Hefty Premier Inn hotel coming to central Brixton
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It's not as simple as that. Not all chains are bad and not all independents are good. Indeed, if the hotel opening up on the site had been an independent venture that happened to be run by two blokes with the wrong type of facial hair and a website containing the wrong buzzwords, you can be sure it would have had a far more hostile reception than the worst hotel chain you can think of.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
And we won't have to stay in it!
Rushy
basically a scrotum
I think Brixton High Street's battle with huge chains was lost long long ago. If it was ever fought.
EastEnder
Brixton Barnacle
In a galaxy far, far away?
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hiraethified
If it was a decent, affordable hotel I couldn't give a fuck who ran it. Trouble is that ventures opened by "blokes with the wrong type of facial hair and a website containing the wrong buzzwords" usually charge a fucking bomb for whatever recycled/ironic exclusive and unaffordable 'experience' it is they're peddling.
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Brixton Hill
The rot set in when Woolworths arrived.
Harbourite
Eggnog
isvicthere?
a.k.a. floppybollocks
Rushy
basically a scrotum
Brixton High Street is what I call the section of Brixton Road which runs roughly between Mc Donald's and TK Maxx. Pendants may prefer to call it "the section of Brixton Road which runs roughly between Mc Donald's and TK Maxx". Sorry for any confusion.Brixton High Street? Where's that?
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Anita Roddick said it all went down the pan in 1877 - in this curious vignette of televised hypocrisy
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hiraethified
Ah yes. The mythical piece of Brixton Road!Brixton High Street? Where's that?
Harbourite
Eggnog
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Have you just outed yourself as one of them?Pedants rather than Pendants perhaps?
Rushy
basically a scrotum
Go hang.Pedants rather than Pendants perhaps?
isvicthere?
a.k.a. floppybollocks
I know what you mean. I call the bit of Oxford Street with the shops Central London Road.
But try telling those bloody "pendants" that!
Rushy
basically a scrotum
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That myth so cruelly perpetuated by Brixton Buzz.
Man arrested for dangerous driving after car mounts pavement along Brixton High Street
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Rushy
basically a scrotum
I'd like to openly apologise for suggesting that I am in any sort of company when referring to the section of Brixton Road which runs roughly between Mc Donald's and TK Maxx by its mythological name, Brixton High Street. Statutorily adopted names are there for sound etymological reasons and serve a valuable practical purpose for all of us. It was insensitive, disrespectful and disruptive to ignore this and I humbly accept the inappropriate content warning.
It's the building with tkmax in
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Brixton Hill
and Cabana and waayyyy too much detail here > http://www.bonmarchebusinesscentre.co.uk/History.aspx
awesome picture of a tram
Thanks. I'll be sure to take a look next time I'm down Brixton way.
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hiraethified
Take a look at this article: Brixton history – one hundred years of Bon Marché in Brixton – and its secret tunnels
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Assuming this is a straight question - the straight answer is "TK Max".
The original Bom Marche occupied the whole block between the railway line, Ferndale Road and Brixton Road plus an arcade adjacent to the south side of the railway (now part of Marks & Spencers.
Additionally it expanded into an extension on the north side of Ferndale Road - the building now occupied in part by the Post Office.
I'm sure there is a feature on this somewhere on Urban75 try this to be going on with Bon Marche building, Ferndale Road, Brixton. Historical Brixton - old and new photos of Brixton, Lambeth, London, SW9 and SW2
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Anybody know if this new Premier Inn will be a "hub"
The company are pushing this concept in the launch of their new Brick Lane hotel, where the doors are controlled by your Apple watch apparently
New hub by Premier Inn Brings £21.4 Million Investment to London's Brick Lane
The Standard picked up on this yesterday:
Definitive proof that Brick Lane is being gentrified
the Standard article majored on edgy vibrancy, Cereal Killer and curry houses losing out because of rising rents (and in the printed edition a picture of a sleeping Lenny Henry).
The company are pushing this concept in the launch of their new Brick Lane hotel, where the doors are controlled by your Apple watch apparently
New hub by Premier Inn Brings £21.4 Million Investment to London's Brick Lane
The Standard picked up on this yesterday:
Definitive proof that Brick Lane is being gentrified
the Standard article majored on edgy vibrancy, Cereal Killer and curry houses losing out because of rising rents (and in the printed edition a picture of a sleeping Lenny Henry).
