SarfLondoner
KenDoddsDadsDogsDead.
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General Brixton history - photos, stories etc
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SarfLondoner
KenDoddsDadsDogsDead.
Woolworths Original location 415-417 Brixton road.
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SarfLondoner
KenDoddsDadsDogsDead.
The London Gloucestershire and North Hants Dairy on the corner of Canterbury Road (now Canterbury Crescent) and Pope's Road.
The building was demolished and International House was built on the site.
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The building was demolished and International House was built on the site.
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SarfLondoner
KenDoddsDadsDogsDead.
editor Is there any Pictures of Brixton you dont have?
I get all excited when i find these gems then you come along and trump me.You have got it nailed.
SarfLondoner
KenDoddsDadsDogsDead.
An aerial view looking south down Effra Road, taken from above premises on the corner of Acre Lane and Brixton Road. St Mathews Church is seen on the top right, and the petrol station and garages on the left have since been demolished.Circa 1940
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SarfLondoner
KenDoddsDadsDogsDead.
This is Times furniture shop on Brixton road.In the 80's i remember it being on the corner of Acre lane/Brixton road.
SarfLondoner
KenDoddsDadsDogsDead.
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KenDoddsDadsDogsDead.
SarfLondoner
KenDoddsDadsDogsDead.
1940
boohoo
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That would be the Crown and Anchor pub in the distance there.
boohoo
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I've not seen this view. I'm sure the garage was a shop for a while - someone will remember.
Rushy
basically a scrotum
I love the look of the steep gabled house in top left - now Vida Walsh.
Presume this is before the road widening which left the Budd memorial outside the church railings - although the large trees are already very close to the boundary walls.
SarfLondoner
KenDoddsDadsDogsDead.
Yes it is,The victory nursery is now situated where times furniture was.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
I would put this one post-war but not by very long.
The kerbs still have the black / white markings that were added to assist visibility in the blackout, but neither the bus or tram has the additional white markings that were added for the blackout, and the car / lorry nearer the camera do not have wartime headlamp masking.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
Yes, the cable system went before WW1. The thing in the middle is a conduit slot - the London County Council's trams in inner London ran on this system, only the outer areas / later constructions ran on overhead wires. Trams changed from one to the other at 'change pits' akin to this (this is the Lee Green one)
the ones serving Brixton routes were in Effra Road (for the Norwood routes) and on Streatham High Road (for the main route to Croydon)
ETA - and Coldharbour lane for the 34 route
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
I remember Burtons Menswear on the corner until around 1988. The remnants of the houses in SarfLondoner's photo still existed behind the Burtons building then - but were sacrificed to bring us Argos it seems.
The Argos/Footlocker/Sainsburys/Smiths development was another "Brixton Challenge" initiative, like the demolition of the Empress Theatre/Bingo Hall in Brighton Terrace, the redevelopment of the Ritzy, and the redevelopment of the Odeon Camberwell (Dicky Dirts) as a Foyer Scheme (though why that was funded out of Brixton money heaven knows).
One undesirable side-effect of the redevelopment was to destroy the vibrant little arcade beside the underground station which gave much quicker access through to the BR station. And had a cafe (as opposed to a Starbucks).
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CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
The building you say burnt down is still there - indeed it is actually the same building as when it was Burtons.That's not now, that building burnt down.
He's not got a picture of the building that's there now!
The building has been refitted several times - and burnt out, at least on the ground floor, but it still remains the same (unlike all the surrounding buildings, which got "redeveloped"). Editor SarfLondoner
SarfLondoner
KenDoddsDadsDogsDead.
That was a great little cafe and was always busy,there was also a decent clothes shop in that arcade doing the latest fashions and casual wear.I could never understand why it was shut down.
editor
hiraethified
I often used to get my newspapers and drinks from the shop in that arcade, and liked the cafe too.
SarfLondoner
KenDoddsDadsDogsDead.
Any idea what year the arcade actually closed?
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
I think it was 1995. There were "consultations" before the arcade was closed and the businesses were promised alternative and equally suitable premises to my recollection.
It doesn't seem to have happened though, does it? I am more familiar with the case of the Index Bookshop which had to move from a shop where Argos is now on Atlantic Road.
SarfLondoner
KenDoddsDadsDogsDead.
There is some good stuff about Brixton here,,http://www.cable-car-guy.com/html/cchobson.html#top which was posted by Puddy_Tat on another thread.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
the interwebs is like that - i found that site yesterday while I was trying to find a picture of the change pit in Streatham. Of course I couldn't find it a couple of years back when I was trying to research the building in the photo on the site
