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That's brilliantA recent interview with Magda Borowiecka, Lead Architect of the Barrier Block:
The Accidental Brutalist: Magda Borowiecka
s part of our series, Characters of Coldharbour Lane, raising a glass to the people and places along Coldharbour Lane, Barrier Block architect, Magda Borowiecka spoke to us about her extraordinary life and career, and the only thing she likes about her best-known building. Anyone who’s ever...www.brixtonbrewery.com
Interesting article - I'm half way writing a piece about her too because I'm fed up with people telling me that she killed herself or that the the block was built 'the wrong way around.'A recent interview with Magda Borowiecka, Lead Architect of the Barrier Block:
The Accidental Brutalist: Magda Borowiecka
s part of our series, Characters of Coldharbour Lane, raising a glass to the people and places along Coldharbour Lane, Barrier Block architect, Magda Borowiecka spoke to us about her extraordinary life and career, and the only thing she likes about her best-known building. Anyone who’s ever...www.brixtonbrewery.com
Nice, I have some scans of documents(some we used) from her son I can share for your article if of interest. He might have others too.Interesting article - I'm half way writing a piece about her too because I'm fed up with people telling me that she killed herself or that the the block was built 'the wrong way around.'
Could have used a few less plugs for your own beer though.
Shame that websters finally went only a few years ago
No its not. It is an office for some sort of architecture firm.View attachment 230354
St Jude Churhc (now housing) on Dulwich Road
GENUKI: St Jude, East Brixton, Church of England, Surrey
St Jude, East Brixton, Church of England Surrey genealogywww.genuki.org.uk
What, all of it? Blimey. There's always loads of cars outside so I thought it must be residential.No its not. It is an office for some sort of architecture firm.
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There is definitely a publishing company based there (as well maybe?) friend of mine worked there a couple of years backNo its not. It is an office for some sort of architecture firm.
Publishing/PR Maybe editor's link gives the clue.There is definitely a publishing company based there (as well maybe?) friend of mine worked there a couple of years back
I went shopping at that furniture shop last century. Was it office furniture? I can't remember nowPublishing/PR Maybe editor's link gives the clue.
Meanwhile I forget to go on about Budget Furniture - an office furniture business which seems to have been there between the closure of St Judes as a church building and what it is now. I was hoping to post up a photo, but nothing on Google. I think Budget Furniture may have stopped trading around 2000 - replaced by the firm there now.
Yes - it was what would now be called a recycling operation. They bought desks etc from firms closing down, moving, or selling surplus stock, fixed it up if necessary, and sold & delivered to local buyers.I went shopping at that furniture shop last century. Was it office furniture? I can't remember now
Great slice of Brixton here
On the 1911 census he is showing as living at 51 Barrington Road Brixton which was right near the Railway Station which has been closed since 1976"
Great picture. The current situation is that it has been given some attention by the current owners.out of curiosity to see if there's a station master's house standing...
I make it 59 not 51
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which is the house next door to the station (the railways often provided a house for station master - also worked to their advantage in that he was close to hand if the shit hit the fan when he was in theory off duty)
house looks tired in 1972 (from disused stations website) - gate might be in southern region green, but may be coincidence.
No mention on disused stations of a station master's house, and i don't have a history of the LBSCR, or a map showing what was there before the railway came along, but it seems the house went with the job.
1896 and 1904 london suburbs directory has Mr Walter Guildford in residence
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By 1919, Mr Crittenden had moved on, and Henry Richard Holdaway had the job and house.
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Raises the question of whether the railway built the house, or bought / leased it when the station opened.
I'm sure he said that he tought the house at 59 Barrington Road must have originaly been half of a pair, the left hand one having been demolished to build the railway. Difficult to be sure - but this looks plausible to me from the rather abruptly truncated and unsymetrical LH edge.
Compare it to a tithe map, there should be one from the 1840s somewhereThis is the map you want - it shows things after the first railway line is built but prior to the second (southernmost) viaduct being built.
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I'm never quite sure how literally to take these maps - were there actually 4 houses between the railway line and coldharbour lane or does it just mean "a few"?
It does however suggest that there were houses there before that second viaduct (the one with east brixton station on it) was built, and some of these would have been demolished in order to build the second one. So the idea that that house is a survivor from a part demolished pair seems plausible.