General Brixton history - photos, stories etc
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Jangleballix
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I wrote a piece about that clip here:
Salvation Army beat combo The Joystrings rock Brixton Village, 1964
Shops next to the Loughborough Park Tavern Coldharbour Lane. I think Hobdays later became Squires Newsagents, or if not then it was furthur along a bit. An old neighbour tells me that Blakes had a few shops along here, plus the petrol station that used to be there, and kept a black cab in Sussex Road.
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hiraethified
Brixton ten years ago:
Brixton Ten years Ago – Dogstar, Babalou, Fridge Bar and Coldharbour Lane, November 2005
Brixton Ten years Ago – Dogstar, Babalou, Fridge Bar and Coldharbour Lane, November 2005
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The decor seems a bit art deco. I remember the ground floor saloon as in the period 1977 - 1986 approx being rather large and with a low stage/dancefloor area. The bar was very long and curved too.
The photos you have here makes upstairs look more like a tea room - which suggests if it had survived intact the English Heritage people would have listed the Prince of Wales as an example of the inter-war New Pub catering for the whole family in a genteel and uncorrupting way. It did not last like that though!
billythefish
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Definitely not EPT. Could it be the Auld Triangle on Clapham Park Road, now the Coach and Horses? They had a pool table / TV alignment like that, although I can't remember whether there was carpet.
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hiraethified
It's not there. It's going to be a central Brixton boozer. Maybe it was the Queens?
It's not the New Queens definitely.
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hiraethified
I meant the old Queen in Bellefields Road but I don't think it's that now.
I suspected that,the New Queens is the best part of a hundred years older than the Old Queens diagonally opposite.No carpet and no TV in that bar and you couldn't take that picture because of the Victorian divider it was a black and squatter pub when I drank there in the seventies and eighties.
friendofdorothy
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most pubs looked like that - nicotine yellow walls and carpets with patterns loud enough that they might hide vomit. I miss them too. The current fashion for stripped floorboard makes sound bounce around and everything so loud.
RoyReed
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Some more images of old Brixton with this one: Old Photos of Brixton in the City of London, England, United Kingdom ofGreat Britain
Some more images of old Brixton with this one: Old Photos of Brixton in the City of London, England, United Kingdom ofGreat Britain
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"Red Guard"(NLYL)
It was the furniture shop on the ground floor of the building on the apex of Barrington Road and Gresham Road.
The incident was a bit like "Reeves Corner" burning down in Croydon in 2011. Our fire was smaller probably, but the whole building collapsed live on TV.
The chapel next door was damaged by water from the fire hoses - the organ was put out of action. They can't afford for the organ to be restored.
When Metropolitan Housing were given the job of rebuilding the site, they retained the shape of the building, but made the ground floor into a beautiful gated car park for dumped cars.
I think you are probably old enough to remember Brady's in Brixton (fondly called "the Vomitorium").Jesus how they got that nicotine colour on the walls and ceiling must have taken fifty years,the carpet,good grief I swear it moved even if you hadn't taken acid.
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friendofdorothy
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I thought Brady's had sawdust on the floor - or was that just to protect the carpet?
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spitfire
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Definitely not the Doggy, it never had carpet.
