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Coldharbour Lane, LONDON, SW9 8RP

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.

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.

Two railway lines cross Gresham Road in Brixton, South London. The lines run more-or-less parallel from Peckham Rye for around 5 miles to London's Victoria terminus station. Suburban services operated by Southern generally use the higher bridge, although these services will cease in 2012. London Overground trains will by then be using the route. Suburban and longer-distance services to the Kent Coast operated by Southeastern generally use the bridge further back.

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."

Despite this being around midday on a weekday, many of the shop units were closed.

See Image for a view from the other side with a brief history.

The road runs parallel and adjacent to the railway viaduct. The two arches nearest the camera are occupied by a wholesale greengrocer, and the six beyond that by the Brixton Brewery.

The view is across Loughborough Road and the Wyck Gardens open space. From right to left the blocks of maisonettes are Woolley House, Kettleby House and Kemble House. Barrington Road runs by the other ends of them. 19th-century maps show an area of small detached houses with gardens, large semi-detached houses and terraces – Angell Town. By 1951 some of the area had been cleared. These and other blocks first appear on a map of the period 1954-62. Magnificent. Links: http://www.urban75.org/brixton/history/loughborough4.html http://www.ideal-homes.org.uk/lambeth/lambeth-assets/galleries/brixton/loughborough-est Sadly, the Municipal Dreams website has nothing on the Loughborough Estate https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com//?s=Loughborough+estate&search=Go