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The Market began on Atlantic Road in the 1870s and subsequently spread to Brixton Road which had a very wide footway. Brixton then was a rapidly expanding London railway suburb with newly opening shops, including the first London branch of David Greig at 54-58 Atlantic Road in 1870, and London's first purpose-built department store, Bon Marché, on Brixton Road in 1877. [2]
Electric Avenue is a street in Brixton, London built in 1888. [1] It was the first market street to be lit by electric lights. [2][3] Today, Electric Avenue contains national retail chains (Boots, Greggs, and Iceland), plus various local food and housewares retailers. It also hosts a part of Brixton Market, which specialises in selling African ...
Hew Locke, contemporary artist, a resident of more than 20 years, has cited Brixton and its market as an influence on his work. Nikki Sudden and Dave Kusworth of the Jacobites shared a house on Norwood Road, Brixton, in the early 1980s. Danny Kirwan of the band Fleetwood Mac was born and raised in Brixton.
Brockwell Park. Brockwell Park is a 50.8 hectare [1] (125.53 acres) park located south of Brixton, in Herne Hill and Tulse Hill in south London. It is bordered by the roads Brixton Water Lane, Norwood Road, Tulse Hill and Dulwich Road. The park commands views of the skyline of the city and Central London, and hosts almost 4 million annual ...
Bon Marché (Brixton) Coordinates: 51.46368°N 0.11498°W. The former Bon Marché building facing Brixton Road. Topland House. Bon Marché was a department store based in Brixton, London, England. It was the first purpose built department store in the city. [1] The store was founded in 1877 by James Smith of Tooting [2][3] after he won a ...
The 1981 Brixton riot, or Brixton uprising, [1] was a series of clashes between mainly black youths and the Metropolitan Police in Brixton, London, between 10 and 12 April 1981. [2] It resulted from racist discrimination against the black community by the mainly white police, especially the police's increased use of stop-and-search in the area ...
The 1999 London nail bombings were a series of bomb explosions in London, England. Over three successive weekends between 17 and 30 April 1999, homemade nail bombs were detonated in Brixton in South London; at Brick Lane, Spitalfields, in the East End; and at the Admiral Duncan pub in Soho in the West End. Each bomb contained up to 1,500 100 mm ...
Brixton Road is a road in the London Borough of Lambeth (south London, England), leading from the Oval at Kennington to Brixton, where it forms the high street and then forks into Effra Road and Brixton Hill at St Matthew's church at the junction with Acre Lane and Coldharbour Lane. Brixton Market is located in Electric Avenue near Brixton ...
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