Birthplace of British rock 'n roll and the popular music industry. Mickie Most started as a singing waiter here. Owen Adams provides a huge amount of information.
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2i's coffee bar
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Two I’s Coffee Bar
City of Westminster Site of the 2i's coffee bar (1956 - 1970), birthplace of...
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Station Hotel, Richmond
This 1893 map (extract here) shows the Station Hotel (P.H.) opposite the station but with no building behind. By 1933 this map show the PH building extending all the way back to Parkshot. The Crawd...
Richardson Evans
Civil servant, journalist and author. He served in the Indian Civil Service, for North-Western Provinces from 1867 to 1876, after which he worked in London as a journalist. From the 1880s onwards, ...
Person, Community / Clubs, Journalism / Publishing, Belgium, India
George Arthur Roberts
Soldier and Fireman. Born in Trinidad, he was one of the first black men to join the British Army. In WW1, he earned a reputation for throwing bombs back over enemy lines and was nicknamed the 'Coc...
Person, Armed Forces, Community / Clubs, Emergency Services, Race Issues, Caribbean Islands, France, Turkey
Ansel Wong
A cultural and political activist, an educationist and academic. In a wide-ranging career has worked at senior levels in various organisations in the public and charitable sectors, including with t...
Person, Community / Clubs, Education, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Caribbean Islands
Pat McDonald
Lived and worked in North Kensington, 1960s - her death. She was the driving force behind the campaigns for better housing, more play-space and new nurseries. At It's your Colville we were shock...
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King Henry VIII
Son of Henry VII. Born Born Greenwich Palace, as the spare, not the heir but his brother Arthur predeceased him and their father, aged 15, but not before marrying Catherine of Aragon, who later in ...
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