Windrush Pioneers and Champions

EVENT | Lambeth Town Hall | Fri 14 Dec 2018

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The Windrush Foundation 70 Years On

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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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THE BEN TV INTERVIEWS

Windrush Foundation and Ben TV have partnered up to produce interviews that will give you more info about the people and time of Windrush.

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Community Champions

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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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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Betty Asafu-Adjaye

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How can we become each other’s keeper? H is the question I have been asking since I started the Mission Dine Club …

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Quotes from the community

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

Sonia Brown

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WINDRUSH PIONEERS

John Richards

Donald Clark

Dr J.S. Risien Russell

Peter Dielhenn

Sam King

Lucilda Harris