{"id":1523,"date":"2010-04-29T14:20:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T13:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=1523"},"modified":"2010-04-28T00:23:38","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T23:23:38","slug":"brixton-snaps-grosvenor-valencia-place-and-the-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/brixton-snaps-grosvenor-valencia-place-and-the-village\/","title":{"rendered":"Brixton snaps: Grosvenor, Valencia Place and the Village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-april-2010-01.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton snaps: Valencia Place and the Village\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Valentia Place is like a bit of time-warped 1950s Brixton, with its cobbled road surface breaking through the tarmac, knackered corrugated iron walls and railway arch.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/images\/brixton-april-2010-03.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton snaps: The Grosvenor, Valencia Place and the Village\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The long delayed &#8216;luxury&#8217; flats that encroach on the west side have taken a little of this short street&#8217;s ambience away, but it still feels like it&#8217;s from another age.<\/p>\n<p>The road links Brixton Station Road with Coldharbour Lane, and has the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\/bars\/the-angel.html\" target=\"_blank\">Angel pub<\/a> at its southern end, while a side road between the two railway viaducts is used for light industrial purpose (and the occasional party).<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.streetmap.co.uk\/map.srf?X=531385&amp;Y=175487&amp;A=Y&amp;Z=110\" target=\"_blank\">Street map here<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-april-2010-02.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton snaps: Valencia Place and the Village\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cherry Blossom on Coldharbour Lane.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-april-2010-04.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton snaps: Valencia Place and the Village\" \/><\/p>\n<p>DIY map in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\/photos\/brixton-village-indoor-market.html\" target=\"_blank\">Brixton Village<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-april-2010-05.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton snaps: The Grosvenor, Valencia Place and the Village\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-april-2010-06.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton snaps: The Grosvenor, Valencia Place and the Village\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jack Blackburn onstage at Acoustic Insurgency, a monthly benefit at The Grosvenor, a fine boozer between Stockwell and Brixton.<\/p>\n<p>I DJ there, so pop along!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-april-2010-07.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton snaps: The Grosvenor, Valencia Place and the Village\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Playing chess the internet way.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-april-2010-08.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton snaps: The Grosvenor, Valencia Place and the Village\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.offlineclub.com\" target=\"_blank\">Offline<\/a> regulars, The No Frills band put in an ace set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valentia Place is like a bit of time-warped 1950s Brixton, with its cobbled road surface breaking through the tarmac, knackered corrugated iron walls and railway arch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,196,17,193],"tags":[5,213],"class_list":["post-1523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brixton","category-nightlife","category-photos","category-places","tag-bands","tag-stockwell"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/brixton-april-2010-011.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-oz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1523"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1526,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions\/1526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}