Wednesday, 27 January, 2021

Explore Brixton

It’s all about Brixton – the people, the places, the history. Find out more about your local area.

BRIXTON CALLING

Brixton Calling: Mary Seacole, determination and compassion

Brixton Calling: Music – Brixton’s record shop with soul

Brixton Calling: Before you judge someone, walk a mile in their shoes

Brixton Calling: Remembered – after 100 years

Brixton Calling: Alan Wilmott – soldier, singer and star

BRIXTON PEOPLE

man surrounded by trainers

Charity & volunteering

Local initiative Re:Sole steps into Brixton Village

portrait of man

Brixton People

An absolutely brilliant book …

film still

Film & TV

Brixton film to premiere at top international festival

portrait of man

Performance & theatre

Brixton’s Black ballet dancer is back

LOCAL HISTORY

Photograph of the room believed to be where Vincent van Gogh stayed prior to the renovation. © Finbarr Falon, 2015.

Local history

Van Gogh’s time in Brixton – Townscape Heritage Initiative

Teri Bullen hanging her historic patchwork of revolutionary women – Change the World! At the Brixton Calling! Exhibition in the 198 Gallery in 2011. Picture: Stefan Szczelkun/Flickr/Creative Commoms

Community

Who is your Brixton local hero?

Community

Becoming Brixton: Launch of riots film project

Electric Avenue around 1910, long before the market stalls moved in.

Local history

Townscape Heritage Initiative – Shopping over the decades

Photograph of the room believed to be where Vincent van Gogh stayed prior to the renovation. © Finbarr Falon, 2015.

Local history

Van Gogh’s time in Brixton – Townscape Heritage Initiative

Image of Railton Road street sign

Local history

Forgotten Black Bookshops of Brixton – Townscape Heritage Initiative

This shows the grand – but not very big – entrance between the cinema and the library and the size of the building behind the library reaching to Rushcroft Road

Townscape Heritage Initiative – Entertainment in Brixton

woman in Brixton

Lambeth Heritage Festival 2020

Black Cultural Archives, Windrush Square, Brixton, London, UK

A brief background to Brixton’s buildings – Townscape Heritage Initiative

Townscape Heritage Initiative – An abstraction of Brixton’s essential spirit

Townscape Heritage Initiative – Championing bold, creative voices

music hall performer

Brixton music hall history – can you help?