A new blue plaque will be unveiled to remember some of the reggae superstars who recorded at a former studio in Tooting.

Tooting Music Centre (known as TMC Studios) was a popular recording studio that hosted some huge names in the 1970s and 80s. Artists such as Black Slate, Errol Dunkley, Aswad, Mikey Dread, Dillinger and Leroy Smart have all been recorded there - and legend has it that Bob Marley once scribbled his signature on a wall inside the building.

The unveiling will take place at Mixed Blessings West Indian Bakery (118 Mitcham Road), which the famous studio was once located behind.

The event will be taking place on Saturday October 16.

With it also being Black History Month, there will be a dedicated Tooting black history walk which will start at Tooting Broadway at 2pm and will finish at the bakery at 4pm, which is when the ceremony will begin.

The community-funded plaque reads: "Some of the biggest names in the Reggae music business once recorded here at Tooting Music Centre."

The event is being run by Summerstown 182, a community project founded by Geoff Simmons that regularly raises funds and puts up blue plaques to remember some of Tooting's finest people and organisations. In recent months, they have put up a plaque remembering Marc Bolan as well as Albert Hill , who both previously lived in our town.

Tim of Tooting Rasta Cycle Club has also played a big part in funding the plaque and organising the event. He will be spinning some records from 3pm at Mixed Blessings in preparation for the unveiling.

Describing the event, Geoff Simmons said: "Just over a year ago, the idea for a reggae plaque was born on the Tooting Black Pound Day Cycle Trail. That generated a downloadable Tooting History Cycle Trail upon which this walk is drawn.

"We can't cover the whole circuit but the line-up includes; King Khama, Winifred Atwell, Paul Robeson, Constance Cummings-John, Music Specialists in Broadway Market, The First Lady of Liberia and Sadie Crawford.

"What a warm-up then for the main event, and following the Twentieth Century Boy, a further celebration of this area's rich musical heritage as we unveil a plaque on the site of TMC Studios, now Mixed Blessings West Indian Bakery.

"This will be an extraordinary day of celebration and community love.

"Tooting Rasta Cycle Club will be warming things up from 3pm and we envisage the plaque being unveiled around 430pm.

"Thanks to all of you who contributed towards this beautiful plaque, whether you donated via Crowdfunder or on one of my walks."

Tim told Wandsworth Times in August that they had learnt a lot while creating the plaque.

"We haven't just been to all the hipster cafes, we have spoken to real tooting people and it's been fascinating to learn more local history," Tim said.

"Without Geoff, this would not have happened. He's been driving force behind blue plaque initiative."

TMC Studios lasted from 1971-1987, where it became a bakery not long afterwards.

If you would like to engage on the walk, please email [email protected]; if you would just like to witness the unveiling of the plaque, be outside Mixed Blessings bakery from 3pm.

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