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Anna Davis

Camden’s first black headteacher honoured with a 15 metre long mural outside her old school

Pictures of the artwork of Beryl Gilroy outside West Hampstead Primary School

(Picture: Supplied)

Camden’s “inspirational” first black headteacher has been honoured with a 15 metre long mural outside her old school.

Dr Beryl Gilroy is believed to have become London’s second ever black headteacher and the first in Camden at West Hampstead Primary School in 1969. The school was then known as Beckford Primary School.

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