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Brixton experienced a rapid rise in population during the 19th century as communications with central London improved. Brixton is mainly residential, though includes Brixton Market and a substantial retail sector. [4] It is a multi-ethnic community, with a large percentage of its population of Afro-Caribbean descent. [5]
Brixton in South London was an area with serious social and economic problems. [6] The United Kingdom was affected by a recession by 1981, but the local African-Caribbean community was suffering particularly high unemployment, poor housing, and a higher-than-average crime rate.
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Plain clothes police officers were dispatched into Brixton, and in five days almost 1,000 people were stopped and searched. [ 4 ] [ better source needed ] The riot resulted in 299 injuries to police and 65 injuries to members of the public; [ 5 ] [ better source needed ] over a hundred vehicles were burned, including 56 police vehicles; and ...
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]
Brixton Academy (originally known as the Astoria Variety Cinema, previously known as Carling Academy Brixton, currently named O 2 Academy Brixton as part of a sponsorship deal with the O 2 brand) is a mid-sized concert venue located in South London, in the Lambeth district of Brixton.
Brixton Hundred or the Hundred of Brixton was for many centuries a group of parishes used for meetings and taxation of their respective great estates in the north east of the county of Surrey, England. Its area has been entirely absorbed by the growth of London; with its name currently referring to the Brixton district. [1]
Brixton railway station is a commuter railway station in Brixton, South London, UK. It is on the Chatham Main Line, 3 miles 14 chains (5.1 km) down the line from London Victoria. Trains are operated by Southeastern. The typical service is one train every 15 minutes in both directions, from Victoria to Orpington via Bromley South.