Alex Pascall, OBE is a British broadcaster, journalist, musician, composer, oral historian and educator. Based in Britain for more than 50 years, he was one of the developers of the Notting Hill Ca...
Person, Community / Clubs, Education, History, Journalism / Publishing, Music / songs, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, TV & Radio, Caribbean Islands
Pioneer participant in the Notting Hill Carnival. Apart from the BBC naming him "Dr. Vijay Ramlal-Rai from Trinidad and Tobago Entertainment" we can discover nothing. Source: BBC.
Since 1976, Bertha Joseph has been one of the pioneers and the secretary of Notting Hill Carnival. Bertha served as a Councillor for Brent Council for 24 years and made history in 1998/99 as the fi...
Person, Community / Clubs, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Caribbean Islands
"Tony Soares has been a leading figure in the Black liberation movement and a key voice in the struggle for housing rights in London through his role in establishing and leading the Ujima Housing A...
Person, Community / Clubs, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Africa
Assistant to Leslie Palmer in the 1970s when the modern Notting Hill Carnival was set up. Source: Caribbean and Co.
Theatre producer, director, writer, and community worker. First Director of the North Kensington Amenity Trust, 1971-6, the forerunner of what is now the Westway Trust. Through his work in the are...
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The Mayor of London's 2004 'Notting Hill Carnival Strategic Review'names him variously as Victor Critchlow(e)/Crichlowe and has "Victor Crichlowe is the Chairman of the Caribbean Music Association...
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"Later, a black leadership of 'Grove' people took over the organising of Notting Hill Carnival amongst whom were Merle Major, Selwyn Baptiste, Pansy Jeffrey, Granville Pryce, and Junior Telfer. In ...
"Everest Telfer Jr - Jay to everyone who knew him - was a stalwart of the arts scene in Trinidad and Tobago, and a loyal patron of the Trinidad and Tobago film festival. ... When in 1965 a local ...
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John Victor Lindsay "Hoppy" Hopkins was a British photographer, journalist, researcher and political activist, and "one of the best-known underground figures of 'Swinging London' " in the late 1960...
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