Electric Avenue in London
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Electric Avenue is a street in
Brixton ,
London built in 1888. It was the first market street to be lit by electric lights. Today, Electric Avenue contains national retail chains (
Boots ,
Greggs , and
Iceland ), as well as various local food and housewares retailers. It also hosts a part of
Brixton Market , which specialises in selling African, Caribbean, South American, and South Asian products. It is located just around the corner from
Brixton Underground station (1972). The street originally had
cast iron Victorian canopies over the pavement, which were damaged in World War II and removed in the 1980s.
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The road is referenced in
Eddy Grant ‘s 1983 single
Electric Avenue , which reached No. 2 on both the UK and US singles charts. The song itself was inspired by the
1981 Brixton riot .
In 2016, Eddy Grant was invited to switch on a new illuminated street sign installed as part of a £1 million refurbishment. Afterwards, Grant was given one of the previous signs as a keepsake.
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