File comprises correspondence, reports and supporting documents relating to issues such as the call for justice for the Broadwater Farm defendants (‘The Tottenham Three’) and call to review the murder of PC Keith Blakelock; police community relations; Bernie Grant’s retirement as Leader of Haringey Council. Includes supporting material such as meeting notes with police representatives, a landmark petition signed by Members of Parliament expressing concern over the convictions of the Tottenham Three, and a report relating to the Tottenham Three entitled ‘Black People, Police and the Media’.
Category Archives: Broadwater Farm Issue Files
BG/P/2/1/2
Maintained in original black binder. Includes the official compilation of submissions of evidence requested by Haringey Council [with Bernie Grant as Council Leader] as part of a major public inquiry into the events surrounding the Broadwater Farm Estate disturbance on 5th, 6th and 7th October 1985. Contains copies of ‘Councillor Bernie Grant’s speech to a special meeting of the Council on Monday 14 October concerning the disturbances at Broadwater Farm on October 6 1985’. The submissions reflect the different services of the Council [includes for example, submissions received by Comprehensive Housing Service; Education Service; Community Affairs; Race Equality Unit; Police Research Unit; Press and Public Relations].
BG/P/2/1/3
File consists of correspondence, press clippings and associated reports relating to the submission of evidence to the Broadwater Farm Inquiry, held at Haringey Council Jan 1988.
BG/P/2/1/4
File contains correspondence and associated material such as a manifesto of a movement for civil rights and justice, compiled by the Broadwater Farm Youth Association, Broadwater Farm Residents Association and the Broadwater Farm Defence Campaign; Haringey Council’s submission of evidence to the reconvened Broadwater Farm Inquiry: Briefing [eg includes PC Keith Blakelock murder trial summary] re Haringey / Brent families launch re the Tottenham Three.
BG/P/2/1/5
File mainly contains minutes and agenda, correspondence, newsletters, press clippings as created by the Broadwater Farm Defence Campaign. Also includes publications relating to the Broadwater Farm trials and facsimile copies of Bernie Grant’s correspondence with Margaret Thatcher concerning Soviet Union President Gorbachev’s discussions with her re ‘the denial of human rights in Britain as a result of racism’.
BG/P/2/1/6
File mostly contains correspondence such as testimonial evidence in support of Winston Silcott and documents efforts aimed at overturning his conviction.