A Visit To The Past BRIXTON In 2022

In this video we take a trip to Brixton and check out the house where I was born. We also look around Brixton Market, Electric Avenue and see how it has changed since I left there in 1974. We also taste some Jamacan Patties.
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[@lynnewoodstock3358]

That was brilliant. My dad came from Brixton and I was born in Wandsworth where my mum was from. My grandad was a second hand car salesman in Brixton. They lived in Wooley House (not sure of spelling) one of several high rise flats but they have all been knocked down now. I used to go there every other weekend. You may well have seen my grandad Tom many times along those streets. He was also a doorman for the Canadian Embassy when he retired from the motor trade. He looked like a real wide boy in his big heavy double breasted coat and his suits and ties. I so enjoyed your video. Also the pie and mash one was great. We would go to nans and someone would go to the pie and mash shop with a jug for the liquor and a bowl for the lumpy mash and then we would all tuck in back at nans house. Only ever one pie though!!!!!

[@butlersempire]

Great memories Lynn

[@sassandsavvy007]

Quite thrilling a wee walk down memory lane. So many things from the past coming back. Thank you for sharing these moments. I'm born in a rural place in the Bavarian alpine region in 1962. The world has changed quite a bit since back then.

[@butlersempire]

Thanks for watching, glad you liked the video

[@thelastengineer7758]

You two are excellent for each other 👌

[@JohnConboy1]

Very enjoyable video Martin and Sharon. It must have felt quite surreal seeing places you hadn't been to in many years, especially the house you were born in. Thanks for sharing.

[@Parknest]

Martin, that was a fascinating insight into your birth and childhood. Some of your childhood thoughts you shared were quitre profuond. My own birthplace was in a hospital but my mum still lives in the same house where I grew up (my dad passed away in 2017). The secondary school I went to has gone although there is another school building on the site these days. These days, I feel like a stranger in the city of my birth so I can see where you're coming from with all the changes since you moved away.

[@butlersempire]

Its funny going back Dave but it was something I enjoyed doing and it's now recorded for prosperity.

[@user-itschad1954]

Great video Martin, you two are so very watchable. Love your air fryer stuff. I was born in Bermondsey and moved to Yorkshire in 1993. Whenever I go back I see it's all changed and hard to find my bearings.

[@gillkite6476]

I used to go to school in Ralton Rd St Judes not far from Herne hill all my childhood antics were around the Brixton markets untill one day I was caught nicking and ended up at Brixton nick. The olde man gave me a right clip around the ear never again! Good childhood memories! Bob

[@Afro3dprinter]

Nice to see you visit.. Old Brixton was very different from what it is now👍

[@s23bho38]

You can take the boy out of London, but you can’t take London out of the boy! 👍🏼

[@paulgallacher5384]

Cleaning your grandparents grave got to me guys. Well done.

[@joanware6473]

Wow just found this video, I watch your cooking ones, you took me back to a lot of memories ,I didnt live in Brixton, but I worked there, loads of memories, one of them was where we went into the beehive club and met Michael Caine and the cast of Alfie, brilliant the pub scene was a derelict pub but one bit done up to film, I am 8 years older than you so things might have been a little different, thank you.

[@tinkeringtaylor3053]

Excellent video Martin , Sharon thank you for taking us on your day out,and you both made a great job cleaning up the headstones

[@butlersempire]

Thanks Nev👍

[@juliejr]

This is lovely to watch ♥ I remember as a child bouncing the ball off the gutter, very few car's then if anything we might need to dodge the milk man or rag and bone man...thankyou for sharing your trip down memory lane ♥

[@templar2058]

Sad to see what has become of it, thanks for sharing Martin 👍.

[@janeemilybosques8687]

Loved seeing Brixton. My Grandparents were from there.. thank you! xxx

[@lindafriend9392]

I’ve still got a circular gilded mirror and a sewing box my parents bought in Bon Marche in the late 50s - I was about 7 or 8 and it was a big treat to ride up the escalator. My mum used to take me there to see Santa. We lived in Herne Hill near Brockwell Park and left in 1963. I have the most wonderful memories!

[@butlersempire]

I used to go to Brockwell park as a kid too. Great memories.

[@eccles49]

Brickwell park! We used to do rolypoly's down the hill near the restaurant. Another great memory was a cafe opposite the park that did pork dripping on crusty bread for a penny and beef for a penny halfpenny with lovely jelly on top! Used to nip out to there from effra junior school and eat it at lunch time in preference to school dinners, oh joy!

[@lindafriend9392]

@@eccles49 forgotten about the role-polys! My mum used to sit and have a cuppa while I was playing. Ice cream after, in case I was sick after rolling down so many times🤣🤣🤣

[@marielouiseweeksb33attitud33]

Love it! It reminds me of the Souqs in the Middle East where I lived for 25 years

[@scottstrails9369]

Nice video ,similarly, I was born in a house in Liverpool in ‘65 like yours and also Number 1 i.Both of our hometowns had social change leading to those memorable riots in ‘81 when things were quite bad .Great to see we both live rural.Keep the vids going ..love em

[@butlersempire]

Thanks for sharing

[@user-ld9up2it6y]

What a greatean video Sharon and Martin, thanks for taking us with you on your trip down memory what a lovely thing to do cleaning the headstone. Thanks once again XX

[@derbyjohn972]

Some great memories there Martin 👍🏻👍🏻. Thanks for taking us with you 🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻

[@beckybrynjolfsson]

Looks like a lot of exploring to do. Thank you for sharing 😊🙏

[@jackfairweather199]

Nice to take a look into your past Martin. Amazing how things change, isn't it?

[@butlersempire]

Yes it is, Strange going back to see your birth place and family times gone by.

[@kevini5388]

Pride & Clarke, bought my fist scooter from them, a 1965 Lambretta LI 150, my mum had to sign the hp agreement, I had just started work, I felt so proud riding around london on that scooter, had it all chromed-up, London in the 60's brilliant! Music, Clubs, Fashion, Mods

[@butlersempire]

Thanks for sharing Kev. Great times.

[@superbia75es]

Yeah, it's weird seeing stuff from your past. I've visited the house in Manchester where I was born and kind of just stared at it. Poignant, Martin, thanks for sharing.

[@haydenuk02]

Thanks for taking us along on the journey take care

[@69virgin1966]

Another great video Martin! It's always good to take a trip down memory lane. I'll bet it was really strange how much things change and stay the same.

[@butlersempire]

Yes it was Roy

[@stephenjones9866]

Just stumbled across your channel absoloutely loving it, having moved up from Peckham to Lincolnshire, a good few years ago now, have to say it is always nice to dash down to the old area for a cheeky reminisce

[@butlersempire]

Awesome, thank you Stephen.

[@Roger.Coleman1949]

Fascinating video Mart, I sensed you getting a little bit emotional seeing the old house and probably thinking of it occupied by family no longer around.I did the same thing a few years back and it really got to me !.

[@butlersempire]

Yes, it was a strange feeling.

[@sylviac100]

Fascinating , and brilliant , we do enjoyed your trip down memory lane , thank you both very much , keep up great work , great videos as per ! Xx

[@butlersempire]

Many thanks!

[@trapper561]

This was lovely we really enjoyed seeing you two traveling around your birthplace 😊

[@butlersempire]

Thanks so much! 😊

[@andrewwoodward6560]

Eddie Grant ! I have that single on LP from high school days. Anyway... really special video, Martin. I did the same kind of trip a couple years ago . Thanks ! 🙂

[@maureenwright8877]

Great video brought back lot's of memories I'm a camberwell girl lol always went to the market on Saturdays if not there then down the lane (East Street) Thank you 😀

[@gailjaques5710]

Oh wow was a trip down memory lane for me as well..used to work in Atlantic road in 1980s..you are correct so much has changed BUT so much had remained the same. Thanks so much ..and omg you lived in Roehampton cannot believe it...

[@mychills123]

Lovely to see this all my family from Brixton, and Stockwell estate,

[@Aviationwithpete]

Love your videos. Me and the missus are new subscribers. Bingeing on the great times you have. Love the air fryer videos.

[@butlersempire]

Thanks Pete.

[@leesharpe5610]

Lovely what you did . Been to Putney vale many times ,have family there .One of the guys that was at Rourkes drift is also buried there ,Brixton has changed so much , i was living in Streatham in the early 70s when i was a teen . I dont miss south London now im living on the kent coast . I used to be a tube train driver on the victoria line for my sins lol

[@SirSpuddy]

What a brilliant video, I love to go back to my old house and show my kids where I grow up.. and I always wanted to go back in my old house aswell just to see what it's like now.

[@butlersempire]

I was very strange going back 50 years.

[@sheilagarrido8204]

Just what I wanted!!!! How you met etc. I didn't realize you'd already done all this in a vlog🎉😊❤

[@davidjones6470]

Awesome trip down memory lane there both, really enjoyed this one That bit at Martin's old house,and the bloke was going in too, and Martin says is it still Haunted crack me up 😂!! The blokes face 😱 As always both another brilliant vlog 👍👍

[@stevenwatson3963]

Great vid Mart, love the nostalgia.Tell Sharon to pay attention, and put down that stupid phone.;-)

[@999thenewman]

The nostalgia is tremendous.

[@KensSmallEngineRepair]

Cool tour Martin thanks for sharing or in this case Sharon-ing!

[@yamyam_1978]

Love this video, I went to uni in London 96-98 & would give every bone in my body to live there again

[@eccles49]

That's brought back memories, ,(1949 me), spent many an hour at my nans in bellefields rd. Pride and 'sharks' seemed to fill Stockwell Rd! We also lived for a time in Brighton terrace near the old empress cinema. Great times!

[@janetdelen2852]

Martin and Sharon, I loved watching this video. I'm so speechless, just taking it all in.

[@butlersempire]

Thank you so much 😁

[@BrewabitRick]

Great to see your childhood area brilliant, we as subscribers appreciate a look into where your from . Very interesting 👍👍

[@butlersempire]

Thanks Rick👍

[@patriciapearson8421]

Love this memory tour xx 😀 💖 💖 💖 💖

[@kevinwoodruff8994]

love the video Martin nice to see Brixton never been there a nice nostalgia look where you used to live enjoyed your video 👍

[@butlersempire]

Thanks 👍

[@debsmostexcellentadventure5353]

Watched this and love it,i go back to london every now and then,but its not the london i loved being a cockney.Funny we retired to brixham devon,but we made sure our youngest saw life in london so she went to roehampton uni .the school i went to is still there in camden built 1700 .Your lucky you got memories most of mine has been erased.i met my husband in 1978 in kings road london as punks,still together.tried place you,thought essex or south london with a slight northern twang 😁 debs xx.

[@butlersempire]

Nice one Debs, Yes, London is a totally different place now, we wouldn't live there again..

[@debsmostexcellentadventure5353]

@@butlersempire i love your channel sooo much,i bought a air fryer to save money,and have not stoped watching your videos and trying stuff out.my husband is a cockney also sadly all that was in camden is gone,all is left is the old school.sorry waffleing i love listening to you two rabbiting together,and you been like us together a LONG time ,which sadly now days is rare . your both 💎s debs xx

[@Anne-zh1vd]

Yes I noticed a slight northern twang too,I remember the cartoon cinema at Victoria @,wonder horse 🐴

[@helenring9424]

Another great video down memory lane

[@patricialee2758]

hi loved seeing your video on your trip to Brixton. I was born in Battersea but used to go to Brixton on a Saturday for the market. x

[@butlersempire]

Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed the video Pat, Good memories.

[@desilvabebe1391]

I love Brixton it’s the first place I came to in London when I first came from the Republic of Ireland

[@tonyjennings4317]

I love watching you two ❤️ Both naturally entertaining.

[@yasminbyrne6958]

Really enjoyed that guys!!!!

[@grizeldagrimm3698]

Thank you for sharing your memories 😘 it brought back so many memories for me as 40 years ago I used to work in the Youth Club with Aspell Parkinson (Parky) at St Mathews in the centre of Brixton and used to spend my nights on the Front Line (Railton Road) 💞

[@butlersempire]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@rhystan8254]

Very cool video, thankyou for the tour. As an Australian that was fascinating. Cheers 👍 🇦🇺

[@butlersempire]

Thanks 👍

[@michaelmcdaid5838]

Great video martin and brilliant to see Electric Avenue 40 yrs after I first heard the song but I don't think I'd want to live there. Keep up the great work. 👍🏼

[@butlersempire]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@karendivine6113]

I was born in Brixton as well 1954Fleet Hose , Effra road . I left around 1963. I went back a couple of years ago. It is amazing what we remember. My first school was Christchurch still going .👌👍

[@garyclifton2180]

Nice day out guys and lovely job on headstone brilliant

[@butlersempire]

Thanks Gary👍

[@puffyjet]

Hi Martin and Sharon this is a very nice video and very interesting to us as we are both Londoners we are from north London but I had a friend who lived in Railton road and another in Herne hill it was really nice to see where you were born and grew up it was also a very lovely thing you both done cleaning the headstones I'm sure your folks were and are very proud of you both you are a lovely couple. I was trying to remember where the pie and mash shop was but I can't remember.talking of pie and mash when I was younger I used to work part time Saturdays and school holidays, so now at the age of 65 I make my own pie mash and liquor so at some point send a frozen parcel to you both after I have had my eye op in July cheers lovely people . Kevbo&Jackie

[@butlersempire]

We used to get our pie n mash sent in the post from Manzi's in Sutton as they ship it. We used to go to Harringtons in Wandsworth Road and the same in Tooting as well. I think the one in Wandsworth has closed now. We will make our own as we bought the metal pie cases.

[@therat5680]

Great video Martin, good as always thank you 👌👍

[@butlersempire]

Thanks 👍

[@GAZZA.B]

oh my ! so many parellels , i too was born at home, not in a hospital, been back to Hull [ streets looked so narrow] remember buying a15' sprocket for my fizzy at the local yamaha dealer. and waning after a RD200 born in 62. been in AUS. since 88 . I know where you are coming from ! good work Martin, cheers

[@butlersempire]

Nice one Gary, good memories.

[@ritalaws690]

This back memories. I was born in Wandsworth, but moved to Stevenage when I was 9, now live in Cambridgeshire thanks for the memories

[@butlersempire]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@martinsmith1447]

Great video Martin. I left left Pits Hanger Lane, Ealing about 25 years ago. Went back once and was happy to come back to Norfolk!!! I would love to take my kids and the other half back there at some point to show them where I grew up! Thanks for sharing it has inspired me to take them!

[@butlersempire]

Nice one Mart, do it.

[@guyhorner8165]

Small world Martin S, I used to live off Pits Hanger Lane. It has changed since I lived there as a kid, but not for the right reasons but it was still good to check it out.

[@BusterCapInYoAss]

Cheers Martin & Sharon! 👍

[@paulyh4531]

Nice memory lane video , thanks Martin really enjoyed it .

[@butlersempire]

Many thanks

[@sandradent65]

Another great video down memory lane. Your house where you grew up was lovely. My husband like you was born at home in the corner of the living room, in fact it's the same house we live in today, he has lived here all his life so when we got married I moved in with him

[@butlersempire]

Oh wow!

[@steviemaidenhead703]

Seen Iron maiden and the Sex pistols in the Brixton Academy way back. The floor slopes towards the stage fantastic venue. Spent the weekend in Brixton amazing atmosphere,fond memories..

[@ritaschannel7225]

That's how it. Should be gd market & lots of shops, lovely x

[@moneypennymatters5508]

I’m just going through your old videos and it’s lovely to see you going to your parents graves. No one does that anymore. Such a lovely house you lived in Martin. But if you hadn’t moved, you wouldn’t have met Sharon!

[@butlersempire]

Exactly, everything is for a reason.

[@jrussell3283]

Great video Martin, brought back lots of memories for me, I lived in Clapham and used to shop in Brixton market in the 60s, how it’s changed eh!

[@butlersempire]

It was strange going back after all those years.

[@daytona1212]

Great video guys. I'm from 1961 and thing have changed indeed. Whe I goto the old neighbourhood here in The Netherlands it's totally different today. Let say I got the feeling "I'm not in Kansas anymore". 😉

[@sheilagarrido8204]

I'm loving this❤❤❤❤

[@alandykes2519]

Fantastic Martin Great to Go down memory lane with you thanks for sharing i was born at home same as you in the front room number 21 brickyard lane kilburn Derbyshire 1959 surrounded by countryside but a lot of the fields are disappearing now 👍👍👍👍

[@butlersempire]

I think it was quite a common thing back then to be born at home Alan.

[@stevenhull5025]

That house must be worth a fortune now.

[@HM.Hatchet205]

Love these type of videos :)

[@butlersempire]

Glad you like them!

[@lesleyfarrington4809]

I couldn't live somewhere so urban but it does seem really thriving and interesting

[@villasoka884]

Wow Martin, you are so lucky, to have escaped! Your pasties far better! Just grab some spices and show em how how they should be done!

[@andy_v4443]

It’s good to reminisce like this 👍👍👍

[@geoffcrisp7225]

Martin, I was born in Edgware and when learning to drive in 64, on our way down to the coast with my Mum and Dad in the mid 1960's we used to drive past Pride and Clarkes motorcycle shop. I wondered what happened to that red building years later. London has changed so much. I know the area of Lincolnshire where you live because we moved out of London in 1971 to South Cambs. My work took me all over East Anglia. Its a small world.

[@butlersempire]

Yes it is Geoff, things have changed so much in our lifetime, a lot, not for the better either.

[@suekiddle2434]

It was Bon marche and I bought my wedding ring in the jeweller opposite the crossing memories thank you for taking us on your journey

[@butlersempire]

You are so welcome!

[@simonchilli2088]

RD 250, WHEELIEE😂🤣. Hooligan. Those were the days!!

[@todtiger]

I really enjoyed that.

[@janebrandon]

Can't believe how so much has changed there. The pie n mash shop used to be in the road opposite the Town Hall on the left hand side, before the start of the market. My mum used to take us there quite often when we used to live in Herne Hill 🙂

[@butlersempire]

Good memories.

[@sctvfan1313]

I love this type of video.... as an American that has never been on that side of the pond...I love seeing all this and learning about 'you'. Amazing (p.s. I couldn't get the song 'electric Avenue' out of my head cause of you

[@butlersempire]

Haha, now you know where it came from lol

[@makeminealarge1]

Did you know, The Sopranos tv show theme intro song (Woke Up This Morning) was made by a band called Alabama 3, they also come from Brixton, London UK,

[@STTC]

Fascinating Martin, I must admit I wouldn’t want to live in London, just the sounds put me off, different music in every street, not for me but then again I don’t even like going shopping in my own town 🤣🤣🤣 great video

[@butlersempire]

The market hasn't really changed in the 48 years I left.

[@patriciaharms8261]

Thank you for doing this video. Lived in Clapham until early 70s and used to visit Brixton market most Saturdays. Mostly so we could have pie and mash. Was hoping you would find it.

[@butlersempire]

It's not there anymore Patricia. Nice to visit again after 48 years.

[@patriciaharms8261]

@@butlersempire that’s a shame about the pie and mash shop, so although I can’t see any of my children or grandchildren eating it nowadays. I really enjoyed your video although I never recognised much. I had completely forgotten the arcades. Love your cooking videos as well. Keep up the good work. I’ve lived in Scotland for past 50 years but you brought back good memories.

[@butlersempire]

@@patriciaharms8261 We visit Lossiemouth quite a bit as our daughter lives there. Check out our vlogs, we have some filmed in Scotland.

[@sheilagarrido8204]

GREAT!!!!!! My favorite pastime with you Folks 🎉❤

[@butlersempire]

Yay! Thank you!

[@petervaughan4591]

If you had turned left at electric ave the entrance to the market (one of) is on the left, I grew up in Tulse Hill at the same time as you.👍🏻 Great memories.

[@adeh503]

Good that Martin 👍👍 something different

[@robertmcgloan1257]

Hey Martin " you got to get down to Electric Avenue" 😁

[@ASH.......................1976]

Brilliant video Martin 😊 ,it's great to see all those old school meat ,fruit and veg stalls ,they are almost a thing of the past in a lot of places 👍

[@butlersempire]

Yes they are

[@ASH.......................1976]

@@butlersempire 👍

[@davidsjenkins281]

fab video im from London but a different part Heathrow area place named uxbridge anyway keep up with the good work

[@sandrahaddock8663]

Stockwell primary, that’s where I went, I was born in 62 so was probably there at the same time, live in Kent now still have a few relatives that live there, haven’t been for years myself so was nice to reminisce too

[@butlersempire]

I was born in 63 so probably had the same teachers. I remember Mr Mottram and Mr Schuler, Mrs Harris used to play the piano at assembly.

[@Aj-vq8st]

Bloodyhell Martin! Very nostalgic! You’re a south Londoner like me! Spent my childhood (in the 80s)just off kings avenue (other side of Brixton prison)! Used to cut through the prison to Brixton hill and catch the 159 down to Brixton!

[@suekiddle2434]

Omg I lived there until 2000 I

[@tomcullen5294]

you missed pop brixton and Brixton Village (the arcades - which you mentioned was probably that but you looked at the train station entranc)e - the arcades entrance would have been just a little further up (there is also now a theatre where the old firestation was) Its amazing

[@antonywilde8496]

I’m from east London and although I’m proud of where I was raised I’d never move back. It’s a shame as my childhood memories are there. Must be great getting back to Lincolnshire from Brixton 😂

[@louismerri]

When we reach a certain age and expectations London is a young city now

[@jamesthorley4442]

Great vid Martin, really enjoyed it. Brixton looks dodgy though I've gotta say 😂

[@philipnewton7942]

Memories You can not forget them martin I hope you are going visit where sharon was bourn its very interesting see these places I would love to see you visiting mire places of interest please top marks guts for thus video Phil in stoke

[@jeanettevinten8743]

the pie and mash shop was in coldharbour lane, Burroughs,