Loughborough Road sub post office

[shakespearegirl]

Does anyone know if this is still open? Its a couple of doors down from Phillips Butchers. I have tried googling but can't get any info. If it is still open does it close for lunch?
Thanks

[Mrs Magpie]

It's gone...I know this because Phillips's trade has dropped as a result.

[shakespearegirl]

Thanks for that. Guess its the walk to Brixton for me then, unless anyone knows of any others around LJ

[Mrs Magpie]

'fraid not...allow at least three-quarters of an hour for queuing in the Ferndale Road one...

[Skim]

According to the A-Z there was one at the bottom of the junction with Cambria Road, but that closed. It seems like a bit of a desert for post offices.

[shakespearegirl]

That's exactly what I was trying to avoid, will wait till after the lunchtime rush..

'fraid not...allow at least three-quarters of an hour for queuing in the Ferndale Road one...

[trashpony]

According to the A-Z there was one at the bottom of the junction with Cambria Road, but that closed. It seems like a bit of a desert for post offices.

The whole of London is - they have systematically gone on a campaign to close all the sub-post offices round where I am which means there are none at all in the whole of Kilburn, West Hampstead, Swiss Cottage or Hampstead.

The nearest ones are either Cricklewood or Golders Green.

It makes me very cross indeed.

[Mrs Magpie]

It's making the pensioners poorer too...pressure to open a bank account as it's too far to take their pension book to cash in the main post office, although they'd probably fall over with the wait in the queue.....there are no local cash points except the ones that charge £1.50 each time you use them.....

[shakespearegirl]

Strangely Herne Hill has a sub post office (in the Costcutters) about 100m from the main post office!

[shakespearegirl]

Only 20 minutes wait at Ferndale road!

[Giles]

The whole of London is - they have systematically gone on a campaign to close all the sub-post offices round where I am which means there are none at all in the whole of Kilburn, West Hampstead, Swiss Cottage or Hampstead.

The nearest ones are either Cricklewood or Golders Green.

It makes me very cross indeed.

Eh? There's a Post Office in West Hampstead, right near the tube. I just went to it half an hour ago! And one just off Kilburn High Road, although there are frequently quite big queues in there.

Giles..

[aurora green]

I was pretty upset when the Loughborough road post office failed to re-open after Christmas. It was a real shock, and it came only months after loosing the one at Coldharbour lane that used to be in the chemist. The family that run it were lovley as well, and I always liked going in there.
It's a real bloody pain to have to treck all the way to Brixton or Camberwell now. We've really lost out around here.

[Mrs Magpie]

Eh? There's a Post Office in West Hampstead, right near the tube. I just went to it half an hour ago! And one just off Kilburn High Road, although there are frequently quite big queues in there.

Giles..
iirc They are main post offices, not sub-post offices, but it is a long time since I've schlepped around north of the river except for waged activities.

[trashpony]

Eh? There's a Post Office in West Hampstead, right near the tube. I just went to it half an hour ago! And one just off Kilburn High Road, although there are frequently quite big queues in there.

Giles..

:o Oops

I thought they'd shut the one on West End Lane - it's not listed in Yell. I assumed they had because afaik they've shut the one on Kilburn High Rd and the sub-post office on Mill Lane.

[editor]

They closed the Coldharbour Lane PO a while ago too, so now it's the grimness of the hideous Ferndale Rd office.

[Giles]

:o Oops

I thought they'd shut the one on West End Lane - it's not listed in Yell. I assumed they had because afaik they've shut the one on Kilburn High Rd and the sub-post office on Mill Lane.

The one on West End Lane is still definitely there! The one near M.P. Moran's on Kilburn High Road has gone, its true, but there is a really big one on the corner of Kilburn High Road and Salusbury Villas, in the middle of Kilburn's main shopping street.

I go to both quite often. The one in West Hampstead is smaller, but usually nicer to go to (less smelly alcoholics ranting at the poor staff about why their benefit hasn't come, when they have important stuff to spend it on, like Special Brew and 3 litre bottles of harmfully strong nasty cider).

Giles..

[trashpony]

The one on West End Lane is still definitely there! The one near M.P. Moran's on Kilburn High Road has gone, its true, but there is a really big one on the corner of Kilburn High Road and Salusbury Villas, in the middle of Kilburn's main shopping street.

I go to both quite often. The one in West Hampstead is smaller, but usually nicer to go to (less smelly alcoholics ranting at the poor staff about why their benefit hasn't come, when they have important stuff to spend it on, like Special Brew and 3 litre bottles of harmfully strong nasty cider).

Giles..

Ahh - Kilburn High Road - the joys :rolleyes:

I avoid that middle bit if I can - I live up the top and get the bus down to Primark and M&S - the middle bit's full of the special brew mob. So it's handy to know that West End Lane's still open :)

[Donna Ferentes]

The one in West Hampstead is smaller, but usually nicer to go to (less smelly alcoholics ranting at the poor staff about why their benefit hasn't come, when they have important stuff to spend it on, like Special Brew and 3 litre bottles of harmfully strong nasty cider).The larger one sounds best to me, by miles:
Less chance of coming across Giles.

[Maggot]

The larger one sounds best to me, by miles:
Less chance of coming across Giles.
So you'd rather deal with a load of angry alkies than Giles?

[Giles]

The larger one sounds best to me, by miles:
Less chance of coming across Giles.

Fortunately you are in a different country, so you don't have to worry either way, do you?

So you can keep your completely unwarranted and nasty remarks to yourself.

Giles..

[Giles]

Ahh - Kilburn High Road - the joys :rolleyes:

I avoid that middle bit if I can - I live up the top and get the bus down to Primark and M&S - the middle bit's full of the special brew mob. So it's handy to know that West End Lane's still open :)

I've no objection to people being drunk as such, its just a bit much when they are threatening to "cut up" the hapless P.O. staff, while shouting vile obscenities, just because they can't have more boozing money.

Giles..

[Donna Ferentes]

Fortunately you are in a different country, so you don't have to worry either way, do you?

So you can keep your completely unwarranted and nasty remarks to yourself.
You express contempt for others: you don't like it
When instead of broken people, you're the target.

[Giles]

You express contempt for others: you don't like it
When instead of broken people, you're the target.

Sticks and stones, sticks and stones.

So what if I express a preference for avoiding somewhere frequented by aggressive drunks?

I bet most people, given a choice of queueing up with Tennents Superman and Ciderwoman, or not, would choose the latter.

And if I were you, I would get my head checked over this rhyming thing. I read somewhere that thinking and even speaking in rhyme can be a sign of various mental problems, esp. schizophrenia.

Giles..

[Mrs Magpie]

enough, enough. I've been enjoying the rhyming couplets, makes a change...

[Donna Ferentes]

I bet most people, given a choice of queueing up with Tennents Superman and Ciderwoman, or not, would choose the latter.
They might indeed: but they might also shun
The company of one without compassion
I personally prefer the company of the poor
Even the drunks and beggars: all their flaws
Are nothing set against the attitudes of wealth
Which hates all those without it and mocks people's mental health.

And if I were you, I would get my head checked over this rhyming thing. I read somewhere that thinking and even speaking in rhyme can be a sign of various mental problems, esp. schizophrenia.

[aurora green]

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[lang rabbie]

Careful Donna - you nearly blew your cover as a forty something white sometime librarian.

We all know you are actually Mr Who :D

[poster342002]

It's making the pensioners poorer too...pressure to open a bank account as it's too far to take their pension book to cash in the main post office, although they'd probably fall over with the wait in the queue.....there are no local cash points except the ones that charge £1.50 each time you use them.....
And the actual process of opening a bank account now is simply horrendous. Pages and pages of idiotic forms and endless demands for about twenty types of ID - which in themselves require about twenty types of ID to obtain.

Kafka, eat yer heart out. :rolleyes: