Active in the queer arts community, once photographed by Karl Lagerfeld for Vogue. Brixton was aged 41 when, cycling to work, a lorry crashed into her and she and died at the scene.
According to the the Internet Movie Database she was born as Elizabeth Fisher (although they refer to her as a 'he') and the Open Media Database states she was born in Ashburton, New Zealand.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Brixton Brady
3rd April 1965 - 18th September 2006. Loving you always my Love Brixton, Lord...
A web manager and trade union representative at London Metropolitan University, Unison have a memorial page for him. Killed in a all too familiar 'left-hook' collision, unseen by a lorry turning l...
Retired GP killed by a lorry while cycling, at 9.40am on a Monday. The driver stopped but was not arrested. Dr Richards lived in Whetstone, had worked as a GP at the Hornsey Rise Health Centre ...
Born in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India, Cheistha Kochhar was a PhD student at the London School of Economics. She had already worked in a range of roles including business start-ups and with variou...
Illustrator and designer, aged 25, killed cycling on Oxford Street when run over by a bus. The driver, Carlton Lewars, was charged with dangerous driving but was, as so often happens, acquitted. ...
Killed by a Greggs delivery vehicle at about 21.20 on a Friday evening, aged 26. The lorry was turning left into Bloomsbury Square (some yards west of the site of the ghost bike). Came here fro...
In 1672 the Duke of Buckingham sold his land north-east of where Charing Cross Station now stands, for development. It was common to name...
Cartoonist. WW1 artist. Born Muree, India. He was serving on the western front at the time of the Christmas Truce of 1914 and drew and wrote about it. An article in the Malvern Gazette 21/9/11, pro...
Person, Art, Literature, France, India
The plaques are just inside the entrance to the building. Although the foundation stone was laid in 1913, WW1 got in the way, and the bu...
"Kingschoole" refers to the passage of the Tyburn river through the grounds of Westminster School. 'Sluice' refers to an artificial water channel controlled at its head by a gate. And there is in...
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