Poet, writer, teacher, playwright. She was born as Cecile Elise Doreen Burgan on 1 June 1919 in Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana). She Wrote music and poetry from an early age and In 1942 married Romeo Nobrega. Trained as a teacher and migrated to the UK in 1969. She lived in Stockwell from about 1980 and electoral registers for 2003-2008 show her listed at Flat 23, Lee Samuel House, 10 Nealden Street, London, SW9 9QX. She died, aged 94 years, on 19 November 2013.
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Cecile Nobrega
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Bronze Woman
This was the first statue of a black woman to be on permanent display anywher...
Other Subjects
Merchant Taylors' School
Founded in 1561 by Sir Thomas White and originally at St Lawrence Pountney, EC4. In 1875 moved to newly built premised at Charterhouse, mainly to enable expansion. But by 1929 it had been decided t...
3 memorials
1 memorial
1 memorial
Stanley Hall & Baths
From the splendid Acland Burgley School history site we learn that the Honourable E. Lyulph Stanley (1839-1925 and son of Lady Stanley) was an energetic member of the London School Board with speci...
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Lieutenant Walter Leonard Elliott
Walter Leonard Elliott was born on 30 November 1891 in Shepherds Bush, London, the second of the four children of Frederick Elliot (1857-1940) and Harriett Elliot née Green (1861-1934). His birth w...
War dead, WW1
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F. D. Smith
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
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Bow Library
One of many public libraries founded by John Passmore Edwards. Designed by S. B. Russell, it is a Grade II listed building and features the ornate 'Macullum' clock, which is named after a local ph...
2 memorials