Desmond's Hip City

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

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

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

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

The record shop stood at 55 Atlantic Road in 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.