By Clayton Goodwin We came face to face with the past this week. Out of the blue Caribcommx met up again with Dyl Bishop. Only to find that the past is really the future. Before trying to sort out that conundrum, I would like to take you back to …. to …. those days when […]
By Clayton Goodwin Carl Bennett had an integral role in UK-based Caribbean entertainment in the 1980s and early-1990s. He made his name as photographer at, and printer for, many of the club shows of the Golden Age, especially the beauty contests promoted by Spencer Williams and Trevor Russell on a Friday night at Sports club
Where is Millie? That was the question I was asked most often – until the singer passed away some three years ago. It is difficult for those of a younger generation to understand the extent of the Millie-phenomenon. The young singer stood more than the world of music on its head in the summer of
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An appreciation by Clayton Goodwin – Published previously in the New African, IC Publications, 2009 Eric Clarke has become part of the social landscape of the New Cross district of southeast London in which he has lived for the greater part of the 42 years in which he has been in England. He is no
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Reviewed by Clayton Goodwin with help from Rudi Page The afternoon of Saturday 20th June 2015 was sunny and warm. A good-sized crowd had gathered at the Bourne Methodist Church at Southgate, North London to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of Dyke & Dryden Ltd, the foremost UK West Indian business of its
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Reviewed by Clayton Goodwin The Golden Age of West Indian beauty contests in the United Kingdom is considered generally to have run from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s (and a bit). Sammy Jay – the so-named Czar of beauty pageants – was in his pomp with Miss Afro-Westindian UK, Earl Martin looked to run him
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By Clayton Goodwin Sounds of the Sixties:The Links and the Dimplettes as photographed by David Cole Tony Tribe (centre) is with Robert Duthie (left) and Clayton Goodwin (right) at the latter’s wedding to Hopelyn at Longfield, Kent in 1967 as photographed by George Francis When Count Prince Miller died on 16th August 2018 my hands-on
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