Local history
Temperance is not something associated with Brixton’s Coldharbour Lane in recent years, yet it is home to a important landmark...
A website recording and celebrating a key period of Brixton’s history is seeking donations to keep it going.
Ian Townson, creator...
For 50 years the Brixton Society has been the heart, soul and muscle behind the ceaseless struggle to retain many...
Few locations say “Brixton” with more emphasis than Railton Road.
From posh Poets Corner to the heart of the 1981 Brixton...
The four statues that stand on the platforms of Brixton’s overground railway station were today (21 May) joined by a...
The Lambeth Local History Forum has done South London proud again with more than 120 local history walks in its...
The life of Olive Morris, the Brixton civil rights and housing campaigner, is celebrated in a new podcast series that...
Stockwell-born pioneering reggae star Smiley Culture will be honoured with a blue plaque to be unveiled on the Lansdowne Green...
The Windrush Square toilets, being offered for rent for the third time in a decade by Lambeth council, were recently opened for...
Brixton acquired a new blue plaque on Effra Road yesterday (8 August). It marks the home of a pioneering photographer...
An architecturally important Brixton school with a significant history has been named by the Victorian Society as one of its...
An exhibition with a difference opened at the Lambeth archives on Brixton Hill last night (18 April).
Acclaimed local photographer Jim...












