Month: November 2021
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SouthSide house
Southside House is a 17th-century house located on the south side of Wimbledon Common. It is Grade II* listed. After his child passed on in the Great Plague of London, Robert Pennington, a companion of Charles II, assembled Southside House (on Woodhayes Road…
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Village Hall
The Wimbledon Society’s free museum for everyone. Supported by the Wimbledon Village Hall Trust and the Wimbledon Village Club. Themuseum is currently close for refurbishment This amazing building has A story that understands and decides to preserve their rich heritage.…
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Zumbi dos Palmares
Zumbi (1655 – November 20, 1695), also known as Zumbi dos Palmares (Portuguese pronunciation: [zbi dus pwmais]), was a quilombola chieftain and a Brazilian of Kongo ancestry. He was one of the first to fight the Portuguese’s slave trade in…
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Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist and political activist.
Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. Harriet Tubman was born around…
