Carnival designer. Arrived from Trinidad in 1970. "Lincoln Rahamut is often described as the best carnival artistic director in Europe. As the former Artistic director of Masquerade 2000, Lincoln’...
Person, Community / Clubs, Craft / Design, Caribbean Islands
A three-storey brick Victorian pub.  In the 1950s it was used as a jazz club and by February 1964 an R&B club (the Bluesday) was operating, where played: Long John Baldry, the Bo Street Runners...
Club for the American forces in the UK during WW2. Also known as the American Red Cross Club. This is where those "oversexed, overpaid and over here" GIs hung out. From British History online: The...
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.
Braxton's Coffee House (1702) at no.24 Henrietta Street became Rawthmell's Coffee House in 1715 and later moved to no.25, where the (R)SA first met. The image shows the painting by Anna Katrina Zi...
Part of Octavia Hill's pioneering social housing scheme. It consists of two rows of cottages and a community hall, designed by Elijah Hoole. It was created to provide 'An open air sitting room for ...
Closed Pubs has a good picture of the current building and gives: "The Red Lion was situated at 34 Kilburn High Road. This pub was known as The Westbury at time of closure in 2012. Rebuilt in the l...
The twelfth borough of Berlin. It encompasses the northwest area of the city,
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