GENTRIFICATION in London | Brixton
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- Опубліковано 23 лис 2022
- In this video, I'm in south London, in Brixton, where I grew up, and I have a look at the gradual gentrification of the area and reflect the impact it's had on the place!
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Ironically Brixton began its existence as a middle class suburb, housing many members of the artistic profession. Post World war II decline and the shunting of immigrant groups into cheap housing there gave the area its ghetto reputation. History has come full circle. Nowhere stays the same. Once affluent neighbourhoods on london's periphery have become the place to go for impoverished families. This trend sees uk cities follow a similar socioeconomic pattern to cities in continental Europe.
As a puny white guy, I went to Brixton on my own in the 90s at night and survived! I did however get beaten up in a pub car park in #Sussex! Is Sussex rougher than Brixton these days?
I got to visit London twice last year (from Texas). Shoreditch in June, Hammersmith in November. I’ve fallen in love with London, and want to explore Brixton when I come back this summer
12:28 I'm glad this peace mural is still there and restored to its former glory. The most Iconic of Brixton!
In the 18 years I lived in Crystal Palace I witnessed the gentrification of Upper Norwood, of Peckham (particularly Peckham), and of Brixton. Where once you couldn’t wait for the No. 3 bus outside Brixton station without being greeted by the lad calling out ‘Skunk? Skunk?’, now you stare across at the Foxton’s Estate Agency. A big reason why my other half (whom I rescued from Myatts Fields in 2004) fled to Manchester in early 2019. Love London dearly but it was time to move on. A decision neither of us regret.
Haha. Like I've experienced, it's nice to get out of the bubble after being there for a long while, but it's nice to see how it's changed haha. It's still the same as it used to be when it gets past midnight tho lool
I don't agree immigrants smell and calling people skunk is disgusting. The blacks are a very musical people and I welcome them to our shores
great video as always! as a croydon girl now living in glasgow, your videos always hit the spot 👌🏻👌🏻
Hi how w you find Glasgow
Good job Sam.🔥🔥🔥💪🏽💖
Love this video Sam! Did somebody say gentrificatiooon 🤣🤌🏼
Thanks Diana! Haha, hope I don't get sued by Just Eat lool 😂
Born in Whittington Hospital and grew up in Islington. was a kind of alright in the early days but it was poor (stabbing outside my primary school, chavs throwing stones from the estates, fights), then starting becoming more of a shithole (when i started getting robbed, threatened with knives, police finding gun stash, gangs forming) now it's much better. Although i'm not sure how comparable to Brixton, since Islington had deliberately been rebuilt after World War 2 as a mixed-income area. So there were always old upper middle class homes across the street from relatively newer council estates. I even remember when the hoodrats starting moving in.
Genuinely prefer hipster utopia rather than roadman shithole even if it is more expensive today.
Never invest too much emotion in an area. Unless you own the home or the land, its not really yours. And newcomers with money can take what you feel belongs to you straight away.
I'm from Brixton. Yes, the African and Caribbean culture has gone down. Where has the African and Caribbean community moved to?
Croydon
I remember visiting Brixton ,in 1996, came out of the tube station and greeted by a ses of blsck faces. I went to Brixton a few days ago, it looks looks different. Who remembers in Shoe Doctor in the indoor market?
big up someone explores
Big up the Bebington
I grew up on a council estate in Manchester, and I don't mind going into a nice trendy coffee shop and sipping a really good Latte or Flat White, it's just the fact that the newly moved in residents tend to stick to their own social class and can make the local who has frequented the place feel out of place in a neighbourhood they have lived their own life in. As for that Champagne and Fromage place that opened in Brixton Market, now that is taking the piss, hat should be in Mayfair, Knightsbridge or Hampstead, not in Brixton.
The gentrification of Brixton has had such violent effects on the working-class, immigrant communities who live there. Be it the closing of their local businesses or the neglect of social housing which is torn down in the name of “regeneration”. Locals are being pushed out and having their cultures appropriated to sell Brixton to the white, middle-class who love to experience it (but only at a distance!)
Completely agree that investment and regeneration when it serves the local community would be WARMLY welcomed in Brixton. BUT “regeneration” which pushes locals out… is hardly regeneration at all but gentrification
Firstly, well done my man, you had me there for sure.
Secondly, when you read the comments it's from people who have never lived there.....NEVER.
You showed the Loughborough Estate where I was born, some 63 years ago. And the Angell Estate, I lived in Peckford Place before the Angell was there ( it was old factories and stuff )
So? Brixton? Without the West Indians that place died on it's arse. Brixton Market was the place everyone came to, black or brown or white. I took a Greek girl there recently for the vegan food.
The riots? Railton Road, Frontline and that.
You forgot one other shop they left alone, the Pie and Mash shop in Cold Harbour Lane. I did ask why and was told
"Peter man, if you bun up the mash shop we lose the whites aswell"
Peace and hope for a better world
Thank you very much! Brixton is a place close to my heart hehe!
Yes the high-street has been but don’t get it twisted the estates are still black and still rough. Myatts field was knocked down and re-built see more white people. But you still get you stabbings and shootings. Summer Leyton, Angel town. Loughborough. Still shooting and murder this year been bunch still. Even two shooting on the high street.
Quite sad that they have gentrified Brixton. The thing is that the white middle class community that now live there are not friendly and open to the working class. They stick to their little cliques. Go to the mum and baby groups and you’ll feel left out like a sore thumb. An area which I loved going to for the vibe, African fabrics and food has turned into a strange place with vegan and artisan cafes. It would’ve been nice if money was put to develop the area to benefit the long standing Afro Caribbean community but we know that’s never going to happen.