02: BRIXTON STATION ROAD

SCENES

SCENE 00: OPENING TITLES [b]: WITHIN TEXT

PHOTOSHOOTS

17 November 2009 (Paul Canty)

15 April 2010

MISCELLANEOUS IMAGES

©1966 (Unknown)

1. The area as seen in the film Alfie (1966).

 

©1966 (Unknown)

2. And on the Reelstreets website.

 

"...Some truly shocking 1970s architecture, The Brixton Recreation Centre and Multi Story Car Park have all but transformed the right hand [side of this] view. However, the left side of the picture (railway arches and stalls), with good old Marks and Spencer’s roof top dome in the distance, is much the same as 1966..."

©2006 www.reelstreets.com

 

©1967 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Ltd.

3. The front cover of the MGM Press Book for the film. (Courtesy of Chris Green.)

 

©1967 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Ltd.

3a. Blowup: Note the mansard-roofed tower (upper-middle-left) and the domed tower (upper-middle-right).

 

©2009 Google Maps

3b. The Mansard-roofed tower (sadly minus its flagpole). Looking east, towards Brixton Leisure Centre along Brixton Station Road, away from its junction with Brixton Road.

 

©2009 Paul Canty

3c. The domed tower at the junction of Ferndale Road and Stockwell Avenue.

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