North
Huddersfield
St George’s Street Mosque - first mosque to open in the town
Hanafia Masjid and Islamic Institute
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Bradford
Bombay Stores, Bradford
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Dominica Association, 10 Worthington Street, BD8 8ET
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Indian Workers Association
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Manchester
Manchester Cathedral, where Thomas Clarkson delivered and anti-slavery speech in 1787
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2018, 70th anniversary of the Manchester Pan-African Congress
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The Nia Centre in Hulme. The UK’s first black arts centre.
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The West Indian Centre and the Western, also in Moss Side. Centres for community life, parties, wakes, blues.
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The Powerhouse in Moss Side. Built as a multi-purpose space to serve (amongst others) the BAME community living in South Manchester. It housed Manchester's only young people's library and the location where a young black kid (Jessie James) was shot and killed in 2006.
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Churches: New Testament Church of God (Whalley Range), Church of God of Prophecy (Moss Side), Sharon Full Gospel Church (Old Trafford). Where many newly settled West Indians worshipped from the 60s onwards
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Leeds
Jinnah Mosque, Leopold St, Chapeltown - first mosque in Leeds (?)
Savile Road - first gurdwara (?)
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West Indian Centre, Leeds
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Potternewton Park, Leeds. Home of black music festival and Carnival.
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Nelson, Lancashire was home of CLR James, who amongst other things, was first Black Caribbean writer to have a novel published in the UK. He was also the cricket correspondent for the Manchester Guardian which was a another first.
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Leeds Carnival
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The Leeds Odeon - now Primark on Headrow in Leeds - not specifically just black history - but some of 20th century great artists including leading black American artists performed there eg -
Saw artists perform including Nat King Cole / Ella Fitzgerald and Roy Orbison five shows each, Herman’s Hermits four shows, The Beatles, Cliff Richard, The Everly Brothers and The Hollies three shows. Amongst many other big names to have appeared there were, Johnny Ray, Paul Robeson, Louis Armstrong, Woody Herman, Bobby Darin, Judy Garland, Count Basie, Shirley Bassey, Johnny Mathis, Duke Ellington, Dionne Warwick The Rolling Stones The Beach Boys Bill Haley and the Comets, The Platters and many many more. These shows all took place between February 1957 and June 1968.
Huddersfield
Venn Street Club
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Preston
Deepdale stadium in Preston? Very tangential but one of the first black footballers played there: Arthur Wharton in the 19th C
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