by Ma8-_lPO9 | Mar 10, 2024 | PIONEERS
Cecil Baugh PIONEERS ‘Arrived England in June, back in Jamaica by September’ 1908 - 2005 Share this: Cecil Baugh bought his passage on the Empire Windrush for one reason only– to study pottery in England under the legendary Bernard Leach. Nine...
by Ma8-_lPO9 | Mar 10, 2024 | PIONEERS
HENRY ARCHER PIONEERS ‘Mechanic who became a part-time preacher’ 1926 - 1969 Share this: Some years after arriving in England on the Empire Windrush, Henry Archer heard the call of God while having a drink in a Derby pub. It changed his life...
by Ma8-_lPO9 | Mar 10, 2024 | PIONEERS
Walter Aquart PIONEERS ‘Arrived England in June, back in Jamaica by September’ 1915 - 1998 Share this: When Walter Aquart disembarked from the Empire Windrush at Tilbury in June 1948, he did not fit the narrative of coming to the Mother Country...
by Ma8-_lPO9 | Mar 10, 2024 | PIONEERS
HARVEY DePASS PIONEERS ‘The ‘miracle worker’ who made a difference to his town’ 1927 - 2012 Share this: When he died in 2012, tributes poured in for popular Reading businessman and grassroots activist Harvey DePass, who had arrived in the UK on...
by Ma8-_lPO9 | Mar 9, 2024 | PIONEERS
Benvenuto Tino Barovier PIONEERS ‘Student who travelled in C class was son of Italian Count’ 1929 - 1994 Share this: A future director of the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation, Benvenuto ‘Tino’ Barovier was a 19-year-old student when he boarded...
