This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Nubian Jak Community Trust
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African and Caribbean Armed Forces
Unveiled on Windrush Day. A very simple design, we think the horizontal obeli...
African National Congress
London Borough of Islington London headquarters of the African National Cong...
Amy Garvey
Amy lived here for 26 years. Unveiled by Jamaica's High Commissioner to the ...
Arthur Stanley Wint
Arthur Stanley Wint 1920 - 1992, RAF pilot,doctor & diplomat, gold medal ...
Bernie Grant
Bernie Grant 1944 - 2000, trade unionist, council leader, member of parliamen...
Other Subjects
Rhaune Laslett-O'Brien
Lived most of her life in and around West London. After WW2 the housing conditions, the poverty and the racial mix in Notting Hill brought out her skills as a community champion. In 1965 she intr...
Person, Community / Clubs, Race Issues, Social Welfare, Tourism / Traditions
John Blanke
Trumpeter in the courts of Henry VII and Henry VIII. He probably came to England as one of the African attendants of Catherine of Aragon in 1501, and is one of the earliest recorded black people in...
John Williams
"Martyred" missionary. Born Tottenham. Trained as a foundry worker and mechanic. In 1817 the London Missionary Society sent him and his wife to the Pacific Islands where they took the good word to ...
Priscilla Wakefield
Born Priscilla Bell in Tottenham. Quaker philanthropist and author of feminist economics, scientific subjects, travel, children's non-fiction. Best known book was 'The Juvenile Travellers' which ha...
Person, Children, Gender Issues, Race Issues, Social Welfare
Notting Hill Carnival
It seems that the roots of the Notting Hill Carnival are in dispute since both Claudia Jones and Rhaune Laslett-O'Brien have a claim to be the originator. Claudia organised the first indoor event a...
Event, Community / Clubs, Race Issues, Tourism / Traditions, Caribbean Islands
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