Arthur Curling

Arthur Curling

Arthur Curling PIONEERS & CHAMPIONS ‘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...
Lady Isobel Blunt-Mackenzie

Lady Isobel Blunt-Mackenzie

Lady Isobel Blunt-Mackenzie PIONEERS & CHAMPIONS ‘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...
JOSEPH ‘WAYNE’ ARMSTRONG

JOSEPH ‘WAYNE’ ARMSTRONG

JOSEPH ‘WAYNE’ ARMSTRONG PIONEERS & CHAMPIONS ‘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...
Winston Frank Clarke

Winston Frank Clarke

Winston Frank Clarke PIONEERS & CHAMPIONS ‘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...
ELLIS AND ELMA CLARKE

ELLIS AND ELMA CLARKE

ELLIS AND ELMA CLARKE PIONEERS & CHAMPIONS ‘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...