Electric Avenue

Electric Avenue is a street in Brixton, London built in 1888.

The street originally had cast iron Victorian canopies[5] over the pavement, which were damaged in World War 2 and removed in the 1980s.

[7] On 17 April 1999, the neo-Nazi bomber David Copeland planted a nail bomb outside a supermarket in Brixton Road with the intention of igniting a race war across Britain.

[8] A market trader became suspicious and moved the device to a less crowded area of Electric Avenue, where 39 people were injured in its explosion.

In 2016, Eddy Grant was invited to switch on a new illuminated street sign installed as part of a £1 million refurbishment.