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Windrush Square (often referred to by its original name, Brixton Oval [1] [2]) is an open public space in the centre of Brixton, South London, [3] occupying an area in front of the Brixton Tate Library.
Brixton is an area of South London, ... Windrush Square street sign [18] In the 1940s and 1950s, many immigrants, particularly from the West Indies and Ireland, ...
The African and Caribbean War Memorial was temporarily displayed outside the Black Cultural Archives, 1 Windrush Square, Brixton, at 11:11 am, on 11 November 2014, at an Armistice Day ceremony — attended by veteran Sam King (1926–2016) among others — marking the centenary of World War I. [9] [10] [11]
The former "Brixton Oval" is at the southern end with Lambeth Town Hall, the Ritzy Cinema, the Brixton Tate Library (with a statue of Henry Tate outside) and St Matthew's church. The space was renamed Windrush Square in 2010, in honour of the area's early Caribbean migrants and the HMT Empire Windrush , which in 1948 brought 492 passengers from ...
Black Cultural Archives (BCA) is an archive and heritage centre in Brixton, London, devoted to the histories of people of African and Caribbean descent in Britain.Also known as BCA, it was founded in 1981, by educationalist and historian Len Garrison and others.
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Raleigh Hall is a building in Windrush Square, Brixton. It is now home to the Black Cultural Archives, after being derelict for many years. [1] [2] The building was originally two houses built in 1824, and is a Grade II listed building. [3] [2] The hall had been used by the Cinema Museum in the mid-1980s. [1]
The metropolitan borough was divided into nine wards for elections: Bishop's, Brixton, Herne Hill, Marsh, Norwood, Prince's, Stockwell, Tulse Hill and Vauxhall. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The borough council was controlled by the Municipal Reform Party (allied to the Conservatives ) until 1937, when the Labour Party gained power.