Claudia Jones blue plaque

Claudia Jones 1915-1964 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

  • corner of Tavistock Rd and Portobello Rd, London
This plaque is one of four that make up a square as part of the Notting Hill carnival Sval story (along with Rhaune Laslett, Russell Henderson and Leslie Palmer)

by Nubian Jak Community Trust on 26 August 2011

Colour: blue

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