by Windrush Foundation | May 29, 2019 | News
Windrush 2019 – An Evening of Inspiration & Celebration Commemorating the 71st anniversary of the Empire Windrush arrival. Includes a tribute to the late Asquith Gibbes. Contributors: Dorinda Hulton (Windrush passenger)Damien Egan (Mayor of...
by Windrush Foundation | May 10, 2014 | Profiles
profiles Euton Christian Euton was born in Jamaica and volunteered to fight for Britain in 1944, at the age of 20. Many of his friends had already signed up, and he did not want to be left behind. After a short spell of training on the island, he and other volunteers...
by Windrush Foundation | May 10, 2013 | Community Champions
community champion Jocelyn Barrow Postgraduate studies in education brought me to England in 1959. I had been very active politically in Trinidad as a member of the People’s National Movement since its formation, and was researching why secondary schools in Trinidad...
by Windrush Foundation | May 10, 2013 | Community Champions
community champions Harry Cumberbatch In 1964 I was recruited in Barbados by London Transport to work on the buses, after some preparation I arrived at Bow bus garage in East London during the summer of that year. I had previously worked in the merchant navy as a...
by Windrush Foundation | May 10, 2013 | Profiles
profiles Lauren Phillpotts Laurent Phillpotts was born in Jamaica in 1923. He had been a trainee linotype operator at the Gleaner before volunteering for service in the Royal Air Force in 1943. After three months training at a camp on the island, he travelled to...