by Just Lincolnshire | Oct 7, 2020 | Events, News
Naomi Elaine Campbell (born 22 May 1970) is an English model, actress, and businesswoman. Discovered at the age of 15, she established herself amongst the most recognisable and in-demand models of the late 1980s and the 1990s and was one of six models of her...
by Just Lincolnshire | Oct 7, 2020 | News
Diane Julie Abbott (born 27 September 1953) is a British politician who served as the Shadow Home Secretary in the Shadow Cabinet of Jeremy Corbyn from 2016 to 2020. She has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hackney North and Stoke Newington (Labour) since 1987....
by Just Lincolnshire | Oct 7, 2020 | News
The guardian newspaper ran a story in October 2008 that Sir Trevor McDonald as becoming the “first black British newsreader” in 1973, and Moira Stuart as becoming “Britain’s first black woman news presenter” in 1981, and was...
by Just Lincolnshire | Oct 7, 2020 | Events, News
London’s first post-war black firefighter Frank Bailey. Frank Arthur Bailey came to London from Guyana in 1953 and as a political activist he joined West Indian Standing Conference. He later attended a TUC conference and heard from a Fire Brigades Union (FBU)...
by Just Lincolnshire | Oct 7, 2020 | Events, News
One of the first black firefighters to serve with London Fire Brigade has been commemorated with a plaque unveiled at his former station. George Arthur Roberts BEM (1890-1970) served at New Cross Fire Station for the duration of the Second World War and was awarded a...