1998 Brixton Before Gentrification, Electric Aveneue, Police Station, 1990s

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1998 Brixton before gentrification, Electric Avenue, Police Station, 1990s London

[@Maoulduin]

Jackie Brown, Titanic, Good Will Hunting, LA Confidential all showing at the Ritzy. Damn we had some good movies back then

[@ef9303]

McDonalds is still in that exact spot

[@jblack5323]

And will be in another 25 years.

[@silvershoes9724]

Not even kidding, McDonald’s is like the constant thing lol… in my local town Leamington Spa It’s one of the only original places left that I remember from my childhood 😢

[@chrisr7895]

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.

[@victwenty2324]

london and everything wrong with it right there sit on a milk creat eat a LIKELY POORLY COOKED BURGER pay £20 for it thats the world today i am off grid MGTOW i leave on peanuts a week and save all my money i have claims foer injuries comming i will leave semi off grid in a smi rural northern town and travel the world london is a joke arat piss infested shithole MARKETED AS COOL AND HIP the mind bobbles mega citys are horenous places jesues is there even a tree there let alone a woodlamnd or forest or lake SHIT HOLE PURE AND SIMPE 400K TERRICE HOUSE wake up sheeple

[@weeeeoooow]

@@ryoss110 😄

[@johnclark7065]

Stupid rich and yuppies will spend this type of money and don't care about pricing people out of a city they was born in.

[@oscarfeatherstone6688]

"Visited".. so you've since moved out. Brixton looks almost exactly identical to this footage here. If anything this is testament to how "gentrification" amounts to having nicer options in an area and nothing less.

[@koont666]

@@oscarfeatherstone6688 except pricing the working classes out of everything.

[@elviss]

Less people in London then, although Brixton is busy looks like there was still more space between people

[@G-Man78]

time of day perhaps

[@theresapierce3934]

Labours open door policy has added 6 million people to Britain, not forgetting the ones here illegally.

[@channelfive7883]

@@theresapierce3934 good

[@ashyclaret]

@@channelfive7883 If you like queuing up.

[@hiimmya1041]

Bruh the 90s seem so laid back😭I wish I could've experienced that

[@JD-lp5rw]

They were. Mid 2000's the world changed for the worse

[@matthewsmith2787]

@@JD-lp5rw Around 2005, I noticed a change for sure

[@57mykz]

@@matthewsmith2787 can you explain?

[@busker1]

Brixton was the roughest are in London back then

[@wangwang2048]

Please Come over to the Chinese City where were British Colonized before. You'll find out how much on the same between the UK and my hometown?

[@mattameta]

My mum came home during the riots with a carriage clock dropped by a ‘Rasta’ who was being chased by police - That was the beginning of gentrification.

[@yahashantimoor5334]

That tome in the 90s was really nice no problem Brixton was very cultural naturally people thst were genuine came to hang out.

[@brixtonbabe]

The olden days and golden era, thank you for sharing this.

[@Isleofskye]

Brixton was vibrant then but I hope everyone knows the history of the area. haha, Brixton WAS a White (99% ) mainly Middle-Class Area (hence the architecture and Town Houses around the centre along Brixton Road from The Oval ) then mass immigration changed that from the 1960s. Even in 1965, a Black Guy has pointed out down The Walworth Road on the other side of the road just 3 miles away, such was the rarity. So Whites gradually moved out as Lambeth Council changed its Housing Policy from "Sons and Daughters in The 1950'sto reward all the taxpayers who paid for every Council place to "Homeless first" to accommodate the immigrants from The Caribbean and Asia which meant all the Whites, like me, got sent down by 20 years on the waiting list or pushed off it altogether. Now through Gentrification and lack of Social Housing, the area is going full circle showing "What goes round comes round"... Let's hope everyone gets looked after this time because we were not back then !! lol

[@palacehaunter5442]

The Middle Class left especially as well as the others are the true sxum of the country. Not the working and upper classes

[@mrdunnepoetryreallifetvuk1934]

💯

[@amtownsyou]

I wanna time travel to that moment and pull out my camera phone just to see peoples reaction

[@amtownsyou]

@Goddess 9 facts 😂

[@tezzingtonsir28]

@Goddess 9 you attire would look pretty normal in the 90s.

[@user-kl4bh4lq6r]

😄👍

[@marksmith4372]

That's when Brixton was Brixton

[@skylarblacc1660]

Trust me Mark if you here you know!

[@Tomi_janet15]

Yes!!!

[@nativetexanful]

That's when Brixton was affordable.

[@peterpedant]

What, a shit hole?

[@angusmeigh5141]

@@nativetexanful Brixton has not been affordable since the 1970s. And gentrification started in Brixton by the mid 1980s.

[@Trish-ql9kz]

Gentrification..lived here from late 60’s moved out in the mid 80’s when it all started

[@jneal21]

This is the year my dad left Brixton he was born there in 1964 raised on council estate then left 1998

[@Hoxtonligger]

My Friend worked in Brixton around this time for Dogstar and Mass he was involved with booking DJs etc was some really cool party's and events around that time.

[@beatabucharowska1160]

That was a great venue. I went there many times. Wicked time 😊

[@underneonloneliness2]

Back when most people had normal sized cars and not giant 4x4's. Why do people feel the need to buy them? We ain't america. Our roads are tiny for the most part and car park spaces ain't made for big cars.

[@pigknickers2975]

Speed bumps have something to do with it

[@hazardous1990]

Also, in my opinion modern cars are ugly and all look the same, hard to tell different cars apart, back then cars were easily identifiable by make and model.

[@leonashmead6381]

The good old days!

[@pleaseyourselfsir]

I’m loving this video it takes me back to when I was a kid in The early 90s . 🧐🇬🇧👍🏻

[@lizc2023]

This is from 1998

[@jai_b]

0:29 Mr bean walks passed???

[@zivkovicable]

Old Brixtonians were already talking about how the area had already gentrified by the time this was filmed. Railton road was no longer frontline, trendy bars replacing pubs, but there were still dealers outside KFC & sex workers on the Hill..... & there were even older Brixtonians still around who remembered when it was a middle class area in the 1930's, until Hitler bombed the crap out of it.

[@fredshred5194]

Lived there 85, 86, came back 97 06

[@TheFreshSpam]

Contrary to what these people say, ive lived here from 1998 till jow and onwards. It hasnt really changed all that much other than the street dealers and places being done up, which suprigibly make it more accesible to Brixton than it ever used to be for most.

[@audreyfoster1695]

This video does not really show the main shopping areas of Brixton. It mainly concentrated on showing the name of the road, Electric Avenue, the Ritzy and the police station also Brixton station.

[@Rafael-Matheus96]

Do you have anymore videos of Brixton in the 90's? or Streatham?

[@richardtextex1700]

I love brixton, I'd like to return, but I haven't visa.

[@bWalker001]

Gentrification started the Monday following the April riots of 1981.

[@F4TiMA.]

!

[@claudettestewart3711]

Absolutely correct!

[@ibelieve2779]

Nah because the 90s was Brixton at its worst

[@thehoneyeffect]

This is how I remember brixton. Though You can still see little signs of the gentrification about to come though.

[@ttp436]

thehoneyeffect like What exactly? Interested To hear your prespective

[@margateswede]

Takes me back. Used to help out on my mate’s dad’s jewellery stall outside Frank’s Afro hair and beauty on Electric Avenue every summer in the late 80s/early 90s. Times change, but it really was a more interesting vibrant place back then.

[@BigBleedinSteve]

In the early 2000s it was still basically the same. Now it's a different world

[@spiritzone13]

george IV is a Tesco !

[@Eventsandthings]

Jackets and the indoor market next to the tube station! nice to see them again!

[@michaellynn8]

The markets were always a dump, selling tat that you could get in a shop for less.

[@ed9763]

What is so special about the police lamp post.😀

[@Isleofskye]

True Story circa 1988. I was at the (then ) traffic lights @ Electric Avenue opposite Lambeth Town Hall waiting to join the Main Road traffic that would eventually take me to Streatham. A young girl climbs into my passenger seat from my car demands £20 otherwise she is off with my keys leaving me stranded. I had exactly £20 on me. Gave it to her. She returned my keys and I continued on my merry way. A pleasure to do Business with her...........

[@F4TiMA.]

The Brixton I remember as a 5 year old

[@mrdunnepoetryreallifetvuk1934]

Thanks for sharing 🙏🏻

[@theonlyantony]

'gentrification' had already started. Anyway it is re-gentrification. Same as Notting Hill.

[@life_seeker6102]

sam mark to read your comment during the black lives matter disgusts me!

[@hazardous1990]

People dressed better back then.

[@sinistercharger]

Why is the extensive coverage of the sign? Zzz

[@petervankas1352]

Brixton riots in the 80s . The area was already long gone before the riots. I know I lived there,

[@darrenbrown4495]

it's not about crime rates.. it's just a fact that London has now become so expensive to live and the value of living in zone 2/1 in London were alot of minorities do/have lived is so valuable that they are litterly taking over these areas for financial gain and not caring about the people how have lived there for many years. but that also points out a problem within the black community were we live but don't buy enough property. you think in the 60s 70s 80s & 90s Brixton was very affordable to buy. weather it was a flat or a Victorian home. because with thoes investments yes they could take over the business but not the homes and without the homesthere's no business

[@darrenbrown4495]

KPOPFANBOYUK that comment shows you don't know much about the history of how working class Londoners moved out of London.. as transportation got more frequent more and more people moved further out to have a better lifestyle and bigger properties etc the working class moved and left the people with out the option to do so. Same as notting hill.. Yes it was a dump but the working class left they was never kicked out. Look at the old train and tube advertisements that's what they promoted. But with a huge surge in property prices since around 2000 more and more working class have been buying in the areas they wonce all left.. and as far a racism I grew up in South London and the Steven Laurence case was not a one the national front was every were .. we used to get chased by them all the time..

[@redflag8970]

u could see it as the west indians were given a great oppurtunity in a great area an the majority blew it. those who rode it out are well off.

[@esssexboy]

I would love to live in Brixton fantastic nightlife &great community spirit. But so expensive now I remember when Brixton was cheap to buy a flat back in the 90's

[@emhanson2716]

Does anybody remember the nail bomb incident in '99? I nearly missed it when I overslept and was supposed to take the tube from Brixton to Oxford Cir (I ran all the way from Herne Hill stn. as I was late for meeting my then girlfriend as I overslept. She was pretty mad).

[@Eventsandthings]

Yes, I remember the nail bombing. They say it was carried out by a man who had a complex about his genitalia and wanted to hurt others as a result. I wasn't there at the time but I lived in Brixton so had to pass there (near the Iceland) all the time. I'm glad you missed it, being late isn't always a bad thing! Take care

[@mrdunnepoetryreallifetvuk1934]

Yep I remember it well

[@jamalstaines2818]

@@Eventsandthings He was racist and part of the bnp.

[@huntermctotahypnosiscrew6211]

I know the guy got nailed who was working

[@beatabucharowska1160]

Yep, I remember that. I've been shopping at the market 10 minutes before happened. I've get home and I've seen the shocking news on TV😢

[@DEEDUBZ]

Absolute beauty

[@missperezr]

I'd give anything to be able to step into this video!! I miss Jackets so bad!!

[@xweetokfairy]

I remember the Pizza Hut on the corner!

[@michaellynn8]

Woolies, was fab, I loved exploring the store, it had a weird mix of items on sale.

[@missbcritiques9209]

YESSA

[@Holyspiritseeker777]

Amazing nostalgic video of Brixton. When in 1998 was the footage taken.

[@dazauto1400]

Does it really matter its 1998 lol

[@beatnuts1uk]

So basically the same as it is now then....

[@mainman3029]

Too much time & fixation spent on the police station sign/street name. Obviously an amateur at filming/editing. Nonetheless, a little nostalgic seeing the Brixton of the late 1990's.

[@andy2550]

This would have been more interesting if you'd spent less time constantly zooming in and out of that police sign and spent more time showing the people and street scenes.

[@grahamjonathan762]

Brixton was already experiencing gentrification before 1998

[@c2producer]

Take me back

[@Isleofskye]

I have just remembered something that perfectly sums it up. When my car was stolen from neighbouring Streatham and was found on The Brixton Hill Estate the AA Guy turned up with AN AXE !!!!!!! that is how SAFE your Brixton was back then !

[@BrickyMindset45]

😢😢❤😢😢 Gentrification has change the vibes big Time

[@sundayakpan2663]

Great 90s Video for this London Streets

[@sosaruhinda2615]

Walk right thru electric avenue... then we take it higher

[@Isleofskye]

True Story circa 1988. I was at the (then ) traffic lights @ Electric Avenue opposite Lambeth Town Hall waiting to join the Main Road traffic that would eventually take me to Streatham. A young girl climbs into my passenger seat from my car demands £20 otherwise she is off with my keys leaving me stranded. I had exactly £20 on me. Gave it to her. She returned my keys and I continued on my merry way. A pleasure to do Business with her...........

[@ttp436]

Getting so bored of hearing Gentrification this Gentrification that!! Everywhere changes and goes through dips, lows, ebs & flows. Its called modernity. Been happening since time began. 1998 in Brixton I used to visit the Mass, The Fridge and a few years later The Dogstar, Funky Monkey on Cold Harbour lane. I think Brixton had a Cottons Restaurant too. Think i ate there too. I could be wrong. Looking at this video makes it look all so different from what I remember and from when I was there at the time. I am a Hackney originally that has changed so much also. Very nostalgic seeing all the changes these places have undergone. Some Good Good memories some not so good. All part of life and Life goes by so fast. 22 years ago. Where has The time gone. From what I hear Its a good thing that the crime levels have dropped but pushing natives out of the area out through risen rates, rent and property increase's Is Wrong. It Will eventually come crashing down then they will need us. I left UK years ago. Sometimes i miss it but definitely could not afford to live there now. Not sure If i Would want too but definitely think it often. Had and have more real friends Like family then anywhere else I have been.

[@palacehaunter5442]

It's evil

[@christinastephanou5971]

Anybody remembers or used to go to Effra Junior School in the early 70's. Mr Gilford was the headmaster then. Great school dinners. The school has been knocked down and flats built. There was a fish and chips shop opposite the school and a sweetshop.

[@F4TiMA.]

So sad. This was my home 🦋

[@xweetokfairy]

Does anyone else remember Virgin megastores and Pizza hut?

[@Eventsandthings]

Yes, the Pizza Hut is where the KFC (now changed back to Kentucky Fried Chicken) is now , corner of Coldharbour lane, which is opposite the Mc Donalds. Was the Virgin Megastore on the same side as the Morleys department store?

[@trainrover]

our port was supposedly the first to graced by electric lighting

[@bond0666]

70's 80's and 90's were best times

[@MrAntiSellOut]

I'd like to see videos of Brixton from 1970 to 1989

[@jmm1233]

omg , a phone box

[@claudiaforde7660]

Focusing too long on signs, thats why there is a pause tap, therefore, becomes boring. Its called Editing... no offence...

[@ministry2627]

My girlfriend too me to the Ritzy to see LA Confidential for my 19th birthday. This video is brilliant. It's the Brixton I remember. With gentrification came higher rents, and when housing benefit was capped, it forced a lot of people out. In my opinion, it destroyed the soul of Brixton.

[@linafelina]

looks kinda the same, except for the starbucks now being next to the station, the real change is in the market where rent has become so high non of the local traders can survive anymore and have to move

[@Tomi_janet15]

Starbucks is closed down now

[@SpeedosAndTheGun]

It’s actually hardly changed at all lol

[@trainrover]

it's strange, because I swear that -- unlike there -- there had been a period when retrofittings were not exclusive to monied classes here

[@gypsyviolin5237]

Brixton has changed beyond recognition. I have live in Brixton same house, in Loughborough estate, for 41 years. There's nothing, like old Brixton. The gentrification, has destroyed, the community.

[@balham456]

Old Brixton pre-dates you.

[@jamalstaines2818]

Most of the born and bred londoners have left and hailed to Essex long time. Multiculturalism is a affect and shows you it doesn't work no where.

[@charliemainful]

Gentrification isn’t good for anyone

[@Isleofskye]

Yes it is. It makes every revitalised area MUCH safer like how it used to be pre-mass immigration in the early 1960's. I was there in Inner London and I have seen the amazing contrast and transformation.

[@charliemainful]

Isleofskye stay in Skye mate.

[@palacehaunter5442]

I would rather have the working class over the middle class. The middle class are fake and lie about alot of things

[@jamalstaines2818]

Gentrification makes the place soulless and boring as people only care about money and themselves no sense of community no where in the UK

[@NoirL.A.]

any parts of london that heven't undergone gentrification? can anybody ain't rich afford to live there now?

[@sinistercharger]

The influx of the Middle Classes has revived Brixton and brought also of Business to the Area and has improved it from what it was.It is much safer and has a lot of nightlife.Back in the 80s and early 90s Cab drivers wouldn't even go there

[@palacehaunter5442]

Try that in Ilford or Romford where the Asian and white working class wont let you without a fight.

[@koont666]

Don't they mean IN-BETWEEN Gentrification.

[@madedigital]

I remember when mcdonals was a carpet shop

[@paulnewsom7629]

What i will never ever get is how on Wardour st were the Marquee Club Was no Sign or anything Nameing all the bands who played the or Oxford st ,Orignal Site ,Talk about a Sad thing ,, and Earls Court Gone for of all things apts or Condos Who is the idiots who agreed to That ,im from US but know those places Should never have been Closed or Torn Down its British Music History ,Very Sad ,,Brixton has Changed ,CALIF USA Same , its a Globel Deal ,thats Causing alot of Problems ,,PERIOD ,

[@keithrose6931]

Worked for BT in the 80s and Brixton was a sh*thole .

[@tonyclifton265]

doesnt look too bad in 98 but you should have seen it in the 70s

[@lolavan7750]

This video is at least 17 years too late for the subject matter to be relevant.

[@unknownfrvr6767]

Still rich af compared to Brent lol

[@OmarrK154]

Market

[@drewreynolds1649]

Nostalgia

[@brokenbritain1930]

Oof. Rough.

[@user-kl4bh4lq6r]

Not smart phone 📱 zombie in sight heaven❤

[@user-mk6pk6ur9p]

YEAHKCHACKNEY

[@thepoocrewofficial2974]

Mate, you should see Clapham high street now. It's all just posh "young professionals" also know as trust fund kids, walking around in their underpants or jogging up the middle of the pavement😆 Blissfully unaware that we used to have a community there.

[@Tollingduckie]

People dressed normally.

[@palacehaunter5442]

Where are the West Ham Fans?

[@rankingtrevor]

No one glued to their "smartphones" hardly anyone walking with headphones. Albeit Brixton in the 1980s and 1990s was very bad crime wise, now it's a white, hipster-ish and gentrified. Dalston and Hackney went the same way in the 2000s. Next on the list... Harlesden, Barking, Walthamstow, Peckham and Ealing.

[@23lnp]

Whats wrong with it being white ? Ahh i know........ the crime rates have dropped drastically since the whiteness has come back. London is a city in the uk so it is white mans land anyway so i dont think its that surprising or a bad ordeal.

[@Eventsandthings]

There was a plan to change the name Brixton to South Clapham at one stage, I don't think they are going ahead with it now.

[@steverubellreborn]

booring

[@thehallouminati1382]

1:24 😂

[@allstar930]

Looks hella boring compared to now.

[@Loophole23742]

Not at night time.

[@coldblackfire]

You showed fuck all man. Those places you've shown are almost exactly the same. It's like saying you're going to shoot man utd game, but you shoot manchester the city as the game was playing.