General Brixton history - photos, stories etc

[SarfLondoner]

Are you sure it is 1931? The traffic doesn't look right.

I wouldn't know, The site i got it from claims it is.

 

[leanderman]

I wouldn't know, The site i got it from claims it is.

Does look about 20 years earlier.

That empty space where KFC now is would be great for a bus stop.

 

[Sirena]

Are you sure it is 1931? The traffic doesn't look right.

That might be a date in the bottom right corner... or it might be another number..

 

[editor]

I'd say early Edwardian.

 

[leanderman]

I'd say early Edwardian.

1901-1903 then!

 

[Puddy_Tat]

There were a few open top buses still around by 1931 but think 1901-3 is a bit too early both for the bus and the motor taxi cabs - very few motor cabs in London until post 1906. The 'B Type' bus took to the streets in 1910.

Could just be pre-1914, could be just in to the 1920s.

Dates on photos / postcards can be fallible - even in official collections. Can't remember where I encountered one of an electric tram in Deptford dated some years before that line was electrified but think I dropped someone an e-mail about it...

And don't get me started on old black & white photographs that have been colourised wrong...

 

[SarfLondoner]

Now and then, Footage of Brixton.

 

[editor]

Now and then, Footage of Brixton.

Alternatively titled: all the editor's hard work and photos stolen without credit.

 

[editor]

And just look at the racist comments that the photo thief has posted up:
https://www.youtube.com/user/nostalgiclondon

 

[SarfLondoner]

And just look at the racist comments that the photo thief has posted up:
https://www.youtube.com/user/nostalgiclondon

Just had a look,Not good are they and why i tend not to read you tube comments.

 

[editor]

Just had a look,Not good are they and why i tend not to read you tube comments.

He's a racist scumbag.

 

[SarfLondoner]

He's a racist scumbag.

How doe's that shit manage to stay on view?

 

[Puddy_Tat]

How doe's that shit manage to stay on view?

Youtube seems to attract more than its fair share of that sort of shite and not deal with it...

 

[Winot]

Alternatively titled: all the editor's hard work and photos stolen without credit.

Do YouTube not have an IP policy? Can you get them taken down?

 

[editor]

Do YouTube not have an IP policy? Can you get them taken down?

I tried before and forgot all about, but I've submitted another request.

 

[calno4]

7th February 1939, view of Loughborough Park, Sussex Road School is to the right of middle, Guinness Trust Buildings bottom left.

 

[editor]

Just posted this: Twilight stroll along Brixton Road – history, architecture and the buried River Effra

 

[teuchter]

Would be great if someone could give that building a bit of TLC. A bit of paint and tidy up and it could look really good.

 

[calno4]

Halnaker Lodge 372 Coldharbour Lane, it stood next to Walton Lodge. It was demolished in 1933. Image is from Small Houses of the Late Georgian Period 1750–1820 by Stanley C. Ramsey (1919). This charming Regency house stood on the north side of the road opposite Somerleyton Road. It was a two-storey stucco-fronted house with overhanging eaves, and flanked by single-storey wings. In the centre was a semi-circular projecting porch with unfluted Greek Doric columns, which supported the delicate ironwork of the verandah above. Theres also photographs and measured drawings in a supplement to The Architect and Building News for July 1, 1932

 

[editor]

Would be great if someone could give that building a bit of TLC. A bit of paint and tidy up and it could look really good.

It's looked unloved for a very long time indeed.

Here's how it looked in the 70s.

 

[editor]

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Halnaker Lodge 372 Coldharbour Lane, it stood next to Walton Lodge. It was demolished in 1933. Image is from Small Houses of the Late Georgian Period 1750–1820 by Stanley C. Ramsey (1919). This charming Regency house stood on the north side of the road opposite Somerleyton Road. It was a two-storey stucco-fronted house with overhanging eaves, and flanked by single-storey wings. In the centre was a semi-circular projecting porch with unfluted Greek Doric columns, which supported the delicate ironwork of the verandah above. Theres also photographs and measured drawings in a supplement to The Architect and Building News for July 1, 1932

Ooh, that's a brilliant find! Are there any larger versions?

 

[calno4]

Is that any bigger?

 

[calno4]

Re Halnaker Lodge, an ad from London Evening Standard April 25, 1870

 

[calno4]

The freehold for Halnaker Lodge up for sale in 1866, along with some other nearby plots, London Evening Standard April 12, 1866

 

[peterkro]

It's looked unloved for a very long time indeed.

Here's how it looked in the 70s.

I remember that in the seventies (not surprising it's at the end of my street) the marriage place on one side the one on the other side was a electro/mechanical controls wholesaler also long since gone.

 

[editor]

View attachment 64283
Is that any bigger?

Same size!

 

[calno4]

Brixton Astoria was very nearly destroyed in World War 2 - The distinctive entrance dome can be seen in the background of this photograph taken on 22 May, 1941, of the crater caused by a bomb that just missed the theatre
http://theatreorgans.com/southerncross/victoria/DallasBrooks.htm

 

[calno4]

Band of the First Surrey Rifles playing outside the Bonaza Stores Brixton Road on the corner of Electric Avenue in 1915. Lambeth Landmark photo

 

[calno4]

Described as
A man in a Brixton barber reads about the 1964 bout between Cassius Clay and Sonny Liston. Theres a few more taken in Brixton the same year.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rs-ago-sixties-began-swing.html#ixzz3KhOpQUIl
http://ec.tynt.com/b/rf?id=bBOTTqvd0r3Pooab7jrHcU&u=DailyMail

 

[calno4]

Pea souper. Taken December 6th 1952 outside Timothy Whites and Taylor, corner of Electric Avenue

More on the smog of that year here http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...eat-Smog-choked-London-60-years-ago-week.html