London: Hammersmith Black History Walk

SUNDAY OCTOBER 14TH. 11.00AM

Meet outside the Hammersmith and Fulham information centre on Hammersmith Broadway (next to Smolensky’s Restaurant).

Come and discover the many ways London’s Hammersmith has contributed to Britain’s relationship with Africa, on a FREE guided walk sponsored by Hammersmith and Fulham Council, led by London Blue Badge guide Simon Rodway.

Africa is Europe’s nearest neighbour but historically is the continent Europeans have known the least about. In many ways Hammersmith can claim to represent a microcosm of Europe’s tortured relationship with its huge neighbour. This walk touches on some key cultural reference points – as well as showing off some of the hidden gems of West London’s busiest suburb, Hammersmith.

Highlights:

• The home of Victorian celebrity abolitionists, run-away slaves Ellen and William Craft, authors of Victorian best seller ‘Running A Thousand Miles To Freedom’
• Hammersmith Palais, about which punk-reggae superstars The Clash wrote ‘White Man In Hammersmith’
• St Paul’s Boys School Headmaster’s House, where Monty planned D-Day in 1944 – General Montgomery had been commander of WWII’s most multi-racial fighting force the British 8th Army, including the Caribbean Regiment
• Site of Oswald Moseley’s June 1934 racist rally
• Home of Victorian author H Ryder Haggard, writer of King Solomon’s Mines, and She – and the man who gave us the phrase ‘She Who Must Be Obeyed’
• The house where pan-African statesman and founder of the Rastafarians, Marcus Garvey died in 1940

For details contact: Simon Rodway, London Blue Badge Guide, www.silvercanetours.com

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