by Ma8-_lPO9 | Mar 11, 2024 | PIONEERS
Arthur Curling PIONEERS ‘OK to fight in the war but not to wash dishes’ 1928 - 2005 Share this: When Jamaican-born Arthur Curling went for a job as a dishwasher at an English bed and breakfast business, he was turned away because the owner did...
by Ma8-_lPO9 | Mar 11, 2024 | PIONEERS
Lady Isobel Blunt-Mackenzie PIONEERS ‘A debutante with a taste for travel and adventure’ 1911 - 2004 Share this: The artist and traveller Lady Isobel Blunt- Mackenzie was another titled woman on board the Empire Windrush. Accompanying her but not...
by Ma8-_lPO9 | Mar 11, 2024 | PIONEERS
JOSEPH ‘WAYNE’ ARMSTRONG PIONEERS ‘How Liverpool struck a chord with Jamaican musician’ 1924 - 1993 Share this: Musician Wayne Armstrong’s first public appearance in England was on Pathé News where he featured to the right of calypso...
by Ma8-_lPO9 | Mar 11, 2024 | PIONEERS
Winston Frank Clarke PIONEERS ‘From cabinet maker to engineer’ 1925 - 2012 Share this: Winston Franklyn Clarke was born in Alexandria, St Ann, Jamaica on 2 May 1925. He was single and a cabinet maker when he arrived in England in 1948. The Empire...
by Ma8-_lPO9 | Mar 11, 2024 | PIONEERS
ELLIS AND ELMA CLARKE PIONEERS ‘London trip prefaced brilliant career of future T&T leader’ 1917 - 2010 Share this: Among all the passengers on board the Empire Windrush, none would go on to have a greater impact on world history than Ellis...
