You Are Cordially Invited
To This Windrush Screening Event
Taking Place on Bank Holiday Sunday
In South London
(Everyone welcome)
Please share this with people you know in South London.
Many ex-servicemen settled inh and moved around Lambeth, Southwark, Wandsworth and Croydon, and their children and grandchildren have done the same.
The picture shows former war time RAF member Neil Flanigan, who is interviewed in the film, and who is still active in the West Indian Association of Service Personnel (WASP ). Neil attends the annual Remembrance service in Windrush Square every year and last year laid a WASP reef in Croydon, as well as attending Croydon Windrush commemoration events.
Nubian Jak Community Trust: http://nubianjak.org
The Trust’s plaques and memorials in South London include:
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About seancreighton1947
Since moving to Norbury in July 2011 I have been active on local economy, housing and environment issues with Croydon TUC and Croydon Assembly. I am a member of the Love Norbury Residents Associations Planning & Transport Committees, and Chair of Nobury Community Land Trust. I write for Croydon Citizen at http://thecroydoncitizen.com. I co-ordinate the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Croydon Radical History Networks and edit the North East Popular Politics database. History Project.. I give history talks and lead history walks. I retired in 2012 having worked in the community/voluntary sector and on heritage projects. My history interests include labour movement, mutuality, Black British, slavery & abolition, Edwardian roller skating and the social and political use of music and song. I have a particular interest in the histories of Battersea and Wandsworth, Croydon and Lambeth. I have a publishing imprint History & Social Action Publications.
