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Brixton Market comprises a street market in the centre of Brixton, south London, England, and the adjacent covered market areas in nearby arcades Reliance Arcade, Market Row and Granville Arcade ( recently rebranded as ' Brixton Village ').
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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.
In 2007 Market Row and Brixton Village were sold along with the other London market interests of APL Ocean Ltd to London & Associated Properties.
Friends of Brixton Market, traders and residents ran a successful campaign against the proposals.
* Friends of Brixton Market website.
*" Scandal In Brixton Market " ( 1970, Nu-Beat )
Other important murals include Seaside Picture, Thessaly Road ( 1979 ), Nuclear Dawn in Brixton ( 1981 ) ( part of the Brixton murals ), the HG Wells mural, Market Square, Bromley ( 1986 ) Battersea in Perspective, Dagnall Street ( 1988 ), and the Violette Szabo mural in Stockwell ( 2001 ).
Brixton Market in Electric Avenue
Today, the street contains several butchers and fish mongers and hosts a part of Brixton Market, which specializes in selling a mix of African, Caribbean, and Portuguese products.
Brixton and street
Brixton is mainly residential with a prominent street market and substantial retail sector.
The high street from Brixton to Streatham has become something of a leisure hub for South London, with restaurants, cinemas, music venues and an ice rink attracting visitors from nearby Tooting, Norbury and Mitcham.
Electric Avenue is a street in Brixton, London.
Brixton and market
Encouraged by fellow Conservative Derek Stone, he started giving speeches on a soap-box in Brixton market.
The market sells a wide range of foods and goods but is best known for its African and Caribbean produce, which reflect the diverse community of Brixton and surrounding areas of Lambeth.
The market arcades were built in the 1920s and 1930s when road widening on Brixton Road forced traders from their established pitches.
The three market arcades in close proximity, forming an extensive network of stalls, are rare survivals and their special character is what marks out Brixton as distinctive from other suburban shopping centres: a mixture of history, interesting architecture, the variety of goods on sale and the cultural mix of Brixton, known as the symbolic ' soul of black Britain '.
In 2008, the new owners released proposals to redevelop the Brixton Village covered market.
A key material in Shonibare's work since 1994 are the brightly coloured ' African ' fabrics ( Dutch wax-printed cotton ) that he buys himself from Brixton market in London.
On 17 April 1999 the neo-Nazi bomber David Copeland planted a nail bomb outside a supermarket in Brixton Road with the intention of igniting a race war across Britain .. A market trader was suspicious and moved it round the corner to a less crowded area in Electric Avenue.
Brixton and centre
Brixton is the civic centre of the borough and there are other town centres.
Work on Pear Tree House started in 1963 but it was now merely going to be a borough control centre, the existing borough control in St Matthews Road, Brixton was to become a sub-control.
In the first years of the 20th century, demographic changes saw a decrease in the number of patients requiring treatment in the centre of London, and an increase of patients from further afield-notably Camberwell, Peckham and Brixton which were then suburbs on the outskirts of London.
The riot later developed into what police called " sporadic pockets of trouble in the area around Brixton town centre ".
A subsequent government investigation reported that 279 policemen and at least 45 civilians were injured, noting that " In the centre of Brixton, a few hundred young people-most, but not all of them black — attacked the police on the streets ... demonstrating to the millions of their fellow citizens the fragile basis of the Queen's peace.
Brixton and south
The family lived at 40 Stansfield Road, located near the border of the south London areas of Brixton and Stockwell.
Brixton is a district in the London Borough of Lambeth in south London, England.
It lies to the south of Brixton, east of Brixton Hill, north of West Norwood and west of West Dulwich.
Schlesinger also directed a notable party political broadcast for the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom general election of 1992 which featured Prime Minister John Major returning to Brixton in south London, where he had spent his teenage years, which highlighted his humble background, atypical for a Conservative politician.
The Cathedral's organ was built by Lewis & Co. of Ferndale Road, Brixton, south London, and completed in 1897.
Clapham Park is an area in the Borough of Lambeth in London, to the south of central Clapham and west of Brixton.
Brixton tube station is a London Underground station on Brixton Road in the Brixton district of the London Borough of Lambeth in south London, England.
Herne Hill is a district in south London, England, approximately four miles from Charing Cross and bordered by Brixton, Denmark Hill, Dulwich, Loughborough Junction and Tulse Hill.
Brixton Hill is the name given to a 1 km section of road between Brixton and Streatham Hill in south London, England.
Traffic for Eastbourne begins along the A203 through Vauxhall to reach its junction with the A23 road before it travels southwards through Brixton and Streatham passing the site of the old Croydon Aerodrome until, at Purley Cross Junction, south of Purley, the A22 is reached.
Goss died at his home in Brixton, south London at the age of 79.
Police sealed off a three-kilometre ( 2 mile ) area around Brixton in south London.
Since the abolition of the Lambeth Central constituency in 1983, the constituency has also included the northern parts of Clapham and Brixton stretching as far south as Clapham Park Road, Acre Lane and Coldharbour Lane.
Thereafter, national expansion followed, with the 100th store opening in the Kings Road, Chelsea ; the 200th at Stirling, Scotland ; and the 300th in Brixton, south London.
Since the 1980 St. Pauls riot in Bristol, and particularly since the 1981 Brixton riot in south London, a series of incidents had sparked violent confrontations across the country between black youths and largely white police officers.
Truscott was born in Brixton, south London, and showed early prowess at chess.
Brixton and London
* 1981 – A massive riot in Brixton, South London, results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries.
Also in 1987, Bronski Beat and Somerville did a reunion concert for " International AIDS Day ", supported by New Order, at the Brixton Academy, London.
David Bowie was born David Robert Jones in Brixton, London, on 8 January 1947.
The family moved to London, and she attended school in Brixton until the age of 14.
** Police seal off Brixton in South London after another night of protests against the poll tax.
* April 11 – 1981 Brixton riot: Rioters in South London throw petrol bombs, attack police and loot shops.
* September 28 – Brixton race riots are sparked with the shooting of Dorothy ' Cherry ' Groce by the Metropolitan Police in Brixton, an area of South London, England.
They were located in Tottenham Court Road, St Pancras, The Strand, Hoxton, Shoreditch, Brixton and other London districts, as well as Clacton, Brighton, Ramsgate, Margate and other seaside resorts in southern England.
). The typical off-peak service is four trains an hour northbound to London Victoria ( via Herne Hill and Brixton ) and four trains an hour southbound to Orpington ( via Bromley South ).
Together with improvements to Brixton Road by the local turnpike trust this greatly improved road communications with central London, and the value of the local landholdings.
Streatham sits somewhere between suburban London and inner-city Brixton with the partly suburban and partly built-up areas of Streatham, Streatham Hill and Streatham Vale.
Ethnic communities may become tourist attractions, such as Chinatowns in the United States and the black British neighborhood of Brixton in London, England.
Danzig and Steele got into a fight with skinheads while waiting to see The Jam, were arrested, and spent two nights in jail in Brixton ; this experience inspired the later song " London Dungeon ".
In June 2009, they performed together for the first time in 11 years at the Brixton Academy in London, United Kingdom, as part of their The Second Coming Tour.
" This usage in musical terms survives in the concert orchestra Academy of St Martin in the Fields and in the Brixton Academy, a concert hall in Brixton, South London.
in Brixton, London, in Autumn 1991 and was born out of anti-road protest camps at places such as Claremont Road and Twyford Down.
* The Fridge, a nightclub in Brixton, South London
In April 2011 he stood in for Mani playing bass for Primal Scream at the Japan Tsunami appeal concert at Brixton Academy in London.
From March to May 1940 he was employed by the Brixton Theatre in London, appearing in productions of The Man in Half Moon Street, Mystery at Greenfingers and The First Mrs Fraser.
From March 2005, Kravitz toured all over the world with the tour Electric Church, which ended at the Brixton Academy, London in July 2005.
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