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A man composed of builder's tools holds a notice saying: "This ground to be lett on a building lease: enquire of Mr Goth, brick maker, Bricklayers Arms, Brick Lane, Brixton." He leads developers and landlords (represented as chimneys) towards new houses of poor quality that are being built south of the river Thames, forming a road called New Street. Westminster Abbey is shown in the centre background, and St Paul's and the Monument in the left background (the orientation being in reverse to reality). On the right, a haystack being pelted with bricks says "Hey day! Come along my little cocks, we must go farther afield, for we are losing ground.", and another haystack says "Confound these hot bricks. They'll fire all my hay ricks." In the right background, the trees on Hampstead Heath say "Our fences I fear will be found to be no defence against these barbarians, who threaten to enclose & destroy us in all "manor" of ways. Detachments are on the road already." In the centre are brick-kilns and factories

Scraps and sketches depicting scenes of British life.

1 print (album page 10) : etching ; image 15.5 x 26.2 cm

Building materials marching out of London and forming new built-up areas in the countryside. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1829.

1 print : lithograph printed in colours ; sheet 59.3 x 41.8 cm

Two pairs of boots and clothes at the bottom of a bed in which lie two men with empty packets of condoms and lubricant in the foreground; advertisement for the Blackliners support group for black people affected by HIV and AIDS. Colour lithograph.

A3 Poster advertising the facilities and services avaialble at the Landmark centre for people with AIDS & HIV.

Oversize ephemera. Box +31

The Landmark : a centre for people living with HIV and AIDS ... 47A Tulse Hill, Brixton SW2 2TN ...  / The Landmark.

1 print : lithograph printed in black and white with pink ; sheet 59.4 x 41.9 cm

A black man and woman sit chatting on a bench with an Asian woman holding a child in her lap; advertisement for the Blackliners support group for black people affected by HIV and AIDS. Colour lithograph.

William's Hamilton is shown landing in an airship and being greeted by British, Chinese, Native American people and people of other places shown in Hamilton's painted panoramas, lectures, slide shows, variety acts and moving films. "Hamilton's Excursions" presented a tour of the world. The show was run by members of the Hamilton family (Hyde, loc. cit.). They included William Hamilton (1837-1907) who appears on the poster as the pilot of the airship, as well as being vignetted in the corner. The airship was either a metaphor for global travel, or, if it existed, was a stationary feature of the exhibition. "Towards the end of the nineteenth century Hamilton's panoramas, like the Pooles', became ever more concerned with events in Britain's growing empire, and fervently patriotic. Imperialistic adventures in Africa and Asia predominate in Hamilton programmes and posters" (Hyde, op. cit., p. 151)
Brixton Hall was an iron building on the site of the later Lambeth Town Hall, and was hired out for music-hall acts, magic acts, missionary societies, friendly society fundraisers, etc.

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 68 x 102 cm

Travels to distant parts of the world performed by Willam Hamilton, represented by an airship piloted by him that is acclaimed by people of different races. Colour lithograph, ca. 1900.

Leaflet advertising bargains in boots & shoes at Pocock Bros.' great opening sale, 30, Atlantic Road, Brixton, London. Probably in the late 1890s. The illustrated side is of a smartly dressed man with a large moustache sitting on a wooden chair, a steaming footbath below him (for sore feet). By inserting fingers through the 2 holes, it creates the effect of his legs.

Clothing ephemera. Box 1.

Place the first and second fingers of the left hand through the openings, and bend the finger ends through the horizontal slit : the result will surprise you / Pocock Bros.

AIDS ephemera : Support & centres. Box 1.

The Landmark : a centre for people living with HIV and AIDS ... 47a Tulse Hill, Brixton SW2 2TN.

This building was presumably near to St Matthew's Church, at the northern end of Effra Road

1 print : engraving ; image 10.4 x 15.9 cm

Effra House, Brixton: with several patients walking in the grounds. Engraving by T. H. Ellis.

Dark strangers : a sociological study of the absorption of a recent West Indian migrant group in Brixton, South London / Sheila Patterson.

1 print : wood engraving ; image 18.1 x 28.4 cm

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Building materials marching out of London and forming new built-up areas in the countryside. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1829.

Two pairs of boots and clothes at the bottom of a bed in which lie two men with empty packets of condoms and lubricant in the foreground; advertisement for the Blackliners support group for black people affected by HIV and AIDS. Colour lithograph.

The Landmark : a centre for people living with HIV and AIDS ... 47A Tulse Hill, Brixton SW2 2TN ... / The Landmark.

A black man and woman sit chatting on a bench with an Asian woman holding a child in her lap; advertisement for the Blackliners support group for black people affected by HIV and AIDS. Colour lithograph.

Travels to distant parts of the world performed by Willam Hamilton, represented by an airship piloted by him that is acclaimed by people of different races. Colour lithograph, ca. 1900.

Place the first and second fingers of the left hand through the openings, and bend the finger ends through the horizontal slit : the result will surprise you / Pocock Bros.

The Landmark : a centre for people living with HIV and AIDS ... 47a Tulse Hill, Brixton SW2 2TN.

Effra House, Brixton: with several patients walking in the grounds. Engraving by T. H. Ellis.

Dark strangers : a sociological study of the absorption of a recent West Indian migrant group in Brixton, South London / Sheila Patterson.

City of London Freemen's Orphan School, Brixton, London. Wood engraving by W.E. Hodgkin, 1854, after B. Sly.

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Building materials marching out of London and forming new built-up areas in the countryside. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1829.

Two pairs of boots and clothes at the bottom of a bed in which lie two men with empty packets of condoms and lubricant in the foreground; advertisement for the Blackliners support group for black people affected by HIV and AIDS. Colour lithograph.

The Landmark : a centre for people living with HIV and AIDS ... 47A Tulse Hill, Brixton SW2 2TN ... / The Landmark.

A black man and woman sit chatting on a bench with an Asian woman holding a child in her lap; advertisement for the Blackliners support group for black people affected by HIV and AIDS. Colour lithograph.

Travels to distant parts of the world performed by Willam Hamilton, represented by an airship piloted by him that is acclaimed by people of different races. Colour lithograph, ca. 1900.

Place the first and second fingers of the left hand through the openings, and bend the finger ends through the horizontal slit : the result will surprise you / Pocock Bros.

The Landmark : a centre for people living with HIV and AIDS ... 47a Tulse Hill, Brixton SW2 2TN.

Effra House, Brixton: with several patients walking in the grounds. Engraving by T. H. Ellis.

Dark strangers : a sociological study of the absorption of a recent West Indian migrant group in Brixton, South London / Sheila Patterson.

City of London Freemen's Orphan School, Brixton, London. Wood engraving by W.E. Hodgkin, 1854, after B. Sly.

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