sealion
Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive
Thanks. Was scratching my head as to what building it was.
General Brixton history - photos, stories etc
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Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
wonder what was going on here? looks like the reflection of a police bus in the furniture shop window
sealion
Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive
Pic was taken during the riots. Saturday on April 10. At around 17:15 according to the info accompanying the picture.
blossie33
trailer trash
This was on the BBC website today - might be of interest?
Brixton village: How the 'Oxford Street of South London' evolved
Brixton market has stood at the heart of this multicultural community for over 160 years.
www.bbc.co.uk
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
I think this is the right thread!
A friend of mine sent me this extract from Hansard. The MP for Streatham Mr William Shelton secured an adjournment debate in Parliament on 12th January 1981 to rail against the socialism as practiced in Lambeth,
and Ted Knight's supplementary rate. The council had run out of money and needed a top-up - which was still legal in 1981.
Mr Shelton complains (in paragraph 4) that Lambeth had appointed a poet and an artist in residence.
My friend, who was on the council was on the interview panel for the poet in residence. The poets salary was actually paid for by the Arts Council.
A friend of mine sent me this extract from Hansard. The MP for Streatham Mr William Shelton secured an adjournment debate in Parliament on 12th January 1981 to rail against the socialism as practiced in Lambeth,
and Ted Knight's supplementary rate. The council had run out of money and needed a top-up - which was still legal in 1981.
Mr Shelton complains (in paragraph 4) that Lambeth had appointed a poet and an artist in residence.
My friend, who was on the council was on the interview panel for the poet in residence. The poets salary was actually paid for by the Arts Council.
BusLanes
Pedestrian
This was on the BBC website today - might be of interest?
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Brixton village: How the 'Oxford Street of South London' evolved
Brixton market has stood at the heart of this multicultural community for over 160 years.www.bbc.co.uk
Look at all that street furniture!
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
Wow that has given me a blast of remembrance.
Aquamarine
Well-Known Member
A Brixton 'ghost sign'.
www.timeout.com
Historic England is creating a map of the UK’s ‘ghost signs’ and faded adverts
And it’s asking for your help!
editor
hiraethified
A Brixton 'ghost sign'.
View attachment 398411Historic England is creating a map of the UK’s ‘ghost signs’ and faded adverts
And it’s asking for your help!
There was one on Electric lane that had survived a hundred years or so before being buried under a load of shit tags.
Also:
Ghost signs of Brixton: Our Sons Menswear, Electric Avenue
Still clinging to life decades after the business shut up shop is this painted sign for ‘Our Sons Menswear’, who traded at 18-22 Electric Avenue, Brixton. The company also had a branch …
www.brixtonbuzz.com
Kickstarter launched for Ghost Signs – A London Story
Over the last six months of lockdown, Brixton-born photographer Roy Reed has been working with Sam Roberts (Mr Ghostsigns) on producing a book documenting London’s Ghost Signs. The project ha…
www.brixtonbuzz.com
Aquamarine
Well-Known Member
There was one on Electric lane that had survived a hundred years or so before being buried under a load of shit tags.
Also:
Ghost signs of Brixton: Our Sons Menswear, Electric Avenue
Still clinging to life decades after the business shut up shop is this painted sign for ‘Our Sons Menswear’, who traded at 18-22 Electric Avenue, Brixton. The company also had a branch …Kickstarter launched for Ghost Signs – A London Story
Over the last six months of lockdown, Brixton-born photographer Roy Reed has been working with Sam Roberts (Mr Ghostsigns) on producing a book documenting London’s Ghost Signs. The project ha…
I lived in a flat on the 2nd floor behind that wall, for a while. There used to be what looked like an old, abandoned residential property in the garden space, along from the old pub hall, which intrigued me every time I looked at it.
RoyReed
Must fly!
A Brixton 'ghost sign'.
View attachment 398411Historic England is creating a map of the UK’s ‘ghost signs’ and faded adverts
And it’s asking for your help!
Ghost Signs - A London Story
Over the past six months of lockdown I've been working with Sam Roberts (Mr Ghostsigns) to produce a book on London's Ghost Signs - Sam's words and (mainly) my photos. We've teamed up with small publisher Isola Press and have a Kickstarter to raise funds to get the book published and printed...
www.urban75.net
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
I was blown away by this profile of Owen Luder recently deceased formerly twice chairman of RIBA - and by the content of the video an entertaining raconteur. Designed and lived in a modest house in Herne Hill Road, but most famous for the brutalist buildings he designed and were demolished in his lifetime. Went to school in Peckham, and then technical education at Brixton School of Building from about 1942 (aged 13).
Curious how a man from a deprived background and no university education could make it like this. Or not.
Curious how a man from a deprived background and no university education could make it like this. Or not.
BusLanes
Pedestrian
I vaguely know someone who is trying to find old editions of The Voice and Asian Times from 1989 and 1990. He's trying to assess what opinion was about Tiananmen Square protests.
He spent a few hours at the BCA last week but their collection seems to have gaps. The British Library is the other obvious place but their IT systems are down. The Voice website seems not to help either.
Anyway, does anyone know where else he might be able to find these?
He's specifically looking for late May to August 1989, and from Spring 1990.
He spent a few hours at the BCA last week but their collection seems to have gaps. The British Library is the other obvious place but their IT systems are down. The Voice website seems not to help either.
Anyway, does anyone know where else he might be able to find these?
He's specifically looking for late May to August 1989, and from Spring 1990.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
bishopsgate institute may be worth an e-mail. they have a fairly wide ranging archive collection.
london metropolitan archives have a black african caribbean community archive
friendofdorothy
Solidarity against neoliberalism!
Wondered if anyone had any ideas or info about the grand looking balcony on Lambeth Town Hall, the one above the unused door on the Brixton Hill side of the building. Can anyone ever remember it being used? Any photos of anyone waving from it?
I've heard it called a 'proclamation balcony' but cant imagine it would be much use because of the busy road immediately outside.
I've heard it called a 'proclamation balcony' but cant imagine it would be much use because of the busy road immediately outside.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
quick search hasn't come up with anything.
lambeth archives have this photo of the formal proclamation of the accession of king edward VIII in 1936 being made by (i presume) the mayor accompanied by a load of other silly buggers in fancy dress on the front steps.
it seems to be something that some town halls of a certain age had - woolwich town hall has a 'mayor's balcony' on the south side, although one reference i can find suggests it may have been intended as a decorative feature. suppose it's possible that a mayor could have stood on it and waved at people, but it's round the side, and the only photo i can find of a big event there also had a larger civic party on a platform built round the front steps.
somewhere i've got a monograph on london town halls - if i remember and find it, i'll see if it says anything about it.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
I recall Tony Been addressing the people of Brixton on the evils of the US invasion of Grenada from the balcony.
Many black people on the pavement - presumably Grenadians - were heckling him as they actually supported the US invasion because they did not support the coup and murder of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop.
Sorry as this occurred in 1983 there are no Google images - but for those unaware if the details, here is a Hasard record from a 1983 adjournment debate featuring such old favourites as Enoch Powell and Jeremy Corbyn!
friendofdorothy
Solidarity against neoliberalism!
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
I expect he or the organisers of the Lambeth town hall meeting felt the black people of Brixton would show solidarity.
But "the masses" were not sympathetic.
Here is an article from a Grenada newspaper giving the reminiscences of one of the coup leaders who killed the Prime Minister - which precipitated the American invasion. General Austin: Bernard Coard wanted to turn Grenada into a communist state
I had a interest - having been to Grenada under murdered PM Bishop, and my partner at the time being Grenadian.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
may have been posted before
M+S and railway signal box, 1959.
from M+S archive, was posted on blooski by 'modernism in metroland' (they have a book coming out on art deco / modernist buildings in E + S london coming out soon by the way.)
M+S and railway signal box, 1959.
from M+S archive, was posted on blooski by 'modernism in metroland' (they have a book coming out on art deco / modernist buildings in E + S london coming out soon by the way.)
Well it’s been under wraps since the summer, so I’ve high hopes they’re giving it a bit more than a lick of paint. It would be great to see the two-toning and the bronze detailing come back. Nothing on Lambeth planning database though, so that’s probably a bit of a stretch.
felonius monk
Well-Known Member
Hadn't realised that M&S had the shop frontage next door as well (though still have the space behind where menswear etc is).
editor
hiraethified
I posted a M&S history feature a while ago:
www.brixtonbuzz.com
Plus:
Brixton history: the faded Art Deco elegance of Marks & Spencer, Brixton Road
Although in desperate need of some attention, the Marks & Spencer building in Brixton Road remains one of the few examples of Art Deco architecture in central Brixton. Completed in 1931, the bu…
www.brixtonbuzz.com
Plus:
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
I have to admit that I went along to the Proclamation of the Accession of HM The King last year as much to see (i) whether Lambeth's facilities management team would be able to chisel the paint off the balcony door to allow it to be used for first time in a generation and (ii) how much policing would be needed to close Brixton Hill outside to allow crowd to assemble.
I was very disappointed we were told to assemble in Windrush Square instead.
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
With the imminent opening of 'The Black Farmer' retail emporium/axis of gentrification in the space formerly occupied by Nour Cash and Carry, I am intrigued by the site's history.
Was this enormous space with a glazed roof always part of Market Row or did it once have a separate identity as a distinct market?
Old Ordnance Survey Maps seem to show it as part of a yard behind premises on Electric Avenue and suggest it was only glazed over after WW2?
Anyone have a trade directory for Electric Avenue that might shed some light on this?
Was this enormous space with a glazed roof always part of Market Row or did it once have a separate identity as a distinct market?
Old Ordnance Survey Maps seem to show it as part of a yard behind premises on Electric Avenue and suggest it was only glazed over after WW2?
Anyone have a trade directory for Electric Avenue that might shed some light on this?
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Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
1919 is the latest that's online in public domain (or was last time I looked - Leicester University have a lot digitised) -
Market Row is not listed as a separate entity
Coldharbour Lane shows 'Porters Cottages' round where the Coldharbour Lane end is
The NLS 'map finder' button can bring up some map series that are only digitised on a sheet by sheet basis, rather than the sort you can move around, and some of London has 1930s issues, but not there. Having said that, I'm not sure there was a 1930s sheet that covers that patch - the LCC bomb damage map sheet for that area is 1916 issue.
Sod it.
Lambeth Archives / other local archives might have later kellys / post office directories, and ancestry have some online, but that's behind a paywall.
But the Historic England listing entry includes
so looks like it happened between the wars, and between OS map updates.
