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And here's the full article: Brixton history – cable-hauled tram on Brixton Hill in late Victorian times
Thanks again Puddy_Tat
General Brixton history - photos, stories etc
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Thanks again Puddy_Tat
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That odd power station by the Loughborough Junction station looks in better nick than now. Wonder why they provided brick rebates like church windows?
I doubt railway companies have such sensibilities these days.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
The railway bridge pre-replacement with the modern, welded steel one too!
happyshopper
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I miss Robell’s
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Is anyone else on here old enough to remember "The Bon"?
Had a discount record bar selling deletions for 50p and a popular canteen whose stools were firmly screwed to the floor.
I moved to Brixton in 1978 - The Bon was vibrant at that time, but I think it died the death by 1982.
Had a discount record bar selling deletions for 50p and a popular canteen whose stools were firmly screwed to the floor.
I moved to Brixton in 1978 - The Bon was vibrant at that time, but I think it died the death by 1982.
Voley
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Flashback have some good 80s Brixton photos here:
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Fields Of The Nephilim were on at The Academy. Quite a big gig for them, that. I'd forgotten how popular they were.
A Walk Around Brixton in The 1980s - Flashbak
We’re on a walking tour of 1980s Brixton in South London in the company of Peter Marshall. Gentrification has changed the faces and the shops. But many buildings remain unchanged. The photographs are black and white, and colour. They show us the stuff we remember but never thought to photograph...
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Fields Of The Nephilim were on at The Academy. Quite a big gig for them, that. I'd forgotten how popular they were.
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Remember Gordon Petrie - the incredible hulk sized licensee of the George Canning in the early 1980s?
Well he was just on Talking Pictures TV
He was a tunnel worker in the 1972 British horror film Death Line.
The plot featured a cannibal zombie lurking in tunnels on the Piccadilly Line round Covent Garden.
Gordon was somewhat of an extra- neither eating nor eaten one might say.
"Mind the Doors" was the film's catch-phrase.
Don't see Death Line listed again on Talking Picture over the next 7 days - but it will probably be back.
Meanwhile keenies can catch a Blu-Ray revamp
Brixton Buzz covered Gordon Petrie in January - but Mike Urban missed the flesh-eating side of the story!
A glimpse into Brixton’s wrestling past, Prince Kumali and the old George Canning pub (now Hootananny)
Well he was just on Talking Pictures TV
He was a tunnel worker in the 1972 British horror film Death Line.
The plot featured a cannibal zombie lurking in tunnels on the Piccadilly Line round Covent Garden.
Gordon was somewhat of an extra- neither eating nor eaten one might say.
"Mind the Doors" was the film's catch-phrase.
Don't see Death Line listed again on Talking Picture over the next 7 days - but it will probably be back.
Meanwhile keenies can catch a Blu-Ray revamp
Brixton Buzz covered Gordon Petrie in January - but Mike Urban missed the flesh-eating side of the story!
A glimpse into Brixton’s wrestling past, Prince Kumali and the old George Canning pub (now Hootananny)
Puddy_Tat
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i had a similar conversation on tweeter yesterday evening
station staff or train guards on the underground calling 'mind the doors' was the analogue version of the automated 'please stand clear of the closing doors'
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We supported them once. Before they went on, they all took turns to stand on some newspapers while a woman sprinkled talc over their outfits. Bless.Flashback have some good 80s Brixton photos here:
A Walk Around Brixton in The 1980s - Flashbak
We’re on a walking tour of 1980s Brixton in South London in the company of Peter Marshall. Gentrification has changed the faces and the shops. But many buildings remain unchanged. The photographs are black and white, and colour. They show us the stuff we remember but never thought to photograph...
Fields Of The Nephilim were on at The Academy. Quite a big gig for them, that. I'd forgotten how popular they were.
BusLanes
Pedestrian
DietCokeGirl
Fishing in the rivers of life
Anyone else's water gone off around SW9/Stockwell Rd?
RoyReed
Must fly!
You might not want this in the Brixton History thread.
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This was thrust onto my email by Pinterest this morning.
Clearly a drawing rather than a photo it seems to be Brixton Theatre prior to the building of the Electric Cinema - so I guess right in the middle of Edward VII's reign.
Apologies if its been posted up here before.
Clearly a drawing rather than a photo it seems to be Brixton Theatre prior to the building of the Electric Cinema - so I guess right in the middle of Edward VII's reign.
Apologies if its been posted up here before.
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more on brixton theatres and music halls, including some photos of the brixton theatre before the electric
1916 map showing the theatre and electric pavilion
Puddy_Tat
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found the picture elsewhere - says it's a fordson
looks like a model launched in 1935 - more at
FINE RANGE OF COMMERCIAL VEHICLES AT THE FORD SHOW | 18th October 1935 | The Commercial Motor Archive (the zoom page function is better than the OCR-mangled plain text)
looks like this particular model didn't catch on
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I've been nursing a hangover today and have looked through this entire thread. Just wanted to say thanks for what an incredible collection of images and stories - utterly fascinating.
I've got two to add - the Brixton Orphanage for Fatherless Girls. It was on Barrington Road just to the left of where Brixton East station was.
The illustration is where the schoolrooms and dormatories were - the grounds have changed but the building remains largely the same and is now 'College Green Court'.
Cheers!
I've got two to add - the Brixton Orphanage for Fatherless Girls. It was on Barrington Road just to the left of where Brixton East station was.
The illustration is where the schoolrooms and dormatories were - the grounds have changed but the building remains largely the same and is now 'College Green Court'.
Cheers!
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Ten years ago
www.brixtonbuzz.com
Brixton history – 60 photos from July 2011, including pubs, gigs, an eviction party and the Country Show
Here’s a selection of photos taken in and around Brixton back in July 2011. Above can be seen the rooftop of Clifton Mansions on Coldharbour Lane during its eviction party.
www.brixtonbuzz.com
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Great stuff!
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The Oxford Street of the South - A Short Fabulous Retail History of Brixton - Flashbak
It’s not London’s oldest market – the one at Borough was first mentioned in 1276 and claims to have been in existence since 1014 – but the 150-year-old Brixton Market is certainly one of the best. Over 60 years ago Ian Nairn, the architectural critic, described it as “stalls everywhere, arcades...
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And here's something we'll never see again:
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Brixton Splash 2015 – archive photographs reveal a jam-packed Brixton
I think this may have been the busiest Brixton has ever been, as tens of thousands of people poured into what would the last ever Brixton Splash free street party in August 2015. Here’s 20 ph…
www.brixtonbuzz.com
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Interesting in-depth piece here
pasttenseblog.wordpress.com
This is the Real Brixton Challenge
Brixton from the late 1980s… Below we’ve tried to set out some of the changes we’ve seen in Brixton, South London, since the heady days of the early 1980s. In the 1970s and ‘80s the mai…
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Certainly the house opposite me had it's very nice squatters evicted - and was handed over to Black Roof Housing.Interesting in-depth piece here
This is the Real Brixton Challenge
Brixton from the late 1980s… Below we’ve tried to set out some of the changes we’ve seen in Brixton, South London, since the heady days of the early 1980s. In the 1970s and ‘80s the mai…
I don;t follow the politics of Housing Associations in depth - maybe someone can say who now owns the Black Roof properties?
The link below is perhaps an interesting example of Black Roof as an early adopter of the concept of colonialism in social housing:
Black Roof told to hand over its assets
A housing association that compared Housing Corporation officials to ‘colonial governors'...
