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- Thames News report from Brixton 1982.
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Black and Whites got along fine, the only tensions were because of heavy handed policing. I worked in Stockwell, Brixton and Brixton hill 78 to 83 and loved it. I also spent a couple of years living in one of the lovely villas in Angel road and attended the St. John's behind Brixton police station, when a child. Now the market is all but dead, people being forced out, greedy developers have arrived, Lambeth council are even more corrupt. Brixton will soon resemble every bland and boring high street, I'm so glad I experienced its bright, colourful and lovely side not forgetting the many great characters who lived and worked there.
Black's and white don't get on today it's more segregated and divided in the UK those days attitudes where different.
@@sarahfemi9862 yes because of the Lefty idiots playing the race game. They are the real Racists.
@@H4CK61 you mean those yuppies who pose as lefties but aren´t really lefties
You , got the very last flavor of the real BRIXTON...we owned several businesses in BRIXTON MARKET and we owned the Angel pub..I left LONDON in 1980..living in NYC for over 30years. ..
Preach sista.
Average house price then £15,000.
Average price now £800,000.
Adam Holmes I know ppl are upset who see this, that their parents didn't buy one of those properties back then.
you mean £1,000,000.
agfagaevart well that was a month ago, so its probably gone up by that much already haha
according to the "experts" price drops are on the way...i believe it when it happens.
Gentrification
I go back a few years before this so lots of sad changes but a great piece of film. Loads of memories I lived in Kellet Rd and this film shows my bedroom window when I was a child and my friends shop The Furniture Mart.
I was a student (from Coventry) staying in Streatham at this time. I used to catch the bus to Brixton, and the tube to Elephant & Castle (Southbank Polytechnic). I loved London from my time in college, and managed to move here (Hounslow) in 2011! I often visit Streatham and Brixton these days - takes me back in time! 😊😊
I visited Brixton for the first time yesterday. The contradictions between gentrification and historic Brixton shocked me - people spending £15 on an 'artisan' burger and chips whilst sitting on milk crates in some so called trendy eatery whilst right next door was an old school grocers or hardware store that hadn't changed since the 80s and rightly so.
The prices of ordinary things in London are ridiculous these days. Coffee costs more than £5 in a lot of places. All you have to do to get things cheaper is get on a train to Birmingham, which takes 75 minutes, and you can get everything for half the price you can in London. Not quite the same atmosphere though.
@@ajs41 long way to go for a coffee 😆
That’s why my family and loads of others have left from Croydon, Bromley etc
@@ajs41 things are cheaper up north.
'Hipsters' are the most embarrassing, disgraceful thing ever. Do they really have such little identity?
I love the old cars in this.
When you could fit your car in your garage.
it stayed in there, coz most cars were so unreliable back then. :-0
They were all British made but Ugly looking blocks of metal that wouldn't start in the Winter without a bump start..Lol 😀
This brings back lots of memories for me. I lived in Brixton from 1979 to 1985 and I loved every single day.
Had a squat at Villa Rd,
then a flat in Hereford House, Rushcroft Rd, finally I lived at 21 Clifton Mansions in Coldharbour Lane.
Happy days of sex and drugs and rock'n'roll, and though Brixton was a real dive and it had two riots, I LOVED THE PLACE!
Villa road? I knew people who lived in squats then. Some were film studies students. Others fringe workers in the arts. Higgins only name I can remember.
You must know clemmy,
I lived at 7 railton Road from 1947 to 1958. We lived in a 2 bedroom I kitchen shared toilet flat above an army surplus store. Living conditions were not good but gad lots of mates in Mayall Road. Went to St Judes junior school.
Railton rd aka The frontline....
1947 yuno
Also had cookers in the hallways and on the landings in shared houses that were also shared. Good bad old days?
So many individual private businesses back then, before it all went in house and big stores before supermarkets ran roughshod over everyone and every piece of land that wasn’t used for homes, then you could go to the local centre or high street and there would be 10 different shoe shops to choose from, 4 or 5 bakers, butchers and greengrocers, small independent furniture shops, I much preferred these times, it had character.
...have to agree ...the little man got squeezed out
The little man deserved it.
By the 90s the place had lost lots of business an the indoor market was empty
@@VengaboysRbackINtown #OKBEARDO
Don't you get it? The idea is for you to OWN NOTHING AND BE HAPPY ! 😑
Nice to get a glimpse of Dales Menswear. I used to work there back in the early 1960s.
I'm proud to say I were born and raised in Brixton from the 70s it will always be my hometown. Although it looks rough and run down I had a fantastic childhood I never felt I were living in an deprived area. It had an sense of very good community sprit, market was the heart of Brixton. However I'm all for change and move with the times but Brixton have definitely lost it's soul and community sprit it feels more neglected now then in the 70s.
gentrification
You are so right woody.i was born in the 60s and was born in railton road My mum and sisters are still there I loved it back then
I was born in 60s in Mayall road and loved there for nearly 30 yes. Childhood memories were great.
@@christinastephanou5971then
I remember getting liks tumps and slaps off my mum in the middle of Brixton market still the most embarrassing thing ever to happen to me
It wasn't just you...
Most embarrassing thing Yet
@@schnitzelvonknobbschafft2683 His Mum tumped you too?
Think we all got thumped in the market. I'd get sidetracked looking at rainbow fish on the slabs of marble and my mum would have moved on. Tump
I grew up in Herne Hill in the 80's and early 90's. I remember when I played in Brockwell park my Mum would always tell me to stay away from the Brixton side as it was too dangerous.
Although it looks a bit of a shithole in the video there's something nice and calming about it, maybe memories of a simpler time.
I grew up in Brixton & Clapham and I’m very proud to say that best times best friends now I’m 55 and still love her
Those rundown houses at 8:30 will all be worth well over £1 million each today!
In my minds eye this what I think of when people mention Brixton, particularly from 3:46 onwards. Would have been living with my Gran at 11 Barnwell Road (approx. 4.05) just off Railton Road when this was made and often played in the 'adventure playground' at 4:21. Obviously we'd had a grandstand view of the riots the previous year though no damage to our place, possibly because my gran was standing at her front gate berating everyone with comments like "JOHNY, what do you think your doing? I can remember when you caught your willy in your zip, get home with you" (she'd been the nurse at the local school in case your wondering how she knew that).
lol
It would have been better if it was slower. Most of us come here for a stroll in memory lane.
I slowed down the video!😊😊
I immigrated to the States in 1980, which was before the riot of 1981, so I don't remember so many boarded up businesses. I first saw Brixton again in 2009. Many things were just as I remembered them, and some things were trendy and new. I loved the Brixton of the 70s-80s, and I have thoroughly enjoyed myself on every return visit since. Gentrification, urban development, whatever we call it, change is inevitable and often times necessary. It's happening in here in west Philadelphia, in Harlem, in Bedford-Stuyvesant . . . We never really "own" our neighbourhoods!
I loved Brixton in mid 80s. Be great to see this same video journey today.
You should go and check it out! I was there from 1980-84. I go there and re-live those days! Jump on a bus - you'll love it. I did tear up a bit the first time want to re-visit (30 year later).
Lived in Streatham & often went and used tube station, Brixton market, as kid i would buy my subbuteo teams there or go to the Lonsdale shop over the road from the town Hall, saw "Chelsea" punk band there in late 70's in the Hall up the side.
Brixton was much better then, conscious reggae music and Dub was the music of influence, instead of gangster rap and grime.... a community spirit and no knife or gun crime in the earth coloured community....
True to a certain extent. But, even in those days if you were from Peckham or Lewisham, you had to be careful in Brixton. If a youth had a gold chain and could not defend it, he would get draped up for it. So, many of us were carrying knives in those days too. Also, sure there was conscious reggae, but there was also the blues dance culture, which catered to the street hustlers etc. Yes, we were more united, on a whole, but the friction between postcodes cannot just be blamed on the youth of today. Unfortunately, they inherited our antagonisms.
@@Shemra 👏🏿
@sam mark Brixton was a middle class neighbourhood and is reverting back to that.
@@MaSoNGaMeR115 fuck off with your racism
MaSoNGaMeR115 thats pure bullshit
0.36 The guy that used to dance all day long outside Granville Arcade. He was there every day for a few years and then no more...
what do you think happened to him?
rocco777777 .that poor man got mugged and killed for his little money he wasn't dancing. rip
sorry for what he danced for
Is that next to the tube station? I've been there a few times even though I'm from the Midlands.
I use to see him when I went market with my grand dad, bought back a memory when i clocked him in this vid.
Many of the popular shops of the day empty. Breslaws, Temple and Maurice's.
I can see our old family shop in this! Although it wasn't ours still 1985. it was on Shakespeare Road.
Siobhan28483 do you know which part of the film shows Shakespeare Road please?
was your mother Beverley? We lived in Shakespeare Road then
Was it your parents shop? I remember a lovely woman called Beverley who ran a shop with her husband. We lived in Shakespeare Road and used the shop on a regular
basis
@Hilary Waterfield yes beverley
I lived at 60 Strathleven Road, Brixton between 1973 and 1976. Good Times.
Looks like everyone forgot their mobiles that day...
But you've brought yours now
love my home town sw9
Yes,SW9,. On the S P E,,,
I used to buy A LOT of records from Desmonds Hip City (and across the road just in the arcade at the Soferno B Record Shack) back in the day. Loved the place!
I love the video, I remember those days Thank you
The Baron hahaha getting your Gabbici and Farah's
nearly all the shops were local family run and what a variety ,no charity shops or coffee fast food what a difference !
Barnados near the police station was there in the 80s. I bought some of the letters from their sign that got blown down in one of the big storms.
I picked up on that - a lot of independent stores, also the complete absence of PVC windows and a profusion of original store fronts.
The empty lots indicate property prices were very low.
Half the shops we unoccupied, boarded up.
@@CARLIN4737 ye by the 90s it was run down the indoor market had nothing Brixton had been ruined from what it was
remembered Brixton in 1982 frequented there in that year in fact was always in Brixton not on a regular basis but visited a lot many years while living in the UK and visiting from the US
Am going to show my mum these.
I recognise parts. Hope it brings back some good memories for her
Is that Arthur Dailys car lot lol. I bet some of those houses are worth a fortune now
...thought he was in Fulham lol
Wow! This is such a nice blast from the past!
4:18 I used to play in that adventure playground
I was so happy with my Camo trousers my mum bought me when i was 6 in Brixton market in the 80s.
I lived on Spencer road / listen to what mans shouting at the camera when on railton road lol
I lived in Brixton myatts field estate. 1981-1989. Loved my 8 years in Brixton
Me too, Farnfield house dray gdns
Really enjoyed seeing familiar territory! How things have changed .🙂
Back when brixton was brixton, yes it was rough but it was cool
Back then the Derek Munn clothes store on Atlantic road was the rage for all the Sticks man dem buying up the Cecil gee and gold tip shoes😊
Growing up in a Jamaican family and area call Flatbush Brooklyn . ..hearing someone saying Cecil Gee is bringing me back over 40 plus years ago to the Reggae stores on Flatbush ave and Church ave where "rude boys" and American born "rude boys" did once congregate. In my School years nuff London youths would cone and stay with they family in BK Harlem and the Bronx to get away from the "madness"in Brixton and Hackney only to find they jumped out the frying pan and into the fire 😂...Most go back within a year or two when things cool off in London a few stay on legal and the rest get mashed the F up by AIDS drinking rum and smoking crack until they deported to UK or straight to Jamaica. I think we are all survivors those of us all left standing who family did migrate for a better future but had no idea the troubles the pickney would encounter in these. UK or US cities. Either way if you family wind up these places we all family connect to the same Mango tree .. Bless up king ❤
@@pauobunyon9791 Greetings my Brother. You have a great memory. Its funny but I remember back on those days quite a few black youths from South London would suddenly disappear, and when you enquired about there whereabouts, you were told they had moved to the States. Funnily enough I can't recall seeing any that I knew come back to England. I think the Rapper Slick Rick would have been in that category although I never knew him personally. Yes your so right we are all Survivors of that generation.
what is a sticks man
@@t9878That was the name given to pick pockets of the time in the Jamaican community. Nimble fingers like sticks.
Brixton used to be so incredibly amazing, no where near today what it was like back then, there was truly no where in the world quite like brixton
sarah jones yh the rich fucked it all up for everyone
Gentrification is destroying London soul these people don't care about community all they care about is money and power and to control areas these gentrifiers are hostile and bigoted people who would want to mix with them.
Right?
@@sarahfemi9862 Funny and I thought it was all the knife crime being committed by the children and grandchildren of the people who used to live in Brixton...
@@sideshow4417 Which is why I moved from very near there to THe Suburbs in 1983,with the greatest of reluctance after 5 Generations of my Family lived there.
9:10 you know what's really fucked up about those dilapidated houses? if any one of those idiots would have bought one put everything they owned into fixing it, it would be a multi-million pound 4 story Mansion right now.
They don't build houses like that anymore. You could have had 3 Storey house with a separate flat at the bottom to rent out but no one could be bothered to sort them out so they knock them down
Before everyone gets TOO sentimental let me tell you that my stolen car was found on Brixton Hill Estate and for once The AA said do NOT stay with the car but go to the major Police Station there and wait. When we arrived and saw my car it looked like it was a dead-end among the old garages with just one way in and out and I was xxxxxxx myself and it was such a "lovely" area that The AA guy re-assured me by showing me HIS AXE !!
Raa, gonna show this to my Dad. His old manor! I lived in Coldharbour Lane up until I was four, but barely remember it, then we moved to Pecks, but my pops still drinked in Briccy for years. I'm just down the road in Camberwell now. Funny seeing how all these areas have changed. So gentrified and expensive. Hipsters move in 'cos they like the working class vibe (makes 'em feel edgy), while simultaneously pricing people out, lol.
Lovely brixton ain't nothing what it use to be back in 90s..
Now it's so different but of both nice and nuts at the times.. But love brixton for sure.. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Can't even afford a house there now.
Didn't dare go out at night round Brixton area then
Jilly Brooke yeah and that wasn't because of white people waiting and lurking in doorways that's because of these junkie spades wanting a piece of a white girl....
Si P you mean any girl! 😂
Would be scared to go out in day light , then and now.
its looks proper run down then, is it still like that now ? was it really a dangerous place to walk about ?
@@sip6293 well, the white girls kept on coming so at some point those so called junkies were just going to give in🤷🏾♂️
I remember back in de day I like😊👍
Such a great piece of history for me ✊🏾 #80'sBaby
Brings back Good memories 😌
Didn't know it back then but looks more of an authentic Brixton. Must have been fun.
Yes it was urban and authentic? There was 2 riots when i lived there in the 80s. I watched Brixton burn, Twice. How urban chic is that hipsters?
Depends if you consider riots and extreme poverty "authentic"
4:10 timeless echo. Love London. My birth place and resting place
Use to buy my clothes from ' Baron'
What was the name of that Jamaican food shop on Railton Road during the 70s and 80s?
I grew up in Clapham spent lot time in brixton in 60s lovely times Ericsson shop Scottys happi times x
lived in tulse hill from 1970 to 96 remember brixton exactly as shown
You go Tulse Hill boys then? Me and my brother did in 86.
No mate I went rosendale juniors an dunraven. My two bothers went Tulse hill to I the 70s
@@CARLIN4737 worked on the housing estate on Tulse hill school grounds after it was demolished
You can tell the year by the cars nobody has cars like those anymore
Everyone has massive cars these days. I don't like them, with their black-out windows, they look sinister.
Thank god! most of them were unreliable shit heaps. The cars we have now are better for the planet & at least they work lol :)
@@ajs41 Yeah I agree with that, there's no need for those bloody huge 4X4s unless you perhaps live in remoter areas, they take up too much room & cars with blacked out or tinted windows were illegal these days I thought? definitely sinister too.
And they have no character and are boring.The planet was just fine back then
At 0.37 you see a guy in an rusty orange shirt spinning around briefly and the camera man says 'there he is ' . I lived in Brixton in the early 90's and seem to remember a tall, thin guy spinning around and hopping as he walked .
LOVE my hometown
Some nice cars
The Baron shop (0:45) hasn't change at all
It's long gone now tho
@@rjauto7215 I'm pretty sure it was around 3 or 4 years ago tho
@@metralla na it's been gone over 20 years
This is da real Brixton... I grew up in! max respect for the upload and to all those talking shit about Brixton back then it was not as bad as they make out angle town was off key!! but it's the same all over... but don't go making everyone in the area was up to no good.....if you never lived there then you don't know...
The state of those buildings then and they are now worth an utter fortune.
Great times!
I see there's a milkman's van at 16 seconds. Do they still exist in London? They do in my area which is a commuter village in the Midlands but I've got a feeling a lot of areas don't have milkman deliveries these days.
yes, he comes around Mayall road each week (but very early in the morning).
@@michaellynn8 Ernie, and he drove the fastest milkcart in the West.
...now "Milk & More"
Yea i lived near Brixton Oval from 1987-2001 love the ramshackle look and different stores back then, Loved The Baron mensstore which is still there however changes now look less authentic.
The Baron, that is a Brixton legend. I never shopped there but walked past it for 30 plus years. It was good to see how Brixton looked, I moved into Mayall Road in the mid-90s. Houses were cheap then, now they are over a 1 million quid, and people leave harrods bags in the bins.
The only way to see Brixton . Driving through in a fast car ! Worked for BT in that area in the 80s and it was a sh*th*le !
I lived and worked in the area back then. Went to Romford one Friday evening and almost shat my pants. It's what you know, I suppose.
@@schnitzelvonknobbschafft2683 I worked there too !
I was living there then. Cant argue with you fella. Also lived Tulse hill and Streatham Hill up until 1990. Then i joined the Army and got the hell out of dodge.
Memories man I loved it round there in the 70's , we all got on so well with each other it was just Brixton Police that ruined that good natured vibe kids playing in the street trying Caribbean food for the first time great times wish i could go back 50 years and live it again.
I just saw the dancing man, I remember him.
Thinking bout the people and music pumping out of cars and the Reggae an Funk record shops miss Red Records Curtess shoes and streetlife which encircled the market area.
Cutess shoes wow I forgot about that lol the Barron for my school uniform 1981to1986 lol the good old days for real
I sometimes watch these videos and wonder what everybody in it is doing now (if they're not sadly dead) I hope they are happy. Its weird to think someone in their mid-late 30s in this in their 60s now. 98 feels like yesterday
"Time stands still for no man"
Love Brixton
magic
i lived in Brixton in the early 90's in Hayter road
What car is that at 32 seconds red one
It's a fiat lada
truly RATED YOURSELF you wouldn't feel the need to insult other peoples race or colour
Great video. Looks like a right shit tip though! Place looks so old fashioned and still very Victorian
But, because of those Victorian buildings, it has become gentrified. Lovely houses.
@@Muswell Most of the Victorian housing in Brixton was demolished in the '60s which is a shame because the streets of houses were so much more attractive than those awful cardboard, soulless estates they built afterwards. Oh well, change is the only thing that never changes I suppose. 🙂
@@musicloverlondon6070 ?? There are estates, yes, but still hundreds of roads full of Victorian houses.
@@Muswell Yes, true. They managed to preserve a lot of them and I seem to remember that there was a protest about it in Villa road in particular, so those ones survived by the skin of their teeth despite being earmarked for demolition.
It's the many roads of lovely Victorian houses that have made it desirable place to live. Properties cost a fortune.
as someone who's never been to Brixton, is it better or worse?
I lived there in the '90s, it was called the frontline back then. It's changed a lot. Not so rough as it used to be, but has lost some of it's vibe and community character. House prices and rents have shot up quite considerably.
The problems Brixton had back then were extreme poverty, very high levels of crime and very racist policing. Now, it's a much safer place. It isn't as "vibrant" as it was, but it's nowhere near as dangerous.
The place look rundown unlike 2018
Probably because there'd been massive riots about a year before this video was filmed, in April 1981.
sanjay j Trust me, my old man grew up on an estate here and when he drives these young professional types back home they ask if he can watch them get in safety. There scared of their own community, which barely exists. Btw his a black cab driver for context
It was very run down back then. Huge amount of poverty and crime.
1 of The biggest blunders .
It's interesting how many folk reminisce about the 'good ole days' when in almost every measurable area, we've never had it so good.
bullshit. the watering down of culture.
@@ktiitfa2491 Which cultures and how so?
True. I grew up close by in the eighties and l do not miss that time nor place. Life today is heaven compared to then, it's beyond what l could have imagined it would be for me. Not least of which is the smartphone in my hand on which l can find any video l want from the past.
Whilst the disparities in many measurable areas have become more extreme, and more working people now have had no REAL wage increase. Poverty, homelessness, crime / urban decay was rife in the 80's and early 90's. Since 1995 most crimes in most areas (up until fairly recently) was decreasing. But the FEAR of crime, and most probably the general public believe, all crime is increasing. @@RRsqx324
May have been a shithole back then but now it's "Gentrified" and trendy those same run down buildings are worth a fortune.
At 36 seconds is the white man who used to dance outside the record shop in the '80s. I wonder what ever became of him.
Guns of Brixton - The Clash (1979)
FRONTLINE DAYS
No billboards with posters today in the internet age.
funny how you could see so many datsuns, but now you can count the total left in the uk on your fingers.
I remember the topless dancing man outside the market. There were at least 3 of them in all.
Wow 3 of them only remember one long haired guy 😄
Tall white ruster in a suit
Roots tune at 39seconds
3:07 my house
Where's the Sweeny-Oy You're Nicked! 😄
Railton Rd just becomes never ending metal fence panels wtf
Must have been the early 80s.
The rot had very much set in even by 82.
When was there no rot?
@@ajs41 Brixton was a middle class neighbourhood and is reverting back to that.
SI Fella it’s already too far gone
Rot?! I don't even know what you mean loser
I lived there from 1985 -1987. Best place ever! used to go to the White Horse pub. Brilliant vibe there!
yeah i was knocking about then. i went tulse hill boys then dunraven.
This was a month before I was born. No wonder they had to pull me with forceps, look at the state of the 80's!! lol
If they're still offering a game or two of pool down at that Brixton "community" house at 7:58, I'll happily come down...
David Bowie saying 'Happy Christmas' at 8.22. And this was not filmed in December (no decorations). Listen for yourself.
eh? why would david bowie be driving around brixton shooting b-roll for a news piece in 1982? it's obviously the camera man. it doesn't even remotely sound like bowie hahah
Its not David Bowie. I suspect its the same person who shoved their hand against the lens who sarcastically said "Happy Christmas".
so fascinating to look at. so different now. but at the time they probably felt like they were living in ultra-modern times just like we feel about ourselves now. makes me wonder what it will look like in another 30 years to make future folk feel our time was quaint and scruffy
I think there are people in every generation who think the world they lived in as youngsters was THE world and it was always going to stay that way. They seem to think someone has stolen something from them, when in fact the only thief is time. We're all just on a giant conveyor belt and everything changes, sooner or later. No doubt in a thousand years time there will still be old people moaning about how things aren't what they used to be.