It’s been home to a lion of black consciousness, a glittering pop icon and the ultimate in dull prime ministers.
Linton Kwesi Johnson, David Bowie and John Major have lived in streets a few yards apart.
But it is the people who have lived there who gave colour to the creativity and ambition of those globally known residents.
“Go to any part of the world and mention Brixton and it resonates. It stands for something. It is a beacon of what’s possible,” says Paul Reid, one of dozens of Brixton residents who features in a virtual reality documentary that takes viewers beneath the skin of Brixton: Coldharbour.
Coldharbour is a 360˚ VR film that takes viewers under the skin of Brixton’s Coldharbour Ward. The immersive film forms the centerpiece to a broader oral history exhibition at the Brixton Library that takes viewers on an immersive tour of Coldharbour Lane and the Brixton Markets, meeting people along the way who have shaped Brixton’s strong and symbolic cultural fabric over several decades.