which is more "brixton", SW2 or SW9?
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The boundary actually runs through the blocks on the north side of Rushcroft Road. They are half in SW2 and half in SW9. Hence the schizoid tendencies of some residents.Minnie_the_Minx said:
(I'm on the South side).tarannau said:
Minnie_the_Minx
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tarannau said:
For the SW9ers information, a flat in Brixton Hill was the first privately owned property in the country where the owner was evicted for selling crack
We like to keep our streets clean you know
editor
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Conclusive proof of SW2 gentrification!Minnie_the_Minx said:For the SW9ers information, a flat in Brixton Hill was the first privately owned property in the country where the owner was evicted for selling crack
We like to keep our streets clean you know
Down here in 'real' Brixton, we like to offer a large portfolio of scoring, smoking and injecting locations, with the area outside my block a firm favourite with visitors and locals alike.
Hopefully they'll get the treatment they need and be able to move upmarket to the leafy glades of SW2 in time.
Shhh, they'll be claiming SW9 had the first caaaancil tenant to be evicted for selling crack. None o these gentrifying crack dealers.Minnie_the_Minx said:For the SW9ers information, a flat in Brixton Hill was the first privately owned property in the country where the owner was evicted for selling crack
clandestino
no llevar papel
editor said:
yeah well obviously the top end is, but the estate that vic's talking about is in sw2. a great deal of tulse hill, the actual hill as opposed to the area, is.
anyway, if you're talking posh, the houses north of stockwell road, at the stockwell tube end - all in sw9 - are some of the poshest town houses i've seen in london. doesn't joanna lumley live there? says it all.
Minnie_the_Minx
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editor said:
Absolutely not. Just so happens that a few of his customers were muggers. I got chased into the flats 3 times this year before he got kicked out
Us gentrifiers can't be doing with all that mugging nonsense. We have our nannies to pay and our 4x4s to pay off
Minnie_the_Minx
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ianw said:
Well, we do have Josephine Avenue
clandestino
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Minnie_the_Minx said:Well, we do have Josephine Avenue
really, there's no comparison. big white solid town houses, some with pillars (!), just like you'd get in chelsea. all in sw9! angell town is full of 'em!
by the way, i was just looking for a post code map and stumbled across this...
no photoshop trickery here. i wouldn't know how...
A stately home compared with St Matthews.editor said:
yeah but we're tuff enuff to take the bus.editor said:
editor
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indeed....IntoStella said:yeah but we're tuff enuff to take the bus.
clandestino
no llevar papel
editor said:
but i'm not discussing mean street architecture. i'm discussing joanna lumley's lovely town house where she sups the finest early grey with all of her la-di-dah sw9 chums.
shouldn't the barrier block have its own postcode anyway?
Minnie_the_Minx
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editor said:
We still have the prison
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
ianw said:really, there's no comparison. big white solid town houses, some with pillars (!), just like you'd get in chelsea. all in sw9! angell town is full of 'em!
by the way, i was just looking for a post code map and stumbled across this...
no photoshop trickery here. i wouldn't know how...
Well that confirms it then doesn't it
Yeah yeah, we may be losers (wasn't it actually Margaret Thatcher who said people who use the bus are failures? I do believe it waseditor said:
), but at least we don't drive around in our 4x4s with our little Jemimas and Tarquins in the back.
Minnie_the_Minx
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editor said:
Where's Brixton Bus Garage?
Where's the waterworks so we can supply you peasants down the road with nice clean water
Doesn't it just? But what would these Stockwellians know?Minnie_the_Minx said:Well that confirms it then doesn't it
editor
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Neither do SW9-ers. They can just walk from their local station, appropriately named Brixton!IntoStella said:Yeah yeah, we may be losers (wasn't it actually Margaret Thatcher who said people who use the bus are failures? I do believe it was
dogmatique
merde alors
Minnie_the_Minx said:
Imaginary?? Surely the River Effra would have something to say about that... even if it is underground these days....
Minnie_the_Minx
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twisted said:
Well yes, but it's hard enough convincing these SW9ers that SW2 is the real Brixton without having to tell them that they're North Londoners as well
