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Is Loughborough Junction separate from Brixton and Camberwell, or part of one of them? I'm in Lambeth, a hundred yards west of Denmark Road, which forms the boundary of Southwark and Lambeth, but although I have an SE postcode my flat's lease is owned by Lambeth council and I pay them for council tax etc.
Or is it just that neither Brixton nor Camberwell want us to be a part of them?
Estate agents call it Camberwell, but presumably because they think it sounds more expensive.
poster342002
12-02-2007, 13:45
I tend to think of it being on Brixton's easternmost border. Some people consider LJ to be part of Brixton itself, but I'm not certain.
Minnie_the_Minx
12-02-2007, 13:45
What you really want to know is if you can claim to live in Brixton ;)
The postcodes have nothing to do with how people use place names. Railton Road is SE24, for example.
Place names tend to be based on parishes, or even on the old "hundreds" system. You're certainly within the old Brixton Hundred (http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/bound_map_page.jsp;jsessionid=D9727FF31102B9AA4C4CF678AEB02B8E?first=true&u_id=10206194&c_id=10001043). But I'd describe where you live as Loughborough Junction. It's the nearest railway station, anyway :)
Dubversion
12-02-2007, 13:50
yeh, i'd describe it differently depending on who i was speaking to. anyone local / au fait with the area, i'd probably specify LJ.. otherwise, I'd count it as Brixton (depending how far down Coldharbour Lane it was)
actually, just re-read your post and i think you're in Camberwell
All good so far. For the last 5 or 6 years I've said LJ to people who know where it is, Brixton to those that don't, and Camberwell to my contents insurers and cab drivers.
Think of Brixton as a pineapple.
The area around the tube station is the tasty centre.
You're at the rough, spiky arse end.
xsunnysuex
12-02-2007, 14:00
I live in Loughborough Junction, and strangely any "official" letters I get say Stockwell. :rolleyes:
shakespearegirl
12-02-2007, 14:07
I live in LJ and all official letters I get are Herne Hill
Think of Brixton as a pineapple.
The area around the tube station is the tasty centre.
You're at the rough, spiky arse end.
And well suited to it too.
aurora green
13-02-2007, 09:18
I live in LJ with a SE postcode, bit further up mind, and I say Brixton or actually, Camberwell if I'm talking to cabbies.;)
I agree it's confusing, but I truely believe that one fine day Loughborough Junction will become a proper place once more....
*/hopeless optimist
Minnie_the_Minx
13-02-2007, 10:54
Think of Brixton as a peach
The area around the tube station is the coarse centre.
You're at the smooth, velvety end.
Talking about smooth, that just reminded me of something. I really don't know why. Oh, I do know (smooth, velvet --> bum cheeks --> bum --> arse --> tory).
Aaanyway ... when the papers discovered John Major's family had lived pretty much where you do (down Coldharbour Lane a bit towards Camberwell from L'borough Junction) they were very keen to call it "Brixton". So there you are.
You live close to where John Major lived, when he lived in Brixton.
Loughborough Junction is like a cucumber. Cool, sometimes a bit rough and nobbly, flowers beautifully for something with such an odd shape, and if you don't like it you can stick it up yer arse.
aurora green
13-02-2007, 15:15
Loughborough Junction is like a cucumber. Cool, sometimes a bit rough and nobbly, flowers beautifully for something with such an odd shape, and if you don't like it you can stick it up yer arse.
:D
Class.
I live in LJ with a SE postcode, bit further up mind, and I say Brixton or actually, Camberwell if I'm talking to cabbies.;)
I agree it's confusing, but I truely believe that one fine day Loughborough Junction will become a proper place once more....
*/hopeless optimist
Did you not move to Norwood in the end then, ag? :confused:
aurora green
13-02-2007, 15:40
Did you not move to Norwood in the end then, ag? :confused:
Ahh, well, in the end I couldn't bear to...
Plus I got in on this course, quite near to where I am now, and when I started to think properly about childcare logistics, it just didn't seem to make sense moving further away.
Plus when I complete the course, it may well open up lots of oppertunities in my life that previously haven't existed. Life seems more fluid, so I'm not so concerned about being stuck here.
I was always in two minds anyway. I was having a problem moving to 081 land, ;) and I do seriously love Brixton, and my estate.
Thanks for asking.:)
Is Loughborough Junction separate from Brixton and Camberwell, or part of one of them? I'm in Lambeth, a hundred yards west of Denmark Road, which forms the boundary of Southwark and Lambeth, but although I have an SE postcode my flat's lease is owned by Lambeth council and I pay them for council tax etc.
Or is it just that neither Brixton nor Camberwell want us to be a part of them?
Estate agents call it Camberwell, but presumably because they think it sounds more expensive.
you live in peckham
Mrs Magpie
13-02-2007, 19:19
Camberwell if I'm talking to cabbies.;) I always used to say "Small town just off the A23" to cabbies.
Perhaps you live in Ruskin Village? :D
That's not bad. How about Elam Fields?
Aaanyway ... when the papers discovered John Major's family had lived pretty much where you do (down Coldharbour Lane a bit towards Camberwell from L'borough Junction) they were very keen to call it "Brixton". So there you are.
You live close to where John Major lived, when he lived in Brixton.
I read somewhere he lived on Burton Road too. One of the posh looking roads off Myatts Field.
From http://www.brixtonsociety.org.uk/trailfour.htm
"John Major (Prime Minister 1990-97) first became involved in politics while living with his parents on the ground floor of No.80 Burton Road in 1959, though he had moved to nearby Templar Street by the time of his election to Lambeth Council in 1968."
Is Loughborough Junction separate from Brixton and Camberwell, or part of one of them? I'm in Lambeth, a hundred yards west of Denmark Road, which forms the boundary of Southwark and Lambeth, but although I have an SE postcode my flat's lease is owned by Lambeth council and I pay them for council tax etc.
Or is it just that neither Brixton nor Camberwell want us to be a part of them?
Estate agents call it Camberwell, but presumably because they think it sounds more expensive.
I'd say that you're in the same position as me - I live on Paulet Road, SE5 which is just off Denmark Road and just about the last whole road in Lambeth (the borough boundary runs down the centre of Denmark Road). I say that I live in Camberwell as that is where is relate to for going out, catching the bus, shopping etc. Lambeth however have other ideas saying I live in North Brixton.
The Camberwell area does suffer from this division between local authorities - if you count SE5 as a whole 25% is in Lambeth, 75% in Southwark. It also spans three or four parliamentary seats.
Recently an organisation called the SE5 Forum has been set up to try and give the area a voice - further information is on the SE5 Forum website www.se5forum.org
Does anyone else share my irritation when people who blatantly live in Brixton claim that they live in Clapham?
Slow Hands
29-03-2007, 17:41
Clapham is like a weed and if you believe what homeowners or estate agents say then it extends well into Balham, Battersea, Stockwell...
I can't help but think of LJ as Loog-borough Junction after a girl on the train told her mate on the phone that was where she was as we stopped at the station last month.
shakespearegirl
29-03-2007, 19:48
When I first moved to LJ I told my gran (in Australia) that I lived in Loughborough Junction to disguise the fact that I had moved to what I viewed as Brixton as I knew she would freak out if she thought I had moved to Brixton.
About a year later during a phone call she came out with 'you've moved to Brixton haven't you'. Still puzzles me how she found this out as no one in my family would have told her, she has never been to London and she doesn't do things like the internet.
PacificOcean
30-03-2007, 08:38
There is no such area as Loughborough Junction. It's just the name of the train station (which started life as Loughborough Road station)
Much like Crystal Palace doesn't exist except in train station form (it's either Upper Norwood/Upper Sydenham or Anerley).
aurora green
30-03-2007, 08:42
There is no such area as Loughborough Junction. It's just the name of the train station (which started life as Loughborough Road station)
...so where exactly would you say that the people who live right next to or near Loughborough junction, live then?
PacificOcean
30-03-2007, 09:35
...so where exactly would you say that the people who live right next to or near Loughborough junction, live then?
Brixton.
I live around LJ but I'm in SE5... I can't really say I live in Brixton, although I spend a lot more time there than Camberwell.
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