Erection date: 17/11/2011
This building was the headquarters of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) from 1935 - 1940. The UNIA is an international Pan African movement founded by Marcus Mosiah Garvey.
Narrative Eye
UNIA
W14, Beaumont Crescent, 2
Garvey's office was in this building. The plaques are either side of the entrance.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Universal Negro Improvement Association
Founded by Marcus Garvey in Jamaica. It campaigned against lynching, denial o...
Pan-African nationalist leader. Born Marcus Mosiah Garvey in St Ann's Bay, Ja...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Universal Negro Improvement Association
A very elusive organisation as all we can find about them is that they are co...
Founded by Marcus Garvey in Jamaica. It campaigned against lynching, denial o...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Universal Negro Improvement Association
The plaque is very badly eroded and partly illegible, maybe the result of hav...
Howard Staunton, 1810 - 1874, British World Chess Champion, lived here, 1871 - 1874. English Heritage
Greater London Council Sir Jeffry Wyatville, 1766 - 1840, architect, lived and died here.
The nearby Tufnell Park Playing Fields are also Fields in Trust and used to have their own plaque. But, a local resident informs us, this...
2016: We've replaced our 2012 dull and cold-looking photos with those our colleague, Alan Patient, took on his sunny visit. In the 19th ...
This group of plaques is in the ground floor seating area.
Son of Napoleon III. Born Napoléon Eugène Louis Jean Joseph Bonaparte in the Palace of the Tuileries, Paris. He fought in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870 - 71 with his father, and was then sent to ...
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