Brixton boy David Bowie's rise to global stardom

In the mid-1960s, Bowie moved to central London in search of inspiration. On Heddon Street, just off Regent Street, a black ...
New Statesman

The battle for Scotland’s future

A youth worker in the fast-changing London area on how to stop a community dividing. By Ciaran Thapar One effect of gentrification in London is its creation of vast social disparities within tiny ...
BBC

Brixton village: How the 'Oxford Street of South London' evolved

Brixton's indoor arcades have been around for over 160 years Turning left outside Brixton station you would be forgiven for thinking you had stepped back in time to the 1960s. As the greengrocers ...
The Architects' Journal

PTE submits plans to replace Carl Turner’s Pop Brixton with towers

Pollard Thomas Edwards (PTE) has lodged plans for almost 300 homes to replace Carl Turner’s 10 years-old Pop Brixton shipping ...
Forbes

Brixton Academy Is Still Shut. Let’s Look At The Economic Impact Of This

LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 07: A view of Brixton Academy on the first night of two final Brockhampton concerts on February 07, 2022 in London, England. Brockhampton posted a statement on their ...
Metro

What it was like growing up in Brixton during the riots 40 years ago

Brixton was a tight-knit community (Picture: David Levenson/Simon Dack/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Despite my ‘Anglo-Indian’ heritage and Mediterranean appearance, I had a black ‘Grandma’ ...
London Evening Standard

Living in Brixton: area guide to homes, schools and transport links

There are few areas in London whose fortunes have had so many twists and turns as Brixton. From being a smart south London suburb with one of the capital’s top shopping streets at the beginning of the ...
The Independent

Displacement utopia: How the Windrush generation revived Brixton’s cultural roots

I have seen many changes around here throughout my time,” says Horace, known as Driver, 75. “The closing of shops, the changes to the market, the pubs – there’s no Blackman pub left, Atlantic Pub, ...