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UK Centre for Carnival Arts

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UK Centre for Carnival Arts

An organisation based in Luton and dedicated to carnival arts.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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UK Centre for Carnival Arts

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Claudia Jones - Carnival Village

Carnival Village honours Claudia Jones, 1915 - 1964, publisher, political act...

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Leslie Palmer

Leslie Palmer, 1943, pioneered the template for the modern Notting Hill Carni...

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Russell Henderson

A 'pan artist' plays the traditional West Indian steel drums.

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Wilfred Walker

Wilfred Walker

Pioneering music promoter. "Wilfred Walker OBE ... led the Notting Hill Carnival between 1973-1975 ... Walker ran three stages which, according to him, gave early platforms to a number of bands suc...

Person, Community / Clubs, Music / songs, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Baker Street Irregulars

Baker Street Irregulars

The Baker Street Irregulars is a literary society dedicated to the study of Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Victorian world.  It is the oldest existing Sherlockian soci...

Group, Community / Clubs, History, Literature

2 memorials
Woodford Green Men's Club

Woodford Green Men's Club

Either the club or its Harrier section was established in 1904.  Its origins are back in the 1880s when it was part of the sports section of the Woodford Green Working Mens' Institute.  More inform...

Group, Community / Clubs, Gender Issues

1 memorial
Theo Stevens

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...

Person, Community / Clubs, Music / songs, Caribbean Islands

1 memorial
Islington Art Society

Islington Art Society

Formed as the Islington Art Circle in 1941 by A. E. Hickman-Smith and on his death in 1965 run by George and Deborah Bunting until their deaths in 2000.  Changed its name in 2002 to Islington Art S...

Group, Art, Community / Clubs

1 memorial