Communist revolutionary and founder of modern Vietnam. Left Vietnam in 1911 and worked on ships as a kitchen helper. In New York he was a baker at the Parker House Hotel. In 1913 he arrived in London and in 1914 worked in the kitchens at the Drayton Court Hotel in The Avenue, West Ealing. He also trained to be a pastry chef under Escoffier at the Carlton, where Mae West remembered meeting him. You couldn't make it up.
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Ho Chi Minh
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Ho Chi Minh
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Gyorgy Krasso
Hungarian patriot. New York Times obituary. Krasso's widow, Agnes Hay, has kindly allowed us to use this photograph.
1 memorial
General Pasquale Paoli
Fought to free Corsica from France. Born Corsica. Exiled in London 1770 - 1780 and again 1795 until his death in London. At the Burdett-Coutts memorial, where his name is given as "Paschalis de Pao...
2 memorials
Thomas Flamank
Lawyer, born in Bodmin, Cornwall. In 1497, King Henry VII needed to raise money for a war against Scotland, and imposed a country-wide tax. Cornishmen couldn't see that the war was anything to do w...
1 memorial
George Padmore
International activist and renowned pan Africanist (favouring the unification of Africa). Born Malcolm Ivan Meredith Nurse in Trinidad. Travelled a lot. but settled in London in 1935. Worked as ...
Person, Nationalism, Politics & Administration, Africa, Caribbean Islands, Ghana
1 memorial
Austrian Centre
A social, cultural and political hub for Austrian exiles from the Nazis. The Centre housed a library, restaurant, theatre, political cabaret, concert venue and functioned as a publisher. It also of...
1 memorial