General Brixton history - photos, stories etc

[Rushy]

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Love this 1950 view of Atlantic Road. Complete with upper quadrant semaphore signal!

Topically, David Greig in the background.

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

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Look how much smarter Electric Avenue was in the 1970s.

(I'll try and find the photo credit later as I can't remember the site, despite the hefty watermark)

I think ten, fifteen years from now the market will no longer exist and Electric Avenue will be full of swanky shops that will make the "Village" look run down.

 

[editor]

Topically, David Greig in the background.

They were all over Brixton!

 

[buscador]

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Look how much smarter Electric Avenue was in the 1970s.

(I'll try and find the photo credit later as I can't remember the site, despite the hefty watermark)

That "micheal leigh" shop on the corner... is there one of those on the Walworth Road? Every time I go past it I want to get a ladder and change the e and a round.

ETA Yes there is, I just failed to google it properly because my fingers refuse to type "micheal".

 

[RoyReed]

Electric Avenue was even smarter in 1910. It's criminal that the arcading was ever allowed to be lost.

 

[leanderman]

More horrid signs on the way today with a revamp (or creation of) a tiny booth near Holland & Barrett

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Electric Avenue was even smarter in 1910. It's criminal that the arcading was ever allowed to be lost.

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CCTV couldn't see the muggers and pickpockets

 

[Onket]

More horrid signs on the way today with a revamp (or creation of) a tiny booth near Holland & Barrett

A tiny booth?

 

[leanderman]

A tiny booth?

Tautology

 

[oryx]

Brixton Road 1909. [eBay]
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I love that church - it's one of the most beautiful buildings I know.

 

[CH1]

I love that church - it's one of the most beautiful buildings I know.

The architect (Beresford Pite - who lived in Brixton in the 1890s) also designed St Paul's Anglican Cathedral in Kampala, Uganda (now known as Namirembe Cathedral).

 

[boohoo]

Topically, David Greig in the background.

The archives has a book written by the wife of David Greig - some of it is interesting.

 

[editor]

You can almost feel the clean, sharp modernist future that they thought was coming right up in the 70s.



The Tesco has moved, the car park demolished and Station Rd furniture stores are no more.

 

[SarfLondoner]

This picture is from the 1970's,What is now the electric brixton was previously The Palladium picture house followed by the Ace which hosted punk and new romantic bands in the 70's and early 80's.It became the Fridge in the mid 80's.

 

[teuchter]

The ideal Brixton shop: posh on the outside, proletarian on the inside.

 

[Tricky Skills]

The ideal Brixton shop: posh on the outside, proletarian on the inside.

...Speedy Noddles

 

[Rushy]

...Speedy Noddles

There are times when I could really do with a quick noddle.

 

[Onket]

*nods*

 

[Rushy]

*nods*

That was bit too quick for me.

 

[editor]

Just posted this:

A century of Brixton Road views – from bootmakers to Caribbean cuisine

 

[cuppa tee]

I've never heard of flexifootball, but it's coming to the Evelyn Grace Academy:

7-Aside Summer Flexifootball comes to Brixton for the World Cup

Isn't posting future events stretching the concept of history a little ?

 

[editor]

Isn't posting future events stretching the concept of history a little ?

Wrong thread, sorry.

 

[cuppa tee]

Wrong thread, sorry.

..... no problem

 

[editor]

Just bought this 1927 Brixton Theatre programme on ebay. Will scan in and report when it arrives!

 

[MAD-T-REX]

'Book of words' should be on every publication.

"I say, what's in that book you've got?"

"Words."

 

[editor]

I've written this piece: Brixton history – the London, Gloucestershire & North Hants Dairy on Canterbury Crescent but it's been really hard to find out the fate of the original building.

Does anyone know when it was built? Did it stay in use until the beastly International House was built? And when was that thing built?
And what happened to the London, Gloucestershire & North Hants Dairy?

 

[editor]

Look at this amazing photo taken in the Coach and Horses in 1978.



Source: http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=SearchDetail&VBID=2K1HZOD2KS9GP&PN=34&IID=29YL53VO2Y



1975

http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&ALID=2TYRYD00VV00

 

[CH1]

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Source: http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=SearchDetail&VBID=2K1HZOD2KS9GP&PN=34&IID=29YL53VO2Y
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1975 http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&ALID=2TYRYD00VV00

Brilliant photos.
Two others struck me:

which he says was outside his window in Brixton. I reckon that's Rushcroft Road looking across at the car park, which has now been redeveloped as part of the Ritz/Metropolitan flats. (as discussed previously)
Also he has a nice shot of Desmond's Hip City - formerly of 55 Atlantic Road:

http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&ALID=2TYRYD00VV00

 

[editor]

Just posted this: Two views of Atlantic Road, Brixton, 1978 to 2014

 

[davesgcr]

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Love this 1950 view of Atlantic Road. Complete with upper quadrant semaphore signal!

But he only has the home off and the distant is ON - (therefore ., the driver needs to start feathering the brake handle !)