{"id":2235,"date":"2010-09-04T14:07:45","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T13:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=2235"},"modified":"2010-09-04T14:09:22","modified_gmt":"2010-09-04T13:09:22","slug":"brixton-scenes-rasta-van-mr-biggs-truck-graffiti-and-grosvenor-banjos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/brixton-scenes-rasta-van-mr-biggs-truck-graffiti-and-grosvenor-banjos\/","title":{"rendered":"Brixton scenes: Rasta van, Mr Biggs, truck graffiti and Grosvenor banjos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-photos-sept-2010-01.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton scenes: rasta van, Mr Biggs, graffiti and Grosvenor banjos\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the best things about living in Brixton is that there&#8217;s always something interesting going on, or a scene to catch the eye &#8211; like this fabulously named van seen on Atlantic Road.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a series of snaps around town taken yesterday on my HTC Desire mobile phone:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-photos-sept-2010-02.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton scenes: rasta van, Mr Biggs, graffiti and Grosvenor banjos\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mr Biggs Emporium, Atlantic Road, where you can find a DIY store, barber chairs for hire, a unisex hair salon, money transfer facilities and much, much more.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-photos-sept-2010-03.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton scenes: rasta van, Mr Biggs, graffiti and Grosvenor banjos\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wooden railings outside the Adventure Playground on Railton Road, which has yet to reopen.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-photos-sept-2010-04.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton scenes: rasta van, Mr Biggs, graffiti and Grosvenor banjos\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Graffiti truck, Somerleyton Road. The owners long gave up the battle and these paint covered trucks have been a feature on the Brixton landscape for years.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-photos-sept-2010-05.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton scenes: rasta van, Mr Biggs, graffiti and Grosvenor banjos\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Windrush Square puddle, sorry, <em>fountain.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-photos-sept-2010-06.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton scenes: rasta van, Mr Biggs, graffiti and Grosvenor banjos\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/the-brixton-heron-weathervane-coldharbour-lanebrixton-road\/\">Maggi Hambling&#8217;s heron sculptur<\/a>e. It&#8217;s not easy to spot: go to the corner of Coldharbour Lane and Brixton Road, stand outside the Ritzy and you&#8217;ll see it perched on top of the Prince of Wales pub.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-photos-sept-2010-07.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton scenes: rasta van, Mr Biggs, graffiti and Grosvenor banjos\" \/><br \/>\nJam session at the Grosvenor pub, Stockwell. At its peak, there was something like 20 musicians jauntily thundering along on an assortment of banjos, fiddles, guitars, mandolins &#8211; and a tuba. And a right lovely racket they made too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\" target=\"_blank\">More Brixton photos here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best things about living in Brixton is that there&#8217;s always something interesting going on, or a scene to catch the eye &#8211; like this fabulously named van &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6741,"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":[3,196,193],"tags":[1191],"class_list":["post-2235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brixton","category-nightlife","category-places","tag-brixton"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/brixton-photos-sept-2010-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-A3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235","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=2235"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2240,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions\/2240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}