Today, I went deep inside the Camberwell Submarine!
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Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
That's what they WANT you to think. It's actually a nuclear bunker for Lambeth Council / secret underground tube line extension / mind control experiment etc.
They've applied for planning permission to extend the chimneys by four meters (this is actually true.)
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
Not really. It's a great bit of Brixton IMO. 10 mins walk to the high street but really green and quiet. Myatts Field park round the corner. The Minet Library at the end of the road. Jamm a 2 mins stagger away. I love it here.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
it just doesn't 'feel' like brixton to me. it's feels odd, probably onlu cos i rarely set foot in that part. is it even brixton? isn't it camberwell? or is it neither? that's why i find it odd. the street arrangements are odd too. easy to get lost - lots of streets that go nowhere.
wtfftw
roof's about to blow ♩♪♩♬ ♬♩♪♩
*likes* aww. I miss it.
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
I know what you mean. I thought it was a bit of a strange, out-of-the-way area before I moved here (I used to cycle through on the backstreet cycle route.) But now I know it's Brixton's hidden gem
Where I live is SW9 and it's definitely Brixton because Brixton is closer than Stockwell, Kennington, Oval or Camberwell. But SE5 starts at the end of my street.
Crispy
The following psytrance is baṉned: All
I agree with you both.
The triangle of Brixton Road, Coldharbour Lane and Camberwell New Road does lose definition in the middle though. Cambrixtoval?
miss minnie
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Went on a tour of 'North Brixton' held by the Brixton Society last summer and the route was Brixton Road, Loughborough Road, Ackerman Road past the submarine, Patmos Road, Vassal Road and back down to the Oval (where we had started).
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
yeah, there's quite a few estates and small areas of new housing around here. I believe the area was bombed heavily in WW2 and there was also extensive slum clearance in the 60s, which has resulted in strange road layouts etc. The area is gonna change massively again over the next few years now that the council has decided to rebuild Myatts North estate on top of Mostyn Gardens.
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
'North Brixton' - I quite like that. Mind you, it's an estate agent's dream round here: we could be 'Brixton', 'North Brixton', 'South Kennington', 'Camberwell Borders', 'Loughborough Junction' 'Vassal ward' whatever you want really!
Today I'm gonna call it 'Brixton Park Gardens' just for the crack.
ShiftyBagLady
Thinks she is a flower to be looked at
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
I knew it would be that thing without opening the thread.
I wanted to convert it into cartoon underground HQ / home for me and my friends when I was little.
Aww. I want a teletubbyland bunker.
miss minnie
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Tomorrow call it Kennington Park South
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
funnily enough, just across the road from the submarine is Mostyn Gardens, where there actually ARE teletubbyland-style grassy mounds etc. Strange landscaping!
wtfftw
roof's about to blow ♩♪♩♬ ♬♩♪♩
yup. Used to meet my best mate at the top of a hill. It was midway between us.
/nostalgia
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
Nope - Because of their "Nuclear Free" aspirations in the 80s, Lambeth never established a bunker of their own. Before that, Lambeth was just grouped-in with the rest of South London for overall civil defence.
This place is the nearest Lambeth ever came to having one:
http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/p/pear_tree_house/index.html
zenie
>^^<
Angell Town I've always known it as
And yet you want it to be a bridge too far, or some kind of bunker
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
I always thought Angell Town was just the estate...the one they rebuilt? (Not that it really matters!)Angell Town I've always known it as
miss minnie
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Haven't had an A-Z for years but I was surprised to see in mine that "Angell Town" was stamped across the general area, not in reference to a particular estate. The online maps don't seem to know about it though.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
how is angell town pronounced? like angel or ANG-ELL?
miss minnie
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Only ever heard it pronounced 'Angel' myself.
miss minnie
Well-Known Member
Here you go, can just about make out 'Angell Town' on this old map:
'Angell' is just off the left border of the map, 'Town' is on the left of the map.
'Angell' is just off the left border of the map, 'Town' is on the left of the map.
miss minnie
Well-Known Member
And Hidden London has a (brief) page about
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
thanks minnie, interesting stuff.
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Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
thanks minnie, interesting stuff.
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Minnie's map is part of the nineteenth century Booth's poverty maps I think. The red bits indicate well off middle class people so the whole area was quite upmarket at that time.
miss minnie
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It is indeed Booth's poverty map:
wemakeyousoundb
hopefully not gimboid
My favourite night time tripping detour
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
zenie
>^^<
Just what people from that area called it to me, think there is 'Angell Ward' for voting too isn't there?
People forget Brixton and Stockwell used to be quite rich til comparatively recently.
