Trinidadian-British actress, singer, presenter, author and politician. Known as presenter of children's programmes such as Play School, Play Away, Jamboree and Fast Forward. On 28 June 2010, Lady Benjamin was introduced to the House of Lords as a life peer nominated by the Liberal Democrats. In 2024, she was honoured with the BAFTA Fellowship award for her services to television. Chair of the Windrush Commemoration Committee. Married Keith Taylor in 1980.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Baroness Floella Benjamin, DBE, DL
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National Windrush monument
Unveiled on Windrush day in 2022. The full poem is available at Laura Serrant.
Other Subjects
St Pancras
Christian orphan beheaded aged 14. Patron Saint of children, cramps, headaches, oaths, treaties, against false witness and against perjury.
2 memorials
Grace Lyle
Killed in the WW2 Balham station bombing whilst using the deep level platforms as a bomb shelter. Aged 14.
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
Central Foundation Girls School
Moved from Spital Square in 1975 to the building in Bow Road.  Spitalfields Life reports on a 2013 school reunion at the old building, which is now Galvin Restaurant - old photos and reminiscences.
1 memorial
Private R. C. Cooper
9473, Norfolk Regiment. Age 16. Death divides but memory clings.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Landsbergs boy scouts
"Toynbee Hall (Routledge Revivals): The First Hundred Years" 1984, Asa Briggs and Anne Macartney provides: "Already in the 1890s, there had been increasing interest in what would now be called yout...
1 memorial
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