Generations: celebrating 50 years of Caribbean recruitment
Generations: celebrating 50 years of Caribbean recruitment
Generations: celebrating 50 years of Caribbean recruitment
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‘The accommodation<br />
was heartbreaking<br />
at times... it deflated<br />
you. Word <strong>of</strong> mouth<br />
got you intoplaces…<br />
It was the first<br />
time I encountered<br />
prejudice. The<br />
word came up in<br />
a conversation on<br />
a bus and I looked<br />
it up.’<br />
– Vince Leacock, recruited in<br />
Barbados as a bus conductor,<br />
1962<br />
Left: New arrivals finding their<br />
way around London<br />
Copyright Museum <strong>of</strong> London,<br />
Henry Grant Collection<br />
Right: Looking for accommodation,<br />
Notting Hill, 1955<br />
Copyright Museum <strong>of</strong> London,<br />
Henry Grant Collection<br />
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