"Merle Major is credited with saving {the Notting Hill} Carnival in 1972. ... She was a local woman who stepped up to the task of leading the event when it was facing financial ruin, and was under tremendous pressure from the authorities and the media who were calling for it to be either shut down or restricted to an indoor venue or a park." She stepped down the following year. From Trinidad.
Source: Caribbean & Co, Facebook.
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Merle Major
Claimed to be the world's largest blue plaque - and we ain't arguing. Three ...
Founded, as the Circus Fans' Association, in 1934 at Olympia, with the 'involvement and encouragement of Bertram Mills' Circus, to 'champion the cause of the circus in England, to right injustice, ...
Paul Andrew Charles Head. He was the son of Charles R. Head (b.1933) and Mary I. Head née Lamonby (b.1933) and his birth was registered in the Newbury, Berkshire, registration district. In Octobe...
Founded in London by author Graham Greene, its founding president. The Handbook of Texas gives a good history of the Society. Our thanks to Lori Grossman for providing information.
Originally designed as the Westminster City Hall. It was associated with the Suffragettes, who started their marches to Parliament from here. 1940 Sir Michael Francis O'Dwyer was assassinated at a ...
Merchant tailor and co-founder of Rotary International. Born Hiram Elroy Shorey in Litchfield, Kennebec, Maine.
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