Alfred Fagon

[4][2] In 1955 he migrated to England, and worked for British Rail in Nottingham, before in 1958 joining the Royal Corps of Signals, where he became Middleweight Boxing Champion in 1962, leaving the army the following year.

[4][2] He subsequently lived in Bristol, where he began working as an actor, his first stage appearance being at the Bristol Arts Centre, in the Henry Livings play The Little Mrs Foster Show, and in 1970 he starred in Mustapha Matura's play Black Pieces at the ICA in London.

[1][2] Fagon went on to write and produce plays, including 11 Josephine House, Death of a Blackman and Four Hundred Pounds,and took on many more acting roles, in television, film and radio, as well as in theatre.

The bronze bust was sculpted by David G Mutasa and commissioned by the Friends of Fagon committee, chaired by Paul Stephenson, on the first anniversary of his death in 1987.

[6] On 11 June 2020, during a period of protests by the Black Lives Matter movement, people reported to the local police that the bust was apparently coated with an unknown substance.