General Brixton history - photos, stories etc

[boohoo]

Brixton piggyback race.

Anyone figure out where the heck this is?

 

[SarfLondoner]

Anyone figure out where the heck this is?

Dont start

 

[boohoo]

Dont start

I should put it on the other thread. The two house at the end of the road are very distinctive and yet I can't find them.....yet.... maybe it isn't even Brixton!!!!

 

[Rushy]

Anyone figure out where the heck this is?

St Matthews Road
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.4...ata=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s4Cg6FK6d8zv97owZUZqUWQ!2e0

Junction with Brixton Water Lane.
One of the houses has gone.

 

[Rushy]

And
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.4...ata=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s6L4xLYSRBnaZg8JzQWNlFw!2e0

 

[SarfLondoner]

I should put it on the other thread. The two house at the end of the road are very distinctive and yet I can't find them.....yet.... maybe it isn't even Brixton!!!!

Where are you thinking it might be? Lambert and Sudbourne road sprang to mind.

 

[Rushy]

It's the only images I have seen of the Road before the demolitions.

 

[SarfLondoner]

And
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.4...ata=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s6L4xLYSRBnaZg8JzQWNlFw!2e0

Quite possible,good shout.

 

[Rushy]

I'm fairly certain. I recognised it straight away.

 

[boohoo]

Rushy Good work. It looks correct. The remaining building on St Matthew's road looks right. The lamp posts are quite distinctive too.

 

[SarfLondoner]

This is a nice film,,,,

 

[SarfLondoner]

I was wondering where this was originally situated.

 

[boohoo]

View attachment 53747 I was wondering where this was originally situated.

Where the Sainsburys is. There is a post about this somewhere on here.

 

[SarfLondoner]

Some interesting stuff here,,http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=49774

 

[SarfLondoner]

Brixton theatres ,,,,http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/Brixton.htm

 

[editor]

View attachment 53747 I was wondering where this was originally situated.

More here: http://www.urban75.org/blog/brixton-roller-skating-rink-memories-from-the-late-1950s/

 

[SarfLondoner]

Brixton east station,,,http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/e/east_brixton/index7.shtml.

http://www.kentrail.org.uk/east_brixton.htm

 

[boohoo]

Some interesting stuff here,,http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=49774

The British-history site has lots of great information abut the details of London - the pages on Stockwell are interesting.

 

[editor]

Brixton east station,,,http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/e/east_brixton/index7.shtml.

http://www.kentrail.org.uk/east_brixton.htm

And here: http://www.urban75.org/railway/east-brixton.html

 

[editor]

The British-history site has lots of great information abut the details of London - the pages on Stockwell are interesting.

Yes, it's a great resource.

 

[SarfLondoner]

I wonder where this factory is /was,Its the Teofani tobacco factory in Brixton dated 1914.

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

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I wonder where this factory is /was,Its the Teofani tobacco factory in Brixton dated 1914.

Chryssell Road.
http://www.englishheritagearchives....ick&cr=bedford lemere&io=True&l=all&page=1457

 

[buscador]

A group of women sorting tobacco leaves in the Teofani tobacco factory in Brixton. The Teofani factory was positioned just behind Chryssell Road, which at the time ran north south between Cranmer Road and Vassall Road in Brixton.

[Found this on the English Heritage site.]

 

[CH1]

Brixton east station,,,http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/e/east_brixton/index7.shtml.

http://www.kentrail.org.uk/east_brixton.htm

Useful links for future reference - thanks for posting!

 

[CH1]

And here: http://www.urban75.org/railway/east-brixton.html

Is there any info on when/why they changed from overhead electrification and standardised on third rail?
Duh! 1928 - it's in the Kent Rail piece SarfLondoner posted.

 

[SarfLondoner]

here is another snap from the same visit Dexter Deadwood

http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail...-out-of-a-window-to-pass-news-photo/103627686

the caption seems to confirm some of CH1 's earlier post

 

[Puddy_Tat]

A bit of a niche industry -

Brixton was home to the London County Council Tramways, and later London Transport ticket printing and ticket machine maintenance works.

Effra Road printing works. A female worker works on a wire stapling machine that bundles the tickets into batches of fifty ready for dispatch.

Photographed by Richard Sharpe, 1949

This building was on the site that's now Halfords etc.

John Stephens (left) and George Sawyer (right) carrying out maintenance work on some Gibson ticket machines at Stockwell Works.

Photographed by Colin Tait, Feb 1955

In LCC days, and until the mid 50s, when the use of 'bell punch' tickets ended, the Effra Road site concentrated on printing, the 'Stockwell' site was on Stockwell Road, Brixton, and concentrated on ticket machine repair, although in LCC days, ticket punches were made there as well. The prototype 'Gibson' ticket machine was probably made there to the design of and under supervision of Mr George Gibson who was the works superintendent. (the production model was made in Tring, Herts)

I am trying to nail down the exact site of this, it is on record as being part of a former horse tram depot, but there were 2 such sites on Stockwell Road.

At some point in the 1950s, both functions were concentrated on the Effra Road site which was reconstructed after war damage. The works closed in the late 1980s as privatisation / outsourcing became policy.

 

[buscador]

Thanks for that, Puddy_Tat . We were walking past that site just yesterday and wondered what had been there.

 

[editor]

Love this - a full size replica of a steam train in Bon Marche!

 

[Onket]

I used to live near the site of that Teofani factory. Never really considered it to be 'Brixton' though.