Death of Keith Blakelock nearby British Legion hall joined in by closed-circuit television. A public-address system was installed to allow 500 people standing outside the church to hear the service. A memorial for Blakelock, commissioned by the Police Memorial Trust, stands by the roundabout at Muswell Hill, north London, where he was a homebeat officer. A plaque on the estate's Broadwater Farm Garden, opened in July 1988, is "dedicated to those who died and suffered on 5th and 6th October 1985"; the deaths on 5 and 6 October were Cynthia Jarrett and Keith Blakelock. PC Dick Coombes, badly injured during the attack, went back
Broadwater Farm where a gas explosion in 1968 caused progressive collapse, killing four people. Broadwater Farm was built using the same Taylor Woodrow-Anglian system of panels as Ronan Point. The domino-like system of large structural slabs speeded the building and allowed cheaper, less expert labour to be used to assemble the prefabricated panels. Even so, construction standards were ignored; mortar joints stuffed with newspaper reduced drying time and weakened the buildings. The blocks were inspected for safety in 1985 about the same time that gas was installed. Gaps, wide enough to see the flat below, were found between the external wall panels