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The rumours circulated about a Costa Coffee opening up in Brixton back in March last year<\/a>, and the new banners on the property under the railway bridge on Brixton Road suggest that they’ll be opening for business soon.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Last used for the super-cheapo Homelook store, the space at 458-460 Brixton Road was originally owned by Sanders & Co Jewellers, who opened the store back in 1908.<\/p>\n The firm was eventually taken over by H Samuel, before the store closed in 1984.<\/p>\n The opening of the Costa store\u00a0reflects\u00a0the growing\u00a0gentrification\u00a0of Brixton and\u00a0represents\u00a0yet more\u00a0homogenisation of the main shopping area. ‘Scuse me if I don’t whoop for joy.<\/p>\n As for me, I’ll be sticking to local\u00a0independent\u00a0coffee shops.<\/p>\n Read the full story of the shop here<\/a>\u00a0and discuss it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The rumours circulated about a Costa Coffee opening up in Brixton back in March last year, and the new banners on the property under the railway bridge on Brixton Road … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7326,"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":[1191,426],"class_list":["post-5759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brixton","category-photos","category-places","tag-brixton","tag-cafe-shops"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/costa-coffee-brixton-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-1uT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5759","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=5759"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5764,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5759\/revisions\/5764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Costa](\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/costa-coffee-brixton-02.jpg\")
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