1945

Ansel Wong

Categories: Community / Clubs, Education, Politics & Administration, Race Issues

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 the Windrush Foundation. Influential in many organisations particularly in the black community.

Ansel Keith David Wong was born in Trinidad and Tobago and came to the UK in 1965, initially studying in Hull and then in London. He founded the Elimu Mas Band and was Chair of the Notting Hill Carnival Board. Appointed CBE in 2020. Member of the Windrush Commemoration Committee.

Source: Wikipedia, Gov UK.

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Ansel Wong

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National Windrush monument

Unveiled on Windrush day in 2022. The full poem is available at Laura Serrant.

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St Saviours

St Saviours is a former civil parish. Created from the union of the parishes of St Margaret and St Mary Magdalene. In 1855 it was grouped with Southwark Christchurch into the St Saviour's District....

Place, Community / Clubs, Religion

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London Cornish Association

A non-political, non-sectarian, cultural and social organisation which promotes and fosters fellowship and goodwill among Cornish people in London and elsewhere.

Group, Community / Clubs

1 memorial

Japan-British Culture Memorial Club

We can find no information about this group so we guess it was short-lived and dis-banded once the memorial was unveiled.

Group, Community / Clubs, History, Japan

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Chingford Mount Cemetery

Laid out on the site of the house and grounds of Caroline Mount, it was opened as a sister site to the already established Abney Park Cemetery in Stoke Newington (see Abney House and Park). Among ...

Place, Community / Clubs

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Hoxton Hall

Built 1863 as Mortimer's Music hall. 1866 MacDonald took it over but in 1871 following complaints it lost its performance licence. Bought in 1879 by rich Quaker philanthropist William Isaac Palmer...

Building, Community / Clubs, Music / songs, Religion, Theatre

1 memorial