History
Coldharbour Lane was formerly known as Camberwell Lane.
Former British Prime Minister John Major lived in a flat in Coldharbour Lane when a child in the mid 1950s.
In 1981 the Brixton riots occurred in roads near Coldharbour Lane and some windows were broken on the street itself. With the support of community leaders and shop owners, there are plans to set up a mini-police station on Coldharbour Lane in the former premises of a drug dealer.
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