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Fela Kuti was a Nigerian singer, multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, political activist and regarded as the founder of the influential musical style 'Afrobeat'.

He lived in Shepherds Bush when he first came to London to study music at Trinity College in 1958 and married his first wife, Remilekun (Remi) Taylor in 1960. They had three children .

In 1963, he moved back to the newly independent Federation of Nigeria and attempted to run for its first presidency. In 1984, he was jailed for 20 months in Nigeria for his political views.

Born Constance Winifred MacDonald on 21 December 1923 in Jamaica. Connie served as a medical secretary in the Auxiliary Territorial Service in WW2.

Her commanding officer put her forward for a British Empire Medal but at the time it was not granted. She married Jamaican cricketer Stanley Goodridge in 1952.

Stanley moved to England to play cricket in Durham and Connie followed him shortly after. She became an activist for West Indians in London.

In 1980 she founded the Friends of Mary Seacole, which was later renamed the Mary Seacole Memorial Association.

She was finally awarded her BEM in 1992 and in 2001 was awarded an OBE. In 2005 she became a resident in Mary Seacole House at Invermead Place, Goldhawk Road.

She passed away in Charing Cross Hospital in 2007 and her funeral service was held at St Luke's Church, Shepherds Bush.

In 2008 a blue plaque was added to the house in her memory.

Born in New York, Adelaide became one of the best-loved jazz and cabaret singers and tap dancers, and performed with legends such as Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Josephine Baker and Louis Armstrong.

In 1941, she was Britain's highest paid entertainer. She was one of the first black performers to headline at the London Palladium and played to full houses at Hammersmith's Riverside Studios and the Hammersmith Palais.

She frequently appeared on the BBC as well as recording extensively for Decca Records. In the early 1950s, Hall and her husband Bert opened the Calypso Club in Regent Street.

Adelaide lived in Fulham from 1980 until her death at 92 years old in Charing Cross Hospital.

Esther worked in Fulham Hospital and also volunteered as a fire warden during World War 2 at the hospital, which is now named Charing Cross Hospital. From a young age, Esther was taught by her father to take pride in her Black heritage and stand up to racism.

Esther left school when she was 14 years old to work in domestic service but, after being exploited, she changed careers and found work as a seamstress. She helped to unite the community during this period and wrote to her family in Guyana to ask if food parcels could be sent over to help alleviate the effect of rationing.

Her autobiography was the first to document the life of a working-class Black British woman. After she died in 1994 at the age of 81, Esther's ashes were scattered in Fulham Cemetery.