Carnival Village honours Claudia Jones, 1915 - 1964, publisher, political activist and mother of the Notting Hill Carnival. Organised the first Caribbean Carnival in Britain, 1958.
{Around the edge of the plaque:}
Nubian Jak Community Trust
UK Centre for Carnival Arts (Luton)
London Notting Hill Carnival Ltd
W10, Powis Square, Carnival Village
The plaque is inside this building,in the foyer.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Claudia Jones - Carnival Village
1959, 30 January: a "Caribbean Carnival" was held in St Pancras Town Hall. Â T...
Born Trinidad. Moved to New York where she became a Communist. Caught up in t...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Claudia Jones - Carnival Village
An organisation based in Luton and dedicated to carnival arts.
Sir Donald Sinden, actor, lived here, 1954 - 1997. HGS Residents Association 2015
The quotation is one of several variations on the same theme. Possible originators include Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Abraham Lincol...
English Heritage Sir David Low, 1891 - 1963, cartoonist, lived here at no. 33.
James D. Watson, DNA scientist, lived here, 1983 - 1992. The Heritage Foundation
Historic Site City Pesthouse. Built here in open fields 1593. Used during the Great Plague 1665. Demolished 1736. London Borough of ...
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