Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
editor
ignore me then. Just 'cos I'm from the posh (SW2) end of Brixton
ignore me then. Just 'cos I'm from the posh (SW2) end of Brixton
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editor
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if you had
Err, there's four sets already online, taken in and around Brixton Hill! (Blenheim Gdns, Lambert Road, Telegraph and White Horse )Originally posted by Minnie_the_Minx
Have you not got any SW2 pictures. Most of your pictures are central Brixton. Can we have some Brixton Hill piccies please
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
not nearly enough
Brixton Hill covers a wide area you know
and I don't want pictures of that poncy posey White Horse which used to be my local before being overtaken and turned into a bar
Brixton Hill covers a wide area you know
and I don't want pictures of that poncy posey White Horse which used to be my local before being overtaken and turned into a bar
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Oi editor
don't get narky.
I already nicked one from Corbis the other day and put it on this thread, the one of the zebra in Brixton
Expect me to do ALL your work
don't get narky.
I already nicked one from Corbis the other day and put it on this thread, the one of the zebra in Brixton
Expect me to do ALL your work
editor
hiraethified
Oi editor
But I could use help sourcing images: taking each 'then and now' can take ages: I've got to find a good starting image, make sure that it's still possible to retake it from the same angle (and finding that is a monster job in itself!) and then research the thing.
Add to that the vagaries of bad weather, sun glare, 'chood filled yoot, inquisitive drunks, purloiners and the relentless thunder of traffic positioned where the camera should be and you'll understand that these shots are mo'fo's to take!
Much as I'd love to help myself to Corbis' lush collection of vintage shots, they're more than a tad litigious when to comes to copyright.
But I could use help sourcing images: taking each 'then and now' can take ages: I've got to find a good starting image, make sure that it's still possible to retake it from the same angle (and finding that is a monster job in itself!) and then research the thing.
Add to that the vagaries of bad weather, sun glare, 'chood filled yoot, inquisitive drunks, purloiners and the relentless thunder of traffic positioned where the camera should be and you'll understand that these shots are mo'fo's to take!
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
editor
Only joking! However, my boss is off tomorrow so if you tell me WHERE to look and I'll see if I can find anything. Might help cure my boredom and stop me annoying everyone here
Mind you, my boss might decide to stay 'til midnight tonight and leave me tonnes of work again
Only joking! However, my boss is off tomorrow so if you tell me WHERE to look and I'll see if I can find anything. Might help cure my boredom and stop me annoying everyone here
Mind you, my boss might decide to stay 'til midnight tonight and leave me tonnes of work again
There's still a funeral directors in the area too, situated to the the right, just out of picture (the window display used to feature the morbid juxtaposition of a digital display ticking away the seconds, flanked by two headstones).
I'm pleased to report that the replacement clock, a kind of Argus plasticiced cheap wood mantle-clock affair, is running half an hour slow............
I'm pleased to report that the replacement clock, a kind of Argus plasticiced cheap wood mantle-clock affair, is running half an hour slow............
pk
drink flounce rinse repeat
Top work Editor... I studied all 70 or so last night before going to sleep, and subsequently dreamt happily of days of yore.
Glad they're bringing back the tram.
The war account from the Streatham resident hit it home... how terrible it must have been to have lived through the Blitz.
Horrible.
http://www.lowerstreatham.org.uk/arc/geb/geb.html
Glad they're bringing back the tram.
The war account from the Streatham resident hit it home... how terrible it must have been to have lived through the Blitz.
Horrible.
http://www.lowerstreatham.org.uk/arc/geb/geb.html
corporate whore
oh, thought you were dead
Chilling reading there, pk
Think I'm right in that Streatham took a disproportionate amount of bombing due to its height (relevant to the rest of South London) and because it was the first placce many bombers saw when approaching from the south.
Indeed how horrible it must have been.
Think I'm right in that Streatham took a disproportionate amount of bombing due to its height (relevant to the rest of South London) and because it was the first placce many bombers saw when approaching from the south.
Indeed how horrible it must have been.
pk
drink flounce rinse repeat
This seems logical, in terms of airbourne raids.
In the 1940's there wouldn't have been the proliferation of housing estates between Croydon and Streatham as there is now, the merest slip that is Thornton Heath probably wouldn't have been spotted at night, so yeah, it would have been the first thing one would have seen after dropping down after Croydon - as you say, the hill would have given away the church steeples.
It just seems unimaginable.
I guess you forget how bad the southern suburbs got it, as well as the East End...
editor
hiraethified
Wandering a tad off topic, Cardiff got a fair hammering during the war, and my grandparent's house took a direct hit - but the bomb failed to explode!
It's all too easy to forget how people must have suffered then... (and - sadly- how many millions around the world are still suffering through conflict).
hendo
Fish finger sandwiches
I agree with what the editor said (always a safe policy when posting here ) but I have a feeling last orders have been called on the TGDAG.
I'd like to know how the much trumpeted ASBOs will affect the Tate Gardens gatherings. These are being "rolled out" in some areas and I would imagine Lambeth wants to try them here; although I'd welcome anyone with better information telling us otherwise.
And if that area is indeed cleared of those people, who I Imagine stay in nearby hostels which have a dry policy, I'd like to know where they'll head. Brockwell Park?
What about the dealers and ASBOs? Are they even affected?
I am amazed the Ritzy Cinema management puts up with the Tate Gardens situation; it must be costing them business.
I'd like to know how the much trumpeted ASBOs will affect the Tate Gardens gatherings. These are being "rolled out" in some areas and I would imagine Lambeth wants to try them here; although I'd welcome anyone with better information telling us otherwise.
And if that area is indeed cleared of those people, who I Imagine stay in nearby hostels which have a dry policy, I'd like to know where they'll head. Brockwell Park?
What about the dealers and ASBOs? Are they even affected?
I am amazed the Ritzy Cinema management puts up with the Tate Gardens situation; it must be costing them business.
