A walk around the snowy streets of Brixton, south London, Feb 2012

After an evening snowfall covered Brixton, I braved the elements and went for a walk around to capture some photos.

After an evening snowfall covered Brixton, I braved the elements and went for a walk around to capture some photos.

It may have been freezing outside, but it felt like a furnace inside the Brixton Prince Albert last night, with The Sharks burning it up on stage at the Offline Club. here’s some pics;

I’ve got two completely unrelated Brixton scenes for you today. The first is the sight of the cleaned up brickwork of the old Sanders & Co Jewellers shop on Brixton Road.
The hoardings are slowly coming down in readiness for the opening of a Costa Coffee shop.

The rumours circulated about a Costa Coffee opening up in Brixton back in March last year, and the new banners on the property under the railway bridge on Brixton Road suggest that they’ll be opening for business soon.

End of the day, Berwick market, Soho. The street market was first established in the 18th century but it wasn’t until 1892 that it was officially recognised.

Once one of the seedier parts of Manhattan, Times Square was cleaned up in the mid-1990s, with Mayor Rudolph Giuliani overseeing the closing of the porno theatres and pressurising the drug dealers and ‘squeegee men’ to relocate elsewhere.
Although it’s been Disneyfied and sanitised into a tourist-friendly cash-till, Times Square is still a fascinating and exciting place to walk through. Here’s some photos from a December 2010 twilight ramble through the area.

There’s currently delays all round thanks to this skip driver bashing his load of empty skips into the rail bridge at Barrington Road, near Coldharbour Lane, Brixton Sw9.

I’m still recovering from our massive New Year’s Eve party at the Prince Albert Brixton with James Pyke playing a superb live set.
Lordy, what a night that was! Here’s some pics of the drunken mayhem:

Sadly, there wasn’t a snow-covered festive scene to greet me on my return to Cardiff this year, as the weather had turned boringly mild.
There was still loads going in around the city centre, so here’s a few snaps:

We saw broken brollies in Brooklyn and snapped off spokes in SoHo as we battled though a fierce New York rainstorm last Winter.

This long-serving traditional Brixton boozer on Coldharbour Lane has been put up for auction on 15th December 2011, priced at £650,000.
The pub – said to be the first Brixton pub to “sell drinks to coloured people” – has been through tough times recently, with several closures and re-openings in the past five years.

Saturday night was a blast at the historic Royal Vauxhall Tavern, an old-fashioned south London pub that is probably London’s best-known alternative gay venue.
On the bill were the fabulous go-go Actionettes, a cowboy stripper called Go Go Harder and the mighty Jarvis Cocker on the decks.

I have to admin that ‘vintage’ has become one of my trigger words these days. Whenever I see it written around Brixton, it’s often being used as hipster-speak for good old fashioned ‘second hand stuff.’
Anyway, if vintage is your thing, Forever Loving Vintage will be at the increasingly tatty-looking Living Bar on Sunday serving up an “exciting, unique & fun shopping experience.”

There was a packed house at the Brixton Albert last night for the return of Bristol’s finest hip hop crew, The Scribes. Here’s some pics of the action.