Tuesday

Bob Marley (1945-1981)

Profile: Bob Marley was born in Jamaica. As a Singer-Songwriter-Musician, international reggae artist he went on to inspire people through his work on a global scale. Continues to influence music today.

Plaque Location: 34 Ridgmount Gardens, Camden, London, WC1E 7AS

Plaque inscription: ‘Singer, lycricist and Rastafarian icon lived here 1972’

Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970)

Profile: James 'Jimi' Marshall Hendrix was an acclaimed American musician, singer and songwriter. Although his musical exposure was not lengthy; he has been a profound influence on modern guitar-style. Furthermore, as a musical icon his legacy lives on.

Jimi Hendrix

Plaque Location: 23 Brook Street, London, W1

Next door to No.25, the home of George Frederick Handel

(around the corner from Bond Street)

Plaque inscription: 'Guitarist and songwriter lived here 1968-1969'

Sam King (1926 - )

At an Imperial War Museum exhibition

Profile: Sam King was born in Jamaica, and was a R.A.F. serviceman during World War 2. Later, in 1948 he later travelled back to the UK on the HMS Empire Windrush joining a considerable number of people journeying to Britain. In the mid 1980's he became the first Black Mayor of Southwark.

Plaque Location: 2 Warmington Road, Herne Hill, London, SE24 9LA

Plaque inscription: ‘Mayor of Southwark, 1983-84, Wartime RAF Serviceman, Passenger on the Empire Windrush, West Indian Community Leader + Christian advocate lived here 1958-1984’

RAF uniform

First Black Mayor of Southwark

A tireless campaigner for the community he was part of the organisers who set up the first Notting Hill Carnival, and was also a active supporter of the first Black British newspaper, the West Indian Gazette, edited by Claudia Jones.

Claudia Jones (1915-1964)

Profile: Trinidadian, Journalist, Founding-Editor of the West Indian Gazette , Key organiser of first UK Carnival.

Plaque Location: Tavistock Road, London W11

Plaque inscription: ‘Mother of Caribbean Carnival in Britain organised an annual carnival from January 1959 as a community response to the 1958 August Bank Holiday Notting Hill Riots’

Claudia Jones

Founder and Editor of the West Indian Gazette

As the campaigner

Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972)

Profile: Kwame Nkrumah the Ghanaian, and first President of an independent Ghana & proponent of Pan Africanism around the globe.

Plaque Location: 60 Burghley Road, Camden, London NW5 1UN

Plaque inscription: ‘First President of Ghana lived here 1945-1947’

Kwame Nkrumah on the Ghanaian money

Queen Elizabeth II with Ghana`s first President Kwame Nkrumah sharing a chat during her visit to Ghana.

Una Marson (1905-1965)

Profile: Ms Marson was a Jamaican, Writer, Journalist, Broadcaster. She was the first Black woman Presenter & Programme-maker on the BBC radio.

Plaque Location: 16c, Brunswick Park, Camberwell, London, SE5 7RJ

Plaque inscription: ‘Poet, playwright, campaigner for equality. First Black woman Programme maker at the BBC’

Marson's broadcasting at the BBC

An extract from Marson's poem, Kinky Hair Blues

Elisabeth Welch (1904-2003)

Profile: American Singer-Actress, Entertainer, whose career spanned over 70 years

Plaque Location: 1 Ovington Court, Kensington, London, W12

Plaque inscription: ‘Singer lived here in Flat 1’

Playbill Lucille Lortel Theatre Elisabeth Welch - Time to Start Living

Elisabeth Welch at the BBC

Theatre programme

Stormy Weather...

So Theatrical

George Padmore (1903-1959)

Profile: Trinidadian campaigner, Writer, activist and community leader.

Plaque: 22 Cranleigh Street, Camden, London, NW1 2BD

Plaque inscription: ‘International activist and renowned Pan Africanist

lived here 1941-1957’

George Padmore

C.L.R James (1901-1989)

Profile: A Trinidadian writer and political activist and lover of cricket.

Plaque Location: 165 Railton Rd, Brixton, London, SE24

Plaque inscription: ‘West Indian Writer and Political Activist lived and died here’

C.L.R. James

His seminal work, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (1938), is the much studied text highlighting the impact of the 1791-1804 Haitian Revolution. His other famous works being Beyond the Boundary (1963) which used cricket as a metaphor to discuss topics of Race, colonialism and philosophy.

Leslie 'Hutch' Hutchinson (1900-1969)

Profile: Grenadian artiste who achieved world-wide acclaim as a pre-eminent cabaret star during the 1920s and 1930s

Plaque Location: 31 Steele's Road, Chalk Farm, London, NW3 4RE

Plaque inscription: ‘Singer and Pianist lived here 1929-1967’

Hutch in action

Looking suave and debonair as befits a man on standing.

A horseman

Marcus Garvey (1887-1947)

Profile: A Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, and staunch proponent of Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism. Founder of Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)

Plaque Location: 53 Talgarth Rd, London, W14

Plaque inscription: ‘Pan-Africanist Leader lived and died here’