Welcome to Dumpsville. Population: You
"Well the Jerk Store called, and they're running out of you."
- George Costanza*
Time Out's Big Smoke Blog is compiling a list of new names for London's emerging agglomerations - or districts - to join the likes of Chinatown and Tin Pan Alley.
With your help, we'd like to propose one for Brockley - but what agglomerations should Brockley be most famous for?
Time Out's already assigned the title of "The Ukulele Quarter" to an area near Brick Lane - a title which Brockley has at least as much claim to, given that it's almost impossible to think of an event or venue in the area that hasn't been graced by the Brockley Ukulele Group.
So what else is there?
The Jerkstore ought to be a leading contender, given the range of Caribbean food options in the area and that Brockley can lay claim to possibly the only jerk bagel specialist store in London.
Studio City could reflect the fact that the area organises not one but two major open studio events every year, not to mention its arts and crafts fairs, community gallery, public art, The Telegraph Hill Festival, Brockley MAX and Hillaballoo.
Or, in honour of Brockley's uniquely-awful double roundabout, perhaps we could become known as Little Milton Keynes.
All contributions welcome - except for the first person to offer up Mungville.
*PS - we know we have used that quote before, but it works on so many levels...
52 comments:
Mungley Wood
Geliffe Ghetto
what about Barron City?
"Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!
A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover!"
@ladywell something - well I would like to decree a stately pleasure dome.
Just biding my time...
How about Moansville
What I love about Brockley is that it isn't a centre for anything in particular. It's the best kept secret suburb in zone 2. Perhaps Brockley should be know as The On The Quiet Quarter?
@sonofagun - if you think Brockley's moanier than other places, I think you need to visit any other local London forum or blog. Or just read the comments on the Evening Standard website.
BC is a haven of upbeat discussion, relative to what passes for public dialogue in the rest of the UK.
@The Other Brockley Nick - a nice paradoxical idea :)
Yeah, I know nick...
The Fairtrade Freeway
brocklehem
The Bronx
Brocklyn?
babylon
officially recognised as one of the first civilisations on earth
How about the Left Behind Bank?
IwishIlivedinIsling Town
BN maybe we can beat them to the sole rights of the name then.
I'm sure the URL is still available...
NIMBYvile
Doughtnut City
Little Greasy Chicken
'The Outer Borough'
In NY the outer boroughs (like Brooklyn) are becoming cool as a way to live central to the city but gain a lot more in way of life, price, and artistic communities. I like ti cause it suggests we don't just follow the herd
Continuing the "best kept secret" theme: Brockadoon
what about a combination of Brockley, Ladywell and Crofton Park?
Brockwell Park?
is that name taken?
;)
Bet Fayre
Due to the number of gamblers in the ares?
haha - very good!
Muggers Parade
Shootup Alley
Ballroom Blitz
Rivoli Gardens
Salsa-on-chips
Talbot & Dean
Latex City
Green Shoots
New Deli
I've been calling it The Cheapest Place In Zone 2 for years.
The East Dulwich Overspill
I like New Deli and Brockwell Park if it weren't already taken. How about Ladycroft Brock or Brockton Well, or may be Croft Welley...
Mungchester
Yay! Mungchester gets my vote!
Try a name incorporating Art...'The Artisan Quarter'
Broccoli Heights
"Yay! Mungchester gets my vote!"
Yawn, how predictable. Nick already anticipated "Mungville" type comments in the main article, yet STILL they come... Change the record.
I think I bought an 'Artisan Quarter' in the bakers the other day
Subwoofer Alley
The (Chicken) Bone Yard
Sign City
Bridge of Signs
Consevation Area
Lap of Luxuary
Stencil Estate
Hugh's Pile
(Indicated by a stencil?)
CPZ Zero
Hill Climb
The Organic Overpass
Little Shoreditch
bloke cry
bock lyre
boy clerk
yob clerk
(yes i used an anagram solver :-)
The Back Passage
Lap Land
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