Saturday, 15 August, 2020

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

Delores William - 8 February, 2018

Brixton Calling: Remembered – after 100 years

Brixton Calling: Alan Wilmott – soldier, singer and star

BRIXTON PEOPLE

Mural

Culture

New Brixton mural honours Ty

Contributor - 15 August, 2020

woman inZoom meeting

Brixton People

Learning and working through lockdown

Simone Richardson - 10 August, 2020

Culture

Melting Pothead – Stories of an Anglo-Indian raised on Brixton’s Frontline

Leslie Manasseh - 25 July, 2020

man serving at street fruit and vegetable stall

Brixton People

‘It was scary – but I serve the people’

Simone Richardson - 23 July, 2020

LOCAL HISTORY

WW1 West Indian soldiers in Seaford

Community

Brixton Calling: Remembered – after 100 years

Delores William - 15 January, 2018

Local history

VIDEO: Salvation Army guitar band in Brixton Market, 1964

Tim Dickens - 1 July, 2013

Mari Rejinders and Stuart Horwood

Business

Brixton barrows reborn

Alan Slingsby - 16 September, 2016

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

Local history

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

Guest - 28 July, 2020 0

Local history

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

Guest - 22 July, 2020 0

Local history

Townscape Heritage Initiative – Championing bold, creative voices

Guest - 17 July, 2020 0

music hall performer

Brixton music hall history – can you help?

11 July, 2020

old publicity material

Do you remember Brixton’s ACE Machinery?

3 July, 2020

Fore Street, Lambeth, in 1865 © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Book of the week: The Lambeth Cholera Outbreak of 1848-1849...

31 May, 2020

VEDay celebrations in Brixton with the Mayor, Alderman W. Lockyer, and other officials addressing the crowd from the steps of Lambeth Town Hall - 8th May 1945

May bank holiday move to mark VE Day

8 May, 2020

Memorabilia from Lambeth Archive

Keep a lock-down diary

21 April, 2020

Brixton Prison Treadmill

Brixton would be the worse without it

20 December, 2019