by Ma8-_lPO9 | Jun 22, 2023 | PIONEERS
WESLEY BARRINGTON COKE PIONEERS He worked his way to the top, becoming an explosive expert and a charge-hand for 200 other miners 1925-2012 Share this: So said his son, Jason, as he spoke proudly about his Jamaican dad who was a miner in Nottingham. Wesley...
by Ma8-_lPO9 | May 26, 2023 | CHAMPIONS
Hubert ‘Baron’ Baker CHAMPIONS ‘Activist who heckled Oswald Mosely’ Share this: Jamaican-born Hubert Baker, better known as Baron Baker, volunteered to join the RAF in 1944. While with the RAF, he served as a policeman. He found the local people welcoming...
by Ma8-_lPO9 | Mar 11, 2023 | PIONEERS
ZAKAYO KWEBIHA PIONEERS ‘The farming student who became a Prime Minister’ 1946 - 2020 Share this: Zakayo Hairoroa Kwebiha, a Ugandan, was one of four men all travelling first class on the Empire Windrush on their way back to Africa via England....
by Ma8-_lPO9 | Mar 11, 2022 | PIONEERS
Lloyd and Catherine Case PIONEERS ‘Mr and Mrs were on same ship but could not share same cabin’ 1919 - 1993 Share this: Like the majority of his male shipmates, Jamaican-born Lloyd Case travelled below decks in C class on the Empire Windrush,...
by Ma8-_lPO9 | Mar 13, 2020 | PIONEERS
Henry Weatherhead and family PIONEERS ‘Travel went with the job for top Bajan doctor’ 1899 - 1953 Share this: Surgeon Henry Weatherhead had booked a cabin on the Empire Windrush with his wife Annie and daughter Annie Pamela. They lived in...
