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Brixton Hill- what is it like?

See this cafe on the hill - I'm ashamed to say it has been one of my closest cafes for years now and I've not been. I have a bunch of people staying tonight and can't be arsed to do breakfast for them tomorrow morning, so might give it a go - is it open on Saturdays and is it any good for veggies (actually only one veggie - me and I don't really like breakfast anyway, and one pescatarian - who does)?
 
Brixton Hill is brilliant. The Lambeth Savings and Credit Union is at 244b Brixton Hill. :)

If anyone reading this wants to help pull the rug under the predatory loan sharks and credit-card companies that are growing fat off the backs of the poor and desperate, one safe way of doing it is to deposit the odd grand in your local Credit Union. It will likely be lent out in tiny amounts, in sums far too small to be of interest by regular banks, to folks who really, badly need the odd hundred quid or so (and a mentor to help them manage).

Seriously, if you can afford to do it, opening a credit union account and running it in generous credit is something that will really help bootstrap your local community. It'll cost you nothing (just a little lost interest as Credit Unions don't pay as much interest as you may get elsewhere). Credit Unions are mutual organisations, controlled by their depositors. They are regulated by the FSA and your money is as safe as in any other type of bank.

While you think about it, please bookmark the Lambeth Savings and Credit Union website.

Disclaimer: Yes, I'm a member!
 
ianw said:
Might be nicer to go to Negril. They do a good veggie breakfast - it's just a few quid more expensive.
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Ok.. might try that so... thanks! :) Haven't been up there since a shocking experience at the former Basement Jos... :(
 
Judging by these photos:

http://www.urban75.org/offline/offline-albert-mar07-2.html

I'd say Brixton is a predominantly white middle class area, where ethnic diversity is virtually unheard of.

The typical resident is a haemorrhoidal white middle-aged, middle income earner who has embarked on a quest to find his second youth. This involves flailing oneself around in a throng of other whites (see winner in the orange t-shirt).

Most Brixton residents are, however, immigrants. They came from places such as Hampshire, Wales, Devon and of course Surrey.
 
gaijingirl said:
Ok.. might try that so... thanks! :) Haven't been up there since a shocking experience at the former Basement Jos... :(
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It's leagues better than Basement Jos, which was shocking. Nice food, good service...a little pricey, as I say, but it's worth the treat.
 
Kenny Vermouth said:
Most Brixton residents are, however, immigrants. They came from places such as Hampshire, Wales, Devon and of course Surrey.
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Brixton is part of historical Surrey, which originally meant "south of the river".

Surrey, 1646

Surrey County Cricket Club is still based at the Oval, just up the road.
 
vinnie111 said:
i would like to watch the mcintyre investigates episode where he goes to brixton, can anyone help?:D
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I don't have a link to the programme (maybe try bit-torrents opr p2p) but I did find fairly accurate summary of the programme on the Crystal Palace FC forum:
Did anybody else see the above on BBC 1 tonight?

The show, fronted by investigative reporter Donal MacIntyre, concerned street crime in the UK. It decided to pitch on the Brixton area, where levels of street crime are extremely high. MacIntyre, his production crew, minders, huge surveillance team and fleet of brand new vehicles (now you know how the Licence Fee is spent) decided to use the following sequence of events:

Day One:

1) MacIntyre spends hours in make-up to disguise himself only to come out with a ludicrous false beard on.

2) MacIntyre buys expensive laptop PC and Nokia mobile telephone with state of the art tracking systems built in, for muggers to steal from him

3) MacIntyre walks round Brixton for four hours and doesn't get mugged.

4) MacIntyre goes home


Day 2:

5) MacIntyre spends hours in make-up and comes out looking like Donal MacIntyre with a new and equally ludicrous false goatee beard.

6) MacIntyre walks round Brixton for four hours and doesn't get mugged.

7) MacIntyre goes home.

Day 3:

8) MacIntyre goes straight to Brixton with no false beard.

9) MacIntyre walks round Brixton for four hours and doesn't get mugged.

10) In desperation MacIntyre approaches a group of potential muggers and asks them the way to Stockwell Tube Station(as you do) holding an expensive mobile phone in his outstretched hand.

11) Surprisingly, muggers grab phone and run off.

12) MacIntyre walks after them shouting, "give me my phone back". Muggers fail to respond.

13) MacIntyre finds youth who says that he will get his phone back for him for 10 quid, if MacIntyre accompanies him to a dimly lit council estate.

14) MacIntyre goes with youth. Youth tells him to wait there while he goes and finds phone.

15) Youth comes back and says he wants more money to get the phone back, MacIntyre gives him £40.

16) Youth goes off, comes back, phoneless, pulls out a seven inch knife and demands MacIntyre's laptop. MacIntyre hands it over and runs off crying.

17) Mobile phone tracking system leads BBC to a teacher from Ghana who has bought the Nokia, but doesn't have it anymore, because he's given it to a man in Ghana.

18) BBC fly out man to Accra to go and get the phone back.

19) Man comes back with phone and nothing else happens regarding it.

20) MacIntyre and crew drive back to Brixton, find youth that stole his laptop, MacIntyre confronts youth, youth runs off into the night. MacIntyre and crew almost lose their cameras to a street gang of muggers, they drive off at speed, no arrests made, end of show.

Did I miss the point of the programme?
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from here: http://forums.cpfc.org/showthread/t-21785.html

On reflection, I've now realised the key main points that the programme was trying to make:

1) You can actually walk round the most risky parts of Brixton for nights on end carrying expensive phones and computers in full view of the public and NOT get mugged.

2) If you walk up to groups of young men late at night and hand them your mobile phone, you are likely to have it pinched.

3) Afterwards, if you shout, "COME BACKKKKKKK," they won't.

4) If you willingly go off with a strange young man you find lurking by a shop doorway in Brixton in the middle of the night and keep mentioning, "MY LAP TOP, MY LAP...TOP.." he may well try and steal it from you.

5) Muggers carry knives.

6) If you envoke entrapment or agent provocateur tactics to cause a crime, you can't expect to bring the offender to court afterwards.

7) Brixton isn't that dangerous a place after all!

8) Stolen goods get fenced.

9) Air Travel is expensive.

10) The Licence Fee payer is a mug.
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gaijingirl said:
See this cafe on the hill - I'm ashamed to say it has been one of my closest cafes for years now and I've not been. I have a bunch of people staying tonight and can't be arsed to do breakfast for them tomorrow morning, so might give it a go - is it open on Saturdays and is it any good for veggies (actually only one veggie - me and I don't really like breakfast anyway, and one pescatarian - who does)?
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Yes they are open Saturday mornings and always have veggie sausages and veggie quiche on the go plus omelettes etc. Negril does a better breakfast but it's about twice the price. Where COTH comes into its own is that you can walk in and have a choice of breakfast, lunch and Thai food. At £3.80 the Tahi stuff is really authentic and much better and cheaper than any local Chinese takeaway. At the end of the day it's cheap and cheerful and that's the way I like my cafes.
I like Negril too but never go there when COTH is open.
 
I remember watching that McIntyre thing, it was on about 4 or 5 years ago.
IIRC I got mugged on one of those Estates behind Jamm on Loughborough Road or one of the Roads round there.
 
Minnie_the_Minx said:
I heard that there's a possibility of a new supermarket in those vacant lots under Alexander Dumas house :eek:
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A Sainsbury's local has just opened up about there. At least I saw it for the first time a couple of weeks ago.
 
I've wandered past it loads and checked several times but... is anyone else able to confirm that there's a barber's shop at the top of Brixton Hill that doubles up as a driving school?
 
huxley71 said:
I've wandered past it loads and checked several times but... is anyone else able to confirm that there's a barber's shop at the top of Brixton Hill that doubles up as a driving school?
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By the bus stop as you come down the hill towards Brixton..??

Yes it does double a driving school. Or the driving school share the premises with the barbers shop.
 
Andy the Don said:
By the bus stop as you come down the hill towards Brixton..??

Yes it does double a driving school. Or the driving school share the premises with the barbers shop.
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there's barbers galore on Brixton Hill. That particular one is a black barbers as are most of them on the Hill. A bit further up is Andy's (I think it's called) which does Western hair
 
Minnie_the_Minx said:
there's barbers galore on Brixton Hill. That particular one is a black barbers as are most of them on the Hill. A bit further up is Andy's (I think it's called) which does Western hair
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OK, but if I'm in such a hurry that I need my hair braided whilst simultaneously having a driving lesson, I should go for 'Barbers Galore'?
 
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