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    Pulin Behari Seal

    ... of the authorities in 1922 when campaigning for the Lascar Welfare League . After graduating from Cambridge, Seal sought ...

    Individuals - obl7 - 3 December, 2014 - 11:32

    Strangers' Home for Asiatics, Africans and South Sea Islanders

    ... sanitation as well as a dining hall. Attached to it was the Lascar Shipping Office, which registered unemployed sailors. From 1857 to 1877 ...

    Organizations - obl7 - 16 August, 2010 - 08:47

    All-India Seamen's Federation

    ... Seamen’s Union to form one of the largest federations of lascar unions. It was instrumental in negotiating a settlement with the British Government and ship owners to resolve lascar strikes in 1939 and 1940. As part of that settlement, lascar pay and ...

    Organizations - obl7 - 4 December, 2014 - 16:38

    The Paradise Cafe

    ... 01 Jan 1944 About:  Opening by Arab lascar Hamed Salah and his English wife shortly after the end of the Second ... Key Individuals' Details:  Hamed Salah (Arab lascar who opened the Paradise Cafe) Organization location:  ...

    Organizations - admin - 12 December, 2014 - 14:27

    E. B. Bhose

    ... In 1887, Bhose was appointed chaplain at St Luke's Lascar Mission in Victoria Docks. His mission room was also used as a Sunday ... death:  England Location:  St Luke's Lascar Mission, Victoria Docks, London ...

    Individuals - obl7 - 6 August, 2010 - 13:55

    Shah Jolal Restaurant

    ... Jolal Restaurant was established by Ayub Ali , a former lascar, who arrived in London in 1920, having jumped ship at Tilbury Docks. ...

    Organizations - rsa42 - 17 December, 2014 - 10:52

    1920 Aliens Order

    ... Sherwood, Marika, ‘Race, Nationality and Employment among Lascar Seamen, 1660–1945’, New Community 17.2 (January 1991), pp 234-5. ...

    Events - obl7 - 10 October, 2014 - 14:16

    Lascars' Welfare League

    ... the East End of London to assess the working conditions of lascar seamen. By 1923 the more radical wing of the organization around ...

    Organizations - obl7 - 19 July, 2010 - 14:02

    Albert Mahomet

    ... Arab to Pastor . Mahomet's father, a former lascar, left his family when Mahomet was young and died on a ship to Calcutta. ...

    Individuals - obl7 - 2 August, 2010 - 17:56

    Coloured Men's Institute

    ... Methodist Church, for which he had been working among the lascar community since 1921, acquired premises at 13-15 Tidal Basin Road, ...

    Organizations - obl7 - 2 August, 2010 - 14:33

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