Homeless| Friday 12 October, 2007 |
And so its bye bye to Sunny Stockwell's Art Deco old doughnut factory along the Clap'ham Road - boarded up and about to become a 'superb choice of luxury residences designed around an open landscaped square peppered with cafe's and restaurants.'
Can't fucking wait.
Farewell to a fine piece of period architecture, hello to a
A 'fashionable address!' boasts the knobber marketing bumph.
Sky high SW9 insurance premiums.
'Vibrant!
Not a black face in sight on the corporate webshite.
'An influx of young executives and professionals!'
And so where do the locals now live?
'The streets of Clap'ham are buzzing!'
Um, but it's actually in Sunny Stockwell, you know, where there's been a bit of gun crime over the summer months. Oh, that's what you mean by buzzing...
Freeman's has sold on all of its Clap'ham Road property, cashing in on the scramble for land in this part of South London. The modern interweb is to blame. The mail order lingerie business isn't exactly booming when you can order your (used) over-sized bloomers online.
And so one less art deco wonder in South London, replaced by some wanky identikit flats. Once it's gone, it's gone forever.
Life is often like a cream doughnut. Without the cream. Or the doughnut.
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