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GENEVA ROAD, BRIXTON

GENEVA ROAD, BRIXTON

Terraced housing in Geneva Road, Brixton. The street was one of several in the area which became home to the newly-arrived West Indian immigrant community from the late 1950s onwards. Geneva Road has since been demolished and replaced with council housing.

A former childhood resident of Geneva Road, Amon Kelly recalls: 'My children were amazed at the size of my house where I was born. I often talked to them about my home but was unable to get across how big it was and that it had a basement and wine cellars. You could get lost in the garden and we had chickens, a goat, an orchard and gas lamps'.

Photograph by Sydney Newbery 

Ref. LBL/DTP/UD/6/2/1/214

Details
Collection:Department of Town Planning
Image type:Photograph
Artist:Sidney Newbery
Ref:10253
Identifier:LBL/DTP/UD/6/2/1/214
Date:c.1965

#1951 - 1975  #BRIXTON  #Cars  #Department of Town Planning  #HOUSING  #Photograph  #Victorian