Windrush passenger Alford Gardner's memories of voyage to UK

Name: Windrush passenger Alford Gardner's memories of voyage to UK
Uploaded: 2019-06-21T23:05:36.000Z
Duration: 2 min 21 s
Description: Seventy-one years ago Alford Gardner was one of hundreds of Caribbeans who came to rebuild post-war UK.

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Former RAF serviceman Alford Gardner came to the UK on the Empire Windrush from Jamaica.

The 93-year-old grandfather was one of hundreds of Caribbean migrants who arrived in Tilbury Docks on 22 June 1948.

During a family get-together in West Yorkshire, some of his relatives quizzed him about his journey.

22 June 2019