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Wednesday 26 October 2011

Electric Avenue


Regular reader and comment leaver Artog pointed out a while ago that the Electric Avenue ex-Equal Eddy Grant sang about back in 1982 was a real road. He spotted it from the top deck of the 159 bus. It's in Brixton, SW9. Those postcodes always seem important to Londoners. In the 1880s it was the first market street to be lit by, yes, electricity and it's beautiful Victorian shop front canopies survived until the 1980s, when some philistine pulled them down. Thatcher probably.

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