Against the wishes of the community, Lambeth Council approved the hated Hondo Tower and we visited parks all around Lambeth in an attempt to keep our spirits up in the face of growing coronavirus cases.
Here’s our photo report for November 2020:
November started on a sunny Sunday and we watched the drummers under the Bovril sign in Windrush Square.
Streatham MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy continues to impress with her hands-on activism. On the first Saturday of the month, she led a People Before Profit rally from Windrush Square.
Spectators were now banned from Dulwich Hamlet games because of coronavirus restrictions, but Buzz photographer Rob Avis was one of the few people allowed into Champion Hill to watch them draw 0-0 with Chelmsford City.
The next day, Dulwich Hamlet Women pulled off incredible 3-2 comeback against Dartford Women in front of record breaking crowd.
On the 2nd Nov, protesters against the Hondo Tower gathered outside Lambeth Town Hall. We also added a video report and interviews.
In what was one of our most popular posts of the year, Jason Cobb reported live as Lambeth Council Planning Applications Committee made its controversial decision on Hondo’s Enormo-Tower.
A dismal Dulwich Hamlet were crushed at home by Concord Rangers on Tues 3rd Nov.
You can relive the nightmare with these video ‘highlights.’
Shopping queues formed in Brixton as the second lockdown loomed.
Buzz was proud to host this wonderful piece of analysis by Jason Cobb: Lambeth Planning, the Hondo Enormo-Tower and The Brixton Project: how locals are left out of the regeneration process.
Book Stop Brixton was providing free reading materials during the lockdown in Brixton.
We discovered that Tailored Living Solutions had hired the Bowie graffiti artist to add cool to their luxury 237 Brixton Hill development.
Graham Dowdall talked about 1970s Brixton solidarity and Nico ahead of his The Great North Wood LP release.
Brixton’s newly arrived Avory Smith estate agents claimed that there were ‘big positives to take from COVID-19.’
We captured the autumnal shades in south London’s in Myatt’s Fields Park.
Brixton’s Bookmongers book shop launched their ‘click and collect’ online store.
We discovered that Tulse Hill’s Thurlow Park Road is in the top ten most bashed rail bridges in the UK.
We took an autumnal Sunday stroll around Burgess Park.
We reported on ‘‘Lambeth Council, mega-tower developments and why the public inquiry on 8 Albert Embankment matters.’
The Music Venue Trust charity got in touch with Brixton Buzz to warn that the iconic Windmill venue in Brixton had been listed as one of thirty UK venues in ‘imminent danger’ of permanent closure.
We posted up video highlights of Dulwich Hamlet getting thumped 1-3 at Havant & Waterlooville.
Lambeth council announced the start date and locations of review into sites with historic links to the slave trade.
We looked back at a Thursday night out in Brixton, Nov 2000 with drinks at the Prince Albert and Isobar – and riot cops.
We went for a late afternoon autumnal stroll through Ruskin Park.
We also snapped Stockwell’s Larkhall park in autumn.
In shocking news, Lambeth Police reported the seizure of an Uzi submachine gun in Appach Road, Brixton.
Local trader Adrian Flower said, “Hondo and Brixton Village are turning our traditional market into a fast-food, booze-filled destination.”
Dorking Wanderers 0-0 Dulwich Hamlet – check our our photo report here.
We commented on the rise – and perhaps inevitable fall – of wooden street planters around Brixton.
Here’s Camberwell street scenes in 33 photographs.
As autumn slipped into winter, we went on a wet, grey stroll around Clapham Common.
Still empty after all these years, the Paulet Arms between Camberwell and Brixton.
We ventured out of Brixton and went for a walk from Vauxhall along the River Thames to the South Bank and back.
Struggling Dulwich Hamlet grabbed a much-needed point at Hemel Hempstead Town.
On the 24th, we broke the news that the Antic pub network had shrunk dramatically, with Brixton’s Effra Social one of many venues taken over by Portobello Brewing.
Lambeth put the former Brixton Windrush Square toilets on the market for ‘offers in excess of £50,000 per annum.’
We took some photos at the Farmers’ Market in Brixton Station Road.
Guerrilla knitting delivered positive messages in Slade Gardens, Brixton.
Dulwich Hamlet smashed Bath City 4-1 at Twerton Park on the 24th Nov.
A petition was launched as Lambeth looked set to approve a commercial deal to cover part of Clapham Common with plastic grass.
Ahead of Brixton heading into the confusing Tier 2 Covid-19 restrictions, we asked: ‘Substantial meal or a snack with your pint?’
The Friends of Brockwell Park were “outraged” over plans to close the park for private events in Summer 2021.
We invited everyone to the Brixton Project’s invite-only Zoom meeting, where the self-elected community leaders were looking “to establish the process for community involvement in (and influence on) town planning and development in the Brixton area.”
Later in the month, the developer-backed Project would bizarrely claim that they ‘didn’t support the Hondo Tower application.’
It’s going to be the most rubbish Christmas ever, but the lights went up in Brixton Village at the end of November.
We photographed a grey, foggy start to a chilly late November day.
We posted up some Brixton street photography, with scenes from Electric Avenue, Brixton Hill and central Brixton.
We revisited the David Bowie Brixton mural.
Brixton’s Olive Morris House was completely flattened.
A rock’n’roll auction was launched to save Brixton’s legendary Windmill music venue.