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Brixton is an area of South London, ... a post-punk band who are attributed with pioneering the goth movement, ... (the Brixton Hill sorting office) ...
The building occupies a triangular site, with its longest and principal facades at Brixton Hill and Acre Lane. The design involves a symmetrical rounded frontage at the junction of these two roads; it features a doorway flanked by Doric order pilasters and the borough coat of arms above; there are five tall windows with integrated oculi interspersed with Ionic order columns on the first floor. [1]
In addition to the historic riverside area of Lambeth, this included Kennington, Vauxhall, Stockwell, Brixton, the western part of Herne Hill, Tulse Hill and West Norwood. As the population was increasing, in 1824 the ancient parish was subdivided into ecclesiastical districts of Brixton, Kennington, Lambeth Church, Waterloo Road and West Norwood.
The Bronx General Post Office is located at 552–582 Grand Concourse in the South Bronx in New York City, New York. [3] The site occupies an entire city block, [4] with an area of about 53,800 square feet (5,000 m 2; 1.24 acres). [5]
Angell Town is an area in Brixton, in the London Borough of Lambeth, south London. The area is dominated by the Angell Town Estate, a housing estate known for its poverty, deprivation and gang subculture. [1] [2] The Angell Town Estate was originally built in the 1970s as a set of blocks linked by a deck-access system. [3]
Tulse Hill is represented on the Lambeth London Borough Council by councillors for the Brixton Rush Common, St Martin's, and West Dulwich wards. [5] All three wards are held by the Labour Party although the ward now known as West Dulwich was historically a Conservative ward until the 2014 Lambeth London Borough Council election.
He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1873, and was engaged as legal counsel by the General Post Office from 1877 to 1887. At the 1885 general election Baggallay was elected as a Member of Parliament for Brixton in south London. He held the seat at the ensuing contest in 1886. [3]
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.