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Covent Garden Area Trust
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Covent Garden donkeys
Covent Garden Area Trust has an interesting page about the unveiling ceremony.
Hobby-horse bicycle
City of Westminster Denis Johnson (c.1760 - 1833) from his workshop on this ...
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Queen's Park Area Residents' Association
From the website: "QPARA was established by local residents in 1973 as an entirely voluntary organisation keen to preserve the integrity of the conservation area … and that’s what we still do, but ...
Lord Sam
In 1980 Lawrence 'Lord Sam Soca Wax' Chambers formed London Brotherhood of Soca Sounds, the first soca sound system at the Notting Hill Carnival. He also pioneered making the sound system mobile - ...
Totterdown Estate
This was the London County Council's first housing development. A 39 acre site south-west of Tooting Common was identified and purchased in 1900 for £44,238. The site was well placed to cater for w...
Andre Shervington
Following Claudia Jones’ indoor carnival, community activists working with the London Free School, Rhaune Laslett and her husband Jim, and Andre Shervington and his wife Barbara, organised a street...
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Olaudah Equiano
Born in an African village, he was sold into slavery, first locally, then in England, then in America where he managed to buy his freedom. He returned to England and wrote the first autobiography o...
Buenaventura Durruti
Central figure of Spanish anarchism during the period leading up to and including the Spanish Civil War. Born and died in Spain.
E. Vincent Harris
Architect with London County Council in 1905. Born Devonport, Plymouth.
North London Synagogue
From JCR-UK: The Ashkenazi Orthodox congregation formed in approximately 1860 and initially met in a room in Upper Street. Then used rooms at Barnsbury Hall, 2-4 Barnsbury Street, until 1868 when t...
King Haakon VII
Born Christian Frederik Carl Georg Valdemar Axel in Charlottenlund Palace, near Copenhagen. Known as Prince Carl of Denmark, he became the first king of Norway after the 1905 dissolution of the uni...
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