On Saturday 11 November Nubian Jak Community and the Cy Grant Trusts Trust unveiled a plaque to Cy Grant on the house where he lived in Jacksons Lane, Highgate. The day was appropriate because Cy had been an RAF navigator in the Second World War, whose plane was shot down. He was a prisoner of war for two years. Cy was from Guyana.
Jak Beula of Nubian Jak Community Trust
Gus John leads the African libation ritual
Margaret Busby, co- founder Alison & Busby publishers
Peter Ramrayka, Chair, City & Central London Branch
Royal Air Forces Association
Mayor Stephen Mann, Haringey Council
Catherine West, Labour MP Hornsey & Wood Green
I had the honour of being asked to say a few words.
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I have lived in Norbury since July 2011. I blog on Croydon, Norbury and history events,news and issues. I have been active on local economy, housing and environment issues with Croydon TUC and Croydon Assembly. I have submitted views to Council Committees and gave evidence against the Whitgift Centre CPO and to the Local Plan Inquiry. I am a member of Norbury Village Residents Association and Chair of Norbury Community Land Trust, and represent both on the Love Norbury community organisations partnership Committee. I used to write for the former web/print Croydon Citizen. I co-ordinate the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Croydon Radical History Networks and edit the North East Popular Politics history database. I give history talks and lead history walks. I retired in 2012 having worked in the community/voluntary sector and on heritage projects. My history interests include labour, radical and suffrage movements, mutuality, Black British, slavery & abolition, Edwardian roller skating and the social and political use of music and song. I have a particular interest in the histories of Battersea and Wandsworth, Croydon and Lambeth. I have a publishing imprint History & Social Action Publications.
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