SOUTH LONDON RAILTON ROAD HISTORY

[@maysloman5313]

I had the pleasure of meeting the wife of the late Pastor who started the youth club. I cannot remember their name, and the Pastor received an OBE. This was in the1990's. I worked in Peckham when the New Cross fire occurred I was so upset about this. I worked with adolescents many came from Brixton. As a white woman it was so painful to witness how many white people had no idea or did not want to know or understand the inequalities within society. I was recently in Brixton 2019 and saw all the changes linked with gentrification I felt Brixton had started to lose her soul.

[@BlackEntertainmentUK]

Thank you for identifying with us... :-) Brixton has changed for sure...

[@ajsmith5295]

Memories

[@KingpinTBM]

What was the name of that Jamaican food shop on Railton Road during the 80s and 90s?

[@Mr_Bean_Stalk]

I like the idea of a FREE Off Licence, I'm off to go find me one.

[@CARLIN4737]

I lived in Brixton In the 1980s. Ah such memories. 2 riots when i lived there. Stinking poverty and unemployment and despair. Some rose tinted glasses being worn here?

[@savagereviews3673]

Who remember Danny’s shop opposite the Chinese and phone box railron road

[@annhollowell5352]

The offie was open 24 hours back in the day !!!.

[@savagereviews3673]

ThT 121 building left a mess all over the area ,punk rockers would always party there all night I remember the mess they left behind

[@marcellosgarbini759]

Linton ???

[@taintedsmoke6347]

BRIXTON RULES:kzbin.info/www/bejne/jmW8qWxtgLGUmcU

[@denislaw8]

Sad so many came to London, driving out the locals, turning it into a place no longer English. Oh, and the signs, No Blacks, No Irish, No Dogs were few and far between, but play very nicely into the narrative of victimhood.

[@christinagraham2915]

There us no victimized without victims

[@footballsoccerx2021]

The ONLY people who say things like "the no blacks no digs mo Irish signs were few and far between " are white people who were not affected by the RACISM at the time. A potential landlord/ landlady might well not have the sign in the window but would STILL refuse a black tenant- by saying things like "the room had gone, I can't accommodate 3 people, someone else has 1st tefusal" etc. Same with jobs. But don't let that stop YOUR agenda. You're just like the others- TRYING to convince yourself that there was no racism just because YOU wasn't affected

[@footballsoccerx2021]

NOBODY came to London to drive out the locals! It was the racist locals who decided that they didn't want to live amongst the new arrivals and moved out. That was the LOCALS PROBLEM not the newbies!! HOW ON EARTH could a few newbies drive out the majority of locals? Just another STUPID COMMENT based on ignorance, bigotry and a lack of intelligence. Oh - and just to let you know - Brixton has ALWAYS had more white people than black people! - But, having clearly never been there - you wouldn't know that .

[@devogrant2817]

1 white English moved out during the bombing in London during the Second World War and moved to the country. and never came back ......the Jews took over the run-down dilapidated properties. They rented them to the Windrush British citizens from Jamaica...... 2 Enoch Powell Minister of Foreign Affairs, went to Jamaica to recruit people to help build back the country after it was devastated by the Blitzkrieg bombing of London ...3.... 2 million English families emigrated to Australia for a better life after the war .....because they did not want to take the cheap labor rates to help build back their country ......pluss England lost a lot of the manpower during the war ....so there was a minimal labor force .....who's playing victimhood......? your own government as never wanted to give their own people a good working wage .....always undercutting you with foreigners.....and cheap labor ...as you have fought for a good weekly wage and decent condition with one hand....your government as taken it from you with the other .......robbing Peter to pay Paul ......i have not been rude..... ....as you have not been rude to me.....there are always two sides to a story.....