What's it like to live in Brixton / Brixton Borders

Further to the above gentrification concerns....

I was watching a BBC show with Giles Coren this week called 'Back in TIme for Dinner', a food / social documentary type thing. There were sections shot on the little pedestrian street in Herne Hill with bits inside Ye Olde Bakery and the awesome greengrocers. It's on iPlayer.

You can kiss goodbye to that lot if Network Rail get their way... It's lovely here in Australia, I barely miss London at all... I miss Le Reej and its associated vagabonds tho'... And t-shirts are a bit spendy here...

Who the fuck are you?

#pricedoutofsw2

#shouldofworkedharderlol

#honesthardworkingdrunk

glad you've got yourself plugged in over there, joe+lori. when's the first #engrishdisceru?

Not for a while, got to move into our new place and get settled first... Start work next week... And my records are still somewhere between here and Pingapore...

Where is the tape deck?

presumably the work of the 'yuppies out' mandem in windrush square thisarvo? fuck em. i'm with foxtons on this. any point you may have been trying to make is made utterly fucking moot the second you decided to hoof a bin through someone's shopfront. fucking weekend anarchists. fuck off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ6cp2T76lY

I agree. I'm not foxtons biggest fan but fucking childish behaviour doing shit like that. Was having a bbq tonight with mates who've live in Brixton/tulse hill and streatham for years and seems like there have been people in Brixton just for the sake of kicking off. Majority seem pretty cool but always a minority that act like pricks and are probably from the home counties anyway. Certainly a lot of non locals complaining about local issues

Class War mixing it up again. They never care about the issue in question. Pretty much by definition, they just want to start a fight.

A fuller article here:

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/apr/26/brixton-at-standstill-as-crowds-register-frustration-at-gentrification

I think TS's leaving was the last straw, now everybody wants the old Brixton back. :)

Not quite brixton, but the Railton Road green bike shed thing up towards Poet's Corner / Mayall Road was totalled by a taxi this morning.

@snowy_again yeah see my pic on This Morning's commute thread, one page back ...

Can I have some suggestions for a roast?
The Fentiman, Crown & Anchor, The Florence, The Canton Arms have all been visited.
Any other places I might have missed and worth checking out?
Criteria are a few good ales and top notch yorkshire puds

could try the rosendale, more west norwood than you may like to go, camberwell arms (part of the same group of pubs as the canton arms), also the bear in camberwell does a half decent sunday roast. Could also try the bobbin in clapham, food there is good, but never done there sunday lunch.

Ales aren't my forte, but with ale being the new in thing, I would assume all of them would sell some..

Prince Regent, Rosendale, Crown and Greyhound, The Commerical

@cornelius_blackfoot The wife isn't keen on The Bear so thats out, shame as not far from ours, walking distance rather than bus. Bobbin is good buy a bit pricey IMO

@Kat_Balou I like the Regent, been past the Rosendale but not been in, bit far out for me to pop to. Crown & Greyhound is closed according to google. Is Belair Hosue worth checking out as I've been past and looks nice

The Bear's kitchen is closed for the foreseeable. The Sun on Coldharbour Lane is decent.

Never been to Belair House, sounds nice.

Shame about the Rosendale being too far, their roasts are lovely and didn't realise Crown and Greyhound were shut, seems they are refurbishing until 2016. They have great carvery style roasts.

^ Just be careful how you lock your bike up at the Sun. Their bike stands can be taken apart with an Allen key and they're entirely uninterested in fixing that, despite the bikes that have been stolen as a result. The railings are safer.

rosendale is gash. prams, penelopes and pashminas as far as the eye can see. was also about to recommend the crown & greyhound in WD but i see the fucker is closed for a refurb.

The Sun on Coldharbour Lane

I didn't know that had reopened - looks perfect, a nice walk there. Will be popping in sometime to check it out. Cheers

@greenhell Nothing wrong with prams & buggies - especially now that I am in that camp. However it is one reason to avoid the Florence