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.