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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‘I took the whole family to Jamaica in 1983… but the children<br />
wanted to come back and go to school in London…’<br />
– Desmond Dennis, came independently from Jamaica in 1956, worked for CDS delivering supplies<br />
‘Dad took us all to<br />
Treasure Beach,<br />
Jamaica in 1983...<br />
it was very, very<br />
different living in the<br />
country… the school<br />
was much stricter,<br />
and things you take<br />
for granted like water<br />
you had to be careful<br />
with for cooking<br />
and everything.’<br />
– Deborah Dennis, bus driver,<br />
daughter <strong>of</strong> Desmond Dennis<br />
Aston Wilson, came to London in<br />
1951 to work as a bus conductor,<br />
back home in Jamaica, 1992<br />
LTM 1999/2472<br />
Desmond Dennis, formerly with CDS, preparing<br />
for a six month stay in Jamaica. At home in<br />
Kennington with his son, and friend Jenny Salmon<br />
(LT Catering), 2006<br />
Lloyd Ellis, former track worker, with his grandson<br />
in Jamaica, 1992<br />
LTM 2004/16833<br />
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