General Brixton history - photos, stories etc
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No it never had sawdust (although I remember such pubs in NZ in the sixties) it did have a threadbare carpet that had been there for decades and contained some very dubious stains,blood, vomit and so on.
E2a: I replaced the carpet in the Fridge (and got a backhander from the contractors for giving it to them),there's such a thing as insects who colonise bars,they lifted the carpet and there were thousands of the fuckers.
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CH1
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Could it have been the Angell? They had a pool table in the RH bar.
Brixton Greyhound Stadium. Opened 10th September 1932, demolished after the war. Brixton Road junction with Knowle Road. About where St Helens Catholic school is now.
More can be read about it here http://www.greyhoundracinghistory.co.uk/brixton.pdf
Theres three more photos here Europeana - Homepage (search brixton greyhound).
More here
Nos 344-364 Brixton Road (and junction of Knowle Road) | The National Archives
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Proposed greyhound racing track, proposed new cinema, proposed shops and flats, proposed primary school.
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superfly101
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Whippets > Greyhounds
Racing dogs for the common man #runs
Racing dogs for the common man #runs
In 1905, the London County Council opened a Residential Home for Mentally Defective Boys at 48-50 Acre Lane
History of it here The Children's Homes website - LCC Residential Home for Mentally Defective Boys, Brixton, London
History of it here The Children's Homes website - LCC Residential Home for Mentally Defective Boys, Brixton, London
boohoo
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Just 9 months for stealing a baby. Can't imagine leaving a baby in a buggy outside a shop.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Where are you getting these old aerial photos from?
From here teuchter Britain from Above | Rescue the Past a collection of aerial photographs from 1919-1953. Register, its free, and it will allow you to zoom. Searching can be a bit hit n miss, just keep using different search words. Image reference EPW060448 for the one with the Greyhound Stadium. The photo I posted was just a small zoomed in snip of a much larger image that extended up past the town hall, Effra road etc.
Another interesting one is:
Title Herne Hill North Railway Junction and the surrounding residential area, Brixton, 1939
Image reference EPW060447
Date 7th February 1939
Another interesting one is:
Title Herne Hill North Railway Junction and the surrounding residential area, Brixton, 1939
Image reference EPW060447
Date 7th February 1939
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teuchter
je suis teuchter
Ah, great, thanks!
I am going to have to ban myself from looking at it for the day, or I'll not get any work done.
boohoo
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In the census of 1871 for 7 Gresham Road it was called Gresham House, occupied by a retired picture dealer, his wife and a servant. He married his wife in Brixton in 1853. The London Gazette has him at Gresham Lodge Gresham Road in 1866.
1881 it shows as uninhabited. No name given.
1891 has it as Gresham Hall
1901 Gresham Hall uninhabited
The picture dealer who was Edwin Hillman was buried at Norwood Cemetary 4 July 1890.
By 1910 it had become the Brixton Telephone Exchange, not seen it on the 1911 census but its mentioned in an article about a fire I´m researching.
Gresham Hall too had a major fire February 1884. Most articles about this fire refer to it as Gresham Hall but one says Gresham Hall better known as the Angel Town Institution. Another says it was owned by the Gresham Hall Company (Limited) and used for entertainment.
This one describes the hall
It was also said that the adjoining houses were not damaged.
So whether the 7 Gresham Road of today was rebuilt after 1884 I dont know. Maybe it once had a hall at the rear?
Its neighbours in 1871 were Roydon Lodge, Morland Villas, Denmark House, Dieppe House and Dieppe Lodge, York House....
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
The manager showed me round a year or so ago. (It is of course now called the Karibu).
You can see from the windows that a mezzanine floor was added splitting the hall horizontally at window level and doubling the floor area - probably when the building became the telephone exchange.
The insertion of a mezzanine floor - thus destroying the original grand auditorium also happened at Rayleigh Hall/Brixton Liberal Club at 1, Saltoun Road. That building had a concert hall added to the rear (flanking Saltoun Road) but when it fell into disuse as a political club and meeting/concert venue the hall was subdivided and used as a garment factory sweatshop. When Lambeth took control they allowed artists and furniture manufacturers to occupy the space, and then lost control to the occupiers in a court case. That is why the Black Cultural Archives only have the part of the building fronting Windrush Square, which in retrospect is a great pity. The rear part would have made a good lecture hall/cinema etc.
GarveyLives
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Arguably more fascinating than repeated reminiscing about imperial, colonial Brixton, would be to hear the stories of those with whom Lord Scarman met 34 years after his visit.
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I think it might be in the Prince Albert. There used t be a pool table there until the knives came out over ball-related disputes.
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spitfire
Walty McWaltface
Now that you mention it I think you're right, there's something familiar about that radiator. I'm sure I used to lean on that when playing.
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hiraethified
Yeah, I think it is the long lost pool table of the Albert.
