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Ashton 'Tiger' Moore

Ashton 'Tiger' Moore

Mi­grat­ed to Lon­don in 1971 where he formed the Ca­lyp­so Youth Ex­change Pro­gramme, or­gan­is­ing work­shops with chil­dren all over the UK and fa­cil­i­tat­ing vis­its to Lon­don by win­ners o...

Person, Community / Clubs, Music / songs, Race Issues, Caribbean Islands

1 memorial
Tom Moore

Tom Moore

Iris poet, singer and songwriter. Born Thomas Moore at 12 Aungier Street, Dublin. He came to London to study law at the Middle Temple and befriended many prominent people. In 1803, he was appointed...

Person, Music / songs, Poetry, Caribbean Islands, Ireland, USA

2 memorials
Olive Morris

Olive Morris

Activist and community leader. Born in St Catherine, Jamaica, and moved to Britain at the age of nine. She was a founding member of the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent (OWAAD) in...

Person, Gender Issues, Race Issues, Social Welfare, Caribbean Islands

2 memorials
Commonwealth and African NHS staff

Commonwealth and African NHS staff

Around 40,000 nurses and midwives from around the Commonwealth, notably Africa and the Caribbean, came to the UK from its inception in 1948 to the mid-70’s to work in the fledgling NHS, which was f...

Group, Medicine, Africa, Caribbean Islands

1 memorial
Lawrence Noel

Lawrence Noel

Lawrence Noel is credited with bringing the first costumes to the Notting Hill Carnival, in 1973. Grew up in Trinidad.  Lawrence, his wife Joan, and the family continued to make mas (masquerade) co...

Person, Community / Clubs, Craft / Design, Caribbean Islands

1 memorial
Notting Hill Carnival

Notting Hill Carnival

1959, 30 January: a "Caribbean Carnival" was held in St Pancras Town Hall.  This annual event was organised by Claudia Jones and directed by Edric Connor (husband of Pearl Connor). It featured caly...

Event, Community / Clubs, Race Issues, Tourism / Traditions, Caribbean Islands

7 memorials
George Padmore

George Padmore

International activist and renowned pan Africanist (favouring the unification of Africa).  Born Malcolm Ivan Meredith Nurse in Trinidad.  Travelled a lot. but settled in London in 1935.  Worked as ...

Person, Nationalism, Politics & Administration, Africa, Caribbean Islands, Ghana

1 memorial
Leslie Palmer

Leslie Palmer

From Trinidad. Director of the Notting Hill Carnival 1973-1975. He found sponsorship, recruited more steel bands and reggae groups and introduced static sound systems, live music stages and  genera...

Person, Community / Clubs, Politics & Administration, Caribbean Islands

2 memorials
Alex Pascal

Alex Pascal

Alex Pascall, OBE is a British broadcaster, journalist, musician, composer, oral historian and educator. Based in Britain for more than 50 years, he was one of the developers of the Notting Hill Ca...

Person, Community / Clubs, Education, History, Journalism / Publishing, Music / songs, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, TV & Radio, Caribbean Islands

1 memorial
Clive 'Mash up' Phillips

Clive 'Mash up' Phillips

Grew up in Trinidad so has been involved with Carnival from the age of 6 or 7. Came to London in 1961 and lived in the Ladbroke Grove area, moving into All Saint’s Road in 1980, opposite the Mangro...

Person, Community / Clubs, Music / songs, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Caribbean Islands

1 memorial
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