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there's 21 references to it in the times between 1884 and 1941.
Brixton history: Lambeth Carlton Club (Granville Arcade/Brixton Village)
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Minnie_the_Minx
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Minnie_the_Minx
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I wonder where all these premises were?
Maybe the buildings next door were one of these?
Maybe the buildings next door were one of these?
editor
hiraethified
Could you post up a few please as I'm writing the feature now.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
London Metropolitan Archives have also come up trumps on old photos in the past (the only picture of the original windows in the Coach & Horses later Living bar for that planning enforcement) and I reckon it will will be a rich seam of old Brixton Photos for future features.
editor
hiraethified
Thanks for the input. I've posted the feature here:
http://www.urban75.org/brixton/history/lambeth-carlton-club.html
1912 The grand Georgian-styled premises of the Lambeth Carlton Club on Coldharbour Lane.
The club first appears in the 1894 Ordnance Survey map - the previous 1870 edition recorded three large houses with ornamental gardens facing Coldharbour Lane. Carlton House appears to have swallowed up the two closest to the railway bridge and been extended at the back.
The 1898 Booth map shows the building marked as being the Brixton Conservative Association - if you look close you can just make out those words on the two ground floor windows on the left.
(pic: Lambeth Archives)
Detail from the 1894 Ordnance Survey map of Brixton. The building immediately to the right of the club was replaced by the Walton Lodge Laundry in 1904.
July 2009 Built to the designs of Messrs Alfred and Vincent Burr, the Granville Arcade opened in 6 May 1937 and was named after its developer, Mr Granville-Grossman.
The opening must have enjoyed some pizzazz, with the popular Danish actor
Carl Brisson cutting the tape.
The arcade consists of over 100 small shops in tall covered streets called 'Avenues', and links Coldharbour Lane, Atlantic Road and Popes Road.
A rather pointless rebranding exercise saw the arcades being renamed as Brixton Village in the mid-2000s.
Plans to completely redevelop the site and demolish the current buildings and replace them with a 10 story privately owned residential tower block and private park were met with fierce opposition from the local community, and the plans were shelved.
As for the Lambeth Carlton Club, they seem to have slipped into the sands of time, with a creditors' meeting being called on Thursday 27 March 1941.
See 360º panorama of Brixton Village
http://www.urban75.org/brixton/history/lambeth-carlton-club.html
1912 The grand Georgian-styled premises of the Lambeth Carlton Club on Coldharbour Lane.
The club first appears in the 1894 Ordnance Survey map - the previous 1870 edition recorded three large houses with ornamental gardens facing Coldharbour Lane. Carlton House appears to have swallowed up the two closest to the railway bridge and been extended at the back.
The 1898 Booth map shows the building marked as being the Brixton Conservative Association - if you look close you can just make out those words on the two ground floor windows on the left.
(pic: Lambeth Archives)
Detail from the 1894 Ordnance Survey map of Brixton. The building immediately to the right of the club was replaced by the Walton Lodge Laundry in 1904.
July 2009 Built to the designs of Messrs Alfred and Vincent Burr, the Granville Arcade opened in 6 May 1937 and was named after its developer, Mr Granville-Grossman.
The opening must have enjoyed some pizzazz, with the popular Danish actor
The arcade consists of over 100 small shops in tall covered streets called 'Avenues', and links Coldharbour Lane, Atlantic Road and Popes Road.
A rather pointless rebranding exercise saw the arcades being renamed as Brixton Village in the mid-2000s.
Plans to completely redevelop the site and demolish the current buildings and replace them with a 10 story privately owned residential tower block and private park were met with fierce opposition from the local community, and the plans were shelved.
As for the Lambeth Carlton Club, they seem to have slipped into the sands of time, with a creditors' meeting being called on Thursday 27 March 1941.
hipipol
Peckham Wry
With the slipped letter it looks a bit Russian
Which is nice.....
PS Ace research - I tried to join in but virtually EVERY pic I could find was credited to Urban75, which means -admittedly not a thorough analysis, that you have the largest collection of old Brxton pics available on the net!!
Time to get yer Blue Badge and get all the tourists in the Albert!!!!!
Which is nice.....
PS Ace research - I tried to join in but virtually EVERY pic I could find was credited to Urban75, which means -admittedly not a thorough analysis, that you have the largest collection of old Brxton pics available on the net!!
Time to get yer Blue Badge and get all the tourists in the Albert!!!!!
madolesance
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Brixton Village also houses many artists studios above the shop units. They are run and managed by A.S.C.
hipipol
Peckham Wry
Ah but do they have em online?
Seriously, the stuff, pics info, history you have on here about Brixton is by far the most comprehensive available online anywhere - I thought that before, but after the last searches, using multiple search enegines, plus looking at specific sites whwere I expected a wider range of online material, well its just not there in other places, they almost all refer back to here
I know its taken you years but full and total respect, its a wonderful piece of work of which you should feel very proud
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Yes, but Editor's the only one privileged enough to post the pictures up directly. The rest of us must link to them, unless of course we're pilfering off him
The Walton Laundry stands on the grounds of the houses but that was built in 1904.
Heres a bit of history of that spot
Thomas Richbell was in partnership with William Hale, William of Hales Rockets fame. Thomas appears on the 1851 census at Walton Lodge with his wife and a Ladies Maid and a Cook. He gives his occupation as Patent War Rocket Manufacturer.
This ad selling the freehold was in the South London Press April 20th 1867
By 11 May 1867 it was sold, South London Press
Up for sale again in the London Standard 20 Oct 1894
The 1901 Census shows the Newlands in occupation. More on them here http://www.waltonlodge.com/html/our_history.htm
The 1891 census shows them running a laundry service from 128 Ackerman Road
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hiraethified
You mean the building that became Cooltan? That was built in the 1930s.
Brixton history: Halnaker Lodge at 372 Coldharbour Lane – From Georgian splendour to dole office to community squat to luxury flats
A short history of Brixton Cooltan Arts Collective squatted Old Dole House, 372 Coldharbour Lane, Brixton, London SW9 with photos, panoramas and general information.
Thanks 
not sure: found it on an old map ['Old Maps' site] and an internet reference, "No. 372. Coldharbour Lane previously housed an Employment Exchange." Reference: https://moderngov.lambeth.gov.uk/.../04a%20368-372%20Coldharbour%20Lane.pdf
not sure: found it on an old map ['Old Maps' site] and an internet reference, "No. 372. Coldharbour Lane previously housed an Employment Exchange." Reference: https://moderngov.lambeth.gov.uk/.../04a%20368-372%20Coldharbour%20Lane.pdfThanks
Yes, that's it, 372. More recent-looking than I remember but still gaunt as hell.
The entrance was to the left, a long corridor with the laundry wall on one side and the exchange wall on the other; hundreds of people queuing, shuffling forwards a few steps at a time - immediately ahead were the yawning railway arches. https://i1.wp.com/www.urban75.org/blog/images/cooltan-arts-brixton-06.jpg?zoom=1.5&w=620 There were buildings like this, or one building, I think behind the main building on Coldharbour Lane, the building was like an enormous room, the entrance door was on the side, facing the laundry wall, that's where people 'signed on', all done in paper and ink, not a computer in sight. The semi-demolished buildings look like the remains of that huge room, like something out of Dickens, back in the day. http://www.urban75.org/brixton/features/images/unsound-jayday.jpg
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hiraethified
Beneath Brixton Village lies a bowling green!
Brixton history: busy scenes at the Lambeth Carlton Bowling Green (now Brixton Village)
Brixton history: busy scenes at the Lambeth Carlton Bowling Green (now Brixton Village)
