Carnival costume designer/maker. My name is Dexter Khan, I am from an organisation with the Carnival band called Cocoyea London. We’re now in our 40th year in bringing costumes to Notting Hill Car...
Person, Community / Clubs, Craft / Design, Caribbean Islands
Born at the Whittington Hospital to Jamaican parents and and grew up in Twyford House on the Blackstock council estate. Best known for her novels 'Small Island' and 'The Long Song'. She wrote from ...
"Merle Major is credited with saving {the Notting Hill} Carnival in 1972. ... She was a local woman who stepped up to the task of leading the event when it was facing financial ruin, and was under ...
Person, Community / Clubs, Politics & Administration, Caribbean Islands
Plasterer killed in the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster, aged 39. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out further research: Delroy Oliver Manning was born on 14 January 1960 in Jamaica, West Indies. In M...
United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. Firefighter Keithroy Marcellus Maynard was born on 22 January 1971 in Montserrat, a UK Dependency in The C...
Bernice McNaughton MBE JP moved from Trinidad to London in 1961. Born in Trinidad. 1961 she came to London, Shepherd's Bush initially, and worked for nine years with the Foreign Languages Division...
Person, Community / Clubs, Craft / Design, Music / songs, Caribbean Islands
Merchant. Born in Dumfries. He grew up on his family's sugar plantation in Jamaica, and moved to London in 1779. He headed a group of powerful businessmen, who planned and built the West India Dock...
Trinidadian carnival artist. Born Guyana and grew up in Trinidad. Made his first costume aged 13. Came to London to train in theatre design at the Central School of Art and Design. One of the first...
Person, Art, Community / Clubs, Craft / Design, Dance, Caribbean Islands, South America
Singer. Born in Jamaica, her family emigrated to London in 1963. Known as Liz Mitchell, she joined the cast of the musical 'Hair' and eventually moved to Berlin to join the German production, where...
Horse racing tipster. Â Born as Peter Carl Mackay in what are now the US Virgin Isles, into a horse-breeding family, though his story was that he came from Africa, via an interesting narrative inclu...
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