Brixton Road
Brixton Road is a road in the
listed buildings in 2009 following controversial proposals by Lambeth Council to replace them with a large US-style mall. The former "Brixton Oval" is at the southern end with Lambeth Town Hall, the Ritzy Cinema, the Brixton Tate Library (with a statue of Henry Tate outside) and St Matthew's church. The space was renamed Windrush Square in 2010, in honour of the area's early Caribbean migrants and the HMT Empire Windrush, which in 1948 brought 492 passengers from Jamaica to London.[1]
Brixton Road dates back to the
Christ Church, opened in 1902. For much of its length Brixton Road remains lined by Regency period terraces of houses that once made a virtually continuous frontage from Kennington to Brixton. These had become semi-derelict by the 1970s when some were replaced, but many were refurbished by the Greater London Council
, mostly as social housing.
Brixton Road is part of the A23.
In the 1887 detective novel A Study in Scarlet, an abandoned house off the Brixton Road is the very first of the numerous crime scenes appearing in the Sherlock Holmes books and stories.[2]
See also
References
- ISBN 978-0-7475-9923-4.
- ^ Johnson, Roger (5 September 2015). ""Our quest does not appear to take us to very fashionable regions": Sherlock Holmes and Lambeth". Vauxhall History. Retrieved 18 March 2019.