Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
A more recent loss has been the old watchmender in 'Ralph's Gift Box' in the covered market.........
The former shops and businesses of Brixton
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theBEAST666
it is me, hehe
One thing I miss was the record shop that used to be at the bottom of the stairs in the tube station. Can't remember its name though? .....discs.... something or the other? hmmmm
I miss the Hope pub from st mathews road to. Used to like to sit in their conservatory in winter having a drink. The bakers has also gone from the top of brixton water lane, lovely smells on way home in the early hours.
I miss the Hope pub from st mathews road to. Used to like to sit in their conservatory in winter having a drink. The bakers has also gone from the top of brixton water lane, lovely smells on way home in the early hours.
Ol Nick said:
It is, and scrumptious it is too
You can buy their bread at other shops (including Brixton Wholefoods, I think) but not hot out of the oven, as at the bakery itself.
Worth mentioning you can actually get hot bread there on Sat afternoon about 4:30 pm - they've started baking again for Bermondsey Market on Sunday.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Ol Nick said:
I don't think he'd bother going there when he's already loaded down with bags. He went to the Continental Deli, M&S, Sainsbury's, Greggs - nothing
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
Ol Nick said:
www.oldpostofficebakery.co.uk/
Their website claims that they are in Clapham North (and that their former Lyham Road premises were in Clapham
)Given their proximity to Clapham North tube, it is probably not an unreasonable claim, but obviously Brixton nationalists will have to boycott the bakery shop, and only buy their bread from Costcutter in Acre Lane or Brixton Hill (do they still stock it
), Brixton Wholefoods and Elm Park Dairy. 
lang rabbie said:www.oldpostofficebakery.co.uk/
Their website claims that they are in Clapham North (and that their former Lyham Road premises were in Clapham
Given their proximity to Clapham North tube, it is probably not an unreasonable claim, but obviously Brixton nationalists will have to boycott the bakery shop, and only buy their bread from Costcutter in Acre Lane or Brixton Hill (do they still stock it
Hmmm.... 'Clapham North' is something of an Estate Agents invention, although now also the moniker of a bah-pub , formerly The Bedford. Perhaps the bakers are showing their origins - they were originally in Venn Street Clapham. But I would say Landor is Brixton.
As for Costcutters Acre Lane - well, arrange the letters how you will and you can't get freshness out of it!
theBEAST666
it is me, hehe
My favorite newsagent, alas, Stanleys on Brixton Hill. With the bloke with the milk bottle glasses
johnniebutterfl
New Member
The Ramjam Club
Am I the only person to remember this place and must say I was surprised not to find it in the history thread. For me its a deserving part of Brixton's cultural contribution to the world.
Here's a flyer to give you an idea, haven't found a photo yet.
http://www.georgwa.demon.co.uk/ramjamfl.htm
My first visit to a club in London (I grew up in the burbs) was the Ramjam Club. It helped I suppose that I arrived on the comparitive splendour of a loved-up Vespa GS, with red tab levis and parka flying along to Brixton Rd. It was a bit like visiting an alien yet beautiful planet. The alien part being enhanced by a half a black bomber.
The Ramjam was a unique venue , in London at least I think in the early mid-60s, inasmuch that it was the only place where white youth (mods) could mingle with an older west indian crowd, due to its peerless music policy of mixing ska and american soul to mutual enthusiasm. The Skatellites were regular visitors. Sir Coxone had a share in it i was told
My occasion was the regal arrival of Prince Buster from Ja, fresh from a big hit, accompanied by a motley motorcade of flashy american cars with at least fifty immaculately customised scooters.
Hard to remember too much but the Ramjam was completely rammed and the dense clouds of weed smoke and Red Stripe, smiling faces and fantastic music made up for it easily.
Almost all of the Brit Soul covers bands played there and its early championing of US RnB, when the only other way was to try and listen into AFN broadcasting to black servicemen in Germany was a key portal for the Brit RnB explosion that we later sold back to the States. I understand it became unpleasant in the later sixties,probably due to racist influences in skinhead culture. It closed in the early 70's, but for a while it was the hippest place in the world, including Liverpool, arguably.
But wierd to think that you could have seen Jimi Hendrix supporting John Mayall in Brixton and he is rumoured to have jammed with Cream at the Ramjam in 1966 and you might have been dancing cheek by jowl with a young Linton Kwesi Johnson chatting to jimi.
The address was 390 Brixton Rd which I think I'm correct in saying was the first venue for the Fridge Club in the early 80s. Its currently occupied by part of Lambeth Council.
Am I the only person to remember this place and must say I was surprised not to find it in the history thread. For me its a deserving part of Brixton's cultural contribution to the world.
Here's a flyer to give you an idea, haven't found a photo yet.
http://www.georgwa.demon.co.uk/ramjamfl.htm
My first visit to a club in London (I grew up in the burbs) was the Ramjam Club. It helped I suppose that I arrived on the comparitive splendour of a loved-up Vespa GS, with red tab levis and parka flying along to Brixton Rd. It was a bit like visiting an alien yet beautiful planet. The alien part being enhanced by a half a black bomber.
The Ramjam was a unique venue , in London at least I think in the early mid-60s, inasmuch that it was the only place where white youth (mods) could mingle with an older west indian crowd, due to its peerless music policy of mixing ska and american soul to mutual enthusiasm. The Skatellites were regular visitors. Sir Coxone had a share in it i was told
My occasion was the regal arrival of Prince Buster from Ja, fresh from a big hit, accompanied by a motley motorcade of flashy american cars with at least fifty immaculately customised scooters.
Hard to remember too much but the Ramjam was completely rammed and the dense clouds of weed smoke and Red Stripe, smiling faces and fantastic music made up for it easily.
Almost all of the Brit Soul covers bands played there and its early championing of US RnB, when the only other way was to try and listen into AFN broadcasting to black servicemen in Germany was a key portal for the Brit RnB explosion that we later sold back to the States. I understand it became unpleasant in the later sixties,probably due to racist influences in skinhead culture. It closed in the early 70's, but for a while it was the hippest place in the world, including Liverpool, arguably.
But wierd to think that you could have seen Jimi Hendrix supporting John Mayall in Brixton and he is rumoured to have jammed with Cream at the Ramjam in 1966 and you might have been dancing cheek by jowl with a young Linton Kwesi Johnson chatting to jimi.
The address was 390 Brixton Rd which I think I'm correct in saying was the first venue for the Fridge Club in the early 80s. Its currently occupied by part of Lambeth Council.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Yes, the Fridge was in the basement of what was then the gas showroom and it was the same place as the Ram Jam...there is discussion of the Ram Jam somewhere here on the boards as long as it survived the massive post culls just before we had to switch server.......
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
newbie said:
I'm equally bugged by being unable to remember the name of that bakers.
"Cloutings"
Don't suppose anyone here knows what happened to the three cast iron parish markers on the side of the shop building in Morrish Road. (Streatham, Clapham, and Lambeth parishes met at that point) . They vanished shortly after the bakery closed. I was planning to insist that they got attached to the new housing development, but when I strolled along to check details they had disappeared leaving three unpainted patches of wall.
That's a class, evocative post about the RamJam from the lepidopterist. A Google of Ram Jam and Brixton is like a history of popular music.
I suspect it wasn't mentioned because (1) most people posting here aren't native Brixton, or London (2) most would have been in nappies, still breathing through their gills or as yet unthought of.
Others of us were, at the time, trying to sneak in to the last days of the King Mojo Club in Sheffield. It was owned by two brothers from a family who owned a lot of slum property in the east end of the city. They were called Stringfellow.........
I suspect it wasn't mentioned because (1) most people posting here aren't native Brixton, or London (2) most would have been in nappies, still breathing through their gills or as yet unthought of.
Others of us were, at the time, trying to sneak in to the last days of the King Mojo Club in Sheffield. It was owned by two brothers from a family who owned a lot of slum property in the east end of the city. They were called Stringfellow.........
Ol Nick
beer in Brixton
Yeah. The Minx is going to have to get her boyfriend a bike.pooka said:
And you're right about the pubs. They were already quite rah -- the first pubs west of Brixton to be showing the Six Nations -- but when I tried getting a pint round there last Sunday I realised that not a single pub in "Clapham North" sells beer. Just fizzy lager crap and loud dancy music to try and drown out the horror of it all.
And this is happening just one mile from Coldharbour Lane you know...
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Ol Nick said:
Great idea but his cartileges (sp?) in his knees are bolloxed from motorbike accidents
newbie
undisambiguated
lang rabbie said:I'm equally bugged by being unable to remember the name of that bakers.
"Cloutings"
Don't suppose anyone here knows what happened to the three cast iron parish markers on the side of the shop building in Morrish Road. (Streatham, Clapham, and Lambeth parishes met at that point) . They vanished shortly after the bakery closed. I was planning to insist that they got attached to the new housing development, but when I strolled along to check details they had disappeared leaving three unpainted patches of wall.
Cloutings indeed. Your local knowledge never ceases to amaze.
And yes, now you mention it, those markers were worthy of keeping.
theBEAST666
it is me, hehe
Yeah man. when I was a kid I used to have my hair cut in there. Isn't he still there?
I had all the styles, 1, 2 and 3!
I had all the styles, 1, 2 and 3!
isvicthere?
a.k.a. floppybollocks
What was the gay club in Brighton Terrace?
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hiraethified
Substation South. Top place.
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
Epic bump!
Frumious B.
Well-Known Member
Anyone remember Tongue and Groove on Atlantic Road? Best name for a bar ever. 
Rushy
basically a scrotum
It had a big leather "bed" in the front! Got a bit "pseudo mardy gangster" later on and I avoided it.
Before that it was Helter Skelter which was a great little restaurant which would have been very trendy now design and food wise. Rough and ready shabby interior using all the old shop finishes, mish mash chairs and tables and really good food. Quite pricey hough so rarely went.
Before that it was Helter Skelter which was a great little restaurant which would have been very trendy now design and food wise. Rough and ready shabby interior using all the old shop finishes, mish mash chairs and tables and really good food. Quite pricey hough so rarely went.
editor
hiraethified
It was brilliant for a while but then turned into a Cla'am coke den.Anyone remember Tongue and Groove on Atlantic Road? Best name for a bar ever.
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hiraethified
It was a bit ahead of its time. The food was good too.
Twas Solar Records.
Frumious B.
Well-Known Member
When I was there it was full of dealers but I was the only white guy.
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