View Full Version : Brixton Road closed off
Lazy Llama
16-03-2004, 08:15
My wife just phoned (Tuesday 9am) to say that the central Brixton section of Brixton Road is closed and taped off by the police , blocking Tube and bus access.
Anyone know what went/is going on?
They've spotted a yuppie?
We live on the the High St. They won't tell us whats going on outside of "an incident" But have told us to stay inside and away from the windows. It's very eeiry out there, the whole road is totally deserted.
There are hordes of people walking the zig-zag from Fernadale Road to Arce Lane. And I've enjoyed a pleasant walk up to Stockwell. The Marquess of Lorne! What a great looking pub!
Orang Utan
16-03-2004, 09:24
It was a bomb scare at the tube station. A suspicious package was found. It's over now.
There were a couple of angry people behind Morley's who returned to their cars to find they'd been ticketed despite the fact that they hadn't been able to get back to their cars - those Lambeth traffic wardens are nothing if not keen!
what a mission! just got to work after a long walk to stockwell, 'suspicious package' the pigs are saying...
what a mission! just got to work after a long walk to stockwell, 'suspicious package' the pigs are saying...
Well it's happened before. Better safe than sorry.
Paul Marsh
16-03-2004, 09:46
- those Lambeth traffic wardens are nothing if not keen!
It is (quite literally) an evangelical zeal!
yeh i quite agree... think we're gonna be seeing more and more of this in the near future too as people become more paranoid...
Orang Utan
16-03-2004, 09:55
It is (quite literally) an evangelical zeal!
I live in Trinity Gardens, and once came back from Tesco's to find a warden cowering behind the bin store on the edge of Daisy Dormer Court. I could see that he was waiting to pounce as soon as a hapless driver left his car. Needless to say, I walked past him and alerted the driver, who then bought a parking ticket. The warden looked crestfallen, poor fella.
IntoStella
16-03-2004, 10:01
I learned the hard way to trust my instincts and not follow the herd. I was so annoyed with myself. Someone told me she knew the quickest way to Stockwell station and I believed she probably knew better than me, but then she veered off up trinity gdns from acre lane, along with loads of other people.
This can't possibly be right, I thought, but then I thought that maybe there was a footpath or something that my explorarons hadn't uncovered.
But of course you couldn't get through. There is no shortcut and the road comes out directly opposite the fucking tube station :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:.
To add insult to injury, on the way back round Trinity gardens I told a trio of morons that they couldn't get through that way and one stupid cow laughed at me in that way that people do when their age and IQ add up to less than 30.
So then I went to Clapham North, where I found Aitch, so it wasn't all bad. :D
Then I had to take a circuitous route to Hammersmith via Leicester Square, but I got there in the end.
To whoever left their bag or whatever it was at the station: <SLAP!>
Minnie_the_Minx
16-03-2004, 10:13
well I heard it was a bomb scare. Some twat probably left some unattended luggage. I've only just got into work. Took me 2 hours on 159 bus that took a detour round Clapham Common and Stockwell.
Was unfortunately stuck on left hand side of the bus with sun blasting on my face one side and a girl falling asleep on my shoulder the other :mad:
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Minnie_the_Minx
16-03-2004, 10:18
http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/travel/jamcams/cctv/544506.jpg
Should have just stuck around and done some shopping if Brixton is so empty :D
My 40 minute journey to work took 2 1/4 hours :mad: should have stayed in bed...
:rolleyes:
I learned the hard way to trust my instincts and not follow the herd. I was so annoyed with myself. Someone told me she knew the quickest way to Stockwell station and I believed she probably knew better than me, but then she veered off up trinity gdns from acre lane, along with loads of other people.
This can't possibly be right, I thought, but then I thought that maybe there was a footpath or something that my explorarons hadn't uncovered.
But of course you couldn't get through. There is no shortcut and the road comes out directly opposite the fucking tube station :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:.
You can keep on going -- round the zig zag -- and you come out at Ferndale Road. It's 20 mins walk from Trinity Gardens to Stockwell tube. That's something I didn't know this time yesterday.
Of course if your really brave and anti-social you try and do it in a articulated lorry. At least one person did.
My 40 minute journey to work took 2 1/4 hours :mad: should have stayed in bed...
:rolleyes:
I did. Overslept & am going in this afternoon. :)
Coming home last night, the train did its normal of stopping just outside Brixton, waiting for the northbound to leave the platform. Over the tannoy came an explanation that we were waiting here for the train to leave the platform & would hear a loud rumble as it passed.
Never had it explained before.
Passengers are on edge. The sudden panic on people's faces when the train breaks hard!
I was always glad to get off the tube but never more than now.
Minnie_the_Minx
16-03-2004, 11:12
Passengers are on edge. The sudden panic on people's faces when the train breaks hard!
While waiting at a packed bus stop on Brixton Hill this morning, some Aussie girl at the top of her voice got on her mobile phone to explain to someone she was going to be late because of a bomb scare in Brixton. Most people didn't know at that stage what was happening. She made sure she let everyone know :rolleyes:
Mr Retro
16-03-2004, 11:18
My 40 minute journey to work took 2 1/4 hours :mad: should have stayed in bed...
:rolleyes:
How? If you can't get in to Brixton, walk to Stockwell and get the victoria line from there.
My 20 minute journey took me 35mins.
IntoStella
16-03-2004, 11:19
You can keep on going -- round the zig zag -- and you come out at Ferndale Road. It's 20 mins walk from Trinity Gardens to Stockwell tube. That's something I didn't know this time yesterday.
Of course if your really brave and anti-social you try and do it in a articulated lorry. At least one person did.Aha! But apparently you couldn't get through that way either. The plod I spoke to told me you could get through on the other side of Atlantic Rd but he was lying, the naughty man. There was no access between Ferndale and Stockwell roads, according to Aitch.
lang rabbie
16-03-2004, 11:23
Of course if your really brave and anti-social you try and do it in a articulated lorry. At least one person did.
I can't believe it's possible to get an artic around the corner of Tunstall Rd and Shannon Grove ??? :eek:
'I did. Overslept & am going in this afternoon. :)'
I hate you with a passion & intensity you will never understand.
:)
There are hordes of people walking the zig-zag from Fernadale Road to Arce Lane. And I've enjoyed a pleasant walk up to Stockwell. The Marquess of Lorne! What a great looking pub!
Isn't that pub just lovely looking. All that tiling and the inside completely preserved. Beautiful.
Assuming it wasn't locked off (big assumtion), I would have crossed the road by the tube, gone down Tunstall, thru the gate that leads onto the mansion blocks on Ferndale, out onto Ferndale, footbridge, Landor, Clapham North.
Or something, or nothing. :)
'I did. Overslept & am going in this afternoon. :)'
I hate you with a passion & intensity you will never understand.
:)
It's nice to know someone cares. ;)
Just leaving now, should have time for a pint on the way. :)
How? If you can't get in to Brixton, walk to Stockwell and get the victoria line from there.
My 20 minute journey took me 35mins.You know my usual route to work? :confused:
You're right, I could've saved time with a bit of a walk, and I might have done so had I realised how fucking ridiculous the bus diversion through Clapham was going to be.
:rolleyes: @ self
:mad: @ twats leaving bags lying around
:)
Edit: MrSki, have one for me too, I'll be thinking of you ;)
Minnie_the_Minx
16-03-2004, 11:50
Isn't that pub just lovely looking. All that tiling and the inside completely preserved. Beautiful.
Assuming it wasn't locked off (big assumtion), I would have crossed the road by the tube, gone down Tunstall, thru the gate that leads onto the mansion blocks on Ferndale, out onto Ferndale, footbridge, Landor, Clapham North.
Or something, or nothing. :)
they closed Brixton off from McDonalds up to railway bridge area/Marks & Spencer
I can't believe it's possible to get an artic around the corner of Tunstall Rd and Shannon Grove ??? :eek:
When I saw it it was heading south, going under the railway bridge on Nursery Road. Much as I was tempted to follow it's progress, and that of the queue of traffic behind it, I was heading Stockwell-wards. It's probably still there. :rolleyes:
IS: They were taping roads off as I was going past, so maybe I was the Last Man Out Of Brixton.
At least I got to see bits of Stockwell I didn't know. As well as the Marquis of Lorne there's another Beehive. Incredible. Was Brixton the honey centre of Surrey?
As it were.
Isn't that pub just lovely looking. All that tiling and the inside completely preserved. Beautiful.
It brightened up an unpromising morning. That and the huge lorry trying to get round the back of the high street.
Assuming it wasn't locked off (big assumtion), I would have crossed the road by the tube, gone down Tunstall, thru the gate that leads onto the mansion blocks on Ferndale, out onto Ferndale, footbridge, Landor, Clapham North.
Or something, or nothing. :)
Yeah, but, Clapham North, bad vibe. Busy trains; bad-tempered Claphamites. I'm not keen and as I'm an old Stockwell boy I popped up to me old manor like.
They've started building something on the big site between the Grantham Surgery and the estate. I couldn't make out what. And there was a great old Victorian hall on that route too. A big gloomy red brick pile looking sad and underused.
Orang Utan
16-03-2004, 12:02
It was weird when they took the tape down. One second, eery quiet; the next, a bustle of people - it was if it was a film set and a director had yelled 'action!'
"And there was a great old Victorian hall on that route too. A big gloomy red brick pile looking sad and underused".
Where's that then? I remember the derelict brewery opposite "Comedy House" on Stockwell Road, now replaced with a large posh hutch full of people who complain about "Comedy House". LOL.
Isn't that pub just lovely looking. All that tiling and the inside completely preserved. Beautiful.
It's a top pub completely without attitude. Had some great nights in there getting beaten at pool while shit faced.
(sometimes get free food when the footy's on though the landlord still seems to maintain his image of miserable sod even when he's being nice :) )
lang rabbie
16-03-2004, 12:58
They've started building something on the big site between the Grantham Surgery and the estate. I couldn't make out what.
Planning permission was granted by the Planning Applications Committee on
27th May 2003 to Metropolitan Housing Trust for redevelopment of the site including erection of a part 4, part 5, part 7 storey building comprising sheltered housing (for the frail and elderly) flats with 1 caretakers flat, 46 private flats and 200 square metres of retail/office space, erection of a single storey summer house in the yard fronting Grantham Road, a garage fronting Lingham Street and provision of 6 parking spaces fronting Lingham Street.
And there was a great old Victorian hall on that route too. A big gloomy red brick pile looking sad and underused.
That doesn't ring bells?
St Andrew's Church - Landor Road/Lingham Street/Stockwell Green - Victorian front with round windows covering up a Georgian chapel
Back of the YMCA - six storey butterfly plan (ie. diagonal wings on corners) think they are looking for a heritage grant to do it up?
Anna Key
16-03-2004, 13:48
a large posh hutch full of people who complain about "Comedy House". LOL.
<Double LOL>
It was weird when they took the tape down. One second, eery quiet; the next, a bustle of people - it was if it was a film set and a director had yelled 'action!'
I thought exactly the same.
First the people then a Eurostar or two, then two police cars slowly guiding a procession of traffic down the road like a ribon and within mins, it was as if nothing had happened.
:D
Good to see you too Intostella :)
Mrs Redboots
16-03-2004, 17:40
There were a couple of angry people behind Morley's who returned to their cars to find they'd been ticketed despite the fact that they hadn't been able to get back to their cars - those Lambeth traffic wardens are nothing if not keen!Tell me about it.... we got a ticket on a Sunday once :mad: I didn't think one could.....
Glad I was going in from Streatham today so missed all the fuss.
That doesn't ring bells?
St Andrew's Church - Landor Road/Lingham Street/Stockwell Green - Victorian front with round windows covering up a Georgian chapel
It's called the Hammerton Memorial Hall. It's probably the church hall. Battered old sign over the door claims it's the headquarters of the 1st Stockwell Girl Guides and Brownies.
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