It is easy to be suspicious of all the changes occurring in Brixton these days. We worry the uniqueness of the area could be lost to high street stores, global [...]
By Alicia Green If you happen to be walking down Landor Road and smell something delicious then you will have picked up the scent of the Old Post Of ...
In recent years, the cult of the cupcake has become synonymous with yummy mummies, twee tea parties and a mark of middle-classness. So when Ms Cupcake ...
Last week, I was lucky enough to get the chance to sit down and chat food and Brixton with probably the most famous food entrepeneur in the area, Levi ...
By Neil Sammonds Tins of Ma Ling ful beans (fava beans or brown broad beans) kept me alive on a pittance when I moved from Africa to Loughborough Junction in [...]
Faye Lipson caught up with Tim Wells: published poet, reggae DJ and business advisor to Brixton’s entrepreneurial unemployed. “My daughter says I’m a hipster”, is the unlikely opening gambit of [...]
By Neil Sammonds If you’re reading this, the chances are that you’ve already met Pritesh Patel: though some of you may not know it. Neil Sammonds caught up with Brixton [...]
US-born, Brixton-based, sign-painter Bella Pace writes in praise of Brixton’s appreciation of the hand-painted sign and explores some historic and more recent varieties (photo gallery below). Look at a really [...]
By Luke Massey With its iconic hand-painted sign, its labyrinthine abundance of books and the ubiquitous greeting by much-loved shop mascot Rosa the dog: Bookmongers is a Brixton landmark. It [...]
Arts Reporter Sophie Gainsley finds love [letters] alive and well in Lambeth On 25 March 1807, an Act of Parliament passed The Slave Trade Act, abolishing slavery in the United [...]
