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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]
The building went on to be used as a market, retail units, a pub, and a business centre. The store had two buildings: the main building on the corner of Brixton Road and Ferndale Road, and Topland House opposite. Topland House was originally built as staff accommodation and currently houses The Department Store bar and restaurant. [12]
Brixton Market in Electric Avenue, 2007. 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), as well as various local food and housewares retailers.
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.
Brixton Market is located in Electric Avenue near Brixton Underground station and in a network of covered arcades adjacent to the two railway viaducts. The market arcades were declared listed buildings in 2009 following controversial proposals by Lambeth Council to replace them with a large US-style mall.
Southwyck House, also known locally as the Barrier Block, [1] is a large housing building on the Somerleyton Estate in Brixton, south London. [2] It was commissioned by Lambeth Council and approved by a planning committee which included future prime minister John Major .
Brixton is an area of south London. It gives its name to: Brixton Academy, a music venue; Brixton House, a theatre; Brixton Market, a street market; Brixton murals, murals painted in the 1980s; Brixton railway station, a national rail station; Brixton tube station, a Victoria Line tube station; HM Prison Brixton, the prison in the area
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.