Can you see me in here . Yeah. Oh, yeah. Laughter. Ruining anothercamera. My name is Godfrey Henry oliver palmer, and i was Born Injamaica in1940. Big set. Carmen esmee e s m e steele. I am mrs munroe. Lacita alexander reid. 20th may 1931, in manchester, jamaica. Yeah. Piano refrain plays. Emotive strings play. Plaintive woodwind plays. Chirpy piano tune plays. History is thankfully and finally beginning to accord a rightful place to those men and women of the windrush generation. You look beautiful. How are you . It is, i believe, crucially important that we should truly see and hear these pioneers who stepped off the Empire Windrush at tilbury injune i9li8, only a few months before i was born. And those who followed over the decades to recognise and celebrate the immeasurable difference that they, their children and their grandchildren have made to this country. Many served with distinction in the British Armed forces during the second world war, just as their fathers and grandfather
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