What's a bloater!!?!??!
And love the Mirror headline "Surrey team practise at the Oval. Photographs". Exciting stuff! hahahaha.
General Brixton history - photos, stories etc
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What's a bloater!!?!??!
And love the Mirror headline "Surrey team practise at the Oval. Photographs". Exciting stuff! hahahaha.
I cant watch the video as it keeps crashing. My brother sent me this photo some time ago. Is it the same man?
Heres the interior damage to that Post Office, see post 345
RoyReed
Must fly!
Bloaters are salted and cold-smoked herrings.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
while trying to find something, encountered these sets by 'smudge33' on flickr - stockwell road (1960s?), Brixton 1972 / 3
(being flickr, difficult to embed an image here)
(being flickr, difficult to embed an image here)
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Atlantic Road, a postcard seen for sale on Ebay
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/rp15277-A...Collectables_Postcards_MJ&hash=item540eb3db2a
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/rp15277-A...Collectables_Postcards_MJ&hash=item540eb3db2a
The Loughborough Junction Welfare Clinic. Opened April 10 1918. It was on the corner of Sussex Road and Loughborough Park. It used to be the Sussex Arms Public House. Photo is 1923, the news article is April 20 1918. Not sure when it closed but it was still going in the mid fifties.
Bit more about Sisters Olive and French here, Olive had conducted over 10,000 labours! http://rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk/data/VOLUME060-1918/page105-volume60-9thfebruary1918.pdf
Bit more about Sisters Olive and French here, Olive had conducted over 10,000 labours! http://rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk/data/VOLUME060-1918/page105-volume60-9thfebruary1918.pdf
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hiraethified
It's been hard to track down photos of that's pub. I did a feature here:
http://www.urban75.org/brixton/history/coldharbour6.html
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Nice find. Presumably this is Edwardian and pre-dates the arcades. There is certainly no sign of Market Row or the Granville Arcade Atlantic Rd entrance unless my reading of the perspective is wrong.
It wasn´t dated, I thought the entrance to arcade on right was maybe about underneath "Woody" with the white canopy..edited ..No it wouldnt be, just remembered Granville arcade was built much later, so used to seeing it I automatically looked for it!
A Danish matinee idol called Carl Brisson was the star attraction at the opening of The Graville in 1937. He starred in some of the Hitchcock silent movies.
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boohoo
No.
It's a good interview. The picture was for French Vogue.
boohoo
No.
Someone on here has these originals (or had....) - Brian said he can't remember painting this figure - probably because he didn't!
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hiraethified
Could you add the sources, please? I'd love to update some of my history features with these pics but need to be able to credit the source.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
I did a sponsored swim in the swimming pool around 1994. There was an SLP photo of the pool and swimmers - but not related to the school really.I went to Ashby Mill Primary School in the 90's - Did anyone on here go there on Lyham Road?
Cant seem to find any other old photos of it only of the exterior which is obviously now flats.
boohoo
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while trying to find something, encountered these sets by 'smudge33' on flickr - stockwell road (1960s?), Brixton 1972 / 3
(being flickr, difficult to embed an image here)
Some great pics - much of it now demolished though there is one pic with a building which I remember in it.
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hiraethified
So, British Home Stores began in Brixton!
http://www.brixtonbuzz.com/2015/01/born-in-brixton-british-home-stores-department-chain-store/
http://www.brixtonbuzz.com/2015/01/born-in-brixton-british-home-stores-department-chain-store/
RoyReed
Must fly!
Some great photos of Brixton in the English Heritage archive.
Caption: People shopping at twilight at the street market in Electric Avenue, Brixton, taken from under one of the ornate ironwork canopies and looking towards the railway bridges crossing Atlantic Road
Photographer: John Gay Date Taken: Jan 1962 - May 1964
Caption: A street view at twilight looking south-east under the railway bridge on Atlantic Road, Brixton, by the covered steps up to Brixton Station, with people approaching on the pavement to right and a No. 2 double decker bus going the other way.
Photographer: John Gay Date Taken: Jan 1962 - May 1964
Caption: People shopping at twilight at the street market in Electric Avenue, Brixton, taken from under one of the ornate ironwork canopies and looking towards the railway bridges crossing Atlantic Road
Photographer: John Gay Date Taken: Jan 1962 - May 1964
Caption: A street view at twilight looking south-east under the railway bridge on Atlantic Road, Brixton, by the covered steps up to Brixton Station, with people approaching on the pavement to right and a No. 2 double decker bus going the other way.
Photographer: John Gay Date Taken: Jan 1962 - May 1964
