Tuesday, 20 October, 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

shopfront

Brixton People

Foot Locker celebrates Brixton Topcats’ Jimmy Rogers

Contributor - 8 October, 2020

flight recorder

Creative arts

Brixton artist finds new use for jet engine parts

Simone Richardson - 8 October, 2020

busker

Music

Playing from the heart

Simone Richardson - 23 September, 2020

woman in sewing workroom

Shopping & Fashion

Brixton style

Simone Richardson - 21 September, 2020

LOCAL HISTORY

Hillmead brixton crates

Community

Brixton pupils create art around local heritage

Linda Quinn - 14 July, 2016

Nick Buglione in eighties

Local history

Decades of Brixton: growing pains of the noughties

Nick Buglione - 15 December, 2016

Local history

BRIX & MORTAR: Lambeth Town Hall

Ruth Waters - 31 May, 2013

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

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

Local history

Townscape Heritage Initiative – Shopping in Brixton through the decades

Guest - 5 September, 2020 0

Image of Railton Road street sign

Local history

Forgotten Black Bookshops of Brixton – Townscape Heritage Initiative

Guest - 3 September, 2020 2

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

1 September, 2020

woman in Brixton

Lambeth Heritage Festival 2020

31 August, 2020

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

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

28 July, 2020

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

22 July, 2020

Townscape Heritage Initiative – Championing bold, creative voices

17 July, 2020

music hall performer

Brixton music hall history – can you help?

11 July, 2020