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...
Dr A Gordon Signy, 1905 - 1972, pioneering pathologist & international fencer, lived here 1955 - 1972. London Borough of Islington Is...
An unusually decorative and high quality plaque for such a mundane event. We don't know whether it refers to a restoration of just the me...
The 'lamp of maintenance' above the bust is the symbol used by Toc H. This whole memorial is unusual and looks rather odd on this buildin...
The plaque is a one-off in a delicate serif typeface. The off-set string course suggests that the plaque was designed into the building. ...
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