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... back when the Green Man pub was still going and the centre of many shady operations. Didn't miss the Green Man when it shut but all those others - the Warrior, Mucky Duck, Enterprise etc.
One time, a couple of years after I'd moved from central Brixton to here, a couple of guys walked into the Control Tower, pointed guns at the owner and asked for his jewelry. One of the customers tried to stop them, they shot him down and ran off. Poor sod bled to death in the street.
The Minet Estate is a rather safer place to walk through these days than it was then. Still, back then I walked through it every day.