Favourite Road In Brixton.

[Balham]

A bit of a sentimental self indulgent day really, Grandmother's birthday (born 1900) so happy memories of a childhood part spent in Brixton. Think Crownstone Road is a fave, Crownstone Court when I see photos of it from the sixties (there are a few in the family albums) and was it Effra Mansions next to it and Brockwell Court opposite.

It was Josephine Avenue that used to fascinate me when I was little. Dad would drive down Brixton Hill, right Josephine Avenue, left Brixton Water Lane and right Crownstone Road. Josephine Avenue seemed big, with big houses, tree line. It just seemed a grand place then.

 

[boohoo]

I like Josephine Avenue too - I love the old Oak tree. I think it's protected common land in front of the houses.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

When I was in a high-rise in Brixton I yearned for a place in Villa Road. Great for kids with Max Roach Park just across the way.

 

[peterkro]

Villa road too having lived there so long.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I like Josephine Avenue too - I love the old Oak tree. I think it's protected common land in front of the houses.

Reminds me of the Brixton Riots when developers tried to annex Rush Common. Alfie Howard told me about it (1920s?).

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I like Josephine Avenue too - I love the old Oak tree. I think it's protected common land in front of the houses.

I like Josephine Avenue as well.

 

[mao]

I like Josephine Avenue too - I love the old Oak tree. I think it's protected common land in front of the houses.

I used to live in Leander Rd and had to walk trough Josephine Avenue. I liked it too.

 

[IainH]

Holmewood Gardens for me. Having a separate dog exercise area, a playground and a space to sit in the sunshine is extremely valuable to the sense of community. Josephine Avenue is lovely, too, as is the bit of Elm Park Road with the Gothic terrace. I love those houses!

 

[Balham]

Alfie Howard told me about it (1920s?).

A real character, member of the Effra Conservative club, friend of my Grandfather's, met him often.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

A real character, member of the Effra Conservative club, friend of my Grandfather's, met him often.

I knew him from when I was five. He once did a standing jump onto a table so he could give my mum a big smacker on the cheek more easily

 

[youngian]

Plato Road, as naming streets after philospers does no harm in encouraging critical thinking.

Recent studies have shown a much higher incidence of metaphysical debate than nearby Blenheim Gardens, where several French and Bavarians were roughed up on the way to the Windmill.

 

[Kanda]

Holmewood Gardens for me. Having a separate dog exercise area, a playground and a space to sit in the sunshine is extremely valuable to the sense of community

Yup, liked living there. Also New Park Villaaaaage

 

[editor]

Got to be "London's most dangerous street," Coldharbour Lane for me.

 

[TruXta]

Sudbourne, because I live there and it's got lots of attractive period housing. Shame the pub closed before I moved here. Other fave roads - Station Rd for character and randomness. Lyham Rd for being the hidden spine of the hill.

 

[clandestino]

I used to live on Archbishop's Place, at the top of Brixton Hill, a gorgeous, quiet cul-de-sac tucked away from everything. I think that has to be my favourite.

 

[Rushy]

I like Josephine Avenue too - I love the old Oak tree. I think it's protected common land in front of the houses.

It's not common land any more - it has been privately owned since about 1806 but supposedly protected from being built upon (or enclosed) by the Rush Common Act (now incorporated into Planning Policy). The council's application of the Rush Common Act rules is not very consistent, however.

All the big front gardens running down Effra Road and the Rush Common park on Brixton Hill, right up to the top, are protected by the same policy.

I like the look of Mervan and the community feel of Horsford.

 

[Ms Ordinary]

Always liked the little kink in Mervan Road, and the trees. Can't recall if the trees are in the pavement or spill out from the gardens, but it feels like the road where Brixton town centre ends, and the suburbs begin. Nice postbox too.

 

[Favelado]

Josephine Avenue is a beautiful street. I would love to live there. I think that would be my favourite. I have a soft spot for Hubert Grove, which you could argue was Clapham but it is SW9 and I lived at the end next to the footbridge. It really felt like I lived in Brixton anyway. That's just nostalgia and memories though. Josephine Avenue must be the best.

 

[Favelado]

Got to be "London's most dangerous street," Coldharbour Lane for me.

Do they still say that? It was certainly bandied around in my time there.

 

[MillwallShoes]

walk through railton road from herne hill up into brixton on a hot summer evening

 

[Orang Utan]

Trinity Gardens and Wallace's Cottages

 

[Pickman's model]

The one the 3 goes up towards central london

 

[nagapie]

My road, can't tell you which it is or I'd have to kill you.

 

[leanderman]

Ours, naturally.

Events in the past 12 months (with more than 100 tickets sold for each quiz night) ...

April 2012: Quiz night
May: Freshview street clean-up
June: Street party
October: Freshview street clean-up
December: Quiz night
February 2013: Wine tasting

To come ...
May: Quiz night
July 6: Street party

However, it's not an especially attractive street and has more than its fair share of muggings and burglaries.

 

[MillwallShoes]

very few shitty roads in brixton come to think of it. compared to a total rubbish tip like parts of thornton heath and croydon, it's doing very well.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Freshview

What's really unattractive about that is the name. It sounds like a plastic tub of margarine. Considering the word margarine was coined by Wordsworth to describe the sky as being pearly it's become debased. If it was called something like 'We love it here' I might warm to it (Freshview, not margarine, which I will never warm to).

 

[fortyplus]

Definitely Atlantic Road, the bit between CHL and the High St.

Ok, so it's not the prettiest street in Brixton, but it's surely the hardest-working.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

A real character, member of the Effra Conservative club, friend of my Grandfather's, met him often.

This is pretty much what he looked like when I first met him.

 

[DietCokeGirl]

Dyrell Road, because I still secretly lust over a big ol' Victorian house with bay windows and high ceilings and a fire place - they seemed the epitatmy of glamour and success when I was a kid.I still try and sneak a nosey look into peoples living rooms when I walk down there.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

What's really unattractive about that is the name. It sounds like a plastic tub of margarine. Considering the word margarine was coined by Wordsworth to describe the sky as being pearly it's become debased. If it was called something like 'We love it here' I might warm to it (Freshview, not margarine, which I will never warm to).

I think it sounds like an area someone's trying to make sound posher than it is. On a par with having a hotel on Southend seafront called Ocean View, except it overlooks a load of mud