Desmond's Hip City

It was a hub of Brixton's Black music retail before the sound-system shops that followed.

The shop served the post-Windrush Caribbean community of south London.

Its Atlantic Road model prefigured later Brixton reggae shops like Supertone.

The record shop stood at 55 Atlantic Road in Brixton.

One of London's first Black-owned record shops, importing Jamaican vinyl to Brixton.

Supertone carried on Brixton's Black record-retail lineage after Desmond's Hip City closed.

Brixton's Atlantic Road hosted Desmond's Hip City, a landmark Black-owned record shop.