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...
Lionel Tertis, 1876 - 1975, viola soloist, lived in a flat here 1961 - 1975. English Heritage
London County Council Coventry Patmore, 1823 - 1896, poet and essayist, lived here, 1863 - 1864.
We were unfamiliar with the word 'sepulture'. In this context it means the ritual placing of a corpse into a grave, or, more simply, burial.
This plaque was brought to our attention by Londonist, of course. Why the plaque is on this particular house remains a mystery. It's been...
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