Barrington Adams, aka Daddy Vego - the first Jamaican to set up a static sound system, the Peoples Sound System, at the Notting Hill Carnival.
In 1988 he founded his shop, the People’s Sound Records, at 11 All Saints Road, specialising in Jamaican, reggae, music. His son Dexter took over the management. At the Notting Hill Carnival the Peoples Sound System is located directly outside the shop.
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Daddy Vego
Claimed to be the world's largest blue plaque - and we ain't arguing. Three ...
Founded by William Shipley as the "Society of Arts" in Rawthmell's Coffee House. They carried on meeting in coffee houses and taverns but as the society grew they needed more space. Shipley rented ...
The Doves Press in Hammersmith was founded in 1900 by Thomas Cobden-Sanderson in partnership with Emery Walker and was named after the nearby pub.  Sanderson had already set up The Doves Bindery in...
The Aldersgate printer of John Wesley's Journal. Born Edinburgh.  Also printed the works of Samuel Johnson, David Hume, Adam Smith and Edward Gibbon.
Person, Commerce, Journalism / Publishing, Politics & Administration, Religion, Scotland
Pleasure Gardens and Medicinal Well. Also known as Islington Spa.
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