"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 tremendous pressure from the authorities and the media who were calling for it to be either shut down or restricted to an indoor venue or a park." She stepped down the following year. From Trinidad.
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Merle Major
Claimed to be the world's largest blue plaque - and we ain't arguing. Three ...
Group that works with local councils, residents, other amenity groups, traders, the police, the Boundary Commission, English Heritage, the Blackheath Joint Working Party and everyone else who can i...
Laid out on the site of the house and grounds of Caroline Mount, it was opened as a sister site to the already established Abney Park Cemetery in Stoke Newington (see Abney House and Park). Among ...
From their website: "The FBU is one of the UK’s oldest specialist trade unions, with a proud history. Since 1918 the union has supported firefighters, influenced fire safety policy and won improved...
Founder of the Young Men's Christian Association. Born Somerset. Died in a hotel in Torquay.
A club for Dutchmen who had escaped their occupied country to join the Allied Forces. Â The Dutch Wikipedia has some information. Â The day of opening may be 2 rather than 6 (sources vary). Â The lite...
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