EPW060448 ENGLAND (1939). Lambeth Town Hall, St Matthew's Church and the surrounding residential area, Brixton, 1939

Sudbourne rd lived here 78 to 90

The Brixton Tabernacle, old building, now Stockwell Skate Park. The church has been meeting in a new building across the road since 1975.

Brixton station original entrance building.

Aristotle Boys School

Aristotle Boys School

Marks & Spencer

Granville Arcade - indoor shopping centre

Market Row - covered shopping arcade

South Western Hospital

Young's Eel & Pie House, it was to becomes Burroughs (also of Lambeth Walk) in the post war years, it survived the riots of 1981 (next door was gutted by fire) and closed in the mid 1990s (on the right of the gutted building here in this picture).

Brixton Independent Church. Extensively damaged during Worid War 2 and refurbished as a RC Church in the 1950s.

Brixton Greyhound Stadium, opened in 1932 as an official greyhound track (British Greyhound Tracks Control Society-BGTCS). BGTCS disbanded in 1935, and Brixton operated as a "Flapping Track" until closure in 1939.

This picture shows Trinity Gardens with the complete south side of houses and also properties extending along both sides of Brighton Terrace before all this property was demolished and replaced with Lambeth Council housing in, I think, the early 1960s.

Priory Grove Girls School

Hammerton's Brewery

Woolworth Department Store

The Trinity Public House

Empress Variety Theatre. Converted to Granada Cinema late 1950s. Now demolished.

Acre Lane

Brixton Synagogue.

Brixton Labour Exchange (Job Centre!)

Walton Lodge Steram Laundry.

London Transport ticket printing works.

43 Bellefields Road, next to Queen Pub. I was living there in May 1941 when it and the whole terrace was badly damaged by the blast of the bomb that hit the Quin & Axten store behind. The houses were renovated after the war and are still standing.

Palladium cinema

Nine Elms

Astoria Cinema

Bon Marche Department Store

Effra Road

St. Matthew's Road

Brixton Hill A23

Quinn & Axtens Store - destroyed 1941

Trinity Gardens.

Dalberg Road.

The Orange Coach Station.

The Prince of Wales P.H.

Lambeth Town Hall.

Originally, the factory of T.C. Lewis, pipe organ builder (later Lewis & Co, later still taken-over by Henry Willis & Sons, also organ builder). Lewis's magnum opus is the organ at Southwark Cathedral SE1 9DA.

Saint Matthew's Church

I lived at Hayter Road from when I was born in 49 till we moved to Essex in 55.