{"id":3894,"date":"2011-03-29T14:34:54","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T13:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=3894"},"modified":"2011-03-29T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T13:45:00","slug":"farewell-then-brixton-popes-road-car-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/farewell-then-brixton-popes-road-car-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell then, Brixton Pope&#8217;s Road car park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-popes-road-car-park-09.jpg\" alt=\"Farewell then, Brixton Pope's Road car park\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although it was undeniably useful as a car park, Brixton Pope&#8217;s Road multi storey car park was an utterly charmless slab of mean and oppressive architecture, and I&#8217;m delighted to see the back of the place.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-popes-road-car-park-10.jpg\" alt=\"Farewell then, Brixton Pope's Road car park\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the last remaining vestige of the car \u00a0park &#8211; the grim concrete pedestrian bridge that linked the car park to the adjacent Brixton Rec &#8211; was pulled down.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how it looked:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-car-park-bridge.jpg\" alt=\"Sunday 27th March - Brixton Popes Road footbridge is coming down\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-popes-road-car-park-11.jpg\" alt=\"Farewell then, Brixton Pope's Road car park\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The steps on the car park side appear to have just fallen backwards into the demolition site.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-popes-road-car-park-12.jpg\" alt=\"Farewell then, Brixton Pope's Road car park\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A digger now sits on the vast pile of rubble where the car park stood. The site will now be used for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/brixton-market-lockdown-traders-protest-against-proposed-car-park-closure\/\">controversial<\/a> temporary\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lambeth.gov.uk\/Services\/Environment\/Regeneration\/FutureLambeth\/TemporaryIceRink.htm\" target=\"_blank\">ice rink<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although it was undeniably useful as a car park, Brixton Pope&#8217;s Road multi storey car park was an utterly charmless slab of mean and oppressive architecture, and I&#8217;m delighted to &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6997,"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":[1191,342],"class_list":["post-3894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brixton","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-popes-road-car-park-09.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-10O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3894","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=3894"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3902,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3894\/revisions\/3902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}