Brixton Week - Day 8 - Cafe Las Americas

To finish Brixton Week ( 10% extra, free! I should be back tomorrow) I've got a recommendation for you. If you like to be a little adventurous in your food, try Cafeteria das Americas in Popes Road. A Brazilian butcher and cafe, they make the most wonderful..... well, he called them black pudding, but they had vegetables and more in, entirely recommended. And, a lot of other stuff being cooked that I'd like to try one day.

Brixton Week - Day 7 - Electric Avenue

You can't visit Brixton without rocking down to Electric Avenue, a bustling market that has changed a lot over the years, but is still a good place to shop.

Brixton Week - Day 6 - Sanitary Steam Laundry

On first acquiantance, Brixton doesn't have a lot that makes you smile, although as you look around that changes. Here in Coldharbour Lane is a Victorian workshop building that clearly shows their desire to make their surroundings beautiful (although, I suspect, not for those working in it) and it is still a laundry to this day.

Brixton week - day 5 - Joy

Around the corner from the Ritzy,there is the superbly named "Joy" I've not been into it, but it's described as "The brainchild of Maureen O'Brien, Joy combines the world of kitsch with fashion" Sounds ineresting. Their website is under construction, so I couldn't investigate further.

Brixton Week Day 4-The Ritzy

Still away, still out of Internet touch (will I survive?) and it is day four of Brixton week. So today, I can show you the Ritzy, a genuine independent cinema. They show good films, don't they?

Brixton Week Day 3 - The Land Time Forgot

I'm still incomunicado and the Brixton week continues. Carry on ino Brixton and you will see this curiosity, an M&S store that hasn' been refurbished since.... early eighties? what do you think? I reckon M&S don't have Brixton high on their money making priorities

Brixton Week - Day Two - the Soweto Memorial

Still on holiday, on day two of my Brixton week I'd like to show you a very emotive statue standing just outside Brixton town centre.

Dedicated to the 116 children who died on the 16th June 1976 in the Soweto Uprising, it was enough to make me go and find out what happened.

Brixton Week - Day 1 - Brixton Church

I'm on holiday for the next week, so I thought I'd run a "Brixton Week" on London Daily Photo. The area itself has had a lot of bad press over the years, but there's enough of interest there to warrant a visit.

This church is the first surprise, you'll find it in Brixton Road on the way in. Built at the turn of the last century in Byzantine style, it is an Anglican church.