by Windrush Foundation | Jan 14, 2025 | FEATURED, News, Profiles
WINDRUSH LINE HERITAGE TOURS Travel with Arthur Torrington on the Windrush Line and share histories of some of the Windrush passengers whose homes in 1948 were in areas along the Line. Tickets cost £20 per person for each session, and will raise money for the Croydon...
by Windrush Foundation | Jan 14, 2025 | FEATURED, News, Profiles
WINDRUSH OBITUARIES Donald (Don) Henry Cremer Donald (Don) Henry Cremer – Born 8th May 1929 – died 1st January 2025 Don Cremer almost didn’t make it onto the Empire Windrush. He and a Royal Navy colleague, Edward Forbes, had been shopping in Hamilton but when...
by Windrush Foundation | Dec 27, 2024 | News
7 WINDRUSH EDUCATION RESOURCES These Windrush Education Resources are based on original stories of ex-RAF WWII serviceman Samuel Beaver King, better known as Sam King (1926-2016). He came up with the idea of commemorating the arrival of MV Empire Windrush, and worked...
by Windrush Foundation | Dec 1, 2024 | News, Profiles
WINDRUSH OBITUARIES SAM KING King at the launch of the War to Windrush exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in 2008. He served with the RAF GETTY IMAGES Sam King – 1926 – 2016 Sam King was one of 492 Jamaicans who arrived at Tilbury Docks on Empire...
by Windrush Foundation | Aug 16, 2024 | News
WINDRUSH FOUNDATION 29 YEARS ON From left: Donald Clarke, George Mason, Sam King, Allan Wilmot Pioneering Members of the Windrush Generation. © Getty Images. In 1995, Samuel Beaver King and Arthur Torrington (co-founders) began work on establishing a CHARITY which...
by Windrush Foundation | Apr 22, 2024 | News
Finding Home – A Windrush Story Alford Dalrymple Gardner is one of the few living passengers to have travelled on the Empire Windrush. He is one of 10 whose portrait was commissioned by King Charles, and appears in the BBC’s Windrush: Portraits of a...