WINDRUSH OBITUARIES

Sam King was one of 492 Jamaicans who arrived at Tilbury Docks on Empire Windrush in 1948 and went on to be an inspiration to many

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7 WINDRUSH EDUCATION RESOURCES

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The Windrush Line

Recognising the contribution of the Windrush generation, who continue to shape and enrich London’s cultural and social identity today

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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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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

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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Oku Ekpenyon

As a former head of history at an inner London secondary school and having taught for 20 years, I was …

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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 …

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Sam King

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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Sybil Phoenix

I am a woman of faith, and a Christian who believes strongly in ‘service’ to others; it has been a normal practice during …

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Betty Asafu-Adjaye

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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WINDRUSH PIONEERS

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

Sonia Brown

John Richards

Donald Clark

Dr J.S. Risien Russell

Peter Dielhenn

Sam King

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Transport for London’s Windrush Line also promises to be a Windrush education resource. Over the years, Windrush Foundation’s collaboration with TfL will foster learning & community engagement. Do go & see the ten murals of Sam King MBE, at Dalston Junction Junction. Hackney

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