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Photos © urban75 editor, October 2007.
![Brixton and Stockwell photos, Brixton, Lambeth, London SW9, October 2007](images/october-2007.jpg)
Atlantic Road.
![Brixton and Stockwell photos, Brixton, Lambeth, London SW9, October 2007](images/october-2007-01.jpg)
Jean Charles de Menezes memorial, Stockwell Station.
![Brixton and Stockwell photos, Brixton, Lambeth, London SW9, October 2007](images/october-2007-02.jpg)
Old fire station, Ferndale Road. See 'Then and Now' historical photo.
![Brixton and Stockwell photos, Brixton, Lambeth, London SW9, October 2007](images/october-2007-03.jpg)
It may look like some abandoned block in a war-strewn eastern European country, but this is a scene on Coldharbour Lane, Brixton.
The development went bankrupt in October 2006 and has lain empty ever since.
![Brixton and Stockwell photos, Brixton, Lambeth, London SW9, October 2007](images/october-2007-04.jpg)
Orphan's Yard off Brixton Station Road, home to garage mechanics, alternative t-shirt printers, a closed rehearsal studio ("NEVER open a rehearsal studio unless you are RICH, MEAN, or BOTH") and some Arthur Daley-style 'under the arches' businesses.
![Brixton and Stockwell photos, Brixton, Lambeth, London SW9, October 2007](images/october-2007-05.jpg)
Under the railway bridge next to the criminally abandoned Brady's.
![Brixton and Stockwell photos, Brixton, Lambeth, London SW9, October 2007](images/october-2007-06.jpg)
The 'Chow' diner takes shape on Coldharbour Lane.
![Brixton and Stockwell photos, Brixton, Lambeth, London SW9, October 2007](images/october-2007-07.jpg)
Shops in poor shape, Atlantic Road.
In the early sixties, the shop with the makeshift tarpaulin roof was a Wool Shop, while the grocer to the left once hosted the shining facade of 'Stones Television and Radio' (see below).
![Brixton and Stockwell photos, Brixton, Lambeth, London SW9, October 2007](images/october-2007-08.jpg) Detail from a John Gay photo taken between Jan 1962 - May 1964 and reproduced on the excellent English Heritage 'Viewfinder' site.
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