Camden Town Hall
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Camden Town Hall, known as St Pancras Town Hall until 1965, is the meeting place of Camden London Borough Council. The main entrance is in Judd Street with its northern elevation extending along Eusto
View from Judd Street in 2024
Former Town Hall Annexe (now The Standard hotel) at corner of Argyle Street and Euston Road, with older building's Euston Road elevation in background
Claudia Jones
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Claudia Vera Jones was a Trinidad and Tobago-born journalist and activist. As a child, she migrated with her family to the United States, where she became a Communist political activist, feminist and
Camden Town Hall
…the town hall. A "Caribbean Carnival", a precursor of the Notting Hill Carnival, was held on 30 January 1959 in the town hall, organised by activist Claudia Jones as a response to the 1958 Notting Hill race riots and the state of race relations in Britain at the time. A few months later, on 27 May 1959, Princess…
Jones in 1948
Jones on the cover of the Young Communist Review, October 1938
Jones and Betty Gannett in a police wagon in New York City after their bail was revoked, July 17, 1951
Jones's British passport