Explore Brixton - off-the-beaten-path walking tour through London's most multicultural neighbourhood
Tour description
Discover Brixton - London's most multicultural neighbourhood!
Just 20 minutes from central London but worlds away from grand monuments and tourist shops, get off the beaten track to experience this bustling, colourful part of the city.
Why Brixton? Walk with me to understand:
- its fascinating development from forests and fields to commercial centre and hub for a large Afro-Caribbean community
- how immigration and neglect shaped Brixton's identity, including through politics, music, race relations, and regeneration
- some of our beautiful protected buildings, all with their own stories
What do we cover?
- we start at London's last surviving windmill, learning how Brixton sprung up and connected to London through trains and trams
- we'll see buildings old and new, and understand more about social housing and issues of inequality
- stand above the mighty River Effra, now buried underground but once a major local feature
- understand post-war immigration and the race riots of the 1980s and 90s
- explore Brixton's historic covered markets, at the centre of debates about gentrification and regeneration
- I'll show you architectural highlights (Ritzy Cinema, Town Hall, Recreation Centre), and set them in the wider political and historical context
- we finish by exploring Electric Avenue (made famous by the song) and talking about David Bowie and other cultural icons
Brixton - so often misunderstood but with so much of interest to the curious visitor!
