Campaigners look to Historic England to save Black British site Bridge Park in London

Lawrence Fearon, one of the centre’s founders, and Rebecca Markus, of the Save Bridge Park campaign. Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian

The future of London’s Bridge Park complex, a prominent location for Britain’s Windrush generation, hangs in the balance as campaigners hope Historic England will save it from councillors’ decision to close it within weeks.

Bridge Park community leisure centre in Stonebridge, north-west London, was Europe’s largest Black-led community enterprise when it opened in the 1980s and is cherished for its part in Black British history.