Loughborough Junction chitter-chatter

[Winot]

Probably a good job she got off. However irresistible it may seem, in my experience a packed train is never a good place to display swordsmanship skills.

Touché

 

[Rushy]

Touché

 

[editor]

I really like these two buildings, currently occupied by MJL Joinery and ta Motor Spares shop.

I wonder what the Bridge House was used for back in Victorian times?

 

[teuchter]

I like the "motor spares" shop as it turns out to sell quite a few other things too, and if you need any DIY type items it's worth asking in there before going to Brixton or Camberwell. The chap that runs it is helpful and friendly too.

 

[Rushy]

I like the "motor spares" shop as it turns out to sell quite a few other things too, and if you need any DIY type items it's worth asking in there before going to Brixton or Camberwell. The chap that runs it is helpful and friendly too.

I bought a rowing machine on ebay from a guy living in the flat upstairs from that shop. He wasn't using it so wanted to get rid. Turned out I didn't use it much either!

 

[shakespearegirl]

ML joinery did an excellent job on building a new set of stairs for me when I lived in LJ.

 

[editor]

Someone mailed me this question:

Hi there,...there was once a electrical shop at loughbrough junction
that sold records also. It was on the left as you exit the station in
the direction of lilford road-_ camberwell.
think it's now a 'phone the world' shop ! there was a fruit and veg
shop called Kingstons next door. Would you know the name od that
shop.

Any ideas?

 

[ringo]

Someone mailed me this question:
Any ideas?

Must have been prior to 2001 'cos no records on sale in LJ when I lived there and don't remember an electrical store either. Maybe they used to sell other stuff in the shop with the sub-post office in the back?

 

[brixtonblade]

Looks like the old coast bar has been painted - does anyone know if it's opening again?

 

[editor]

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Looks like the old coast bar has been painted - does anyone know if it's opening again?

On Lambeth planning:

Change of use and conversion of existing restaurant, basement and upper floors to provide 9 self contained flats involving the erection of a mansard roof extension, a first floor rear extension, a second floor rear extension, alterations to the front elevation at ground floor level, installation of new windows and formation of a front lightwell together with the provision of refuse and cycle storage.
http://planning.lambeth.gov.uk/onli...ils.do?activeTab=summary&keyVal=MS6QWFBO05W00

 

[brixtonblade]

9! Blimey.

I thought they had a policy about not converting old pubs in to flats. Is a shame - could do with a pub near the station.

 

[editor]

9! Blimey.

I thought they had a policy about not converting old pubs in to flats. Is a shame - could do with a pub near the station.

I think that policy can be filed under 'LOLcakes'.

 

[teuchter]

Sunset LJ style

 

[CH1]

On Lambeth planning:

You think they are trying again? (that application was refused), or chancing their arm?
BTW regarding the lost pubs feature: http://www.urban75.org/brixton/bars/enterprise.html
I was told that the Enterprise was like a seedier version of the Atlantic or the Angel. Pioneering black run bar but with strippers. Before my time, so I cannot give a personal account though I went in a couple of times between 1986 and about 1993 when it was a fairly empty estate type pub.

 

[Rushy]

I thought they had a policy about not converting old pubs in to flats.

I think that policy can be filed under 'LOLcakes'.

That's a bit unfair. That application was refused and the main reason was precisely:

1 The application has failed to demonstrate through the submission of marketing evidence that the use of the
ground floor as a restaurant (Use Class A3) is no longer viable. The application is therefore contrary to Policy S3 of the
Core Strategy and Policies 4 and 19 of the Unitary Development Plan 2007: Policies saved beyond 5th August 2010
and not superseded by the Core Strategy January 2010.

 

[brixtonblade]

Would be nice if it stayed as a pub... the Enterprise is before my time and the Coast bar was no great shakes but there's none left round there so you'd figure (hope?) that one might make a go of things

 

[technical]

There's the Cambria not far away. Demographics, property and retail trends etc have changed drinking habits so much that the number of pubs is likely to carry on sinking for a while yet.

 

[editor]

There's the Cambria not far away. Demographics, property and retail trends etc have changed drinking habits so much that the number of pubs is likely to carry on sinking for a while yet.

I think there is definitely enough demand for a decent pub in Loughborough Junction given that it's lost so many in recent years.

 

[ringo]

I think there is definitely enough demand for a decent pub in Loughborough Junction given that it's lost so many in recent years.

I don't think so. All the time I lived there the numbers of people using the local pubs dwindled constantly, even as places like the Paulet Arms, Green Man, Rose & Thistle, Junction, Harriers, Robin Hood & Little John and Coast shut down. The only place that has seen consistently good levels of business has been the Sun & Doves due to its use as a local by hospital staff. Those remaining never look busy, such as Amaryllis.

 

[Rushy]

I don't think so. All the time I lived there the numbers of people using the local pubs dwindled constantly, even as places like the Paulet Arms, Green Man, Rose & Thistle, Junction, Harriers, Robin Hood & Little John and Coast shut down. The only place that has seen consistently good levels of business has been the Sun & Doves due to its use as a local by hospital staff. Those remaining never look busy, such as Amaryllis.

I went to the Sun of Camberwell as it is know known (it's an Antic pub) and was pleasantly impressed. I love the exposed roof construction in the rear room but wonder how they got away with it!

 

[editor]

I don't think so. All the time I lived there the numbers of people using the local pubs dwindled constantly, even as places like the Paulet Arms, Green Man, Rose & Thistle, Junction, Harriers, Robin Hood & Little John and Coast shut down. The only place that has seen consistently good levels of business has been the Sun & Doves due to its use as a local by hospital staff. Those remaining never look busy, such as Amaryllis.

That's partly mainly because those pubs made no effort to change and appeal to a changing clientèle (or they got closed down because of trouble).

The Sun is a roaring success these days - certainly busier than I ever remember it - and I could easily see something like that doing well in LJ.

 

[ringo]

That's partly mainly because those pubs made no effort to change and appeal to a changing clientèle (or they got closed down because of trouble).

The Sun is a roaring success these days - certainly busier than I ever remember it - and I could easily see something like that doing well in LJ.

Nah, LJ is not a destination yet, it's still somewhere people want to leave. Be a while yet til it turns round properly; its good housing stock and transport links can't disguise the underlying levels of poverty.

 

[editor]

Nah, LJ is not a destination yet, it's still somewhere people want to leave. Be a while yet til it turns round properly; its good housing stock and transport links can't disguise the underlying levels of poverty.

We'll have to agree to disagree, then. It's not about being a 'destination' either - it's about having a decent pub in an area that has lost so many.

 

[ladyruskin]

The Friends of Ruskin Park will be hosting their annual fete this Saturday at the bandstand in Ruskin Park from 1-5. Traditional village fete activities include a cake competition, coconut shy, tug o war & splat the rat. We'll also have live music on the bandstand throughout the afternoon and Rocky the Owl from BGT.

Full details of the cake competition and other info can be found here: [facebook.com]

 

[shakespearegirl]

That's partly mainly because those pubs made no effort to change and appeal to a changing clientèle (or they got closed down because of trouble).

I'd agree Ed, I stopped going to The Junction after someone got stabbed right next to me and the Green Man wasn't very welcoming the few times I went in there. If there had been a pub that felt at all appealing to me when I lived there I would have gone rather than walk to the Cambria

 

[ringo]

Yes, the trouble with these poor areas is that there aren't enough nice middle class pubs to go in. Place needs gentrifying

 

[editor]

Yes, the trouble with these poor areas is that there aren't enough nice middle class pubs to go in. Place needs gentrifying

Who mentioned "middle class pubs"?

 

[ChrisSouth]

I think there is definitely enough demand for a decent pub in Loughborough Junction given that it's lost so many in recent years.

Open one then!

 

[teuchter]

I've had a letter through the door about redevelopment as part of Lambeth's "Your New Town Hall" project. They mention that a redevelopment site is "the land and buildings owned by Lambeth Council at the end of Wanless Road".

Do they mean the site currently occupied by their Pest Control Dept (on the dead-end bit of Wanless rd running down to the railway viaduct), does anyone know?

 

[editor]

Open one then!

Oh, I've been involved in pubs and clubs long enough to know that I would never, ever want to run one full time.