Windrush Foundation Celebrates 25 Years of Heritage and Community Advocacy: 1995 – 2020

In 1995 Sam King and Arthur Torrington worked to establish a CHARITY …

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WINDRUSH MONUMENT AT WATERLOO STATION- REDACTED MINUTES OF WINDRUSH COMMEMORATION COMMITTEE

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WINDRUSH PROFILES

Windrush Foundation - Norma Best

Norma Best

In 1944, Britain appealed to her colonies for assistance and one of the smallest was British Honduras…

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Windrush Foundation - Sam King

Sam King MBE

Harold was 18 years of age when war as declared in 1939. Hw was working at a foundry in British Guiana…

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Windrush Foundation - Aurthur Curling

Arthur Curling

In 1944, when the British government advertised in Jamaica for volunteers for the Royal Air Force against…

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Windrush Foundation - Cy Grant

Cy Grant

Cy was born in British Guiana (Now Guyana), and was 22 years of age in 1941 when he volunteered to…

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BIRTH OF THE WINDRUSH GENERATION

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BIRTH OF THE WINDRUSH GENERATION

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Sam King

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I was born in Portland, Jamaica in 1926, and worked with my father on the family farm with every intention of eventually …

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Harry Cumberbatch

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In 1964 I was recruited in Barbados by London Transport to work on the buses, after some preparation I arrived at …

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Jocelyn Barrow

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Postgraduate studies in education brought me to England in 1959. I had been very active politically in Trinidad as a member of the …

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"It is crucially important we remember this generation of pioneers as we are all standing on their shoulders"

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WINDRUSH PIONEERS

John Richards

Donald Clark

Dr J.S. Risien Russell

Peter Dielhenn

Sam King

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