Steve Biko Court
This estate is named in commemoration of Steve Biko, a leading figure in the Black Consciousness Movement of Azania (South Africa) who died in police custody on the 12th September 1977 following his arrest for his activities in resisting the oppressive system of apartheid.
W10, Ladbroke Grove, Steve Biko Court
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Steve Biko
Organisation that was the external arm of the Black Consciousness Movement (B...
Anti-apartheid activist. Born Stephen Bantu Biko in Ginsberg Township, in wha...
Oranjehaven This building served as a club endowed in 1942 by Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands for Dutchmen having escaped...
From the Scott Bader website: "Marble, granite or stone can be produced using specially developed Crystic resins and gelcoats in combinat...
Conductor Laureate, Hallé Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli, C. H., 1899 - 1970, was born here.
At the unveiling musketeers from the Rainsborough Regiment of the Sealed Knot fired a volley to mark the occasion.
English Heritage Harold Nicolson, 1886-1968, Vita Sackville-West, 1892-1962, writers and gardeners lived here.
This dark plaque, only about 3 inches square, is attached to a wooden lifebelt holder which in turn is attached to the base of one of the...
Member of the Building Committee to build the 1909 Bethnal Green Town Hall. He is possibly the Lance Corporal T. F. Salmon, 2nd Battalion, Royal West Surrey Regiment (Southwark Bridge Road, London...
Here and in neighbouring houses during the first half of the 20th century there lived several members of the Bloomsbury Group, including ...
Molecular biologist, geneticist and zoologist. Born Chicago as James Dewey Watson. 1962 awarded a Nobel Prize with Crick and Wilkins, for their work on the theory of a double-helix structure for DNA.
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