An urban regeneration scheme. The aim was to develop the arts and shopping areas to generate income from people visiting the area, but locals argued money is not going to the people that need it. Refurbished the covered arcades of Brixton Market. Planned projects included a £44m shopping development over the Tube station, housing association expansion, a five-screen art house cinema, community facilities and refurbishment of Brixton Academy music venue and The Fridge. Looks like it may have been set up in 1993 and was in trouble by 1994 but still going in 1998.
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Brixton Challenge
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Soweto children
This sculpture was inspired by a widely-circulated and influential news photo...
Other Subjects
Cecil Rhodes
Mining magnate and politician in southern Africa. Prime Minister of the Cape Colony 1890-96. As a businessman he founded the southern African territory of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe and Zambia), which ...
1 memorial
John Stephen
Founder of Carnaby Street as world centre for men's fashion in the 1960s. From Glasgow. The V&A hold his archive.
1 memorial
Jones's butcher's shop
Family business that survived until the 1970s. This photograph was taken in 1932.
1 memorial
Fred Reynolds
Worked for the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society. Was Assistant Secretary to a building committee in June 1912.
1 memorial
New Mermaid Tavern, Mare Street
This section of Mare Street was at the time known as Church Street. Â The area around was the Mermaid Gardens which were used for balloon flights, amongst other things. Â The (old) Mermaid Tavern was...
1 memorial
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