Lest we forget.

[FiF]

Rest easy big fella.

PC Keith Blakelock QGM

This day 1985.

[Turbobanana]

RIP indeed.

A bit close to home for me: my dad was a serving officer in North Wales Police at the time. He and several others were drafted in to support their Metropolitan colleagues, although he never found himself posted on Broadwater Farm, mercifully, and was only there for a few days.

[bnseven]

RIP PC Blakelock

I was 19 when this happened, shocking at the time and not diminished by the passage of time

Cant believe it was 37 years ago

[McGee_22]

Shocking and terrifying death - RIP PC Blakelock.

[Waynester]

37 years ago already..it was shocking indeed. I remember talking as a class about PC Blakelock and other officers who had lost their lives during my own Police training at Ashford PTC back in ‘97..

Appreciate the reminder, RIP PC Blakelock

[anonymous-user]

I'm ashamed to say, that I've not heard of PC Blakelock before. Just read the wikipedia page. What a harrowing ordeal that must have been for all concerned

[R56Cooper]

Turbobanana said:

RIP indeed.

A bit close to home for me: my dad was a serving officer in North Wales Police at the time. He and several others were drafted in to support their Metropolitan colleagues, although he never found himself posted on Broadwater Farm, mercifully, and was only there for a few days.

Same feelings here. My old man was also North Wales and on the PSU at the time. He wasn't sent there but did various other big riots in the 80s and had his fair share of narrow escapes. But for the grace of God and all that.

The image of PC Blakelock's overalls sends shivers down my spine.

[Greenmantle]

summer / autumn 1985
Broadwater Farm, Handsworth & others.
The year I left home for Uni.

[Trevatanus]

Remember it well, that and Yvonne Fletcher.

[and31]

I worked on broadwater farm for a couple of days,what a st hole.I wouldn’t fancy going there after dark.
The memorial to pc blakelock is not where he fell as it would be vandalised-it’s at the top of Muswell Hill by the roundabout.