Fenner Brockway - President of Liberation
The inscription on the statue goes on...
"Born 1, November 1888
Died 28, April 1988
Erected by the GLC
In honour of his
Untiring efforts
For peace and
Racial Equality
25, July 1985"
I worked in Red Lion Square (where this status is erected) from late 1985 until shortly after a tree knocked his arm off during the "Great Storm of 1987". Glad to see his arm had been restored by the time I got back to London some years later.
This gent is a sterling example of a life lived with dogged conviction which included imprisonment in the Tower of London for treason during WWI and founding The World Disarmament Campaign in the late 1970s (and so much more before, in between and following).
Worth a quick read on Wikipedia if you've got time.
Fenner Brockway - President of Liberation
The inscription on the statue goes on...
"Born 1, November 1888
Died 28, April 1988
Erected by the GLC
In honour of his
Untiring efforts
For peace and
Racial Equality
25, July 1985"
I worked in Red Lion Square (where this status is erected) from late 1985 until shortly after a tree knocked his arm off during the "Great Storm of 1987". Glad to see his arm had been restored by the time I got back to London some years later.
This gent is a sterling example of a life lived with dogged conviction which included imprisonment in the Tower of London for treason during WWI and founding The World Disarmament Campaign in the late 1970s (and so much more before, in between and following).
Worth a quick read on Wikipedia if you've got time.