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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/6/2/1/215

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