by Ma8-_lPO9 | Feb 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
Tallawah Windrush Generation Poetry The word ‘Tallawah’ is said to have come from a Jamaican patois term that means gutsy, strong, powerful, resilient and this is also true of its author, Nairobi Thompson. Windrush Foundation has com- missioned her book of Windrush...
by Ma8-_lPO9 | Jun 23, 2023 | PIONEERS
Evelyn Wauchope PIONEERS Cash-strapped seamstress stowed away but landed all smiles 1913 - 2010 Share this: It was an opportunity she could not miss. At 39 and working as a seamstress, Evelyn Wauchope had longed for a better life and felt that the Empire...
by Ma8-_lPO9 | Jun 23, 2023 | PIONEERS
VINCENT STEWART PIONEERS His work took him to Burma, then a British crown colony 1913 - 2010 Share this: His work took him to Burma, then a British crown colony, where he built the roads and bridges later used by Allied troops during the Second World War....
by Ma8-_lPO9 | Jun 23, 2023 | PIONEERS
Willis & Eileen Johnson PIONEERS Couple’s return to Jamaica proved false dawn 1920 - 1989 (WIllis) 19xx - 2015 (Eileen) Share this: Willis and Eileen Johnson boarded the Empire Windrush at Kingston, Jamaica, with their two small children in two, Terence...
by Ma8-_lPO9 | Jun 23, 2023 | PIONEERS
Clinton Edwards PIONEERS Menial work indignity prompted re-joining the RAF 1926 - 2018 Share this: Like many passengers on the Empire Windrush, 21-year-old Clinton Edwards had served in the RAF as a Jamaican volunteer but found it hard to settle down back...
