Kicked off in Clapham Junction too

[EdithWeston]

crowd of 200 or so at Clapham Junction - looting and shops smashed up near Arding and Hobbs (Lavender Hill)

Ah that is bad.

Fucking fucking bastards.
Are you near there Edith?

Wasn't there trouble earlier?

I used to live near there - which is why it makes me a bit , though it's probably no worse there than anywhere else.

Gaston: Any idea what trouble earlier?

My friend who works opposite Debenhams said her office were advised to go home at about 5 this afternoon because of rioters. The main entrance at CJ station is currently closed because of "a large number of youths gathered outside"!

Oh god, dp is working there tonight. (works on the underground) That's it, I will have to break our cardinal rule, and ring him and ask him to ring me when he gets to work. He is going to be embarrased, but I don't give a

Apparantly on sky news a journalist there saying they are looting the shops and no police presence at all.
Pure opportunism to get whatever they can

Nandos and mobile phone store looted apparently edith

It seems a SKY reporter lives nearby and he's phoning in a live report.

There is one police officer (at CJ station. No others in sight. (And there's a police station on Lavender Hill - where are they all? - they must be desperately stretched).

The (growing) mob is moving along St John's Road towards the A3 and the Northcote Road. The mob seems to be smashing and looting - no reports of fires. Bars in Northcote Road closing precipitately.

oops he is at earls court

naught - better safe than sorry tonight!

Apparently Debenhams in CJ has been completely ransacked.

Footage on sky now , no police and lot's of very young people smashing up shops !!

so awful. words fail me.

West Croydon station is on fire

I cant watch as its making me cry
Yet I cant turn it off either

I feel ashamed to be British atm :( really really sad

Is Debenhams the department store that was Arding and Hobbs (then House of Fraser)?

If so, I was thinking about it earlier today when I saw footage of the burnt out building in Tottenham - it's exactly the same shape - on a corner, with a little tower.

yes it's the arding and hobbs blg

what's happening at clapham junction now? got a friend that lives off northote road and am worried but don't want to text as it is so late.

Think its calmed down now. Its on sky news, interviewing locals on st johns road. Although twitter is apparently saying that the locals stopped them moving down northcote road! Given it's proper yummy mummy-ville that way, i can only imagine some public school eduated henry bellowing at them, and actually if it's true, fair play to old Henry.

someone is going to get killed!! members of the public will be fair game for these idiots

thanks freebuttonbee. so pleased to hear it is calming dowm there.

Calmed down, or moved on?

I think calmed down, although TONS of sirens and helicopters still (and i am on the other side, a good 3/4 mile away). Not much else to loot round here, tbh. Not many retail parks etc.

The SKY reporter now has a cameraman down there. St John's Road is calm, but it's smashed up - virtually every shop there.

And he said there are still people hanging around. I hope they're not intent on more crime.

posted on other thread but relevant here:
they are saying party superstore at clapham junction has gone up - bloody hell there is so much nylon etc in there it will disappear in a puff! hope any flats above have been evacuated.
the staff are always so lovely and cheery - and now they're out of work .

feels like we're going to have a death before the night is out, one way or another