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April 26, 2013, No comments

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 [...]

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Exploring Brixton’s hand-painted signs

March 31, 2013, 2 Comments

US-born, Brixton-based, sign-painter Bella Pace writes in praise of Brixton’s appreciation of the hand-painted sign and explores some historic a ...

Lambeth Mayor Councillor Clive Bennett & young writers outside Tate Library

Love Letter to Lambeth – New Art Work Unveiled at Brixton Library

March 26, 2013, 1 Comment

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, abolis ...

A Brixton street party in 1975, by Chris Steele-Perkins

BRIXTON PEOPLE: Chris Steele-Perkins, photojournalist

February 5, 2013, 3 Comments

BY BRENDAN ZECEVIC “In 1998 I was with the soldiers of the Northern Alliance when they got into a firefight and we were encircled by the Taliban. Su ...

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    Brixton Recipe Search
    November 4, 2012, No comments

    Very exciting news reached us this week. The food haven of Brixton is finally getting its own community cookbook! As part of her university course, Naomi Edmondson is collecting, collating [...]

  • Van Gogh's home at 87 Hackford Road
    Vincent van Gogh’s Brixton home for sale
    March 27, 2012, 3 Comments

    Bowie, John Major, Eddy Grant, Mick Jones, even the talented Sharon Osbourne; all famous residents synonymous with Brixton. But a more renown name not so obviously closely associated with SW9 [...]