Rainbow Corner
Club for the American forces in the UK during WW2. Also known as the American Red Cross Club. This is where those "oversexed, overpaid and over here" GIs hung out. From British History online: The...
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Vijay Ramlal Rai
Pioneer participant in the Notting Hill Carnival. Apart from the BBC naming him "Dr. Vijay Ramlal-Rai from Trinidad and Tobago Entertainment" we can discover nothing. Source: BBC.
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Rawthmell's Coffee House
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...
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Red Cross Garden
Part of Octavia Hill's pioneering social housing scheme. It consists of two rows of cottages and a community hall, designed by Elijah Hoole. It was created to provide 'An open air sitting room for ...
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Red Lion, Kilburn
Closed Pubs has a good picture of the current building and gives: "The Red Lion was situated at 34 Kilburn High Road. This pub was known as The Westbury at time of closure in 2012. Rebuilt in the l...
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Reinickendorf
The twelfth borough of Berlin. It encompasses the northwest area of the city,
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Israel Renson
The National Archives describe Renson as 'chemist and local historian" and give four paragraphs of his life story. In brief: of Russian descent, born in Scarborough Street E1, but in 1910 the famil...
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Ralph Richardson
Pioneer participant in the Notting Hill Carnival. Musical arranger working with steel bands. Coming from Trinidad he has travelled widely and in 1984 moved to Switzerland. Source: 2004 Panpodium.
Person, Community / Clubs, Music / songs, Caribbean Islands, Switzerland
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