bonmarche April 20, 2008
Behind this imposing edifice in Brixton in the UK, lurked one of the most frequented traveller sites in London. An abandoned bombsite, a piece of rough open ground nestling between the surrounding buildings, for many years, travellers accessed the bustling shops and markets of Brixton through the ground floor of the Bon Marche Department store.
Through the 50s, travellers came and went, until one day the council decided to fence it off. We never knew why, but it was generaly believed that a commercial (non traveller truck) left there when the site was empty, was vandalised, causing injury to a local child.
