UK - London - Multicultural street scene outside Reliance Arcade in Brixton

Reliance Arcade, 455 Brixton Road (c1924) provides a narrow pedestrian route from Brixton Road to Electric Lane. It incorporates the original Georgian house and has a beautiful Egyptian tomb facade to Electric Lane; it was extended forward by Ernest J Thomas in 1931. Inside there are small shops no larger than market stalls and a glazed roof provide the light. Brixton is a district in south London, England, in the London Borough of Lambeth. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London. Brixton is predominantly residential with a prominent street market and substantial retail sector. It is a multiethnic community, with around 24 percent of Brixton's population being of African and Caribbean descent, giving rise to Brixton as the unofficial capital of the British African-Caribbean community.

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Copyright: Mike Kemp
Image Size: 4243x2828 / 1.3MB; London England United Kingdom UK British Mike Kemp Michael English South black community Brixton African Afro Caribbean multi cultural multicultural ethnic ethnicity Reliance arcade exterior woman crossing stret shopping bags
Contained in galleries: 2011

Reliance Arcade, 455 Brixton Road (c1924) provides a narrow pedestrian route from Brixton Road to Electric Lane. It incorporates the original Georgian house and has a beautiful Egyptian tomb facade to Electric Lane; it was extended forward by Ernest J Thomas in 1931. Inside there are small shops no larger than market stalls and a glazed roof provide the light. Brixton is a district in south London, England, in the London Borough of Lambeth. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London. Brixton is predominantly residential with a prominent street market and substantial retail sector. It is a multiethnic community, with around 24 percent of Brixton's population being of African and Caribbean descent, giving rise to Brixton as the unofficial capital of the British African-Caribbean community.