South
London
Former Children’s Home in Bethnal Green (East London) where Walter Tull was brought up - buildings lost - 1918 one of the first Afro-Carribean descent professional footballers
[work]
Chrisp Street Market (East London) - watch film
[place]
Ayah’s home - Hackney
[home/ work]
Bethnal Green - site of former @actnforchildren home in #BethnalGreen, where Walter Tull was brought up http://bit.ly/2KehKYt - but buildings lost.
[place]
Barnado’s Girls Village Barkingside, where Elizabeth Mouncey lived, the first known black child fostered in the UK
Four Aces Club, Dalston Lane, E8
[culture]
Peace Mural, Dalston Lane, E8
[place]
Fazl Mosque, Southfields
[culture]
Baitul Futuh mosque, Morden
[culture]
Ismaili Centre, South Kensington
[culture]
Neasden Temple, Wembley
[culture]
Ealing Road, Wembley
[place]
Shakespeare’s Hut, Bloomsbury (now replaced with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine). Built for ANZAC soldiers in WW1 and became the Indian YMCA after the war
Lewisham Youth Club, Black community centre in the 1970/80s
[origins]
South London tube shelters, housed first generation Windrush, hence many settled in Brixton
[origins]
Brixton Market, Reliance Arcade, Electric Lane
Brixton Railway Station, Platforms Piece
Brixton / O2 Academy - centre of Black music in the 1980s
[place]
Paddington, John Alcindor’s practice
[work]
New Beacon Books, UK’s first Black bookshop and publishing house, Finsbury Park
[work]
Thamesmead for rehousing Vietnamese boat people & Gurkha/ Nepalese community in Woolwich / Plumstead
[origins]
Royal College of Music - Samuel Coleridge Taylor studied here
[work]
Covent Garden - building in which Olaudah Equiano once lived, prominent member of ‘Sons of Africa’, a group of 12 black men campaigning for abolition, published his autobiography in 1789 describing his life as a slave http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/equiano_olaudah.shtml
[racism and resistance]
Whitechapel - Altab Ali Park
[place]
Woodseer St in Spitalfields (formerly Pelham St) where a building marked for demolition by the GLC was squatted by 40+ Bengali families in 1976
(including?) Mala Sen: Writer and race equality activist
Mala Sen was born in Mussoorie in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand in 1947. Her parents divorced in 1953, and Mala grew up with her father. As member of the military he moved often, taking...
eastendwomensmuseum.org
[place]
Whitechapel - Rio Club, Somali cafe in the 1950/60s
[culture/ place]
Westminster - Caxton Hall; March 1940 assassination of Sir Michael O’Dwyer, ex-Governer of Punjab, by Shaheed-e-Azam Sardar Udham Singh, to avenge the Jallianwalla Bagh massacre of 1919
[place]
Hackney, All Nations Club; 4 Martello Street, E8 - Important venue for black music
[culture]
The Strand - The India Club
[culture]
Newham - Blue plaque to mark former home of Sam Zaman aka State of Bengal - Asian Underground Pioneer
[culture]
Hampstead - Indian Nobel Laureate Sri Rabindernath Tagore's residence in Hampstead, London..1912
[culture]
Southwark - Air raid shelter under Borough High St in #southwark sheltered some early post war citizens who came to the U.K. from the West Indies.
[origins]
Clapham South tube bomb shelter..(?)
[origins]
Holland Park - Quaid_e_Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah residence
[home]
Regent Street - Veeraswamy Restaurant, the first Indian Restaurant to open in UK, back in 1926.
[work]
New Cross
reggae map of New Cross for our walk which is part of the Bass Culture 70/50 event on Sat. My favourite entry is for Childers St Youth Club where Lez got his DJ name & a local elder…
[culture]
Ealing - Jessica & Eric Huntley, black publishers & activists, ran an imp. bookshop in Ealing. Info re archives
[culture/ work]
Beckton Road, Canning Town - two internationally influential men met in the house of Dr Katial, a friend of Gandhi’s, on 22 September 1931. Gandhi, was in Britain to attend the Round Table Conf on Indian independence while Chaplin was promoting his latest film City Lights
[culture/ work]
Stroud Green - New Beacon Books, Britain's first black book shop. It hosts readings and events, as we'll as supporting small, indie publishers.
[culture/ resistance]
Kingston - Picton House
NW1
Pataks, 134 Drummond Street, original shop
Indian Restaurants, Drummond Street
[place]
32 Camden Square, Home to Politician and Indian High Commissioner Krishna Menon.
[place/ home]
SW5
West Indian Students Centre, 1 Collingham Gardens
[culture]
The Black House, 95-101 Holloway Road
Caribbean House, Bridport Place, N1. Amazing place in the 70’s & 80’s. Buildings now luxury flats!
[culture]
Oxford & Kilburn Youth Club - from the 1960s boys of all races developed bonds especially through sporting activities.
[culture]
Stockwell - Catholic Church, Afro-Caribbean congregation
[culture/ place]
Denmark Street - The Nanking Restaurant (now a music bar) where Indian Progressive Writer’s Association was founded
[culture/ work]
Shepherd’s Bush - Central Gurdwara, first oldest in UK?
[culture]
Southall - Himalaya Cinema
[culture]
Little Ilford School. Where the Newham Eight incident took place in 1982.
[Racism & Resistance]
Brisbane Road stadium, home of Leyton Orient, where Laurie Cunningham made his professional debut; there is a statue of him in the park opposite
[work]
The October Gallery in Bloomsbury has been championing Black and Asian artists since its inception in 1979.
[culture]
41–43 Neal Street, London - Used to be The Roxy, where Don Letts introduced the world of reggae to the world of punk.
[culture]
The Buddhapadipa Temple 14 Calonne Rd, Wimbledon, London SW19 5HJ
[culture]
Asian seaman’s mission , Residence of first Asian mp in Islington.
[origins]
South Bank - Punjabi builders who were the specialists in wood marking the concrete of Denys Lasdun's brutalist masterpiece.
[work]
Stoke Newington
Monument to Joanna Vassa in Abney Park Cemetery (GII listed) - died 1857, daughter of Olaudah Equiano - England’s most important black abolitionist, whose burial place is unknown.
[culture]
Wimbledon
Statue of Halie Selassie in Wimbledon Common, Emperor of Ethiopia, exiled to, Lincoln House, Wimbledon Common, in 1936
[home]
West End
23 Brook Street - Jimi Hendrix’s house
41-43 Neal Street, former Roxy Nightclub
34 Ridgmount Gardens, WC1 - first UK residence of Bob Marley
[culture]
70 Parliament Hill, home of CLR and Selma James for much of 1950s where they were visited by Martin Luther King in 1957. They then moved to 20 Staverton Road in the 1960s and were visited by host of leading black radicals including George Lamming, Walter Rodney, David Pitt
[home]
Woking
Hindu cemetery
[culture]
Woking Mosque. Britain’s first purpose built Mosque. A place of significance for British Muslims, both Asians and Black for over 100 years.
[culture/ origins]
Muslim soldiers burial ground, Brook Wood cemetery
[culture]
Hampshire
The Gurkha Memorial Garden at Hilliers in Hampshire -
[culture]
Canterbury
St Hadrian, and African scholar, helped establish a school
[work]
Brighton
Chattri Memorial
Brighton Pavilion
[culture]
Henley on Thames
The Maharajah’s Well, Stoke Row
[culture]
The Kitchener Indian Hospital; now Brighton General Hospital..
[work]
Royal Pavilion Museum in Brighton was turned into hospital during the WW. I've seen pictures of troops from #Dogra and #Sikh regiments who were operated there.
[work]
Sussex
Saint Hill Manor, home to the Maharajah of Jaipur in the late 40’s
[home]
Hastings Museum, Durbar Hall
[culture]
East Sussex
WW1 graves and memorial to 19 members of West Indian Regiment who died whilst stationed in Seaford
[culture]
Bournemouth
The town hall in Bournemouth (originally a hotel) was a hospital for the British Indian Army in #WWI, but there’s no meaningful public record of it that I’m aware of. I’ve searched for a plaque in vain
[culture]
Potters Bar
Oshwal House, It has developed from a former stately home with a barn house to a central centre for the Jain community in Britain. It now has a fully functioning building, place of prayer and great land to house Jains.
[culture]
Brent
Grunwick Strike 1976
South Asian women at the Grunwick photo-processing labs walked out in protest at poor working conditions, sparking a dispute that lasted 2 years.
The majority of the workers were women who had migrated from India to East Africa, then to the UK. They demanded the right to join a trade union.
Eventually, the strike was defeated and the women were sacked.
The strike was nevertheless a seminal point in British industrial history, and challenged stereotypes as well as the 'ethos if the predominantly white, male trade union movement of the day, and in the process, inspired a generation to speak out against injustice.'
http://www.striking-women.org/module/striking-out/grunwick-dispute
In 2017 two large murals, developed by over 80 local residents through a series of workshops with artist Anna Ferrie, were unveiled in Willesden portraying the herioc stand of the predominantly female workforce
(www.cwu.org/news/permanent-tribute-lions-grunwick)
[work]
Bexley
Hall Place; boarding school where a Prince from Uboni (Nigeria) studied in the C19th