Poet, writer, teacher, playwright. She was born as Cecile Elise Doreen Burgan on 1 June 1919 in Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana). She Wrote music and poetry from an early age and In 1942 married Romeo Nobrega. Trained as a teacher and migrated to the UK in 1969. She lived in Stockwell from about 1980 and electoral registers for 2003-2008 show her listed at Flat 23, Lee Samuel House, 10 Nealden Street, London, SW9 9QX. She died, aged 94 years, on 19 November 2013.
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Cecile Nobrega
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Bronze Woman
This was the first statue of a black woman to be on permanent display anywher...
Other Subjects
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Red House - John Lyon School
Bought by the school in 1956, its opening in 2013 was probably following a major refurbishment of some kind. At Lyonian Association we learnt: "The Red House Memorial Garden contains several trees...
1 memorial
2 memorials
Robert Raikes
Promoter of the Sunday School movement. Born and died Gloucester.
1 memorial
Inner London Education Authority
When LCC was replaced with the GLCÂ the body responsible for education became ILEA. Â Disliked by Thatcher, ILEA survived a number of attempts to abolish it but succumbed in 1990. Â Thereafter the loc...
1 memorial

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