Rather Superb Tour of Brixton - London History and Culture
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- In this rather excellent walking tour of Brixton Joolz shows how the area has changed from fields and farm land in the 19th century to a multicultural bustling hub of activity.
Brixton was home to David Bowie, John Major and many of the people who arrived from the Caribbean on the Windrush in 1948. Since then Brixton has been the heart of the Afro-Caribbean community in London where you can find the Black Cultural Archive and Brixton Market with culturally diverse shops and food.
Also home to the famous Blacker Dread record store and Pop Brixton, a market made of shipping containers.
We meet poet Naturalie Wright and poet and community activist Michael Groce who recalls the Brixton riots and how they started as well as how the place has changed over the years.
Brixton Academy has one of London's largest stages and has hosted most of the famous bands you can name over the years.
Visit the house where David Bowie was born and also his mural which has become a shrine.
Brixton also was home to the UK's first department store and Electric Avenue, the first market street to be lit by electricity.
There's even an underground river which had a coffin floating down it, the Ambrose Chapel from Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much and a functioning windmill!
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BLACK HISTORY BEING SHOVED DOWN OUR THROATS. ILL BE VOTING UKIP 🇬🇧
Hey if you like postboxes then look into joining the letter box study group and share your interest.
William Smith so UKIP will repatriate all Black People?
Bit of windmill trivia. If the sails are in an x cross position, the windmill is closed. If they are in a + cross position then the windmill is open.
Done and done. My partner is bringing a class from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago to London in June and plans to visit a few Britxton sites (and a few others).
Well done Joolz. I’m second generation
British Jamaican. My grandparents and parents were part of the Windrush generation and I was born and grew up in Brixton. Happy memories.
Thank you for highlighting old and new Brixton
"I miss Peckham." "Don't be stupid Rodney, even the Luftwaffe didn't miss Peckham."
What is this quote from ?
@@danielwggudan2 Only Fools and Horses
Peckham and Brixton are essentially interchangeable
@@adonaiyah2196 enjoy the joke!
Just a few memories when I was a kid: nicking apples and oranges from the market stalls along electric avenue, always great fun. Watching the eels being cooked at the back of Woolworths and going to the Pie & Mash shop for double pie and mash. Hopping the Wag from school and spending the day at Brockwell Park. The Ritzy was called The Pullman in my day and KFC was once an estate agents. Opposite Tulse Hill School grounds was land that once had grand three story Victorian Villas built on it. They were abandoned during the war and later demolished. We called this waste ground The Chinese Tower. Also further down from there was land we called Bird's Paradise - a great place for scrumping thanks to all manner of fruit trees in abundance. There are well established Council Estates on both areas of land now. Brixton was a great place to grow up. We were poor but never felt as though we went without anything. Summer holidays were spent outdoors from 8am till it was time for tea. We made our own fun, making go-carts from old pram wheels and scraps of wood, selling old newspapers to "The Black Prince" scrap yard and collecting old lemonade bottles to get the threepence deposit back on the bottles. Urchins we were, of that there is no doubt, and Brixton treated us unfairly at times; but overall those days were full of sunshine, roller skating rink, Saturday Morning Minors club, and a clip round the ear from the local bobby now and then, and another one from our parents for luck. I hope the generation growing up there today get as much joy from it as I and my family did.
oldproji oh, Woolworths in Brixton. I remember I went in a week before it closed and bought some sweets and stationary. It was sad...
My mum was born in Brixton in 1925, and i moved to Brixton from Brighton 7 years ago. Great video thank you. Xx
Joolz, I started watching your videos during Covid lock-down in South Africa, and subsequently bought your book. I recently had the pleasure of following my first walk from the book; and, as I was in the area for a day, I chose the one in Brixton. I found it thoroughly enjoyable, and your guidebook really enhanced the experience. Now I've come across this particular video, which I hadn't seen before, and I've been able to relive my enjoyable day in Brixton all over again. (If anything, I'd say that Brixton looks lightly smarter and neater than it did 3 years ago. It's nice to see that not everything goes to seed.) Thanks again.
I grew up here from 1943 -1969, when I married and moved away. My memories are vivid, but many of the places I loved as a child are just not there anymore. I went to Effra Parade infant and Junior school, then on to Santley Street until Tulse Hill School was built and I moved there. I became Cinema Projectionist, working at the Regal Streatham for a good few years as well as other cinemas both on the ABC circuit and Odeon circuit. They were great days. I'm 76 now and still remember those days as though they were yesterday. Long live Brixton.
@ENGLISH JONA - so true! It's now become totally yuppified filled with million-pound homes.
oldproji - Thanks for the memories, mate! I was born in Wandsworth but grew up and went to school in Brixton. I attended Stockwell Primary and Stockwell Manor Secondary. Growing up in Brixton, I felt the area was a bit rough and deprived. But there were some cultural treasures which I enjoyed visiting as a kid: the Ritzy Cinema on Brixton Hill, the Tate Library nearby, the Tate Gallery over on Millbank across Lambeth Bridge, and the market. I especially loved the Tate Library as they had a great literature collection. As a child, I knew and was proud of famous names associated with the area - William Blake and John Ruskin. It was only later that I learned of Robert Browning and Muriel Spark. Of course, as someone who became an immediate David Bowie fan after he appeared on Top of the Pops in 1973, I was delighted to find out he was born in Brixton. I moved abroad years ago, but every time I return to Britain I try to make a stop in Brixton - one of the most distinctive districts in all of London.
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Oldproji . I also went to Santley Street and then Tulse Hill, i was there the same time as you. Maybe we know each other ?? the world is a very different place now. 😎
I used to live in Streatham...love South of the river
I've visited London a dozen or so times, I'd class myself as a tourist, but with every new JoolZ guide I want to go again, there's just so many reasons to be there! The nostalgia is just, amazing!
Superb production - the guests, the music, Brixton history.
It's utterly beyond me how anyone could ever give these guides a thumb down. Very informative and highly amusing. I guess there's no accounting for some folk 🤷 🤔 🤦♀️
I’m a Croydon gal that now lives in Perth Western Australia. Thanks for this video. I have very vivid memories of Brixton that I will always cherish. 🤗
I think I'm addicted to this channel superb should be on the school history curriculem. 👍
My parents moved to Brixton from Ireland in the early 60's and still live here, in the same house my brothers and I were raised in. This was a fascinating video.
are they brixton bullys?
I lived down Gresham Road back in the day. 1990.
I was born and raised in Brixton, just before the '81 riots. Myatts field, then moved to Tulse hill estate and cressingham gardens estate. I loved those years. I moved from South to Hackney when I was 18.
You all are in my age range and the references you make to songs and things from the 80’s warms the cockles of my heart ❤️ God bless you for the little spark of joy you bring to this cold Nebraskans heart. 😘
The Brixton Academy was a cinema called the Brixton Astoria in the 60s. I used to go there every Saturday for 'Saturday Morning Pictures' with loads of other kids. When I first went back there, a few years ago for a concert, I was amazed at how little it had changed!
I did too, lived in coldharbour lane. Went to school at st John's infants behind the police station.
The Ritzy has something called the Big scream which is when the special days kids are allowed in the cinema and because of the amount of kids making noise its called the big screen
I love Brixton, fantastic memories from the eighties including the riots.
They rioted on my birthday lol I lived in Streatham
I wasn't going to watch this but so glad I did. Fantastic Brixton, London, its people and of course, Joolz.
Thanks for keeping things South 😁 Please come to Tooting, plenty of history (and markets).
These just keep getting better and better..
We were in London for Christmas. Thank you for all of your wonderful guides. They helped us immensely.
I miss living in Brixton
Woww man, I arrived in Brixton 1 week before lockdown, but my first visit was in Warwick, Leamington Spa and Birmingham, Streat Upon Avon I'm from Brazil. Do yoy believe? Yes it's. So, I didn't know that Mr David Bowie was lived all his life in Brixton. Firstly, I was walking in the center, because my friend lives in Lilford Road. And he was received me in his house.
I really appreciate Brixton, because when I started to walking on the streets, I was talking with the people, it's so lovely. There's a church all the parts, what a pit for cenary w ed are living today, you know? So, it's incredible Brixton because, that a say for my parents, my friends and everyone Brixton smells Music, Brixton smells Food from all the World. It's unbelievable.
Simply I love Brixton, I love David Bowie and its incredible to live in the place that him lived and makes his carrier here. Its a wonderful and pleasure to live here.
I'm delivery Driver and I had to ordered a lot of orders to the customers and I had to talk everyone, so it's a lovely people.
I'm grateful to God allow me to arrive here and I'm so grateful and happy.
Thank you very much your video and your lovely time my dear friend.
God bless you!!!
Muito obrigado Brixton!!! Thank you very much Brixton!!!!
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I'm honored to be associated with Brixton.... I was born there.
Honoured has a 'u' if you were.
I was born and married there.. . I’m now 4 hours drive away so won’t die there
@@Trish-ql9kz Me neither, I now reside in the Netherlands so will probably pop my clogs here, excuse the pun. I visit Brixton on the odd occasion when I'm in London, trips down memory lane and all that. Planning a visit in August with my granddaughters to show them where grandad was brought up although it ain't what it used to be. Most of the pubs are gone and the Granville arcade given over to upper middle class 'ladies that lunch' and pretensious boutiques selling over priced tacky tat. Still, it's worth a visit for old time's sake.
Oh my God, I had no idea Electric Avenue was a real place Brixton Market looks really cool too.
The album it was from was Atlantic Road, just around the corner
Was a wonderful eclectic place to live, now just gentrified by middle class twats!!!!
It was an wonderflly eclectic place to live, now just full of middle class t!&$s
@@patrickclark7974 - LOL!
@@patrickclark7974 facts! I’m 23 and live in Brixton and constantly meet people in my age group who’ve moved to Brixton and other parts of south London because they think it’s “edgy” and they are usually awful to the locals who’ve lived here forever😩🤦🏿♀️
What a wonderful tour. You make my heart long to travel.
You forgot to mention that when you were standing in front of Brixton Underground station, the roundel on its frontage is the largest in London.
save it for Geoff marshall buddy
As a first gen black brixtonian watching this in Argentina it brings back lots of fond memories as a kid in the 70s -90s before i moved to clapham...it was a well rounded tour...no mention of the mystics or the lido but you covered alot
I love these videos. They are addictive, you do them so well! Thank you.
Brilliant, another upload, instantly clicked to watch.
Worked in London 1980,was a regular in the Prince of Wales pub , in Brixton , met many Irish characters there , had some great memories of the time
I have just learned so much, that my brain 🧠 is exploding!! Thanks for yet another amazing video, Joolz!
Joolzie brightens yet another dreary morning in the U.S. Happy Sunday! ❤️☮️🇬🇧
I used to live at Balham and work at Brixton Prison doing construction in 2000/2001 .We actually removed the old shingled and replaced them with the steel rooves seen in the film. Absolutely loved my time living in south London.
Dan from Australia
Another winning video Joolz. Reminded me that I worked with Blacker Dreads Mum Pauline in West Norwood for 10-years. Nice lady.
Absolutely ADORE your little films, Joolz! ❤
This bloke is a good man! Love his videos.
Another wonderful and brilliant Jools Guide. I love all of your Vlogs so much. Thank you. 😊
Tourists from abroad visit London and know more about it than I do, I’ve only been to London twice. There is so much that you would never know without a guide like Jools.
Popeye the cat at 10:18, resides at the Bookmongers Book shop, we visit him every time we're in London.
A resident cat or two is worth a good deal of paid publicity for a shop. But the cats need to stay on the job and not wander too much.
Just got home after rought busy workday, now sofa, laying down and klick. Thank you Joolz! Im coming this year to see britain. 💕
As an old man now from North London I did not know much about South London ,Now i do Thank you
The Brixton Windmill well worth a visit - it is up and running as a working mill (starts each year around April time). A great community project.
Great video, so much information and insight. Thank you 😊
I live in Australia and this was my first Joolz Guide video, recommended by my English cousin. As a child I lived at 1 Tregothnan Road, less than 10 minutes walk from David Bowie's home. I realise now that we must have been at Stockwell Primary School at the same time. Loved the video! I've subscribed.
Where are the parties, Barbies and drillers?
I love Brixton
In another 150 years timez these videos will become a gem for Londoners
A big thankyou for giving us this bit of local history, coming from brixton myself . one person who worked at the bon marche was violet szabo, they made a film about her heroics during the second world war named carve her name with pride, just a shame they have priced us out of our manor. Tim Roth went to dick Shepard school ,Muhammad Ali visited tulse hill school. So glad I was brought up there.
The green door centre-screen from 12:09-12:17 was my front door when I lived in London. It also acted as a convenient, discreet pissoire for homeward bound concertgoers after a night at the Academy. Or any other night for that matter.
I love your shows Joolz, very informative and well put together.
I love your videos. Planning a trip to Great Britain in the future. I've learned a lot from your vids. Can't wait to visit!
Amazingly rich and documented video nothing compares with a joolz guide
Brixton is London's Brooklyn.
Brooklyn is NY's Brixton, I think you'll find mate 😁
I am from Brooklyn. Brixton is just like being at home. I wish I could go back.
Joolz, thank you sooo much for this film. Much needed. Much appreciated!
Great one for me remembered the mid 1980s there ! much love
Brinton looks nice very interested history jozzls thank you
You f*** Legend! I lived one year in London and I never went to Brixton. Yeah, my bad. Every time I watch your videos, I feel myself walking those streets. Cheers, mate. Happy Sunday to all! Greetings from Argentina.
Joolz I've been I've been a subscriber for a while now, all your videos are brilliant but I gotta say this one is amungst my favorites. Keep them coming sir.
I'm so excited to see this video. I'm planning a trip to London, and I've had my heart set on staying in the Brixton neighborhood. This is absolutely made for me. Thank you!! ❤
do it..my daughter lives there and i visited for the first time in November and LOVED it. Im in Australia, and I felt so safe there. Walked from her flat next to the prison to the markets or tube each night and never once felt at risk. Lots to see and do, and of course eat
Mate I think this is my fav viddies of yours boyo tidy
My grandparents lived in Blenheim Gardens, my Aunts and Uncles lived around the corner we lived in Dunbarton Rd. it was a lovely area growing up. in the 50's and 60's
My Uncle moved down to Brixton from Glasgow in the 50s! Used to tell a story or two about the couple next door who owned a Parrot!
My dad, born and bred in Peckham/Brixton area and now 75. He remembers it before the Windrush generation. He said the only non-English apart from a few Irish were the Italians who run most of the hairdressers/barbers there. Unless you got permission you weren't allowed to open such an establishment. Something dodgy going on I think? Joolz, you need to do more south of the river, just make sure your jabs are up-to-date!
Scott Up yours, you bigoted arsehole. London has always been cosmopolitan and proud of it!
@@SkepticalSteve01 Not quite right are you, what about the 18th, 17th, 16th centuries you fail to miss. Need I go further back in history or have you got it now?
@@SkepticalSteve01 You commies get triggered so easily and start using bad language - virtue signalling, so weak, so sad.
@@trancehi Read up on the history of London and you'll find that Stephen Ballantyne is substantially correct . Ever since the Roman times, London has always been a city of immigrants, some coming from within these shores but just as many from beyond them. That includes the 18th, 17th and 18th centuries, trancehi. Mind you, I'm sure there were plenty of bigoted arseholes then as well. Luckily, they've usually been in the minority. London has gained strength and vigour from its immigrants and long may that process of continuous revitalisation continue!
(Thanks for the vid, Jools.)
Sid Stevens Never said I did… but I’ve visited often enough. My Mum used to like it ‘cos they sold kumaras (or something very similar) there.
There's a lot more history and things of interest to see in Brixton, than many of the so called posh London suburbs.
Really? Those places changed the world more than once
Lol London suburbs are not that posh most of the cockneys have left to them all my family left brixton for bromley
Anyone these areas like Brixton r more posh due to white flight and gentrification
The history of that boat before it was renamed ‘Windrush’ is very interesting. And the companies that owned it and who owned the company is also very interesting.
Carl Wilson Another racist barking up the wrong tree? Actually, the Empire Windrush was built by Blohm & Voss - you may know them for a little boat they built called Bismarck; heard of it? - which the Nazis used as a troop ship called Monte Rosa for a few years. After they got their arses properly and deservedly kicked, Britain confiscated the boat and used it to transport loyal British Commonwealth citizens to the mother country, where they were promised useful work (mostly with London Transport) that would help Britain at a time of manpower shortages. The racism, not to mention ingratitude, wasn’t expected by anybody at the time.
@@SkepticalSteve01 Carl Wilson know the truth, you only know bits and pieces. Boat was owned by small hats from NZ. There's a whole lot more to the Windrush story than people are told. People of colour being used as pawns.
Stephen Ballantyne. You need to dig a bit deeper than Wikipedia before you start with the insults mate. The boat was owned by the New Zealand Shipping Company LTD, whose main shareholders were the Isaacs family.
Tone WHUFC Actually the Empire Windrush was operated on behalf of the British Government by the New Zealand Shipping Company and was never listed on the NZSC’s roster of ships. It only made one trip to the West Indies, coming back with somewhere between 490 and 800 (!) West Indians.
I have a soft spot for the NZSC, because I travelled with my mother from Auckland to Southampton in 1954 aboard the Rangitoto. It didn’t seem particularly Jewish to me, but it’s s possible I was too young to notice what no doubt would have been important signs, had you been there to spot them.
@@tonyzyklon9328 Just what youtube needs - another racist!
Really enjoyed this episode. Excellent!
More Beatles in London , from the movie Help to A Hard Day's Night , Apple, where The Beatles lived to their hangouts , also The Rolling Stones , The Dave Clark Five location of the photo shoot with the famous Jaguar and so many more please.
I so enjoyed this video. I have never seen Brixton before, after this I want to go there, especially the market. It was great to see the two Canadians in this!!🙋♀️🇨🇦.
Fantastic from a Peckham Boy living in Australia
A23 to Brighton where I was born now live in Brixton.
great to see you in south of the river joolzy !
Your videos make me happy as when I was a child.
The academy, Mass, The Fridge, 414. . . . . . . . If you know, you know =D
❤️
I loved mass, especially valve nights.
and george 4th
Loving this episode. The guests! The canopies! Your lovely gray and black ensemble.☑️☑️☑️
Cheers, Joolzie! Love you and your work.... You're Awesome! Really Nice Video 👌
Love BRIXTON. Great place-all the world is.
Have you dome a Crystal Palace guide yet? Fascinating history.
Excellent video Julian! Really enjoyed it! 👍💖Thank you...take care!
Very good. Came to it late. Such a rich area. Time to revisit
Julian, the variety in your gorgeous city is truely astounding...another fabulous tour ♥️
Gosh!! This video is brilliant. Such good stuff. Thank you Joolzs you are a star.
Another really fascinating guide
Thank you
What an episode! Must be one of my favourite :)
Watching in Dec 2020! lol
Merry Christmas to all!!
Just LOVED this - thanks Joolz. I live in Brixton - it's a great place . . .
Am from Brixton so this was a good tour of Brixton. Joolz guides are really good introduction to london
Fantastic , loved the interaction with your guests.
Another great guide Joolz. Thank you :-)
Brixton used to be a shopping area for all of south west london
another great video!! well done!!! yay :)
Brixton has at times quite a 'ruff' reputation, but I explored it a little bit last year (more on the list to visit this year) and found some fascinating spots - And this is one of your best videos for ages Joolz, love the guides where you wander around an area gathering people as you go!
I'm doing a bit of work in Barking/East Ham at the moment; I've sussed out a few points of vague interest but wouldn't mind seeing what you'd see and do in that rather build up and industrial area. :)
@Jack D'Ripa I've been to a few of them. Unintentionally! :D
Joolz your videos have been quite entertaining and I've learned a lot of insights to some of the places I will visit on my 1st trip to London very soon. To show my appreciation I donated to your channel because we need more Joolz. Thank you.
Another excellent video, Joolz.
It looks like an interesting place. And of course I love the music. Thanks Joolz and Lil’ lost Lou🤘🏽
The Blacker Dread story was funny"he ahhhh had to go elsewhere to stay for a bit" LOL.
Joolz, Your fantastic man! Keeping me laughing and learning in quarantine!
I love this, well done, well made.
It's like a monthly event when Joolz brings a new video release on CZcams :) After watching the whole thing that was marvellous.
Great vlog. I haven't been to Brixton for ages, even though I don't live too far away. Lovely to see Morleys is still going strong, I must jump on the bus soon and pay a visit.
Absolutely brilliant. Your best joolz.