in nearly 24 years here I can remember only once seeing someone going in.On a lighter note, has anyone ever been in Control Tower? I've passed it every day for about six months now and never seen one person in there.
Maybe all the excitement is downstairs, like the taxi company (whos name I forget) was on the other side of Harbour Road and CHL just before you get to Loughborough Junction station.in nearly 24 years here I can remember only once seeing someone going in.
It happened years ago, but this is all I know the place forOn a lighter note, has anyone ever been in Control Tower? I've passed it every day for about six months now and never seen one person in there.
On 3 June 1997, Anthony Baker was shot in the head during a raid at the Control Tower takeaway in Coldharbour Lane, Brixton, where he worked. The shooting happened just a few hundred yards from Lambeth Town Hall where, at the same time, Chief Inspector Alan O'Gorman was telling a packed meeting that gun crime in the area was becoming out of control
Maybe all the excitement is downstairs, like the taxi company (whos name I forget) was on the other side of Harbour Road and CHL just before you get to Loughborough Junction station.
That was an experience.
23 or so years ago go now mind.
As featured in:Home James.
PB: In light of that was there really a taxi firm called Home James?
RH: Yes, in Coldharbour Lane in Brixton. It wasn’t only a taxi firm. It was also a Jamaican blues club, and I used to go down there about ten, fifteen years ago, and have a late night drink and maybe smoke a few strange substances while I was there, and then get a mini cab home. It was the perfect evening.
A lot of the songs on ‘Me and Home James’ are lamenting a side of London that is passing on. These were places of great character that I quite liked and which are now gone. That beautiful record shop I used to go is now a Starbucks, and that pub that would have a lock in until five ‘o’ clock in the morning is now a block of flats, and that Jamaican cab office I used to go to for late night blues parties has just vanished off the face of the Earth. Everything has become a lot more sanitised.
It is true that the cook in the control tower was shot fatally in the head. He seemed to be an innocent party from what I remember.It happened years ago, but this is all I know the place for
Coldharbour Lane - Wikipedia
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I saw Ray around for many years, he dj'ed in my local the Wickwood Tavern for a while. He is featured in Herne Hill Personalities published by the Herne Hill Society in 2006.Does anyone remember Big Ray?
He was a neighbour of mine when I lived in Cambria Road in the 90s. He was a country music DJ who dressed the part. I remember him passing away some time ago, but can't find anything online about him.
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I wish they'd put one at Tulse Hill too.I see Anthea has started an online petition for a lift at LJ station
Would need three lifts at Tulse Hill.I wish they'd put one at Tulse Hill too.
Yes, we need three lifts at Tulse Hill.Would need three lifts at Tulse Hill.
There was a comment before about shoplifting at the Co-op.I see the bottled beers deal has gone up again at the Coop.
It was 4.20 then recently 4.80 now its up to five pound for two beers.
Not surprised shoplifting is on the rise.
There was a comment before about shoplifting at the Co-op.
I wonder if Peter Hitchens (or his researchers) read our discussions?
Mere Anarchy is Loosed Upon the World. Ignoring Shoplifting Threatens Civilisation - Mail Online - Peter Hitchens blog
Mere Anarchy is Loosed Upon the World. Ignoring Shoplifting Threatens Civilisationhitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk
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Morton Valence - Interview
Robert Hacker Jessett, the front man with urban country outfit Morton Valence, chats to John Clarkson about their second album, ‘Me and Home James’, which is a concept album about an illegal cab drive from South to North Londonpennyblackmusic.co.uk
LJ's bridges very briefly visible in the first moments of that video.I love this song! thanks
I think we've probably all got a funny story about Home James .. what ever became of them?
Cowboys ahoy!
Loughborough Junction really smells of (I assume) that fire on shakespeare road now.