I thought it might be an idea to start a general thread for Brixton history, and to get it started, here's a photo of Atlantic Road in Edwardian times. I researched some of the shops in the picture - more here. Seeing this photo reminds me of how much Electric Avenue has fallen from grace.
The same decline is seen in residential streets in Brixton. People start doing their own thing, stop thinking collectively and chaos ensues!
Can you tell from the picture whether the White Horse offered rooms? Because Vera Brittain lodged at a White Horse while nursing wounded WW1 soldiers at King's.
Im sure a lot of pubs/inns did offer rooms then, Seeing as the pub was on the London to Brighton road im sure it would have. When i was a kid there were watering troffs(sorry bad spelling) outside many pubs so the horse could have a drink too!
does anyone have / have easy access to a kelly's directory (or similar) that includes stockwell road? somewhere 1920s to about mid 50's i have something i'm trying to pin down. (i expect that lambeth's local studies unit will have one, just haven't got round to going there yet)
Royal visit to Brixton April 29th, 1908 for the opening ceremony of the town hall. Look at the crowd!
Amazing. Funny to think that little girl in the pram at the end is probably about the same age as me.
Just as well they no longer exist, or they'd have been forced to change their window display after complaints from concerned parents.
I found some nice pics on here,,http://www.ideal-homes.org.uk/lambeth/lambeth-assets/galleries/brixton/brixton-estate
A little feature on the old Fire Station in Ferndale Road. http://www.brixtonbuzz.com/2014/04/the-old-fire-station-ferndale-road-brixton-1906-2014/
Just found this old photo of Marks and Spencer. M&S Brixton Arch Penny Bazaar around 1903. http://www.mylearning.org/mands-making-a-mark--michael-marks/images/1-4389/
Ah, I'd already researched that! http://www.urban75.org/brixton/history/marks-and-spencer-station-road.html
Unable to find that ornate gate on that infernal quiz thread but i found a Brixton zebra. http://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/quiz-where-in-brixton-is-this.311955/page-10#post-13056544 http://www.urban75.org/brixton/history/zebra-taxi-cab.html
I added that piece on the original M&S. http://www.brixtonbuzz.com/2014/04/marks-and-spencer-original-penny-bazaar-in-brixton/
at article at "London & S Western Railway" though... Think you may have got your (overhead) wires crossed...
It doesn't answer your question but I read this interesting passage recently in a book called 'Dwellings of the Philosophers': "Hostelries [in the middle ages] often put up a golden lion fixed in heraldic pose, which for the traveller seeking out accommodation, meant that 'one could sleep there' because of the double meaning of the pun and the image" (the pun is Lion d'Or becomes 'lit on dort' (bed that one sleeps in). it was just interesting that old pub names might have more significance than one realizes.
