Category Archives: Broadwater Farm Issue Files

BG/P/2/4/2

Also contains correspondence such as letters documenting the re-establishment of the Broadwater Farm Panel and local efforts to improve the farm. Relates to subjects such as employment, housing, inner cities, urban regeneration, Tottenham, Black peoples and Ethnic minorities.

BG/P/2/3/1

File includes court transcripts, press clipping, legal correspondence and a report outlining the history of Winston Silcott’s case [eg synopsis, Winston’s story, conviction record at time of arrest, copy of police statement on which he was convicted, article by Geoffrey Bindman “How justice failed Winston Silcott”, Guardian letters summarizing the parallels with the Guildford Four case].

BG/P/2/3/2

File contains correspondence and supporting material such as a poster created as part of the Broadwater Farm ‘Appeal for Witnesses’ [Jan 1993], and Runnymede Trust article concerning Winston Silcott, the media and the police [the Runnymede Bulletin, dated July / August 1994]. Correspondence includes a personal letter from a prison inmate attesting to Winston Silcott’s innocence.

BG/P/2/3/4

Note that this file contains language that is by its nature offensive to Black and other minority ethnic groups. Includes public letters (mainly hate mail) received in response to Bernie Grant’s campaign to free Winston Silcott.

BG/P/2/2/3

File comprises key correspondence concerning the Tottenham Three campaign with chief correspondents such as the Home Office, Crown Prosecutions Service, and the Broadwater Farm Defence Campaign. Includes associated reports and press releases relating to the Families Campaign for Justice for the Tottenham Three, the campaign support enlisted from various MP’s, organisations and individuals [eg Reverend Jesse Jackson].