Brixton Riot '81 Size:extra large Old Ford Road

Old Ford Road

Typed on the back is 'SUFFRAGETTES HOOTED IN NEW YORK

to whom this plate is most respectfully inscribed by The Publishers

Victoria Station in the South East and Cadogan Place in the South West

A pump was originally installed here in the 16th century

Brixton Riot '81 Size:extra large Old Ford RoadThis dramatic drawing captures an eyewitness account of the riots in Brixton during the weekend of 11th April 1981. The artist Mike Hawthorne was in Brixton that Saturday night and produced this drawing in 1987 from sketches he made at the time. It shows the violent disorder which resulted from the breakdown in relations between the police and the local community. Hawthorn spent the first nine years of his life in Nigeria and Sierra Leone and since