{"id":2444,"date":"2010-10-01T20:58:38","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T19:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=2444"},"modified":"2014-05-01T02:13:12","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T01:13:12","slug":"granville-arcade-brixton-village-1961-londons-largest-emporium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/granville-arcade-brixton-village-1961-londons-largest-emporium\/","title":{"rendered":"Granville Arcade (Brixton Village), 1961: &#8216;London&#8217;s Largest Emporium&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/granville-arcade-brixton.jpg\" alt=\"Granville Arcade, 1961: 'London's Largest Emporium'\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some fascinating footage shot by British Pathe in summer 1961 shows Granville Arcade in all its rather stylish glory &#8211; with a\u00a0particularly\u00a0natty Art Deco sign above the Coldharbour Lane\u00a0entrance.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/granville-arcade-brixton-1.jpg\" alt=\"Granville Arcade, 1961: 'London's Largest Emporium'\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Coldharbour Lane entrance. Note the two Morris Travellers parked to the left.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/granville-arcade-brixton-2.jpg\" alt=\"Granville Arcade, 1961: 'London's Largest Emporium'\" \/><\/p>\n<p>General view inside the market, which looks freshly painted and in good order.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"735\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/45Y_QB_rt6c?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the description from British Pathe:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Several shots of the Caribbean market in Brixton&#8217;s Granville Arcade; West Indian shoppers, mostly women pick over fruit and vegetables on the market stalls; sweet potatoes, some kind of pink member of the aubergine family, pumpkin, okra (Lady&#8217;s Finger) and bananas are seen. C\/Us of signs advertise exotic (for 1961) fruit and vegetables. Women stand at a meat \/ butchers&#8217; stall.<\/p>\n<p>M\/S of the top of an archway reading &#8216;Granville Arcade \/ London&#8217;s Largest Emporium&#8217;; M\/S of the arcade entrance, pan left to show a railway bridge. More shopping and market shots; West Indian women look at nuts and pulses, clothes; two young black boys look at a toy stall; a small boy eats a mostly melted ice cream. A baby girl sits in a pram as her mother shops for shoes. Nice general shot looking down the arcade at the stalls and shoppers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishpathe.com\/record.php?id=482\" target=\"_blank\">British Pathe website<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some fascinating footage shot by British Pathe in summer 1961 shows Granville Arcade in all its rather stylish glory &#8211; with a\u00a0particularly\u00a0natty Art Deco sign above the Coldharbour Lane\u00a0entrance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6780,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[3,193],"tags":[1191,289],"class_list":["post-2444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brixton","category-places","tag-brixton","tag-brixton-village"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/granville-arcade-brixton.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-Dq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444","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=2444"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14473,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444\/revisions\/14473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}