I dont remember there being any shops in Somerleyton Road, I remember the houses in Somerleyton before Moorland came along but cant recall any shops.
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It's definitely not there - the camera was looking towards Somerleyton Road from central Brixton.
I see what you mean, the roof line of the Barrier Block looks different. Ummm..but the thing is there were no side roads as you walked up Somerleyton...ahh what about the other side, the Loughborough park side...I will give it some thought
This 1950. From whereabouts was the 1981 photo took do you think? So I can get my bearings as to where you are referring to. Looking at this I can see that the Angel is much furthur along than I thought it was. I can see a gap in the buildings along the left side of Somerleyton. (Somerleyton is the one above the word "photo" in this text). You see the very white building, along from the labour exchange, thats about roughly where I thought it taken from. I will ask some neighbours who are older than me about it.
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This is intriguing stuff, Is it defiantly not Moorland and Coldharbour lane junction ?
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No.
It's not the car park as the mural was there but it could be where the school building is.
Been looking long n hard at that riot photo and now think it was possibly taken from the left of this group but from the labour exchange side of the road, up towards the Granville arcade. Its really puzzling me because I was backwards and forwards down this road for years but cant remember what it was.
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This is driving me mad.
Given the fact that the part of the Barrier Block shown runs parallel with Somerleyton Road, the acute angle suggests that the photo was in fact taken somewhere off Somerleyton Road looking north towards Coldharbour Lane - but then what the hell is that road/shop?!
If the railway wasn't there it would make sense, and there's been no roads that have vanished along that stretch, and Somerletyon Passage looks too far back.
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So this angle comes close to the original -I'm looking north up Somerleyton towards Coldharbour Lane.
The details of the Barrier line up exactly, but the photographer has to be set back much further than Somerleyton Road. He/she can't be the other side of the railway so it has to be in where the tatty council buildings are now?
This is the spot that I keep looking at on street view too. I have spoken to one older friend so far, and his response was ..
"Its taken from Canterbury Crescent at its junction with Coldharbour Lane almost opposite Geneva road. The canterbury arms used to be on the corner there used to drink in there as worked in Canterbury Crescent at Nicholls transport in the early 1960s. The give way sign indicates that it is a junction between a minor and major road"
"It was more at the bottom of Geneva Road. If you went down Somerleyton to the labour exchange turned right walked past the childrens nursery it was the next turning on your left"
He added " it was there in 1963 just before I joined Navy so must have been shut down 64/65 as there was some development done around then and it wasnt there 71"
I wonder if he is mistaken and talking about the Angel. The person I would like to show it aint online tonight, hopefully he´ll remenber.
I keep looking at the policeman and wondering what it is they could be looking at in the direction they are gazing. One seems to be looking at the person who took the shot. Hes looking upwards as if the photographer is higher up. The one with the dustbin lid seems to be looking into the distance, watching out , but if in the council buildings there wouldnt really be anyone there to approach from that direction. And the guy on the roof, how did he get on the roof.....I am truly baffled
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hiraethified
It's definitely not taken from 'Canterbury Crescent' (he means Valentia Place) because the part of the Barrier Block facing that has has a completely different type of façade. See it below. The one in the photo is defintely Somerleyton Road, looking from the south,
He must mean the Angel too, because you can't see the block from the Canterbury Arms because of the railway.
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It is baffling though because I can't work out what road the police van is on. It looks too far away to be Somerlyton Road (which runs right up next to the block) and not far away enough to be Somerleyton Passage - although the Passage would make some kind of sense as that would be a likely to be a flash point from Railton Road on the other side of the tracks.
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Oh hang on - I think I've got it!- the raised area is the railway tracks, so we're looking across from the road that runs parallel with Railton Road (that got closed after the riot).
Edit: It's Mayall Road. So could the guy be standing on the Windsor Castle?
http://www.urban75.org/brixton/bars/windsor-castle.html
Edit: It's Mayall Road. So could the guy be standing on the Windsor Castle?
http://www.urban75.org/brixton/bars/windsor-castle.html
Just gonna take a good look at that
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BINGO!
