African Deeds
A sensational pictorial journey from The Gold Coast Africa to London Streets, of three generations of the Brem-Wilson family. Over 200 never before seen, and meticulously restored photos chronicle one family’s pioneering journey, starring The Black Pastor of Peckham, Mr Bingo, and Nina the Great! Told by direct descendent, author, Mandy Parker-Sharp, and part of The Black Cultural Archives Museum collection;
As if the story of Philip Brem-Wilson wasn’t enough - with the spectre of the swinging sixties, gangsters, police corruption, wads of cash being bandied about from his Bingo emporium at The Rivoli Ballroom, and then London’s notorious Torture Trials in 1967…
there’s also, his pioneering father, Thomas, who formed the first Pentecostal church in Britain in 1906, linked with US cult leader Alexander Dowie and his Zion empire, married a white Jewish Music-hall starlet, and ended up in Brixton prison…
then the remarkable, Nina, who took her granddad, Thomas’s papers and land deeds back to Ghana in the 1980s in a nail-biting quest for her legacy, her unrelenting spirit fighting sexism, racism, and stifling bureaucracy, searching for her African Dream…
In this book, we follow their lives pictorially, and more! In essence it’s a story of the joy of multiculturalism, and diversity, and celebrates the extraordinary contribution of the working classes, of aspiration, and creativity.
A sensational pictorial journey from The Gold Coast Africa to London Streets, of three generations of the Brem-Wilson family. Over 200 never before seen, and meticulously restored photos chronicle one family’s pioneering journey, starring The Black Pastor of Peckham, Mr Bingo, and Nina the Great! Told by direct descendent, author, Mandy Parker-Sharp, and part of The Black Cultural Archives Museum collection;
As if the story of Philip Brem-Wilson wasn’t enough - with the spectre of the swinging sixties, gangsters, police corruption, wads of cash being bandied about from his Bingo emporium at The Rivoli Ballroom, and then London’s notorious Torture Trials in 1967…
there’s also, his pioneering father, Thomas, who formed the first Pentecostal church in Britain in 1906, linked with US cult leader Alexander Dowie and his Zion empire, married a white Jewish Music-hall starlet, and ended up in Brixton prison…
then the remarkable, Nina, who took her granddad, Thomas’s papers and land deeds back to Ghana in the 1980s in a nail-biting quest for her legacy, her unrelenting spirit fighting sexism, racism, and stifling bureaucracy, searching for her African Dream…
In this book, we follow their lives pictorially, and more! In essence it’s a story of the joy of multiculturalism, and diversity, and celebrates the extraordinary contribution of the working classes, of aspiration, and creativity.
A sensational pictorial journey from The Gold Coast Africa to London Streets, of three generations of the Brem-Wilson family. Over 200 never before seen, and meticulously restored photos chronicle one family’s pioneering journey, starring The Black Pastor of Peckham, Mr Bingo, and Nina the Great! Told by direct descendent, author, Mandy Parker-Sharp, and part of The Black Cultural Archives Museum collection;
As if the story of Philip Brem-Wilson wasn’t enough - with the spectre of the swinging sixties, gangsters, police corruption, wads of cash being bandied about from his Bingo emporium at The Rivoli Ballroom, and then London’s notorious Torture Trials in 1967…
there’s also, his pioneering father, Thomas, who formed the first Pentecostal church in Britain in 1906, linked with US cult leader Alexander Dowie and his Zion empire, married a white Jewish Music-hall starlet, and ended up in Brixton prison…
then the remarkable, Nina, who took her granddad, Thomas’s papers and land deeds back to Ghana in the 1980s in a nail-biting quest for her legacy, her unrelenting spirit fighting sexism, racism, and stifling bureaucracy, searching for her African Dream…
In this book, we follow their lives pictorially, and more! In essence it’s a story of the joy of multiculturalism, and diversity, and celebrates the extraordinary contribution of the working classes, of aspiration, and creativity.
