Much of the street research for LondonRemembers is done by bike. 820 cyclists were killed or seriously injured in 2009 on roads in Britain. Many of these deaths are avoidable. Many of the drivers of the motor vehicles involved received minimal, if any, legal penalty.
2012 documentary (12 mins).
This page, 'cyclist deaths', links together all the memorials that we have found for cyclists killed on London roads - too many.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Cyclist deaths
Aged 62 Holt had worked as a porter at Mile End Hospital for 40 years. He had been commuting by bike the short journey of about a mile from his Stepney for just over a year in order to get fit. Th...
For more information about this hero click on the picture of his plaque.
United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. Christopher Hugh Forsythe was born on 19 October 1956 in Lambeth, the son of Hugh Forsythe and Catherine F...
Junior 6th Engineer on the RMS Titanic. A full résumé of his life can be found on the Encyclopedia Titanica website. He is also commemorated on the Engineers Memorial, Andrews East Park, Above Bar...
United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. He was born as Gavin A. V. Eales-White on 15 November 1953 in Nottinghamshire, the third son of the Revere...
Political reformer. Born Drury Lane, into a working family. He became involved in a strike and then in the campaign for suffrage, and then in other social and political reforms. Died Hammersmith.
Painter and sculptor especially of animals. Born 88 Queen Anne Street East, Marylebone. Died at home, 18 St John's Wood Road.
