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john and isabella smetham, northumberland
John (1826-1898), a blacksmith, and Isabella (1831-1910) were enthusiastic members of the Primitive Methodist Church. They lived in Radcliff Terrace near Hauxley in Northumberland from about 1850 until the 1880s when they moved to Amble, Northumberland.
stanley goodridge, County durham
Stanley Goodridge, born 1928 in Jamaica, was a cricket player and a ‘hostile and accurate’ fast bowler. He moved to County Durham in England to play as a professional for Seaham Park in the Durham County Cricket League. He played two non-first-class matches for Durham in 1956. In one, he took five wickets against Yorkshire, all of Test cricketers.
He married in 1952 to Jamaican-born Connie Mark MBE BEM (1923–2007), medical secretary and later an activist for West Indians in London, with whom he had a son and daughter. They later divorced.
stanley greaves, newcastle
Born 1934 in Guyana, Stanley Greaves is one of the Caribbean’s most distinguished painters. From 1963 to 1968 he attended Newcastle University where he studied painting, majoring in sculpture for the B.A.Hons degree in Fine Art. He has had major exhibitions in the UK and Europe as well as throughout the Caribbean.
Cassa pancho, durham
Cassa Pancho, of Trinidadian and English heritage, studied classical ballet at Durham University. She wished to write her dissertation on black ballet dancers and discovered when writing her dissertation that there were none.
She founded the award winning dance company, Ballet Black, in 2001 and received an MBE in 2013 for services to classical ballet.
martini maccomo, sunderland
Born between 1835-1840 Martini Maccomo, who was likely originally named Arthur Williams, initially worked as a sailor in the London docks.
He was recruited by William Manders, the owner of Mander’s ‘Grand National Star Menagerie’ in 1857 as a lion tamer. It is likely he was the first black Lion tamer in Britain. In his performances he would face around twenty lions and tigers. He was bitten by a lion names Wallace in Sunderland, who is now displayed at Sunderland Museum.
He died at the Palatine Hotel in Sunderland in 1871 and is buried at Bishopwearmouth Cemetary.