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

Mash, I'd say you're more of a Balham type.

What makes someone a clapham type? Ive lived in the Brix for 6 months, and as far as i'm aware it is called Brixton Village. And I've never lived in Clapham.

And the reason it's called brixton village is... the big fuckin sign on the door

What makes someone a clapham type?

royal blue chinos

Mash, I'd say you're more of a Balham type.

Cock off, munchkin.

You'll want to talk to Ru if you're dissing Balham.

And the reason it's called brixton village is... the big fuckin sign on the door

Along with the ones that say Granville Arcade?

And the reason it's called brixton village is... the big fuckin sign on the door

Some of us still think of the vacant lot a couple of blocks up as the (late and much lamented) Cooltan Arts Centre (Lambeth Council are and ever have been a bunch of petty jobsworth bastards); being that crusty, we're not about to heed a bit of spin on the old arcade.

the (late and much lamented) Cooltan Arts Centre

Really? By whom?

They moved to Walworth Road, which seems about right...

Wasn't that the old DHSS building?

Had some nice nosh in Fujiyama again last night, mind...

^^ euph?

^^ euph?

I do hope that's aimed at Joe, but suspect it's not...

South is real. I just moved from South east to Camberwell... there's a different type of green on the streets that's for sure.

Wasn't that the old DHSS building?

That was the one. When it was running, it was a good place to hang out. Nice cafe (only vegetarian food, but hey), art gallery, film nights etc. When the council, with the help of the Voice, eventually forced them out, they offered to take over the old Brixton Fashion building (long, flat former textile/clothes-company premises that used to be next to the Tate library, facing the Town Hall), which was of some local historical interest and had been vacant for years. So the council knocked that down and first rented the space out to a very cheap and crappy garden centre and then used it as a temporay car park.

The fact that a few people have taken the name elsewhere isn't much of a replacement for the lively venue that was destroyed.

The bloody Voice moved very shortly after helping the council shaft the Cooltan and both buildings were just left to rot. After about 5 years, they were hollowed out and used as another car park, but that didn't work and eventually it was cleared back to the vacant lot it is now.

Just had lunch in Okan. Lovely stuff!

Oh yeah, okanamiyaki is good grub.

@snowy, don't think there are any Granville Arcade signs up anymore.

And, whilst I'm here - a recommendation for Paulo (?) the Italian barber in Brixton Barbers, in the other bit of the market. Good cut, nice guy and a cyclist. We chatted about the Giro.

Here's the details of the Up The Junction event on 5th of October:

Up the Junction Arts Salon
@ Whirled Cinema, Railway Arch 260
Hardness Street, SE24 0HN

(Off Herne Hill Road)

Wednesday 5 October 2011
Doors open 7.30pm

Entrance £3 (concessions £1)

2 films: Robots of Brixton and 7 Bridges animation

4 authors: Stella Duffy, Julie Myerson, Simon Lewis, Gabriel Gbadamosi

The theme is THE CITY
Come and watch the robots take over your favourite places in Brixton; marvel at the animation skills of pupils at St Saviour’s School as they tell stories of life under the Cambria Road bridge.

Listen entranced to Loughborough Junction’s very own Stella Duffy and her tales of Theodora, who from humble beginnings in the City of Constantinople rises to become Empress of Rome.

www.stelladuffy.wordpress.com.

According to the Daily Telegraph in Julie Myerson’s new post apocalyptic novel Then, we come to “navigate the grisly streets of London and the dark corners of the narrator’s mind”. Can’t wait.

Local writer Simon Lewis’s Chinese detective, Inspector Jian, in his novel Bad Traffic prowls the mean streets of England in search of his lost daughter without a word of English. England as you have never seen her and perhaps don’t want to. www.simonlewiswriter.com.

Gabriel Gbadamosi’s novel Vauxhall has just won the Tibor Jones page turner prize. Set in South London’s melting pot, Gabriel’s hero searches for his identity as the bulldozers plough through 1970s Lambeth.

Bookshop provided by Review, one of London's best independent bookshops on Peckham's Bellenden Road.

Find us on twitter (UpTheJunc1) and facebook (Up the Junction – the one with the rail map)

yo pantie sniffers!

is it free to park near the reej/around bp?

i am planning on taking the enemy up to see the walled garden, and wouldn't mind taking the mg for it's (possible) last top-down blast of the year...

What day of the week? Today? Shakespeare Road is free, but the rest are residents or pay & display.

Weekends it's all free.

The lido car park?

tomorrow.

ah - the fucking lido!

<fuckwit

cheers, btw

It'll be ram jam though with this weather, even early doors.

Weekends - dump it down our street? Or next to the Reej?

yeah - figured that. i may just dump it outside yours and walk up.

if i can convince sarah that a pint is more important than her edercashon (and my licence), i'll give you a knock