Frank Rollock
Frank Sylvester Rollock was born and grew up in Trinidad. He followed his brother Roy to England in October 1959 and the next year they were playing the pans in Brixton Carnival. He played a number...
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Myra Josephine Royal
Myra Josephine Royal was born on 20 December 1958 in the Dominican Republic and grew up in Houston, Texas, USA. She was a daughter of Boswell and Eloise Royal. Our Picture Source and the Clipper C...
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Veronica Maudlyn Ryan, OBE.
Veronica Maudlyn Ryan was born on 22 August 1956 in Plymouth, Montserrat, according to the Prabook website. She moved to London with her parents Cyril & Eleanor Ryan when she was an infant and ...
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Clary Salandy
Costume designer. Grew up in Trinidad in the 70s and moved to London aged 15 to study theatre design at college. In the mid 80s was selected to help with costumes for the Notting Hill Carnival Co...
Person, Community / Clubs, Craft / Design, Caribbean Islands
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Abolition of slavery
The British abolition of slavery came in two parts: first the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act became law on 25 March 1807, which left slavery itself still permitted until the Slavery Abolition Act...
Event, Race Issues, Social Welfare, Africa, Australia, Bermuda, Caribbean Islands, Indian Sub-continent, Jamaica, Sri Lanka
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Southern Syncopated Orchestra
Jazz band. Founded by Will Marion Cook, the all-black band included performers from many areas including the U.S.A., the Caribbean and Ghana. They became extremely popularthroughout Europe and per...
2 memorials
James Stephen
Anti-slavery campaigner. Born Dorset. Trained in law and worked for a time in the Carribeanwhere he saw the cruelty to slaves and became an abolitionist. The death of his first wife deepened hi...
Person, Law, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Religion, Caribbean Islands
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Theo Stevens
Pioneer participant in the Notting Hill Carnival. Pan player from Trinidad. 1959 formed a small steel band with Tony Charles, Clifford Adams, Lawrence Stretch Noel and Kenneth White. Taught pan p...
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Junior Telfer
"Everest Telfer Jr - Jay to everyone who knew him - was a stalwart of the arts scene in Trinidad and Tobago, and a loyal patron of the Trinidad and Tobago film festival. ... When in 1965 a local ...
Person, Community / Clubs, Politics & Administration, Caribbean Islands
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Emmanuel 'Eman' Thorpe
Pioneer participant in the Notting Hill Carnival. Eman and Roger Thorpe were members of a steel band with Sterling Betancourt in Trinidad. That's all we could discover. Source: Panpodium.
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