Sunday 26th April 11.15am
If, like me, you grew up in the 80s then your abiding memory of Brixton is probably the riots in the early 80s. I hope that isn't why I've so rarely visited the place. There's a market there which I can't be sure I've ever been to although I definitely went to a gig in the Brixton Academy in the early 90s and came out to find there were police on horses to control the crowds. Goodness knows why as it's not a huge venue and it wasn't that kind of gig.
Twenty years later it looks less like a battleground and more like every high street in the country, although the day before there'd been trouble at a protest against the gentrification of the area and an estate agent's window got broken. I could see what they mean - as I walked from Clapham, through rows of nice Victorian terraces, you could see them slowly being done up, the windows painted and the gardens tidied, expensive cars in the street outside.
As for the station itself, well it has one of the biggest roundels you're likely to see on the front of it:
I like that, and think they should do it more often.
The station itself is at the end of the Victoria line, but it still has two platforms despite the fact they go in the same direction - the fact that this surprises me shows just how little I know about trains - which does make things simpler.
Wikipedia entry here.
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