A 2016 BB2 television series called Black and British - A Forgotten History, traced the history of black people in Britain. Following on from this, a series of plaques are being erected around Britain commemorating black people and events through the ages.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
BBC History Project
Bill Richmond, freed slave, boxer, entrepreneur, spent the last evening of hi...
The plaque is on the railings below the Royal Society of Arts one. Dec 2020:...
Black trumpeter John Blanke musician at the courts of Henry VII & Henry V...
Treasurer of Hampstead Liberal Club in 1889. Benjamin Abbott Lyon was born on 3 September 1837, the second of the three children of George James Lyon (1805-1866) and Mary Ring Lyon née Abbott (181...
Person, Commerce, Community / Clubs, Politics & Administration
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From Fitzrovia News "Many were shocked to hear of the death of Cynthia Williams, a stalwart of the Fitzrovia Play Association, who had been born in Ireland in 1925 but came to London as a child and...
Braxton's Coffee House (1702) at no.24 Henrietta Street became Rawthmell's Coffee House in 1715 and later moved to no.25, where the (R)SA first met. The image shows the painting by Anna Katrina Zi...
A society which aims to raise the awareness and appreciation of its local area, and to maintain and improve the quality of life for all who live and work in Streatham.
Unusually high quality plaque, for the date.
There are 22 statues on the façade of this building. Each is labelled with his (always 'his') surname. There are 12 at the top up against...
These mosaics are laid in the pavement in a rather sad, out the way, corner of the South Bank, at street level, near the non-main entranc...
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