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Heritage Close, LONDON, SW9 8RA

The estate was built in 1953-57 to the designs of the London County Council's chief architect Leslie Martin. Here are three six-storey blocks, bearing the influence of Le Corbusier's Unite d'Habitation in Marseilles. Two-storey flats recessed behind the grid. In this unlikely setting, some kids were horse riding (right). This is the home of Ebony Horse Club, "a community riding centre using horses to help improve the life skills, education and aspirations of children and young people growing up in the Coldharbour area of Brixton, South London - an area of severe deprivation where 38% of children grow up in poverty."

Southwyck House, a block of flats in South London, is also known locally as "Barrier Block". The block was built in around 1970, at a time when there were plans for a 6-lane elevated motorway to pass in front of the building. The block was designed to bounce traffic noise back, and to protect residents from fumes. The motorway formed part of the "London Ringways" plan, which would have seen motorways built in 4 concentric circles around London. The overall plan was abandoned, although some stretches of motorway have been built.

The smart former Green Man pub is now a Lambeth Council Skills Zone. Nine roads and four railway lines share the same space.

The location is the junction of the B222, Milkwood Road and Hinton Road. The unusual lack of traffic and people is because the photograph is taken on Christmas Day morning.

View northward on Gresham Road, under the ex-LB&SC South London line (Victoria, (to left) - (to right) Peckham Rye - London Bridge) on which East Brixton station was situated (on the right) until closed 5/1/76. Beyond is the ex-SE&CR Victoria - Chatham - Ramsgate/Dover main line through Brixton station off to the left. (Cf. Image]).

Opened in 1866 as 'Loughborough Park' by the London Brighton & South Coast Railway on the line from Brixton to Denmark Hill, this station received its last name in 1894. It closed in 1976. View north east on Barrington Road at the former entrance. The wooden platforms used to overhang the side of the viaduct and were demolished soon after closure.

The ground floor of some of this parade of shops have been converted into flats. The location is Hinton Road, Brixton, looking south from close to its junction with Milkwood Road.