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sir.clip said:
I really tire of outter townies claiming to know stuff & they dont know jack sh*t about the history or boundaries of areas... SW2 is streatham... .
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SW2 is officially the London distinct postcode for 'Brixton Hill Sorting Office', located in Blenheim Gardens, off Brixton Hill.

However, this is often abbreviated to Brixton, and therefore a common but erroneous assumption has emerged that this is the postcode for Brixton. In fact the centre of what people think of as Brixton town straddles the boundary between SW2 and SW9, which the post office considers to be Stockwell.

The SW2 postcode area also includes the whole of Streatham Hill and much of Tulse Hill.

The boundary between SW2 and SW9 is fairly arbitrary, even plain wrong to anyone who knows the area. To the west of the town centre, the boundary runs north of the Clapham–Camberwell axis; to the east, it runs south of it. To add to the confusion, parts of SW4 east of Bedford Road — technically Clapham — have quite a Brixton feel to them, and are regarded as Brixton by a majority of local residents.

SW2 contains Brixton Prison and the Ritzy cinema, while it transpires that Brixton's stations, its famous street markets, the Brixton Academy music venue and even Brixton's main retail post office are actually (according to their postcode) in Stockwell.

A further source of confusion has been that the the job centre in SW2 (now located in Josephine Avenue) is called Brixton South. This name was used even when the service operated from a building opposite Streatham Hill railway station at the southern end of the postal district.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_SW2
 
Orang Utan said:
Nonsense - I live in Trinity Gardens and that's in SW9 - Morley's is in SW9 - are you saying that it's in Stockwell?
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Those are the Royal Mail categories. Actually I think Trinity Gardens is in Brixton as well as Elm Park - but who am I to argue with Her Maj??? :D
 
sir.clip said:
I may be an arse but the elm park tavern still remains in streatham...
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it's amazing all my post got to me for all those years then. Maybe it's cos the Brixton sorting office was just over the road, and they knew they were in Streatham as well.

twat
 
sir.clip said:
Exactly...


I really tire of outter townies claiming to know stuff & they dont know jack sh*t about the history or boundaries of areas... SW2 is streatham...
eLm park is streatham... elm park kids back in my day all smelt & The elm park crew where weeds from streatham & got bashed up all the time by the dick shepard boys & dick shepard was actually in brixton...... standard Knowledge...
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Dick Shepherd Boys was in SW2, so by your reckoning - Streatham - you seem a bit confused! As is the far end of Acre Lane, all of Tulse Hill, Brixton Water Lane and St Matthew's Road....
 
Dubversion said:
it's amazing all my post got to me for all those years then. Maybe it's cos the Brixton sorting office was just over the road, and they knew they were in Streatham as well.

twat
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Elm Park Tavern, 76 Elm Park, Streatham SW2 2UB.........

Did you live in the elm park tavern. dubversion..?
Did you d.j there too ?

A letter could say absolutly anything really as long as it has a door number,
And the most crucial POSTCODE... its going to arrive.. Try it.. You could
claim you live in the london area known as BOMBAY... all the lads in the sorting office would think it a little strange But as long as the post code is on it you should get your mail.....
 
grow up, sir clip

you've already had to apologise on one thread for acting like a twat, are you going to have to do it again?
 
gaijingirl said:
Dick Shepherd Boys was in SW2, so by your reckoning - Streatham - you seem a bit confused! As is the far end of Acre Lane, all of Tulse Hill, Brixton Water Lane and St Matthew's Road....
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I aint got an arguement about dick sheppard....

This thread is about The elm park tavern in streatham......

And yes I aint to admit I'm confused.... whats up with that..?
 
sir.clip said:
I aint got an arguement about dick sheppard....

This thread is about The elm park tavern in streatham......

And yes I aint to admit I'm confused.... whats up with that..?
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But while being confused, you feel confident in telling other people they're wrong (in a fairly wanky manner). Can you not see any inconsistencies in that? :D
 
If there are any grounds for discussion at all, it would be whether Elm Park is Tulse Hill or Brixton, imo. But since it is North of the S Circular, it really can't be Streatham!

You can't determine the borders of 'real' places like Brixton or Streatham by the borders arbitarily imposed for administrative convenience by the Royal Mail! And some places aren't even contained within the same borough - look at Herne Hill!
 
Calm the fuck down!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:rolleyes:

Surely postcodes were made up waaaaay after traditional bounderies were established anyway!
 
Dubversion said:
grow up, sir clip

you've already had to apologise on one thread for acting like a twat, are you going to have to do it again?
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You will never bate me into trading insults dubversion.. If i apologise for anything its because I am not affraid to agree to disagree...
I apologise to you for irratating you over such trivial issues concerning the placement of where a pub decides to locate itself... If you look & ask the pub their address they might tell you its streatham..

Local people like to say Brixton as that claim can put an extra 10 grand on the asking price of a property...
 
tastebud said:
they don't count :( alas.

anyway, whilst i jest, it's definitely closer to st. reatham than the brix.
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Well I've lived in Elm Park since 1985 and it's most definitely Brixton

















the nicer end ;)
 
Onket said:
Surely postcodes were made up waaaaay after traditional bounderies were established anyway!
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That is a intresting topic.... I'd like to know the truth in that...
Alot of it comes down to local people & especially the post office workers who sort the mail & decide how far to walk before saying its the next mans delivery area...
 
sir.clip said:
I aint got an arguement about dick sheppard....

This thread is about The elm park tavern in streatham......

And yes I aint to admit I'm confused.... whats up with that..?
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Nothing wrong with being confused... you've confused me too. :D As a self-proclaimed old timer you say that everywhere in SW2 is Streatham, but that it's common local knowledge that the Dick Shepherd School (SW2) was in Brixton. So which statement is true?
 
Londoners and their weird obsessions with boundaries :D
Bizarre.

Anyway - EPT - top pub - I lived down the road from it for a couple of years. It made me very happy.
 
gaijingirl said:
Nothing wrong with being confused... you've confused me too. :D As a self-proclaimed old timer you say that everywhere in SW2 is Streatham, but that it's common local knowledge that the Dick Shepherd School (SW2) was in Brixton. So which statement is true?
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Hate to say it, but Dick Shepherd was in Tulse Hill as far as I was concerned...
 
sir.clip said:
That is a intresting topic.... I'd like to know the truth in that...
Alot of it comes down to local people & especially the post office workers who sort the mail & decide how far to walk before saying its the next mans delivery area...
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Could have been a local input but I'd guess that the final word came centrally from within Royal Mail somewhere. And they've been changed since they started too haven't they?
 
editor said:
I believe the case for SW9 being the real Brixton has been proven. We've got the tube, the railway, the market, the arcades, the main shops, Morleys, the Albert, the Phoenix and the police station and that's good enough for me.

Now I've got to get back to work.
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:rolleyes:

here we go again. We've got the bus garage, the old tram garage, the dole office, the Town Hall, the college, protected Rush Common, the River the Prison...

I'm not getting into this, I'll let Twisted take over ;) :D
 
tarannau said:
Hate to say it, but Dick Shepherd was in Tulse Hill as far as I was concerned...
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Gosh.. so you say it's in Tulse Hill, Sir Clip says it's in Brixton even though it's SW2 which he considers to be Streatham. I reckon it's Brixton (for me Tulse Hill starts where Upper Tulse Hill meets Tulse Hill)... just goes to show how arbitrary the whole thing is and who cares anyway... :D
 
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