Brixton photos February 2007
Photos © urban75 editor
Street scenes around Atlantic Road, Electric Avenue and Coldharbour Lane from a chilly February afternoon.
![Elephant rug, Atlantic Rd, Brixton, London, February 2007](../../london/images/london-feb07-17.jpg) Elephant rug, Atlantic Rd, Brixton.
![Unfinished building says hello, Coldharbour Lane, Brixton, London, February 2007](../../london/images/london-feb07-18.jpg) Unfinished building says hello, Coldharbour Lane, Brixton.
![Welcome to Brixton! Brixton, London, February 2007](images/feb-07-24.jpg) "They want your iPod," Coldharbour Lane, Brixton.
![Welcome to Brixton! Brixton, London, February 2007](images/feb-07-25.jpg) Pickpockets, Coldharbour Lane, Brixton.
![Late tube home to Victoria, Brixton, London, February 2007](images/feb-07-26.jpg) Late tube home to Victoria.
![Baby afternoon at the Ritzy Brixton, London, February 2007](images/feb-07-27.jpg) A small selection of the fleets of prams docked in the Ritzy's bar during their Mother and Baby screenings.
![Foundation stone, Tate Gardens, Brixton Theatre, by the Ritzy Brixton, London, February 2007](images/feb-07-28.jpg) I suspect that Sir Henry Irving would be a little less than impressed to find that the foundation stone he laid in 1894 for the (sadly demolished) Brixton Theatre has now been dumped into the concrete wasteland of Tate Gardens.
![Tate Gardens, Brixton, London, February 2007](images/feb-07-29.jpg) The bleak sight of Tate Gardens. Compare with this scene of the original gardens in 1905.
![Windrush Square, Brixton, London, February 2007](images/feb-07-30.jpg) Abandoned chair, Windrush Square.
![St Matthew's Church, Brixton, London, February 2007](images/feb-07-31.jpg)
Now an obstacle for the car park in front of St Matthew's Church, this memorial to William Ward (died 1881, at the grand old age of 85) looks in poor condition.
Ward was the founder of the City of London School for Girls and gave his fortune to the Corporation of London 'for the maintenance of Queen's Park, Kilburn.'
![Portico, St Matthew's Church, London, February 2007](images/feb-07-32.jpg) The impressive Portico of St Matthew's Church, created by the architect C.F.Porden in 1824. See archive photo.
![St Matthew's Church, London, February 2007](images/feb-07-33.jpg) The church is now stranded on a busy road junction.
![Graffiti, Brixton Station Road, London, February 2007](images/feb-07-34.jpg) Graffiti, Brixton Station Road. Almost all of the old entrances to the railway arches were modernised a few years back - see how they used to look here.
The road featured in the seminal 1960s film 'Alfie' starring Michael Caine.
![Baby afternoon at the Ritzy Brixton, London, February 2007](images/feb-07-35.jpg) Untroubled by paint in decades, the frontage of this old business on Gresham Road continues to flake away.
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