Erection date: 17/11/2011
This building was the headquarters of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) from 1935 - 1940. The UNIA is an international Pan African movement founded by Marcus Mosiah Garvey.
Narrative Eye
UNIA
W14, Beaumont Crescent, 2
Garvey's office was in this building. The plaques are either side of the entrance.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Universal Negro Improvement Association
Founded by Marcus Garvey in Jamaica. It campaigned against lynching, denial o...
Pan-African nationalist leader. Born Marcus Mosiah Garvey in St Ann's Bay, Ja...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Universal Negro Improvement Association
A very elusive organisation as all we can find about them is that they are co...
Founded by Marcus Garvey in Jamaica. It campaigned against lynching, denial o...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Universal Negro Improvement Association
The plaque is very badly eroded and partly illegible, maybe the result of hav...
Rosslyn Gardens, the red-brick mansions on the northern side of this road (now nos. 4-26 Belsize Lane) was built about 1881.
Greater London Council Mary Seacole, 1805 - 1881, Jamaican nurse, heroine of the Crimean War, lived here.
These 6 plaques are on the east elevation of the building, below the ground floor windows. We have numbered the plaques left to right. F...
The four plaques are located as follows: To the left of the entrance - 1937 foundation,To the right of the entrance - opened 1940 (can be...
Dedicated to Sir Reginald Rowe, 1868 - 1945. Octavia Hill and Rowe Housing Trust 1987
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