by Ma8-_lPO9 | Jun 23, 2023 | PIONEERS
ERIC DRYSDALE PIONEERS ‘Ship’s cook met wife-to-be in Cardiff docks’ 1934 - 2020 Share this: Eric Ignatius Paule Drysdale was brought up in Rae Town in Kingston, Jamaica, a neighbourhood close to the sea and not far from Sabina Park Cricket...
by Ma8-_lPO9 | Jun 22, 2023 | PIONEERS
Clifford Fullerton PIONEERS ‘Tailor who was a cut above the rest’ 1908 - 1992 Share this: Jamaican-born tailor Clifford Fullerton decided to travel to England on the Empire Windrush because he wanted to learn more about his trade after working on...
by Ma8-_lPO9 | Jun 22, 2023 | PIONEERS
NURVIN McKOY PIONEERS & CHAMPIONS He and his father had similar experiences with racism in the armed forces. 1926 – 2020 Share this: Nurvin was born in Belize City, British Honduras (now Belize) in 1926. During WW2 Nurvin joined the Royal Air Force and first...
by Ma8-_lPO9 | Jun 22, 2023 | PIONEERS
DORINDA HULTON PIONEERS ‘In 1969 she qualified as a teacher with Distinction from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.’ Share this: Dorinda attended Manor House School in Dorset, England, as a boarder from the age of 8, and Wentworth...
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 | Mar 11, 2023 | PIONEERS
ZAKAYO KWEBIHA PIONEERS & CHAMPIONS ‘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...
