Help. Serial Killers. - Your online guide to free events in London. The London haunts of VI Lenin. Lenin's memorial in Islington attracted both pilgrims and antipathists One hundred and forty years since the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Darina Kucheruk of BBCRussian.com retraces the revolutionary's steps through London. Few people know that a housing project named after Lenin was commissioned in London in the early 1940s. Designed by a Russian emigre architect, Berthold Lubetkin, who is now considered one of the giants of constructivism, it was to be called Lenin Court. But by the early 1950s, when the project was completed, the Cold War was in full flow. As a result, the building was renamed Bevin Court, honouring Britain's firmly anti-communist Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin.
"I still write my address as Lenin Court instead of Bevin Court. Letters are delivered anyway because of the postcode," says local resident Craig Ford. The memorial, also designed by Lubetkin, marked the site of Lenin's lodgings at Holford Square and was erected in 1942. Capitalists buried Historic meeting. Windows - Lifehacker. Ask MetaFilter | Community Weblog.