Pioneer participant in the Notting Hill Carnival. At the British Association of Steelbands (BAS) 7th Annual Awards, in 2005, Tony 'Cowboy' Charles was presented with the award for 'contribution to the promotion of steel pan music, art, culture and heritage'. And in 2013 he was presented with: 'BAS 2013 Hall of Fame Lifetime Achievement Award'.
Aged 10 he started playing the steelpan in 1948 in Trinidad. Came to the UK in 1959. Founder member of the UK Pan Tuners Guild.
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Tony 'Cowboy' Charles
Claimed to be the world's largest blue plaque - and we ain't arguing. Three ...
Thompson James Filmer is the 1st on the left of the seven boys sitting in the photograph of the scout troop. He was born on 28 January 1900, the eighth of the eleven children of John Apps Budds Fi...
A pan player at the Notting Hill Carnival starting in the 1960s. Sources: Pan Podium, Pan Podium 3
In 1887 Bostall Farm was bought by the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society and run to provide vegetables for the Co-op shops and food for the Society’s horses and pigs. By 1899 it had been decided t...
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