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
Blackheath Proprietary School
Established to give its pupils an education similar to that of the public schools. It was so called as it was owned by a group of a hundred share holding proprietors who could send or nominate a pu...
1 memorial
Lieutenant Walter Leonard Elliott
Walter Leonard Elliott was born on 30 November 1891 in Shepherds Bush, London, the second of the four children of Frederick Elliot (1857-1940) and Harriett Elliot née Green (1861-1934). His birth w...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Henrietta Barnett School
The school was founded in 1911 and named for Henrietta Barnett.
1 memorial
Manor House School Stoke Newington
Boarding School. First mentioned in 1813, but probably built some years before that. Its most famous pupil was Edgar Allan Poe, who was educated there from 1817 to 1820.
1 memorial
Charity scholars
Looking at London has a page about these little blue people but even there we can find no origin story explaining why and when the first such statues were erected. We note that there seems to be a ...
23 memorials
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