Alford Gardner was 22 when he boarded HMT Empire Windrush in Kingston, Jamaica, along with 491 other West Indians, a postwar generation that helped rebuild the UK and paved the way for others to follow.
Seventy-five years later, he is one of the few left to tell the story. Gardner says if he could live it all again, he says he wouldn’t change a 'damn thing'
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‘I didn’t expect to be a part of history’: read our full interview with Alford Gardner
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‘What comes across clearly is the emotional cost of migration’: Windrush commemorated in books
from The Guardian https://ift.tt/zhgiywT
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