Have you ever been to Brixton?

[d.a.s.h]

I visit once in a while, would maybe go more often if the journey wasn't the usual cross-South London business of having to walk a mile, catch one bus, hang around somewhere you don't really want to be, catch another bus etc. Wouldn't want to live in Brixton but it's an interesting place to have a look around.

 

[spanglechick]

I'm really surprised there are so few living in Brixton, maybe there should have been another option for I live next door to brixton..

This. I live next door to brixton. It's a bit quieter... I'm getting old.

Although I live just as close to central brixton as Kanda and ianw and the rest of the Hill-billies.

Anyway, yes - been lots. First time probably as a teenager to the academy, then in recent years it probably averages out about once a week...

 

[teuchter]

I've been living in Brixton since the last millenium. It's a great place and I can't imagine living anywhere else in London. Some people just don't get why, but that's their loss.

 

[tarannau]

Lived here for over 30 years, give a take a few years at Uni. Home like

Don't agree that Hackney and Brixton are that similar late at night. Hackney always feels much less safe to me - less people around, fewer late night venues, a bit of a taxi and tube blackspot, less of a central feel.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Used to visit Brixton quite a bit in my teens, moved here 27 years ago with my first husband who was a local. He buggered off after a while, I stayed, have brought up three children here who are all adults now.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Used to live in Streatham just across the big crossroads at the top end of Brixton Hill then moved to Bricton Hill - well just behind it tbh.

Was there for about two years in all - used to go down to central Brixton at the weekends shopping and drinking. The market was fantastic, never felt unsafe - though I tended to avoid walking up Brixton Hill on my own late at night but Iwould probably feel the same about Maidenhead High street tbh - and I really liked it. Much nicer then Streatham High Road.

Shame I was living with a real cunt at the time buy hey ho..

 

[bluestreak]

I live here. Top place!

 

[Termite Man]

I live here. Top place!

But do you

 

[Manmasi]

Hmm. I have a love hate relationship with Brickers now. Lived in 3 different places over 5 years, Railton Rd ruined it all for me, I was scared walking about there and had a very frightening attempted break in only 2 weeks after moving in. I've had it, never want to go back and don't really miss it to be honest. Loved Brixton Wholefoods, Ritzy and BookMongers, but there are plenty of other places to check out where I am now.
Until Railton Rd, i always defended the area to some degree, but in honesty, I was always watching my back to a certain extent and began to resent having to worry coming home late at night and paying for cabs. It is depressing in central Brixton, there are some very unsavoury people hanging about weekdays when most are at work... Meh, I guess it was alright in my twenties, maybe I'm too old for it now, don't miss the noise too much either.

 

[ViolentPanda]

One of my first memories is going into the prison with my mother, my uncle was on remand for arson and my mother brought him in a cooked chicken every week.

Blimey, that must have been in the 70s or 80s, because HM Prison Service stopped allowing remand prisoners to have food brought in ages ago!

 

[Griff]

Quite a few times, although the last time was probably 2 years back.

 

[bigbry]

Never - but it's something that's on my list of things to do before I die. Has been ever since I first posted on here.

Plan to have a pint on a Friday night in the 'Albert

 

[Artie Fufkin]

lived there for a few years in mid 90's and loved it, then moved up the road to Tulse Hill for a while (not all that), then after 2 years in the wilderness of Wood Green moved back in 2000/2001 for a year but it never felt quite the same.

great place, happy memories

 

[AnnaKarpik]

I visited my brother who was living in Brixton once. I remember going back down to the tube, the pushchair containing the baby was wordlessly grabbed and trotted down the escalator by two rough looking girls while I hung onto the toddler and luggage. I was a bit , then very

 

[Spymaster]

I lived in Brixton for 9 months in 1996. Had a good summer there watching the European Cup in the Hobgoblin.

Now, as then, it's dirty and rundown with a lot of overt drug use/selling and pissheads everywhere after 9pm.

A friend of mine bought a house in Stockwell a couple of years ago and was constantly trying to convince people that the place was "ok" despite fitting security bars to all his doors and windows and constantly having his car done over.

I parked outside his house once and had the car window smashed in broad daylight. He explained that it was "only the local kids having a pop because they didn't recognise the car" , well that's alright then!

When we get the tube there we're often greeted at Stockwell station by a variety of "colourful" characters in various states of dress/cleanliness/inebriation and my mates wife has been mugged twice while walking home, once while pushing a buggy with two kids in it.

Personally I dislike Brixton and Stockwell but apparently they're "edgy" and "vibrant", so each to their own!

 

[krtek a houby]

Yes, nearly moved there a year or two back.

 

[SK.]

Back in the 90's I used to work at the Hayes storage warehouse up at Stockwell Green about 5 mins walk from the academy and Brixton High Street. I didn't actually work for Hayes but a Legal firm that held there records there. Used to be down the high street all the time, having a wander etc.

Used to spend a fair chunk of my wages on a Friday in Red Records.

 

[rennie]

Yes I used to live there.

 

[JTG]

never, it looks crap

 

[Andy the Don]

Have either lived, worked or socialised in the Brixton area until 2002. Still go there to meet friends for a beer. To be honest when I was single/no children it was great. But to buy is ridiculously over priced you are paying silly money for property & drug/gang related crime in the centre is a problem. Although I never had any problems myself I know many people who have been mugged/threatened or started on. What really put me off the place was people I know with children teaching their kids not to pick needles, I mean WTF.. you teach your kids not to run across the road to be polite but you do not want to teach your kids not to pick up used needles discarded by some smacked up druggie.

 

[_angel_]

No. Our brief visit to London a few months ago didn't errr go quite to plan and we missed seeing Brixton, as well as everything else.

 

[internetstalker]

I just wondered how many people who post here have actually been to Brixton?

I've only been to London twice and hated the place although I do like this forum.

yes

on a number of occasions

 

[newbie]

The second time I darkened it's doorstep, i was greeted by a man dancing to the passing sirens, a python draped attractively across his bald head. Even now I'm a bit puzzled.

haven't seen him around for a long time.

 

[zora]

..much preferred living in Hackney

I love Hackney - it has a certain smell about it which I reckon has something to do with the canals and rivers through it...

Why don't you two get a room...














in Hackney.