would you live around loughbourough junction?
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wobbly
editor said:
dogstarifying?
I remember drinking in there when i first came to london, must have been '94 cheap murphys, resident kittens, never got chucked out till about 4am. Was pretty dead though. never saw more than 15 people in there. They still had a window into the brewery bit there, but i was given the impression they hadn't brewed onsite in a while.
editor
hiraethified
The conversion into The Junction seemed to follow the same DJ bar template set by the Dogstar down the road - rip out as many original fittings as you can find, tart up the interior, shove in some DJ decks, get hold of some groovy fucker promoters and scatter flyers all across Brixton.toggle said:
To be honest the place wasn't that bad when it first opened, with free nights featuring Jerry Dammers playing D'n'B, but then they started to push it and do the old Dogstar 'bottles only' trick....
aurora green
Tectonic
Yeah, I remember it being really great in there, really packed out and exciting.
Even towards the end when they had open deck nights, it was still a pretty nice place to go, wonder what went wrong really...
Even towards the end when they had open deck nights, it was still a pretty nice place to go, wonder what went wrong really...
gaijingirl
Well-Known Member
gracious said:
When we were looking to buy, we looked around Northlands Road.. apparently it is a very popular street... but it was too expensive for us.. we looked instead on some of the estates on the north side of CHL. If we could've afforded a flat like the one you've posted it would've been lovely - I'd certainly move there.
I used to like going out in Loughborough Junction for a while there when the mucky pup was open - it was a bit of a regular haunt for me, and I go to the sports centre there most weeks - a bit run down, but so quiet compared to the Rec. It's true that it seems to be getting more and more run down, but the transport links are pretty good and at the end of the day, it's only a short hop to either Brixton, Camberwell or Herne Hill. If you cycle, you'll find you're dead central for everywhere.
tendril
Coming up blastin' like Yosemite Sam
Lived there for a few months about 3 years ago [Flaxman Rd]
Seedy area, dodgy cabbie office, nefarious street characters, flatmate got mugged by the garage on Coldharbour Lane. I finally gave in when some random bloke got steamed outside my house one night.
I ran out to help him [kids had run off by then], only to be told to fuck off!
Moved shortly afterwards
Seedy area, dodgy cabbie office, nefarious street characters, flatmate got mugged by the garage on Coldharbour Lane. I finally gave in when some random bloke got steamed outside my house one night.
I ran out to help him [kids had run off by then], only to be told to fuck off!
Moved shortly afterwards
Skim
Well-Known Member
gracious said:
That was me and I'm not a 'he'
Well, if everything goes to plan, I'm moving there tomorrow. I had a few misgivings about Loughborough Junction when we went to have a look at the flat at first – the area around the station is a bit bleak and there's not much in the way of shops, takeaways or pubs/bars. But the transport links are pretty good, there are lots of buses and it's a 10m walk (at most) into the busy part of Coldharbour Lane. I remember going to a party at the arches by the station a few years ago and thinking 'I couldn't live around here', but I said the same about King's Cross once and ended up living there for three years.
I don't think I'll be hanging around at night, but then agan I live in Battersea now and there are streets here I wouldn't walk around at night.
We'll be at Ruskin Park, so there's a bit of green space very near. It's convenient for Camberwell, Brixton, King's College Hospital and Herne Hill – all are a short walk away. The tube isn't far away, just a few bus stops. It'll be a luxury to be so close to a tube after living in Battersea, where you have a long bus journey to South Ken/Vauxhall to get to a tube station.
It's a hideous area. I lived for a year on CHLane right by the Junction. During that time we got a brick through our window, I was mugged several times, twice at knifepoint. And there's nothing there. No shops, just dodgyness
I'd live anywhere else in London rather than go back to that again.
I'd live anywhere else in London rather than go back to that again.
aurora green
Tectonic
Yeah, that butchers is ace, if you like your meat. He's on the estate though, where I live, but most of you lot aren't even talking about that side of the tracks.
Honestly though, the area really has improved in the last few years, the open dealing has dissapeared, and I think that has improved things no end. I won't say my family haven't had their dodgy moments here, but we're stuck...If I had 200grand to spend on a place, I sure as hell go somewhere a bit less deprived, 'cos thats' what you're dealing with, one of the very poorest areas in one of Londons most deprived boroughs. They keep squeezing more and more housing onto this tiny area, more and more people living in very close proximity....It's tough living here, but you have to kind of have faith in it...people are generally very friendly, and I do honestly think the ammenities are ok.
Honestly though, the area really has improved in the last few years, the open dealing has dissapeared, and I think that has improved things no end. I won't say my family haven't had their dodgy moments here, but we're stuck...If I had 200grand to spend on a place, I sure as hell go somewhere a bit less deprived, 'cos thats' what you're dealing with, one of the very poorest areas in one of Londons most deprived boroughs. They keep squeezing more and more housing onto this tiny area, more and more people living in very close proximity....It's tough living here, but you have to kind of have faith in it...people are generally very friendly, and I do honestly think the ammenities are ok.
poster342002
PROPER leftwing socialist
Does the sun ever shine around LJ? I ask because on each visit I've ever made there the weather's always been dull and overcast. It's like it exists in some wierd extra dimension or something...
Ms Ordinary
randompointlesschemistry
aurora green said:
I do live on the 'other side' (ie the Ruskin Park side) but usually cut through the estate to get to the tube / rec.
I remember walking back from the tube latish one Sunday night with the littl'un and her gazing at the blocks all lit up and saying 'it's beautiful' 'like a fairyland' and 'I wish we lived here'
. I just thought I'd mention that to balance out all the negative comments 
Its always seemed a friendly enough place, though I suppose I'd stop a wee bit short of calling it a fairyland myself - anywhere that high density is bound to have its problems if you're living bang in the middle of it.
OTH I can't really fathom places like Southwell Rd being called a 'scary location' either - though the trend for that whole area to be labelled as 'Ruskin Village' is a bit unnerving.
PacificOcean
Unhinged User
I lived at the Loughborough end of Shakespeare Road.
It's supposedly rough round there but I personally never had any trouble (and that includes many a Saturday night walking up Coldharbour Lane off my face at 4am) but having said that there was never a shortage of those police yellow boards around.
Loughbrough Junction has a pretty good train service (every 15 minutes on the now strangely named First Capital Connect) and is only two stops from town.
The area has nothing of note but is only a short bus ride to Brixton and there are four bus routes which are very frequent.
But now that I have moved to Enfield Lock - with a view of Epping Forest from my bedroom window - I wouldn't move back.
It's supposedly rough round there but I personally never had any trouble (and that includes many a Saturday night walking up Coldharbour Lane off my face at 4am) but having said that there was never a shortage of those police yellow boards around.
Loughbrough Junction has a pretty good train service (every 15 minutes on the now strangely named First Capital Connect) and is only two stops from town.
The area has nothing of note but is only a short bus ride to Brixton and there are four bus routes which are very frequent.
But now that I have moved to Enfield Lock - with a view of Epping Forest from my bedroom window - I wouldn't move back.
Skim
Well-Known Member
gracious said:
No offence taken
I don't think the location is that scary... depends what you're used to, I suppose. After three years in the King's Cross wastelands, Loughborough Junction doesn't seem that bad to me.
"Ruskin Village" makes me cringe! It's not a bloody village, it's Loughborough Junction. Makes me think of a few streets near me in Battersea called "Little India" because of the names of the streets, such as Afghan, Cabul, Candahar and Khyber... perhaps the estate agents baulked at calling it "Little Afghanistan".
A proper butcher's sounds great... I'll be paying that a visit for sure. I think there's also a Portuguese caff on CHL so I can get my custard tart fix
well yeah, i'm used to peckham, but the nice bit of it - there's still people getting shot and stabbings round bellenden way, but the houses are nice victorian and georgian (and the council sandblasted them a few years back) and recently house prices shot up cos loads of (nice young professional) people like me have moved in.
i dont want to go too far from peckham, i got friends there, but i do want a period property, and ideally i want to buy in the next bellenden regeneration area!!
prunus
Tick tock.
I've lived 'around' LJ for 5 years now and I love living here.
I'm bringing up my two kids here. It's really friendly - I know more than half the people on my street, something that's never happened before in London, and they're all really nice.
Ruskin Park is small but a very nice green space, and is being done up at the moment (public lavatories, bandstand, changing rooms for sports etc). Great playground and paddling pool for kids, always full of friends to play with. Tennis courts, football pitches, a cricket wicket, duck pond, ornamental gardens, 'wilderness' areas, a nature walk.
It's less than a mile to Brixton Tube (just, but it is), plus 4 buses run there if you're really lazy.
And LJ Thameslink is not perfect by any means but will get you into town in 20 minutes, or further afield if you want... (except on Sunday afternoons...). And it's got a cafe where you can get a cuppa while you wait.
The 35 and 345 buses run 24 hour, so you can get home from most parts of town that way too if you need.
The newish 'Kashmir Halal' shop does decent quality/price vegetables (and meat too if you're not fussy), and is open late too; there are any number of 'convenience' stores, some even quite well stocked. Yeahman Garage has always done good cheap work for me. Phillips (on Loughborough Road) is a damn fine butcher. The Cambria is an decent pub. Zest of India do a good value Biryani. The Red Gate Gallery does fun things occasionally (although I might be a bit out of date now?).
Yes it's a bit run down, yes 'regeneration' is proceeding slowly if at all, yes the Harriers has been a (disgraceful) hole in the ground for nearly 2 years now, yes pubs are in short supply,yes there are still several boarded up shop fronts which is a waste; but there is new social housing being built behind the petrol station on Hinton Road, the Green Man and Warrior *are* being re-developed, the Warrior as a pub which will be excellent, there are plans for more housing behind the Warrior, all of which should bring more people and therefore hopefully businesses into the area.
Up the Junction!
I'm bringing up my two kids here. It's really friendly - I know more than half the people on my street, something that's never happened before in London, and they're all really nice.
Ruskin Park is small but a very nice green space, and is being done up at the moment (public lavatories, bandstand, changing rooms for sports etc). Great playground and paddling pool for kids, always full of friends to play with. Tennis courts, football pitches, a cricket wicket, duck pond, ornamental gardens, 'wilderness' areas, a nature walk.
It's less than a mile to Brixton Tube (just, but it is), plus 4 buses run there if you're really lazy.
And LJ Thameslink is not perfect by any means but will get you into town in 20 minutes, or further afield if you want... (except on Sunday afternoons...). And it's got a cafe where you can get a cuppa while you wait.
The 35 and 345 buses run 24 hour, so you can get home from most parts of town that way too if you need.
The newish 'Kashmir Halal' shop does decent quality/price vegetables (and meat too if you're not fussy), and is open late too; there are any number of 'convenience' stores, some even quite well stocked. Yeahman Garage has always done good cheap work for me. Phillips (on Loughborough Road) is a damn fine butcher. The Cambria is an decent pub. Zest of India do a good value Biryani. The Red Gate Gallery does fun things occasionally (although I might be a bit out of date now?).
Yes it's a bit run down, yes 'regeneration' is proceeding slowly if at all, yes the Harriers has been a (disgraceful) hole in the ground for nearly 2 years now, yes pubs are in short supply,yes there are still several boarded up shop fronts which is a waste; but there is new social housing being built behind the petrol station on Hinton Road, the Green Man and Warrior *are* being re-developed, the Warrior as a pub which will be excellent, there are plans for more housing behind the Warrior, all of which should bring more people and therefore hopefully businesses into the area.
Up the Junction!
Sweetpea
Uncle Roger drunk
I live nearby and know that the area desperately needs people who want to make a killing on the property market and then fuck off. I’ll keep an eye out for you – presumably you’ll be the one yelling FFS some people really need to get a job at local residents involved in community projectsgracious said:
easy tiger.... it was a private joke between me and the OP on that thread...
and actually im not planning to make a profit then move, i just want to live in somewhere like Bellenden, up and coming - young professionals but also with a lot of culture and a local economy worth supporting... i'd stay in that part of peckham if i could afford it.
rah!
and actually im not planning to make a profit then move, i just want to live in somewhere like Bellenden, up and coming - young professionals but also with a lot of culture and a local economy worth supporting... i'd stay in that part of peckham if i could afford it.
rah!
Errol's son
Well-Known Member
#gracious said:
I'd look at Nunhead, Honor Oak or Brockley rather than LJ. I can't see LJ becoming "the next bellenden regeneration area".
So you don't want to see your area going up in the world? Like it or not, young professionals moving into an area is usually good for that area, it also means that there's nice bars and shops and other distractions - which is something that is important for me to have locally. I'm sure many people on here would agree with me.
Culture? I really like about Peckham that there are so many different cultures around, I like to learn about how different types of people live and I have travelled to the carribean and to africa for the same reason. Since living in peckham Ive tried different cuisines made friends with different types of people and generally widened my horizons. Is that such a bad thing to like?
Why don't you like my motivations? I'm stepping onto the property ladder and I want to make a good investment - is that so heinous? Or are you just jealous that you aren't in the same lucky position that I am?
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