Stockwell Skatepark
Stockwell Skatepark, also known as "Brixton Bowls" or "Brixton Beach", is a concrete skatepark situated on the corner of Stockwell Park Walk and Stockwell Road in the borough of Lambeth in South London. Construction of the park was funded by the Lambeth Borough Council in 1978 and it has been used since then by skateboarders, BMXers, rollerskaters, and assorted other self-propelled wheeled vehicle practitioners. The park is unsupervised and free to use at all hours, and has remained consistently popular throughout its life, both with locals and with visitors from all over the world. History Prior to the park's construction, the site was home to Brixton Tabernacle Baptist Church, which has since been relocated to a new brick building nearby on Stockwell Road, opposite Brixton Academy. The park was built in 1978 by skatepark builder Lorne Edwards. From its inception through to the mid-1990s, the park remained untouched. In the late-90s, the council overlaid the original by then very rough grey surface with a smoother red skin of concrete. In September 2005 that overlay was seriously deteriorated and the park was resurfaced again in grey concrete, this time removing that red surface first. This new surface soon cracked though, and