WINDRUSH LINE HERITAGE TOURS

WINDRUSH LINE HERITAGE TOURS

by | 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...
WINDRUSH OBITUARIES | SAM KING

WINDRUSH OBITUARIES | SAM KING

by | 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...
Norma Best

Norma Best

by | May 10, 2017 | Profiles

profiles Norma Best In 1944, Britain appealed to her colonies for assistance and one of the smallest was British Honduras (now Belize) responded. Norma Best (nee Leacock) was among those who volunteered. She was 20 years old, at the time.   With five other...
Harold Sinson

Harold Sinson

by | May 10, 2017 | Profiles

profiles Harold Sinson Harold was 18 years of age, when the war was declared in 1939. He was working at a foundry in British Guiana (now Guyana) as an engineering fitter, and one day in 1943, his friend who worked at the Daily Chronicle newspaper told him that the RAF...
Arthur Curling

Arthur Curling

by | May 10, 2017 | Profiles

profiles Arthur Curling In 1944, when the British government advertised in Jamaica for volunteers for the Royal Air Force against Germany, Arthur Curling answered the call. He was not yet 16 years of age, at the time, but passed the test and enlisted. He recalled,...