"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
Selwyn Baptiste was a Trinidad and Tobago-born pioneer of the introduction of the steel drum into Britain, forming the country's second steel band in 1967, and early organizer of London's Notting H...
Person, Community / Clubs, Education, Music / songs, Caribbean Islands
Sterling Betancourt MBE, FRSA is a Trinidad-born pioneer, arranger and musician on the steelpan, a major figure in pioneering the Pan in Europe and the UK and an important pioneer participant in th...
From their website: "Carnival Village Trust is a unique collaboration between its partners whose objects are to develop the arts of Carnival. As London’s development agency for Carnival Arts, we pr...
One of the sponsors of the 2005 Echoes of Spain mural project. "Anthony Perry was ... the first Director of the North Kensington Amenities Trust, established in 1971; this was the forerunner of wh...
Built in 1876 to house the Greenwich Department of Works, West Greenwich House was designed by William Wallen and was officially opened on 25 April 1877. It became the first Greenwich Town Hall in...
Jessica Elleisse Huntley (née Carroll) was an Guyanese-British political reformer and prominent race equality campaigner. She was a publisher of Black and Asian literature, and a women's and commun...
Person, Education, Gender Issues, Journalism / Publishing, Race Issues, South America
Unusually, in this husband and wife team there is more information available about Jessica than about Eric. See Jessica's page for their work together and for a photo of them when younger. This i...
Broadcaster (e.g. with BBC Pause for Thought, 2021). A 2019 Church of Scotland page has photos and "Rev Alan Sorensen of Wellpark Mid Kirk in Greenock". The Wallace plaque mistakenly has 'Sorenson'.
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