General Brixton history - photos, stories etc
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felonius monk
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Those particular photos or just Quin & Axtens in general? I didn't know that Bon Marche and Q&A were part of the John Lewis Partnership at one time and before that owned by Gordon Selfridge.
Quin & Axtens, 422-438 Brixton Road, London SW9. Historical Brixton - old and new photos of Brixton, Lambeth, London, SW9 and SW2
Quin & Axtens, 422-438 Brixton Road, London SW9. Historical Brixton - old and new photos of Brixton, Lambeth, London, SW9 and SW2
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Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
from the trams, i'd put the first one somewhere round 1905, the second round 1910
Tulster218
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I know nothing about copyright.
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I know nothing about copyright.
Tulster218
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hiraethified
There's a good answer here:
With regards to UK copyright law - As postcards are PUBLISHED material copyright expires 70 years after the first date of publication or 70 years after the the date of death of the author. The key is that it is published material, rather than an unpublished photograph.
Many publishing houses and archives conveniently forget this as a way of frightening people into paying for 'copyright' when in fact copyright has expired. This includes some of our more famous institutions. . This means that copyright on any WWI era [Edit: anonymous] postcard would probably have expired in the late1980s at the latest ( 1918 +70 = 1988).
For exactly the same reasons this is why you can buy (in the UK) all the classic literature for £1 in many bookshops. For example, the copyright on Dickens' material expired on the last day of the year 70 years after his death in 1870. i.e expired on 31st Dec 1940. The Dickens family would love to harvest a royalty on all his material but UK copyright law is very clear. The only exception to this is Crown Copyright which is perpetual. Having said that the right to use Crown Copyright material is very easy (and cheap) to obtain . .. If you need chapter and verse on UK copyright law then PM me as I have challenged a few institutions and all have backed down. I have one running case where 4 institutions all claim copyright on the same image whose copyright expired many years ago.
Postcard Copyright For New Book
Apologies if this lands precariously in the wrong topic, but the 'book' part of the category may alert some knowledgable souls. I have a query about postcard copyright: when writing a book about WW1, obtaining postcard images of relevant locations in the U.K. c. 1914-1918 from well-known internet...www.greatwarforum.org
happyshopper
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Any information about the date? It’s all white. The size of the prams and the style of the crockery suggest the early 60’s to me.Granville Arcade
felonius monk
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Lambeth Archives says 1966 which seems about right. There's also an interesting piece on the Mangan family of market traders (shop on the right of the photo) in this edition of the Brixton Society newsletter https://www.brixtonsociety.org.uk/test-site/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/July-18-Newsletter.pdf
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hiraethified
Great article here - this is what was here before the Town Hall was built
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The American evangelical preachers who built a corrugated iron church in Brixton where Lambeth Town Hall now stands
Lambeth Town Hall has stood at the corner of Brixton Hill and Acre Lane for well over a century now. But the site wasn’t always intended for wedding ceremonies and council meetings. In fact, for a …
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Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
Stuff like this reminds me of how old I am. Thongs from my childhood are noticeably old.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
No. I only sorta remember the other kind of bus. Not sure what is memories and what was tv. I was born in 81.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Good photo - incredibly vulgar. I must've walked past that on the way to work every day - assuming the photo is pre 1986. But I don't remember the 18 fridges on display.
I do remember the previous Fridge - on top of the gas board. In the original Fridge venue the fridge-like decor was confined to ice-blue bumpy walls inside!
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Yes -something like that. I remember Lambeth moving out rather than moving in, which would have been in the 1990s. Did they just go round the corner to the building next to the Academy (top of Peter's Barbers/Sackville Travel) - or was that a different department?
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Coronations of the past
Brixton and coronations of times past
Whether you’re a monarchist or not, the coronation of Charles and Camilla this Saturday looks set to be a big, if boozy, occasion. Dozens of street parties have been organised across the borough, …
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Aquamarine
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happyshopper
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The Town Hall was completed in 1908.
Aquamarine
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That's annoying. Perhaps it is not possible to date the photo. It appears to have been taken before the addition of the clock faces.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
Dates (and sometimes descriptions) of photos in archives aren't always accurate. I've found a few that can't be right (e.g. pictures of a tram with a date well before the line opened, or after it closed) and the old cursive r causes grief - found some photos somewhere of dartford that had been logged as deptford...
Lambeth Landmark has some artists impressions / plans of the alternative town hall designs that were put forward (here and next few pages)
felonius monk
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The clock was presented to the council in 1909 so 1908 seems v likely. 1908 – Lambeth Municipal Buildings, Brixton Hill, London | Archiseek - Irish Architecture.
Ol Nick
beer in Brixton
A bit of a tangent but the St Gilles town hall in Brussels although a bit grander than Lambeth does seem to have clock tower ordered from the same catalogue.
Hôtel de ville de Saint-Gilles — Wikipédia
Aquamarine
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Tout a fait.A bit of a tangent but the St Gilles town hall in Brussels although a bit grander than Lambeth does seem to have clock tower ordered from the same catalogue.
Hôtel de ville de Saint-Gilles — Wikipédia
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lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
See also LilleA bit of a tangent but the St Gilles town hall in Brussels although a bit grander than Lambeth does seem to have clock tower ordered from the same catalogue.
Hôtel de ville de Saint-Gilles — Wikipédia
