Windrush anniversary service at Southwark Cathedral

Title

Windrush anniversary service at Southwark Cathedral

Genre

Interview

TX Date

22 May 1988

Year of production

1988

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Duration

00:02:52

Description

Gareth Furby reports on a service at Southwark Cathedral in London celebrating the fourtieth anniversary of the arrival of the ship carrying Britain’s first five hundred Jamaican immigrants. The SS Windrush docked in Tilbury in 1948. Only about seventy-five of the original group are still alive and living in the UK. Includes interview with Cecil Holness, one of the original immigrants. Recorded on 21/05/88. Broadcast on 22/05/88.

Contributors

Gareth Furby; Cecil Holness

Keywords

London; Anniversary celebrations; UK; Great Britain; Immigration; African-Caribbean peoples; Jamaica; Ships; Caribbean; Church services; Anniversaries; Southwark Cathedral; Cecil Holness; SS Windrush

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