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Oh I know, the weather warm like this means halfway down flaxman road the old man with his living room floor piled high with fantastic vinyl singles from the 50s-70s of every kind of Jamaican music will probably have his front windows open and the music will be wafting up the road, that I do miss.
 
Some pics

In photos: Return to Rathgar Road with its locks ups, garages and lovely resident cat


In photos: Return to Rathgar Road with its locks ups, garages and lovely resident cat


In photos: Return to Rathgar Road with its locks ups, garages and lovely resident cat


In photos: Return to Rathgar Road with its locks ups, garages and lovely resident cat


In photos: Return to Rathgar Road with its locks ups, garages and lovely resident cat


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In photos: Rathgar Road, locks ups, garages, metalworks, slime and a friendly resident cat

We love the world of locks ups, garages and sometimes shady businesses that occupy the hundreds of railway arches around Brixton, and this time we’ve returned to Rathgar Road, in Loughborough…
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teuchter said:
I note that these have appeared in a few places around LJ.

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An attempt has been made to remove at least one of these. I don't know but suspect it has not been done by the roads department but by someone who doesn't like the concept.
If whoever painted them is reading this, I'm in support of you if you want to get your stencil out again :thumbs:.
 
Junction Pharmacy has an interesting system.

One person in the shop at a time. Fair enough.

They've got the perspex screens in front of the desk.

You have to stand 2m back from the perspex screen. Again... fair enough.

But then when it is time to hand over the prescription, do the card payment etc, they walk out from behind the screens, and stand next to you in the open.

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Crispy said:
Improvements coming at DMK:

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Denmark Hill station getting £7.5 million upgrade

The small overcrowded entrance to Denmark Hill station in South London is to be significantly easier to use, following a £7.5 million upgrade to the station.
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Sounds a bit optimistic for Network Rail to assume free access through the Maudsley Hospital grounds.
I haven't been up there for a couple of years. They used to have a Community Education suite near where that entrance will be.
To get in as a pedestrian was easy enough - but not direct. In fact a bit of a maze. And there are electronic gates to control delivery vans etc on the direct road.
Added to this - there must be a risk that SLAM decide to build more ward space to replace the 10 wards being demolished at their hospital in Landor Road so the site can be sold for housing development.
 
The entrance will be on Windsor Walk, which is a public road.
The Maudsley route they talk about is here, with access currently blocked at the red line.
It's all open air with no security checks or anything.
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Given the huge numbers of Kings/Maudsley hospital workers using the station, this entrance will really help them.
Once the through route opens back up again anyway.,
 
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Crispy said:
The entrance will be on Windsor Walk, which is a public road.
The Maudsley route they talk about is here, with access currently blocked at the red line.
It's all open air with no security checks or anything.
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Given the huge numbers of Kings/Maudsley hospital workers using the station, this entrance will really help them.
Once they through route opens back up again anyway.,
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Be handy for me too.
 
I'm a bit foxed by the Tesco Express mask and alcohol policy.

Masks - these now seem to be worn by a mere one or two customers. The rest - mainly strapping young men and women swan around like they're at a David Icke event.

Beer - for a couple of years Tesco Express LJ sold Hobgoblin, a pleasant enough 5.2% ruby bottled beer for 1.30. All other bottled beers were 1.75
Then about three months back they remove ALL bottled ales and replaced with assorted 4 packs of John Smiths, Greene Kijng IPA etc in cans. I ignored as I don't think cans of IPA are that wonderful.

Now I see they have cleared out the cans of ales and started on high end strong bottled ales. King Goblin 6.6% is 1.79 I think and Greene King Abbot Reserve 6.5% was I think 1.99 Last but not least Adnams Broadside bottled 6.3% - hand pump version is only 4.7% by the way.- Tescos Express price 1.79 I think.

I guess I might be tempted as these prices. Dearer than Lidl but slightly less than the Beehive, The Beehive is a bit dire at the moment. I was there on Sunday and the duty manager seemed preoccupied with getting everyone seated as soon as possible. There are nowadays only three ales max, normally Abbot, Sam Brookes and Doom Bar.
 
I've been contacted by a chap called Colin McInnes who has done research on the history of Loughborough Junction station. He emailed me bcause of something on LJAG's website in 2014 relating to Loughborough Hall (and Loughborough House). LJAG referenced an article on the Brixton Society website - but unfortunately their Wordpess/hosting arrangments changed a few years back, so this is not available.

Colin refers to two of his own web pages, which people on here might find interesting.

Loughborough Junction station area - Colin MacInnes Architectural Design

Loughborough Junction station in 1903 - Colin MacInnes Architectural Design

If we were not about to be locked down for a month I think a Jazz and ale session for him in The Junction would have been in order!
 
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I've been contacted by a chap called Colin McInnes who has done research on the history of Loughborough Junction station. He emailed me bcause of something on LJAG's website in 2014 relating to Loughborough Hall (and Loughborough House). LJAG referenced an article on the Brixton Society website - but unfortunately their Wordpess/hosting arrangments changed a few years back, so this is not available.

Colin refers to two of his own web pages, which people on here might find interesting.

Loughborough Junction station area - Colin MacInnes Architectural Design

Loughborough Junction station in 1903 - Colin MacInnes Architectural Design

If we were not about to be locked down for a month I think a Jazz and ale session for him in The Junction would have been in order!
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I agree, it's a fabulous piece of continuing work. Really very interesting to see fleshed out in 3D Loughborough Junction station and surrounding buildings.
 
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I've been contacted by a chap called Colin McInnes who has done research on the history of Loughborough Junction station. He emailed me bcause of something on LJAG's website in 2014 relating to Loughborough Hall (and Loughborough House). LJAG referenced an article on the Brixton Society website - but unfortunately their Wordpess/hosting arrangments changed a few years back, so this is not available.

Colin refers to two of his own web pages, which people on here might find interesting.

Loughborough Junction station area - Colin MacInnes Architectural Design

Loughborough Junction station in 1903 - Colin MacInnes Architectural Design

If we were not about to be locked down for a month I think a Jazz and ale session for him in The Junction would have been in order!
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Re history of the various platforms and services, I happened upon this:
Notes: The first platforms on what was to later become Loughborough Junction were on the Brixton line which first appeared in public timetables in October 1864, two years after the LCDR's Metropolitan Extension to Victoria opened. The station was called Loughborough Road. From 1 July 1872 three platforms were provided on the Herne Hill lines. At the same time, a spur was built by the Crystal Palace & South London Junction Railway joining the Metropolitan Extension with the line to Peckham. This required the erection of three iron bridges and the demolition of a number of houses in Flaxman Road, Two platforms were provided on the spur which is usually referred to as Cambria Road platforms and spur after nearby Cambria Road. The station was renamed Loughborough Junction on 1 December 1872.

Wensite link Disused Stations: Loughborough Junction Station (Cambria Road Spur Platforms)

I think I heard Alan Piper opine that the Loughborough Road platforms were first on one of his local walks.

Colin McInnes seems of a definite view that the sequence was Holborn - Herne Hill then Loughborough Road platorms added and fin ally the Cambria platforms.

As you can see the Disused Stations website has is as Loughborugh Road first, Herne Hill platofrms second and Cambria platforms third.

editor , Crispy , teuchter Johnlj1234 - any views on this issue?
 
I see the first few planters for this have appeared outside the station

LJ Green Link | poroban

Loughborough Junction Green Link - Street Enhancement scheme
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I really don't like to be negative about it and hope that I will be proved wrong, but fear that in a couple of years the planters will be semi-collapsed with weeds growing in them, because that's what I observe happening with pretty much every single example of this kind of thing - street planting only seems to work if it's in very robust immovable containment (generally, built as part of the streetscape in brick or concrete) and actively maintained by the local authority, or some kind of formal estate management, rather than volunteers. Or - just plant proper street trees.

Like I say, I hope this one works and I'm proved overly pessimistic.
 
teuchter said:
I see the first few planters for this have appeared outside the station

LJ Green Link | poroban

Loughborough Junction Green Link - Street Enhancement scheme
www.poroban.com www.poroban.com

I really don't like to be negative about it and hope that I will be proved wrong, but fear that in a couple of years the planters will be semi-collapsed with weeds growing in them, because that's what I observe happening with pretty much every single example of this kind of thing - street planting only seems to work if it's in very robust immovable containment (generally, built as part of the streetscape in brick or concrete) and actively maintained by the local authority, or some kind of formal estate management, rather than volunteers. Or - just plant proper street trees.

Like I say, I hope this one works and I'm proved overly pessimistic.
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The fact that LJAG and Father Nature are involved is surely a good thing and implies this will be a longer-term engagement plan so this doesnt happen. I agree though that usually the planters are just built and left and inevitably just look shit and neglected and take away from the environment.

Considering the parks budgets are getting slashed all the time, I do find it annoying that Lambeth Council find money for these projects that I think are really too small to make a big impact. Although will reserve judgement on this scheme as it looks like it could be quite substantial.
 
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