by Ma8-_lPO9 | Mar 11, 2024 | PIONEERS
Delisser Bernard PIONEERS & CHAMPIONS ‘Royal portrait to honour Windrush trailblazer’ Share this: Jamaican-born Delisser ‘Dennis’ Bernard is one of a select group of people who were chosen to have their portrait painted to commemorate the 75th...
by Ma8-_lPO9 | Mar 10, 2024 | PIONEERS
Robert Bennett PIONEERS & CHAMPIONS ‘After a false dawn in England, USA proved a better bet’ 1908 - 2004 Share this: When Robert Aston Bennett travelled to England from Jamaica on the Empire Windrush, he had a number of hopes and dreams, one of...
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 & CHAMPIONS ‘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...
by Ma8-_lPO9 | Mar 10, 2024 | PIONEERS
Walter Aquart PIONEERS & CHAMPIONS ‘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...
by Ma8-_lPO9 | Mar 10, 2024 | PIONEERS
HARVEY DePASS PIONEERS & CHAMPIONS ‘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...
