1 October - 30 November 2008 at Forty Hall;
5 December 2008 - Spring 2009 at Edmonton Green Library.
On 22nd June 1948 the troop ship the 'Empire Windrush' docked at Tilbury in Essex. On board were 492 passengers from Jamaica and Trinidad. The ship had been en route from Australia to England and docked at Kingston. An advert appeared in Jamaica’s ‘Daily Gleaner’ newspaper offering cheap transport on the ship for anybody who wanted to go and work in the UK. The fare was a cut-price £28 and 10 shillings for a place on the troop deck.
The arrival of the Windrush and images of Caribbean people filing down the gangplank has become an important landmark in the history of modern Britain. Caribbean migrants have become a vital part of British society and transformed aspects of British life.
2008 is the 60th anniversary of the arrival of the Empire Windrush and Enfield Museum Service have produced a small display to mark this event.
Are you from the Afro-Caribbean Community? Do you or your family have any connections with those first passengers? Would you be willing to tell us your story? Do you have any artefacts you could lend us that relate to your life in the UK or Caribbean in the 1940s and 50s?
If you interested in getting involved in this display when it moves to Edmonton Green Library, please contact Jan Metcalfe using the details to the right.
Jan is responsible for the development of our permanent collection of objects, including the oral history archive.
If you have objects of local interest which you would like to donate to the museum service, or are interested in telling us your memories of living in Enfield, then contact Jan.
Tel: 020 8379 1469
E-mail
Jan Metcalfe.
