{"id":5392,"date":"2011-11-08T14:10:10","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T14:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=5392"},"modified":"2011-11-08T14:10:10","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T14:10:10","slug":"brixton-flea-market-saturdays-on-brixton-station-road-sw9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/brixton-flea-market-saturdays-on-brixton-station-road-sw9\/","title":{"rendered":"Brixton Flea Market, Saturdays on Brixton Station Road, SW9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-flea-market-01.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton Flea Market, Saturdays on Brixton Station Road, Brixton London SW9\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Brixton Flea market takes place on the first Saturday of every month, right in the heart of Brixton.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-flea-market-02.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton Flea Market, Saturdays on Brixton Station Road, Brixton London SW9\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Located on Brixton Station Road (a very short walk from Brixton tube), the market serves up the usual flea market fare of\u00a0bric-a-brac, furniture, food, clothes, jewellery, games and more.<\/p>\n<p>In 1910, Brixton Station Road hosted\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\/history\/marks-and-spencer-station-road.html\" target=\"_blank\">Marks and Spencer&#8217;s original Penny Bazaar,<\/a> while\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\/history\/station6.html\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Caine was filmed for &#8216;Alfie&#8217; walking down the market in 1966<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-flea-market-03.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton Flea Market, Saturdays on Brixton Station Road, Brixton London SW9\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-flea-market-04.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton Flea Market, Saturdays on Brixton Station Road, Brixton London SW9\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-flea-market-05.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton Flea Market, Saturdays on Brixton Station Road, Brixton London SW9\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-flea-market-06.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton Flea Market, Saturdays on Brixton Station Road, Brixton London SW9\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Brixton Station Road photo features:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\/history\/station.html\" target=\"_blank\">Market view 1921<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\/history\/station1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Old houses on Station Road, 1964<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\/history\/station5.html\" target=\"_blank\"> John&#8217;s cafe<\/a> (now long gone)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/works-starts-on-brixtons-new-ice-rink-on-popes-road\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brixton&#8217;s new Ice Rink<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brixton Flea market takes place on the first Saturday of every month, right in the heart of Brixton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7259,"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":[3,193],"tags":[1191,342,405],"class_list":["post-5392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brixton","category-places","tag-brixton","tag-brixton-market","tag-shopping"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/brixton-flea-market-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-1oY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5392","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=5392"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5394,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5392\/revisions\/5394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}