Where does the name 'Brixton' originate?

[Treacle Toes]

Ahem, Brixham.

Torbay is served by a main railway line, the M5 motorway to Exeter , airports in both Exeter and Plymouth, a main sea port in Plymouth together with an international marina in Torquay and three harbours at Brixham, Paignton and Torquay.

Brixton, close to exeter.

 

[chymaera]

Ahem, Brixham.

Brixham is on the coast, Brixton, Devon is to the South of Exeter, and to North of Telegraph Hill.
Tis a small hamlet.

 

[chymaera]

Brixton, close to exeter.

That is yet another Brixton. The Brixton I am referring to is a short distance from the Marsh Mills Trading Estate, head for Shillingford St George from near to Bridge Motorcycles and the head for Kennford and you come to Brixton, near to another hamlet called Clapham.
(You need a big scale Ordnance Survey map to find Brixton.)

 

[Treacle Toes]

Brixham is on the coast, Brixton, Devon is to the South of Exeter, and to North of Telegraph Hill.
Tis a small hamlet.

I know.

 

[lang rabbie]

That tiling always troubles me somewhat.

If you were to look at that stack of bricks side-on, it wouldn't be symmetrical top-to bottom, and yet I have a feeling that whoever created the pattern didn't realise this.

It is incompetent use of isometric projection.

Does anyone else have the slightest idea what I am on about here?

From pondering it over the years during gaps in the Victoria line service, I think that for the pile of bricks to have a real world existence, the inverted ziggurat at the bottom has to consist of two courses of bricks in each level. The constuction of the axonometric is from a point of view where the observer can the only see the lower of the two course of bricks at each levels as the upper course is obscured by the overhang of the next level.

I've never been so bored that I've actually done the maths, so prepared to stand corrected.

 

[teuchter]

From pondering it over the years during gaps in the Victoria line service, I think that for the pile of bricks to have a real world existence, the inverted ziggurat at the bottom has to consist of two courses of bricks in each level. The constuction of the axonometric is from a point of view where the observer can the only see the lower of the two course of bricks at each levels as the upper course is obscured by the overhang of the next level.

I've never been so bored that I've actually done the maths, so prepared to stand corrected.

Yes, that is what I would say too.

However, its real-world existence doesn't have to be like this; for example they could all be single courses but aligned on the front corner; i.e not stepping back at all on the two visible sides of the stack.

 

[lang rabbie]

However, its real-world existence doesn't have to be like this; for example they could all be single courses but aligned on the front corner; i.e not stepping back at all on the two visible sides of the stack.

Now there's a thought. Perhaps Ted Hollamby (Lambeth's Borough Architect in the late 70s/early 80s) was also pondering what it would look like and came up with the combination of horrible red brick and overhanging top bit on Brixton Rec as a result!