We took a look back through our Brixton Buzz stats for 2020 to find out which posts proved the most popular with our readers – and we were surprised to see a six year old article coming in at number six!
Here’s our Top Ten Most Read Articles of 2020, in reverse order:
10. Brixton’s most knackered house on Coldharbour Lane goes on the market for £400,000
Despite being a ramshackle empty shell with collapsed internal floors, the building eventually sold for a ridiculous £717,000.
9. Brixton for sale: who are Hondo Enterprises, owners of Brixton Village, Market Row, Club 414 and more?
We said:
Currently buying up vast chunks of Brixton is Hondo Enterprises, a property investment company headed up by Texan billionaire DJ Taylor McWilliams, and backed by the near-unimaginable wealth of US-based global investment giants, Angelo Gordon.
Hondo – whose website boasts of opportunistically exploiting the property market – currently own Brixton Village, Market Row, Lost in Brixton, most of Pope’s Road and Club 414. So who are they?
8. Brixton violence: was it connected to the Black Lives Matter protest in Windrush Square on Weds 24th June 2020?
Social media lit up with right wing commentators doing their best to link outbreaks of violence with the earlier Brixton Black Lives Matter live music protest in Windrush Square. We put the record straight.
7. Armed and masked police officers make an arrest on Brixton’s Coldharbour Lane, Mon 30th March 2020
A week into the lockdown and we witnessed an arrest opposite the Barrier Block involving multiple unmarked police cars and officers carrying semi-automatic rifles.
6. Brixton to be renamed East Clapham under forthcoming rebranding policy
Our April Fool’s joke from 2014 went viral again. The article holds the record as the all-time most popular post on Brixton Buzz – such is the power of fake news!
5. Taylor McWilliams, multi-millionaire landlord of Brixton market, pleads for financial help
We discovered that Taylor McWilliams, the multi-millionaire landlord of Brixton market and would be evictor of Nour Cash and Carry, had written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson asking for financial help.
4. Brixton: Two people injured in Coldharbour Lane shooting incident in early hours of Sunday, 21st June 2020
Coldharbour Lane in Brixton was sealed off overnight outside Southwyck House by Gresham Road, following reports of a double shooting incident.
3. Brixton Market landlord Taylor McWilliams has his Housekeeping DJ Collective Zoom party crashed by local activists
Brixton fought back in inimitable style when property developer McWilliams had his DJ session bum-rushed by activists.
2. Privilege, wealth and power: Brixton landlord Taylor McWilliams and his Housekeeping DJ Collective
We said:
Currently buying up vast chunks of Brixton is Hondo Enterprises, a property investment company headed up by wealthy Texan club DJ Taylor McWilliams (above), and backed by the near-unimaginable wealth of US-based global investment giants, Angelo Gordon.
His company currently owns Brixton Village, Market Row, Lost in Brixton, most of Pope’s Road and Club 414 and is currently under growing community pressure for ordering the closing of Brixton’s popular Nour supermarket. So who is Taylor McWilliams?
1. Brockwell Park to be closed today (Sunday 5th April) because of ‘unacceptable’ behaviour
Our most read post of 2020 was an article reporting that Lambeth was closing the park after the council tweeted:
Despite clear advice, over 3000 people spent today in Brockwell Park, many of them sunbathing or in large groups. This is unacceptable.
Unfortunately, the actions of a minority now means that, following police advice, Brockwell Park will be closed tomorrow
More 2020 stats
Over the course of 2020, the site registered well over one and a half million page views from 900,000 visitors.
We posted up 1,181 articles, adding up to 538,000 words in total. The average word count per post was 456 words.
The site attracted 1,600 user comments this year, and there has been no less than 6,296,219 spam comments filtered out automatically since we started the site.
The site attracts the most readers on Fridays, with 10pm being the busiest hour for traffic. Thank you all for supporting Brixton Buzz!