The 1981 Brixton riot, the most serious riot of the 20th century in the United Kingdom, started here. The George public house was burnt down and a number of other buildings were damaged, and the area became known as the "Front Line". The George was replaced with a Caribbean bar called Mingles in 1981, which lasted in one form or another (later called Harmony) as a late night mostly Caribbean-British attended club/bar until the 2000s. Despite its reputation as run-down, violent and racially tense – a "no-go" area – it was in fact an important hotbed of Afro-Caribbean culture and radical political activity and working-class community. Much of this radical recent past has since been erased in the ongoing process of gentrification that is affecting much of the Brixton area.