bad at directions, but I was positive looking towards central London was North

I always get north / south muddled in Brixton... up hill is always north on a map.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I always get north / south muddled in Brixton... up hill is always north on a map.

yeah I think that's always been my thinking which is why I had to think about Brixton Hatter's post

 

[leanderman]

I also got that picture wrong.

I'm fairly good with compass points. But here, after initially getting north and south confused, I have never managed to right my bearings.

 

[Onket]

Wrong thread, sorry.

http://www.urban75.net/forums/threa...al-chat-sept-2013.314531/page-4#post-12528591