{"id":388,"date":"2007-08-30T00:21:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T00:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=388"},"modified":"2007-08-30T00:21:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-30T00:21:00","slug":"djing-drinking-and-photographing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/djing-drinking-and-photographing\/","title":{"rendered":"DJing, drinking and photographing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blimey. What a week. Last Saturday I went to the Windmill, Brixton for the leaving bash of two of my friends, Scott and Jo. It was a fabulous night that involved a lot of drinking, although it’s always a bit bitter sweet when your chums are leaving the country for good.<\/p>\n

I’d prepared a special set of old time country bootstompers for Scott, but he spent most of the time lying on the floor drunk in front of the DJ booth. <\/p>\n

His boots may not have stomped, but I’m sure I saw a few twitches…<\/p>\n

\"Stumbleworthy\"<\/p>\n

The next afternoon I was DJing at the excellent Stumbleworthy<\/a> event at the Duke of Sutherland Pub, Lorrimore Road, SE17.<\/p>\n

I was still nursing a king size hangover, so all those buttons on the mixer confused me for quite a while, but I stayed on for a drink with some urbanites.<\/p>\n

The Sutherland is a great, old-school boozer with cheap beer, pool table, Caribbean Soul food, board-games and a beer-garden. Well worth a visit.<\/p>\n

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On my beer-exuding walk over to the venue, I noticed this unusual sign, and posted up a page about it.<\/a><\/p>\n

Thanks to the folks on the urban75 boards, I discovered the background to its unusual name:<\/p>\n

“It’s called the Onion Shed because until the early 1980’s it was used by a group of Breton Onion sellers. You used to see them cycling round south London with their bicycles heavily laden with strings of onions and garlic. If I missed them in the street I would call round and buy my onions from the shed, where they would be stringing then together. I always suspected that they slept in the loft, although it was all fairly derelict.”<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Capel<\/p>\n

Wandering around town today, I came across this lovely old Welsh chapel, Capel Bedyddwyr Cymreig. Find out more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’ve finally made a start on the Brixton section and have posted up an all-new homepage<\/a> which I think looks loads better.<\/p>\n

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I’ve posted up a piece about Brixton Water Lane<\/a> which has some beautiful Regency and early Victorian villas, as well as a dark secret: MYSTERIOUS MURDER IN BRIXTON, May 1900<\/a><\/p>\n

Other new features and updates on the site include:
Goodbye to the Hobgoblin boozer<\/a>
Adam and Eve Court, London W1<\/a>
London’s narrowest alley<\/a>
Vauxhall Cross Transport Interchange<\/a>
Camberwell Submarine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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