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Evidence shows Brixton was transformed into a middle class suburb between the 1860s and 1890s. Railways linked Brixton with the centre of London when the Chatham Main Line was built through the area by the London, Chatham and Dover Railway in 1862.

Brixton markets began in the 1870s as the area was becoming one of London’s last expanding Victorian middle-class suburbs following the railway station in 1862.

Windrush carried 492 migrants who were coming to a country promising prosperity … Arrivals were temporarily housed near Brixton; the town’s Windrush Square

In 1998, an area of public open space in Brixton was renamed Windrush Square to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the ship bringing the first large group of West Indian migrants to the United Kingdom.