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Not too off-topic I hope, but this reminded me of an exhibition I saw in North 
London in the last couple of years, recording the often over-looked (under the 
horizon) role of West Indian and other migrants to the UK - especially (as I 
remember also) on the buses and the Underground in London. This seemed less so 
on British Railways, though that may be a limited perspective as going on the 
railbus home (from seeing the steam trains at London Kings Cross) was a special 
treat. And once a year we'd go on our holidays to Westmorland on the overnight 
sleeper from Euston.

But I digress .......

I seem to remember that there was quite a lot featured in LT News, London 
Transport's staff magazine that we used to get, and in the local press, from the 
early '60s - early '70s. BR's staff newspaper Railnews had less coverage.

Many of those recruited in the Caribbean had served with the armed forces during 
WWII - in the UK, Europe, and across the world in all theatres of war and in all 
branches.

The Church Farmhouse Museum, in North London, and its director Gerrard Roots 
mounted and curated the exhibition. I've not found anything online about it.

More to hand is this 
http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/assets/downloads/Generations.pdf , published by 
Transport for London drawing on material from, amongst others, the LT Museum in 
Garden Garden, which is well worth a long visit.


All the best

Dominic
London

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