{"id":338,"date":"2008-01-24T00:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T00:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=338"},"modified":"2008-01-24T00:22:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T00:22:00","slug":"a-trip-around-brixton-and-stockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/a-trip-around-brixton-and-stockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"A  trip around Brixton and Stockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took a little wander today around some hitherto unwandered parts of Brixton &#8211; here&#8217;s some snaps from my stroll:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\/bars\/images\/the-queen06.jpg\" alt=\"The Queen pub on Bellefields Road\/Ferndale, Brixton\" \/><br \/>I&#8217;d been here before, but not when this bizarre ship-meet-mushroom slap of <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">designerdom<\/span> had been built. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\/history\/images\/the-queen-11.jpg\" alt=\"The Queen pub on Bellefields Road\/Ferndale, Brixton\" \/><br \/>Here&#8217;s what used to be here &#8211; a delightful Victorian pub called The Queen, full of interesting characters, eccentric locals and frenetic late night lock-ins.<\/p>\n<p>See the full story here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\/bars\/the-queen.html\">The Queen, Brixton<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\/photos\/images\/brixton-walk-08-06.jpg\" alt=\" Marquis of Lorne pub\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Happily, I stumbled across this beautiful pub &#8211; Marquis of Lorne &#8211;  on my travels. Despite it being less than a mile from my house, I&#8217;d never heard of it before.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\/photos\/images\/brixton-walk-08-05.jpg\" alt=\"Marquis of Lorne pub\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The pub has almost all its original features intact &#8211; look at those lovely tiles!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\/photos\/images\/brixton-walk-08-15.jpg\" alt=\"Stockwell skate park, undergoing restoration.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The walk took me past Stockwell skate park, which is still undergoing restoration.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\/photos\/images\/brixton-walk-08-16.jpg\" alt=\"Stockwell skate park, undergoing restoration.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Currently flanked by Peter&#8217;s Barber Shop and a mini-cab firm right next to the Astoria, the curved windows hint at a grander heritage for the entrance to the Stockwell Partnership at 205 Stockwell Road.<\/p>\n<p>The building used to host the Brixtoria Ballroom Club, which was still offering &#8216;practice and tuition&#8217; and &#8216;private lessons&#8217; for 90 minutes at 5\/- (25p) in April 1954. <\/p>\n<p>See the full walk here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\/photos\/brixton-jan-2008.html\">Brixton and Stockwell photos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took a little wander today around some hitherto unwandered parts of Brixton &#8211; here&#8217;s some snaps from my stroll: I&#8217;d been here before, but not when this bizarre ship-meet-mushroom &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6272,"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":[3,1],"tags":[1191,36,21],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brixton","category-stuff","tag-brixton","tag-pubs","tag-walks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/the-queen06.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-5s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","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=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}