General Brixton history - photos, stories etc
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Some cracking pics here -
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Chris Steele-Perkins: Brixton 1973-1975
Chris Steele-Perkins: Brixton 1973-1975 | Magnum Photos Magnum Photos
The British photographer created an unplanned portrait of everyday life in the multi-ethnic neighborhood that he made his home in the mid 70s
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Great piece here
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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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Some cracking pics here -
Chris Steele-Perkins: Brixton 1973-1975
Chris Steele-Perkins: Brixton 1973-1975 | Magnum Photos Magnum Photos
The British photographer created an unplanned portrait of everyday life in the multi-ethnic neighborhood that he made his home in the mid 70s
Great photos, but I see Magnum are repeating the error from the Photofusion show in 2019 of including his 1979 picture of Maggie Thatcher on the election campaign trail as being in Brixton Market, when it is very obviously Petticoat Lane in the East End!
Gramsci
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Coldharbour Lane after the riots (by junction with Gresham/Barrington Roads).
I wonder when the clock outside the chemist vanished - I definitely remember seeing it.
I remember seeing that. The ground floor was a furniture shop. It was set alight and the whole block burned down. Luckily no one was killed in flats above. It was not part of the main riot area.
Casaubon
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I didn't know that ice hockey was so popular before WWII.
I posted a while ago about my family connection to the ice rink: General Brixton history - photos, stories etc
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looks like it's from the photo that led to this
Brixton history: Electric trams at Loughborough Junction and Coldharbour Lane, Brixton c1910
It’s around 1910, and an almost factory fresh London County Council electric tram can be seen under new electric wires running along Coldharbour Lane through a gaslit Loughborough Junction.
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Definitely. Though I think Ron does postcards - so both might be the same source.looks like it's from the photo that led to this
Brixton history: Electric trams at Loughborough Junction and Coldharbour Lane, Brixton c1910
It’s around 1910, and an almost factory fresh London County Council electric tram can be seen under new electric wires running along Coldharbour Lane through a gaslit Loughborough Junction.
There is an Urban thread on Loughborough House too The redevelopment of Loughborough House, Loughborough Junction
I'n not sure if this picture is in that thread - but its clear from the first post on there that Loughborough House was already a but spoiled even before the latest owner did a gutting and "face lift".
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Yep!
Clark's College, Brixton Hill and Lambert Road, Brixton. Historical Brixton - old and new photos of Brixton, Lambeth, London, SW9 and SW2
Clark's College, Brixton Hill and Lambert Road, Brixton. Historical Brixton - old and new photos of Brixton, Lambeth, London, SW9 and SW2
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felonius monk
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Clark's Colleges were all over London. clarksl history
my father got an Allegro from here
Puddy_Tat
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exactly
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what colour was it?
the one in the picture is british leyland 'mid sludge'. other colours available were light sludge, dark sludge and ugh yellow...
ORANGE !what colour was it?
the one in the picture is british leyland 'mid sludge'. other colours available were light sludge, dark sludge and ugh yellow...
