The Chinese Store Co on Brixton Hill

[hendo]

Er? Come again?

It's got a reputation, this place. I'm sure I don't know how.

 

[maomao]

Just you fucking wait till we get an Edmonton forum!!!!

 

[IntoStella]

It's got a reputation, this place. I'm sure I don't know how.

It's that fantalulah putting people off again, isn't it?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Just you fucking wait till we get an Edmonton forum!!!!

Of course dear

 

[maomao]

Of course dear

Don't take the piss. Edmonton's getting gentrified too, someone with a job moved into my street just last week

 

[Mrs Magpie]

When you say a fair few are we talking about a dozen or hundreds? Because there are tens of thousands of Chinese students in the uk now and it's rare for a university to have less than triple figures.

I can check with my husband, he actually studied there at that time.....I reckon there were dozens, rather than hundreds...maybe 50? It wasn't a huge poly, I think languages was its speciality but it's really expanded now and got University status......

I've just realised that I'm in the Brixton forum, wouldn't noramally dare post here, please don't eat me alive

No, that only happens if you mention the g-word.......

 

[IntoStella]

No, that only happens if you mention the g-word.......

Gramsci?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I can check with my husband, he actually studied there at that time.....I reckon there were dozens, rather than hundreds...maybe 50? It wasn't a huge poly, I think languages was its speciality but it's really expanded now and got University status......

No, that only happens if you mention the g-word.......

Mrs_Magpie - maybe you can help with the OP. Do you know WHEN this shop was open?

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Sorry Minx, what is the OP? (rather dense today)

 

[lang rabbie]

There are probably about 25,000+ Chinese students in British Higher Education, according to this article . However, my impression is that they are largely at institutions outside London.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

D'oh, just clicked...op = original post
I don't remember it, but Janine lived on Brixton Hill in the 70s (she's in the US now I think) and remembers a lot of the shops there.....

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

D'oh, just clicked...op = original post
I don't remember it, but Janine lived on Brixton Hill in the 70s (she's in the US now I think) and remembers a lot of the shops there.....

Shall keep an eye out for her then. My friend who's mid-thirties was born on Broxton Hill and doesn't remember it but then if it was there when she was under 5, she probably wouldn't

 

[maomao]

There are probably about 25,000+ Chinese students in British Higher Education, according to this article . However, my impression is that they are largely at institutions outside London.

There are between 5 and 10 thousand Chinese students currently studying in London, not all at major universities. A large number are at language schools and private business schools, as well as an increasing number who are being sent here to study for a levels. The figure of 25,000 for the nation as a whole only accounts for those at universities who applied directly from mainland China.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Minx, try asking Alfie (Town Crier) when you next see him....as for Janine, she's a poster here, just PM her

 

[Errol's son]

Asians

Most of the time, you really should be able to tell if they are Chinese. Thais, Malays, even Vietnamese normally have a different look as they are south east Asians although obviously a few do look very Chinese and some Chinese end up looking Thai/Malay etc. I find Koreans and Japanese the hardest Asians to tell apart but one normally can tell by looking for telltale signs regarding clothes/lip sticks/mannerisms. There are a lot of Koreans in New Malden, however, I have not really noticed any other areas in south London where there is a huge concentration from a particular east Asian country.

There are Chinese and Filipinos everywhere these days but I don't see that many in Brixton - many more in Peckham and Streatham IMHO.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Minx, try asking Alfie (Town Crier) when you next see him....as for Janine, she's a poster here, just PM her

Don't know him, only to see, although I'm sure that many many many years ago my granddad spoke to him once but he's dead now

It's not that important that I'd start PMing someone, was just idly curious Will wait 'til I see Janine on here

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I find Koreans and Japanese the hardest Asians to tell apart but one normally can tell by looking for telltale signs regarding clothes/lip sticks/mannerisms. There are a lot of Koreans in New Malden, however, I have not really noticed any other areas in south London where there is a huge concentration from a particular east Asian country.

Filipinos have a totally different look I think, can't explain it though. Shape of the lips maybe?

The Koreans I know seem to have a tinge of American accent which is explained by Seppos presence there I assume

Thais are often more petite (generalisation maybe ) than Chinese

Malays - difficult one as there's Malays, Chinese Malaysians, Indian Malaysians etc.

Will get to Vietnam and Cambodia one day to see for myself

 

[Tank Girl]

So anyway. There must be a Chinese community somewhere on the No. 12 bus route. I'm not sure where that goes after Camberwell. Peckham?

yeah, it does go on to peckham, and there's a wing tai there too.

 

[Streathamite]

I thought you were talking about Gramsci, Red Jezza, Anna Key and me there for a minute.

forward with the Cultural Revolution! down with rightist gentrifying elements!
err...sorry, I'll stop trying such dismal stirring!

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Don't know him, only to see

That's enough for him.....he loves talking to nice young women, or even Minxes. Be warned, he always tells the Laydeez he's 89....Lies! He's 94 this year!
Seriously, ask him, he loves to reminisce about Bygone Brixton, although he loves the Up-To-The-Minute Brixton too......

 

[miss minnie]

i grew up in australia and lived in sydney's chinatown for quite a few years. being first generation austalian of european extraction i knew third generation australians of chinese extraction who were far more 'australian' than i am but i look more 'european' and therefore 'australian' than they do. i was usually referred to as 'aussie' whilst they were referred to as 'chinks' and 'gooks'.

there was a chinese restaurant in kennington called the 'dragon inn' (in the '80s) and the 'chinese' manager turned out to be as aussie as i. his mother was chinese and his facial features asian. my mother is scottish and some would say i have 'fair scottish skin'. yet, i am defined by my aussie accent while he is defined by the shape of his eyes.

trying to pigeon-hole people according to clothes, accents, passports, facial features, colour of skin, 'mannerisms' - what's the point?

 

[Errol's son]

Pigeon-holing?

i grew up in australia and lived in sydney's chinatown for quite a few years. being first generation austalian of european extraction i knew third generation australians of chinese extraction who were far more 'australian' than i am but i look more 'european' and therefore 'australian' than they do. i was usually referred to as 'aussie' whilst they were referred to as 'chinks' and 'gooks'.

there was a chinese restaurant in kennington called the 'dragon inn' (in the '80s) and the 'chinese' manager turned out to be as aussie as i. his mother was chinese and his facial features asian. my mother is scottish and some would say i have 'fair scottish skin'. yet, i am defined by my aussie accent while he is defined by the shape of his eyes.

trying to pigeon-hole people according to clothes, accents, passports, facial features, colour of skin, 'mannerisms' - what's the point?

Perhaps because it is interesting trying to work out where people are from? People are normally impressed if you can tell that they are Swiss instead of German, Japanese instead of Chinese or Congolese and not Nigerian. Of course one is not always right but showing interest and understanding of people's differing cultural backgrounds is a good way to build rapport. I find Nigerians in Peckham are a lot more understanding if I explain that "you shouldn't park there as you are not allowed - we are in London and not in Lagos now," compared to saying "you shouldn't park there we are not in Africa anymore."

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

That's enough for him.....he loves talking to nice young women, or even Minxes. Be warned, he always tells the Laydeez he's 89....Lies! He's 94 this year!
Seriously, ask him, he loves to reminisce about Bygone Brixton, although he loves the Up-To-The-Minute Brixton too......

I know he's 94, looking great isn't he? I posted up a picture of him a couple of years ago that I found. Hope I'm as fit as he is IF I ever reach that grand old age. Somehow I can't see it

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Well last night I talked to someone who moved to Brixton Hill in 1966 and he doesn't remember there being an Oriental Store. However, there was a Chinese laundry opposite the George Goblin

 

[Janine]

Well this is news to me. MACE has taken down its shop sign and revealed underneath you can see the faded printed sign of "The Chinese Store Co". I've NEVER heard of this. Was it a food shop, arts and crafts? Anyone any idea?

Must have been a rarity in London when it was there

Hey, I thought I heard my name! (Actually, I was doing a user search, and this thread popped up w. my name but no post by me, so I thought I'd investigate. )
Minnie, can you tell me whereabouts on Brixton Hill this shop is? I lived at 74B, above a 2nd hand furniture shope with an open front. The bakery was next door on the corner. If you can tell me where it is, I might be able to tell you what it was when I was there, in the late 70's.
Actually, newbie might be your man. He lived there then, and he lives there now.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Hey, I thought I heard my name! (Actually, I was doing a user search, and this thread popped up w. my name but no post by me, so I thought I'd investigate. )
Minnie, can you tell me whereabouts on Brixton Hill this shop is? I lived at 74B, above a 2nd hand furniture shope with an open front. The bakery was next door on the corner. If you can tell me where it is, I might be able to tell you what it was when I was there, in the late 70's.
Actually, newbie might be your man. He lived there then, and he lives there now.

Janine - the shop is (or just was) Mace which is next door to the Post Office. I think the Post Office might be Number 108

 

[Janine]

sorry, hun. I don't remember the shops in that area. ask newbie, or ask shippou to ask his 'rents. they have also lived in Brixton for a long time