{"id":3608,"date":"2011-03-03T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T10:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=3608"},"modified":"2011-03-03T02:26:31","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T02:26:31","slug":"brixton-car-park-comes-tumbling-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/brixton-car-park-comes-tumbling-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Brixton Car Park comes tumbling down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-car-park-16.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton Car Park comes tumbling down\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There may be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/brixton-market-lockdown-traders-protest-against-proposed-car-park-closure\/\">controversy a plenty<\/a> about what&#8217;s replacing this multi-story car park on the corner of \u00a0Brixton\u00a0Station\u00a0Road and Popes Road, but there won&#8217;t many\u00a0people wailing at the sight of this lamentable slab of 60s grimness being pulled down.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-car-park-10.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton Car Park comes tumbling down\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After a long period of nothing much appearing to \u00a0happen at all, the car park has come down very quickly indeed.<\/p>\n<p>This is a view looking up Pope&#8217;s Road, SW9 towards the railway bridge. The extra-special ugly high level footbridge has already disappeared.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-car-park-11.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton Car Park comes tumbling down\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To the right, you can just see one of the water sprays which helps keep the\u00a0concrete\u00a0dust down.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-car-park-12.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton Car Park comes tumbling down\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pope&#8217;s Road view.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-car-park-13.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton Car Park comes tumbling down\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-car-park-14.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton Car Park comes tumbling down\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Looking towards Canterbury Crescent.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-car-park-15.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton Car Park comes tumbling down\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-car-park-17.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton Car Park comes tumbling down\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Looking down Pope&#8217;s Road towards the Canterbury Arms pub, which can be seen on the right in the distance.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-car-park-18.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton Car Park comes tumbling down\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-car-park-19.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton Car Park comes tumbling down\" \/><\/p>\n<p>View from the car park entrance at Canterbury Crescent, with the Canterbury Arms to the right.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-car-park-20.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton Car Park comes tumbling down\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brixton Station Road view, looking towards Brixton Rec.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-car-park-21.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton Car Park comes tumbling down\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-car-park-22.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton Car Park comes tumbling down\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A last look along Brixton Station Road, with the old Johns cafe to the right &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\/history\/station5.html\" target=\"_blank\">see Brixton &#8216;Then and Now&#8217; view of this scene<\/a> and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\/history\/station1.html\" target=\"_blank\"> another view here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In case anyone&#8217;s\u00a0forgotten, you can admire the car park in all its former glory below:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-car-park-23.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton Car Park comes tumbling down\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\/\" target=\"_blank\">More Brixton features<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There may be controversy a plenty about what&#8217;s replacing this multi-story car park on the corner of \u00a0Brixton\u00a0Station\u00a0Road and Popes Road, but there won&#8217;t many\u00a0people wailing at the sight of &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6954,"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":[3,17,193],"tags":[1191,342],"class_list":["post-3608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brixton","category-photos","category-places","tag-brixton","tag-brixton-market"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/brixton-car-park-16.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-Wc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608","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=3608"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3610,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608\/revisions\/3610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}