Image source: Google Street View
This ghost bike was erected by his work colleagues.
E1, Commercial Road
When we heard about this ghost bike in November 2015 it had already gone but Google Maps history for September 2014 provided this street shot. The close-up picture comes from the East London Advertiser.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Javed Sumbal
Much of the street research for LondonRemembers is done by bike. 820 cyclists...
34 years old, Sumbal worked as a bike courier for Darwin's Deli in Barnardo S...
Both our photos, taken at the protest "die-in" on 9 February organised by Stop Killing Cyclists, are from Roadcc and are by Tom Kearney.
Henry Warwick, a cycle courier was killed near this spot. RIP
Installed on the fifth anniversary of James's death.
3rd April 1965 - 18th September 2006. Loving you always my Love Brixton, Lord. Your BBorisLover
Could "R.C.R.B." be the initials of a former name for the borough: "Royal Chelsea R. . . . Borough" for example? It certainly seems to indicate the organisation responsible for the plaque.
We have assumed that the lost plaque read the same as the one at The Oval.
We thank Matt Brown of Londonist for the photo of the plaque, taken in about 2007. Recently both we and Matt have, separately, failed to ...
