boohoo
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It's looked unloved for a very long time indeed.
Here's how it looked in the 70s.
My parents got married at the Registry office next door.
General Brixton history - photos, stories etc
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My parents got married at the Registry office next door.
boohoo
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So many plots of land had houses like this that were removed to create terraced houses or something else. A large part of Streatham High Road was all built in the 1930s; before that it was large houses like this lodge with big gardens. The Wandsworth archives has some interesting pics from the 1930s and articles about rents being too high and does Streatham need any more shops.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
The villas up Tulse Hill, where the estate now is, had gardens the size of farms.
Burroughs Pie n Mash Shop Brixton in the 80´s. More interior photos here http://thelondoncolumn.com/tag/tim-wells/
SarfLondoner
KenDoddsDadsDogsDead.
I was going to mention that sign,It always amused as a kid because when i would see it i was fed up, because my mum had dragged me to the market with her.
John Fyfe a granite merchant supplied the granite for the building of the Forth Bridge. He was also the person who laid out Electric Avenue. Johns younger brother - Alexander Leslie Fyfe of 56 Loughborough Park - and another chap called John Martin of 34 Geneva Road patented the lighting system that lit up Electric Avenue. Together they were the Fyfe-Main Electric Lighting and Construction Company. They exhibited the lighting system at Crystal Palace in 1882.
John Fyfe was also responsible for those lovely extravagant christmas decorations we see in photos of electric avenue. He was well liked by the brixton traders and there was a big "do" held for him in 1896 in a Holborn Restaurant. One of the principal toasts of the evening was "The Traders of Brixton" and this was responded to by Mr Edwin Jones J.P L.C.C the proprietor of the "palatial building the Bon Marche"
Article also says that it was Mr Edwins "spirit, enterprise and judgement that has converted the Bon Marche into the highly successful institution which it has now become"
Heres a snippet of what else was said that evening during the toasts
And this one describes the decorations of 1899
Article also says that it was Mr Edwins "spirit, enterprise and judgement that has converted the Bon Marche into the highly successful institution which it has now become"
Heres a snippet of what else was said that evening during the toasts
And this one describes the decorations of 1899
Probably not, this was the opening ceremony of Brixton Estate Limited in 1924, and it was held at the Kennington end of Brixton road on the forecourt of the General Motor Cab Co
SarfLondoner
KenDoddsDadsDogsDead.
If this is the same geezer, then yes he was
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/N13726007
http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/John_Fyfe
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F184635
Aberdeen Weekly Journal, 16/06/1887:
Aberdeen Lime Co. received telegram from London from Capt. Watt, ALEXANDER NICOL - "Have been in collision with S.S. CHELSEA in Lower Hope, London. Cause of collision - steamer starboarded her helm". ALEXANDER NICOL was carrying cargo of stones from Mr. John Fyfe, Granite Merchant, Aberdeen to London firm
Yes he was, from Aberdeenshire. This 1902 portrait of him by John Singer Sargant was presented to him by friends at a dinner and he donated it straight away to an Aberdeen Art Gallery. He died 4 years later.
His obituary talks of his quarries in Kemnay from "which granite has been supplied for nearly every important engineering structure in Britain"
Am just reading about two clauses in Henry Budds Will. The Henry that erected the Budd Memorial. One was that his two surviving sons should maintain the famiy mausoleum “at their own expense throughout their lifetime”. And the second is more bizarre regarding him not wanting them to grow moustaches!
‘In case my son Edward shall wear moustaches, then the devise herein before contained in favour of him, his appointees, heirs, and assigns, of my said estate called ‘Pepper Park’, shall be void; and I devise the same estate to my son William, his appointees, heirs, and assigns. And in case my said son William shall wear moustaches, then the devise hereinbefore contained in favour of him, his appointees, heirs, and assigns of my said estate, called Twickenham Park, shall be void; and I devise the said estate to my said son Edward, his appointees, heirs, and assigns.’
More here http://www.stmgrts.org.uk/archives/2014/06/heir_today_gone_tomorrow.html
‘In case my son Edward shall wear moustaches, then the devise herein before contained in favour of him, his appointees, heirs, and assigns, of my said estate called ‘Pepper Park’, shall be void; and I devise the same estate to my son William, his appointees, heirs, and assigns. And in case my said son William shall wear moustaches, then the devise hereinbefore contained in favour of him, his appointees, heirs, and assigns of my said estate, called Twickenham Park, shall be void; and I devise the said estate to my said son Edward, his appointees, heirs, and assigns.’
More here http://www.stmgrts.org.uk/archives/2014/06/heir_today_gone_tomorrow.html
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Excellent. Now I can add Brixton to my list of things that were invented by Scots.
This ones on the corner of Leeson Road, I used to go to Snooks sweetshop there to get my dads woodbines.
Lots of good photos of brixton here http://hoffman.photoshelter.com/search?I_DSC=Brixton&_ACT=search&I_DSC_AND=t
The riots of 81 and 85, The St Agnes eviction, The 121 centre evictions and more
editor
hiraethified
What building is the photographer stood on?
I need to think about that, but think it was as you come out of somerleyton rd and turn right, cross the road and there was a side street there, think there were railway arches down there
Still thinking about it, was there a pub there once upon time?
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hiraethified
Not a pub but I think there must have been old shops where the car park is now (next to Carlton Mansions). It's the Somerleyton side of the Barrier, but taken further back from Coldharbour Lane.
Think it was where the Angel pub was, though it looks closed in that photo. Pretty sure I recall the market traders storing their stalls down that side road of a night
Just read that, I´ll take another look with at it with that in mind
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hiraethified
No, the Angel is much further down. I'm sure this pic was taken around the corner of Coldharbour Lane and Somerleyton.
