Showing posts with label Brixton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brixton. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Sam The Wheels
Pentecostal minister Clovis Salmon, known in Brixton as "Sam The Wheels" due to his bike wheel-making skills, came to Britain from Jamaica in the 1950s. From the 1960s to the 1980s he used his Super-8 camera to film Brixton daily life and church scenes, including the aftermath of the 1981 riots.
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