Yep, the houses/flats above iceland used to be the back of the pavement line.Looking at that picture I suspect Iceland has extended outwards onto the pavement if you see what I mean.
Looking at that picture I suspect Iceland has extended outwards onto the pavement if you see what I mean.
Looking at that picture I suspect Iceland has extended outwards onto the pavement if you see what I mean.
Um, you could have discovered that by checking through the Brixton section on this site!Never heard of it, but I've discovered a pavement picture and we used to have a much wider pavement outside of Iceland
Indeed it has.Looking at that picture I suspect Iceland has extended outwards onto the pavement if you see what I mean.
No, I suspect it was extended outwards long before Iceland, although thinking about it, I'm sure Murrays Meat Market was further back off the street, but I could be wrong.
What was there before Murray's Meat Market? I seem to remember a furniture shop somewhere along that stretch
Um, you could have discovered that by checking through the Brixton section on this site!
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"c. 1900 The building line along Brixton Road was pegged back, originally providing large gardens in front of the houses. By 1900, much of this space has been turned into a pavement and was used by market traders."
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http://www.urban75.org/brixton/history/central.html
Erm, I vaguely remember Mc Donalds being a furniture shop.
which would make me think I may have been correct about Murray's being further back off the pavementWar damage destroyed several buildings and an ugly Iceland supermarket has now been bolted on to the end of the street.
There's no point asking the staff (the head of the saucepans couldn't tell me anything about his wares ffs), but someone at Morleys HQ might know?
i remember the bridge distinctly - me and my siblings used to love using it and my mum would walk over the crossing underneath and meet us on the other side. i remember it as being really big, not ricketty or single file.. but i was little and everything looks massive then. it went from near the corner exit of morleys to the tube.
So what was the point of having it and why didn't your mum use it? Did they pull it down because nobody used it (except children)![]()
You mean it connected Morleys to the tube station? When did this bridge exist because I've never seen any pictures of it.
which would make me think I may have been correct about Murray's being further back off the pavement
Nope - Murrays Meat Market was exactly where Iceland is now. Not sure when it changed over, though. Some point during the early-mid 1990s, I think.
I remember it being there until the early 1980s - after which it just disappeared at some point. Defiantely remember it, though.
Maybe it just seemed there was more space as it was open![]()
Well it wasn't there in 1981 during the riots